The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1921-07-21
LEGISLATION WON'T CORRECT
SOME OF THE EVILS

SOME OF THE EVILS
There is only one woman memA
Der of the lower house of congress,
Miss Alice Robertson, who repre-
sents one of the districts in Okla
homa, but she is evidently q wo-
man of fine sense, judging from
some of her recent comments on
legislation and other matters. She
rightly believes that some evils
cannot be corrected by legislation,
and holds fathers and mothers re-
sponsible for some of them. Miss
Robertson had the following to say
the other day, which is of interest
and contains some good advice:
There is too much jazz among
young girls these days, because
mothers and fathers have stopped
watching over their children.
Miss Alice" as she is affec-
tionately known, refuses to believe
that the world is becoming bad,
but does believe the young girls
are not being restrained enough.
"You cannot legislate against
these things We have too many
laws now. After a while we will
be a toothless race, through get
ting all of these predigester laws
regulating us-this anti-smoking
bill is an example. We ought to
have to chew things more for our
selves.
Il don't go around much myself,
and all / konw about girls smok-
ing and rolling down their stock
ings is what / have been told.
have seen some bathing suits that
were a little too scanty, but when
| have seen them | have thought
poor girl, she wouldn't be wear
ing such bathing suit if her
mother were looking after her.
"The only way to correct these
things is for parents to look after
their children and for each one
of us to look after himself or her.
self. The trouble today is that
most of us are too busy trying to
lock after everybody else. We
neglect to look after ourselves.
There is one thing today that
is very dangerous. That is joy
riding. Girls should not be per-
mitted to go on joyriding parties
unless they are properly chaper-
Oned.
'If girls want to smoke, let them
smoke. 1t is their own affair. If
they do it in public just to attract
attention, let them do it; if they
want to attract attention that way.
Smoking is only a matter Of taste,
and let everyone look after him.
self or herself on that. When /
was young girl nobody thought
anything of our old colored cook
smoking a pipe When / see girls
smoking today I think that if they
want to follow the example Of our
old colored cook, all right.
"Since Mr.. Johnson introduced
his bill prohibiting women from
smoking in public here in Wash
ington, l have received a great
many letters, some for it, and most
of them opposing it. One woman
wrote me that congress should put
a stop to women smoking in pub-
lie ,as only bad women did it.
wrote her in reply that if what she
said was true l would vote against
the bill, as it would be "a good
thing to be able to tell bad women
that way.
Il have even received letters
asking me to do something to stop
girls from rolling down their
stockings If they want to do it,
let them. / suppose they think
their knees are pretty.
"The only pretty knees | ever
saw were baby's. You know all
babies have pretty dimpled knees
But when they grow up-you
know that mo grown person has a
good looking elbow. l guess it is
the same with knees.
"The trouble about this is the
mothers knees. They don't bend
their knees in prayer often enough
If they did girls would not be roll