South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-03-27
Detroit Mothers Declare War
Against Girls Daring Styles
Found at High School Dances

/ DETROIT March s6.-Three hun
dred Detroit mothers have opened
war on immortality among high
school students.
Assembled I'm the Northwestern
+ high school the mothers declared
I their intention OF fighting booze
/ party dances and like entertain
ments 10 a finish.
The meeting was called By Bry0n
T. Divett. principal Of Northwestern
/ high. following charges by Principal
+ Erwin Miller of Northern High.
I that some dances carried on by the
pupils after school hours were i'm
moral and that high school boys
drank liquor az them.
And the mothers came Foreign
speaking mothers, frankly startled
\ by The difficulties they ara exper-
fencing in raising their children i'm q
/ strange land; American mothers
wholly unprepared for the informa-
+ ton regarding their sons and
/ daughters gained from the classroom.
I and others recognizing their prob
I lens but not knowing exactly how
/ TO meet them.
Pleading for the return Of the old
/ fashioned motheres-whom The
F daughters of today might call
"cranks" Miss Saddle NJ. Alley. grade
principal at Northwestern hish
+ school. told the gathering a few
Of the things tha; some Of the girls
/ at the schools were doing.
/ Wearing fancy garters so thai
I they Will show
Rolling their stockings below
the knee, a style also discernible 10
I all.
Appear in school differently
/ dressed than when they leave home.
a few safety pins transform a dress
into any length desired.
Use powder RAGS openly.
Pencil eyebrows and lashes with
ink and fountain pens"
Want Drastic Action.
Without question the mothers de
clared drastic action 10 be vital and
adopted resolutions favoring cor
receive measures. including.
Putting all high school students
10 bed at Q o'clock every night ex-
AEEb It ludN cllu lAl hde
Spanking them TO bed if no other
method Will get them there at that
time
Adopting uniforms for all girl
high school students.
Putting a stop TO all dances save
those sponsored by the high school
Chaperoning Of all high school
/ dances by some Of the parents Of
students taking part.
For two hours the mothers list
erred to facts regarding their
children's welfare from the grade
principals Mothers and teachers
discussed their problems relating to
dress, recreation and rest TO the sub
iect of sex hygiene. A mothers
circle was organized TO meet month
Ivy in order to keep tab on the go
ings on of their offspring.
"Our girls are the finest i'm the
world. but the trend Of the times
suppose. since the war. is peculiar
and the girls need directing said
Miss Alley. You do not want your
daughters TO occasion such remarks
as come to Us from the men in
/ charge OF the SCHOOL GOrflQOrt. W IA
don't you tell your grade girls how
to behave around boys at the recess
hour"
Everything has become free and
easy since the war, and it is shown
in the young peoples conduct
Too Much AIaI1e-clp.
May we ask YOU to please see
that makeup cases are left al HON,
if YOU permit their use. We have
had to consider taking the lookiut
glasses ont of the lockers becaus,
: Of the primping Two girls toda,
went sent out of the room 70 wasl
their faces"
NJ IS Alley went on to tell tn.
mothers that there were dance hall.
downtown where corsets and petit
coats were quite out Of style, check
ing facilities being offered for tn,
articles in some: the no corset
checked" sign UP in others.
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