The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-06-01
FATHERS BLAMED
FOR GIRL ERRORS
Girl Should Not Be Under
Financial Debt
to Men

..,r. AGO. Nav t---Whilc speak
.,. an audience uf 800 prominent
t's,gsss men at a local club here to-
a.. ,f-s. Helen Il. Paulsen, lecturer
,,d .vchulogist, created a decided
,,resf.un whom, In discussing the
cause. for girls going wrong, she
smph hi.ically stated that, II parents,
srd .nscially fathers. would teach
,r..r 4ughters. from the moment
me, gin going with young men.
,io... fl pay their own way, wher-
ever they 20, very few girls would so
vrouE
"gIr.s do not want TO do wrong
,birrs hut many Of them begin what
ofer r,suts in an unfortunate eli
ma, POI. allowing their boy friends
% l.-. thcm good night" said Mrs.
pstI.,n They do IL because they
,,H .h,y owe something for the
roru. thc boys have spent on them
rfrlr,1ts we're to teach thor daugh-
.sra t1 nay their own way the girls
would rot feel that they must give
the.r perfectly beautiful selves to
every man who pays them attention.
Girls everywhere, when urged 10
I1eeu themselves pure and sweet. say
I'm perfect innoceDcc, We'll. what
rar "a. do for the boys for all the
hoy. soy 10 our girls. what do you
.upuo,. we arc spending all this
money On YOU for anyway Since the
.r has entered the business world,
iE,r. Is mo- reason why VIC should
not train her to pay her own way
when u high school and college. 1t
viii Wthc her better business
woman and certainly better wife
and homckecper."
Fathers 10 Blame.
Nj pnulsen accused the fathers
Of Young girls OF being the chief
contributors 10 their daughters
wldnr,s She stated that fathers
hay, more important home duty
IN this day than ever before In their
lives. .vr 0S
9TH. woman Of Yesterday was proc
tcctcd hv her father. then married
and was protected by her husband
T. In ease she did not marry her
"rothers protected her" Mrs. Paul
sen said The girl Of TODAY rocs
INTO different environment and
surroundings.
"Fahors know the conditions that
surround the girls In the store. the
office and tn, factory They know
the dangers of the automobile as
mutL,r- do not. II Is not a square
dca' 10 tho girls for the fathers not
70 teach them to know life 50 well
that they can he sweet and pure
and sim earn their own way. one
often hears mon Critici2ing the way
girls act and dress IN tho business
world It would he well for some
10 ask them this pertinent question.
Ar. your daughters going to dress
End act any differently when they
80 out T. work for some one Thon
tnsvo. tn. question by saying. II
they d. f. Is going to be because
YOU teach them, they cannot get this
intimate knowledge from books nor
schools
Female Company Costly.
Tho twentieth century boy Is
complaining very bitterly Of the
girls sou and | are raising. and the
girls are not 10 blame as much as
We are The boys say. There IL no.
body home They say that theY go
to the hom" of the girl, knocN at
the door. she comes to the door and
without even asking him IN says,
Wei. where can We go tonight
she has 10 go to = movie. a thea
tor have IS box If candy and some
thing o. cat after II is all over, The
Young men Say their perfectly good
wage s practically gone by the time
the evening is over. DO YOU know
that the worthwhile young men,
those who are trying to establish
themselves, are doing? They are
Just not going with the girls. they
say they rannot afford il. and So
cial'' Vo are all losing out, as well
as morally ard from the standpoint
fhome ideala" 7~1U