The Cordova daily times., 1921-10-03
NOT GIRLS BUT BOYS GOING
 TO DOGS

places, and calls her dad "Old Beon," may now slip silently into a corner and pursue her modern reflection undisturbed.
 Literary tastes among the critics | have changed.
 A few months back she was the target of much comment, the sub 1 jeCt of much typesetting. Criticism of the 1921 flapper was quite the mode of the hour.
 But it seems that the male of the species is equally deadly, which is ! to say that he is going to the dogs, and taking the future of the nation with his, willy nilly.
 Many people are saying so, public ly, in bold type. The Times printed many letters on the subject, all start ed by "Old Etonian," branding the male youth of the day in many ways most of which boiled down to i'm pertinent young puppy" One gath CTS that the youth of 1921 had little of the proper respect for "Old Eton- ians." There were several of the latter writing to the papers from the writing looms Of their silent clubs before the crusade ended.
 The Mother of One of Them" takes up their defense She admits her son is some, even many. of the things Old Etonian charges. but the war did it."
 If he is independent, casual. un- conventional Gas he undoubtedly isl, ." she writes, he is also straight hon orable and clean minded a young man who can he trusted and respect ed, and his many friends seem all very much of the same type After all these are the things that really matter, and I fail to find the intol- erancc of authority that most of your correspondence complain of" TO THE DEFENSE OF YOUTH Sir Sidney Low. himself of the old school and q critic and pubicist of high standing. comes to the defense of Today. He says that elderly gen tlemen" have been erupting into the newspapers that it is "very sad about the manners, behavior and character of the young folk about them"
 For my part" he says. "I think some of the differences are not symptions of decadence but improve ment
 "Youthful manners are little rough and 'casual'-alI modern man CTS are When they meet a young lady they say: 'Cheerio. old thing instead of Madam. your most obed- tent or something of that kind They smoke pipes in drawing rooms and cigarettes everywhere; their speech is largely made uD of rather meaningless slang.
 Nevertheless. I do not think their tastes and morals are worse than those of their predecessors; think they are better
 Thirty or forty years ago boys at Oxford used to entertain each other at wine parties sometimes colloQuial- ly, but correctly described 'drunks'
 Our young fellows no longer care for such gross animal enjoyment They do not I believe. consider it witty to exchange horrible smoking room stories
 They are not respectful to ladies" say their critics. Tn one sense per haps not They have more oppor- tunity of meeting girls than their fathers before them, and meeting them on a footing of familiarity and easy intimacy.
 PLATONIC FRIENDSHIP
 This camaradeier may he carried too far; but there is a good deal to be said for it.
 "It dilutes that overmastering sense of sex which was an obsession with men and women of the past. Young people can be friendly without being disturbed by the thought that they may become husbands or wives or l lovers.
 "It did not seem to occur to any body in those days that men and women of marriabeable age could have any interest in one another save of matrimonial or the amorous kind. But the modern girl is not pre- occupied with love and marriage. She