The New York herald., 1922-04-16

side with those who have suffered
disinheritance, persecution, poverty,
for the sake of an ideal.
| Not long ago a student was sent to
speak at various schools in the in
terests OF the Student Friendship
Fund, for the relief of thousands of
European students who were starv-
ing and freezing last winter. She was
sent to a certain select boarding
school where she interviewed the pre-
ceptress. The, latter gently refused
her admission saying that an appeal
of this kind would be useless. "Suf-
fering and sacrifice will have no ap-
peal she said. MY girls do not
know the meaning of such words, and
would be bored by an appeal in their
name" Disguised, the student left.
She talked a few days later to a
group of seventy-five students, prac-
tically all of whom were working their
| way through school. Most of them.
she knew, were in desperate financial
straits. At the end of ten minutes the
| pledges were made, amounting to two
hundred and twenty five dollars
from students who knew not where,
the next weeks board was coming
| from.
Calls on Mothers and Fathers.
| We call it confession of your own
failure, you older critics, when you
accuse us of degeneracy. What have
you done all along to make us any
better than we are? You fathers and
mothers and teachers of the 'vam-
pires' of whom George Ade speaks so
lflippantly--what are you doing to inn
prove the morals and standards of the
younger generation? The college au-
thorities have spent good deal OF
time and energy deploring. They
compare notes on the prevalence of
cigarette smoking, on the outrageous
dance and more outrageous dress.
And there the matter has rested as
far as many are concerned, except
that "Thou shalt nots" have been
abundant. We were talking to dean
of women one day. She was deplor-
ing the too numerous and too improp-
er dances. why don't you young
women think up another form OF
amusement? You should have enough
ingenuity to do that she suggested.
When we pressed her for recommen-
dations she was at loss.
And too many of our college facui-
ties, and too many OF our parents are
at loss. 1t is our opinion that it is
not ur to the college student body TO
create for themselves and their friends
new form of amusement If they see
no reason for the change. 1t is for
- oh CONSTITUTION
Movie and Dance to Blame.
1t has seemed to us that the two
great evils that lie at the root of all
| our troubles are the evils of the inn
proper dance and the improper movie.
| The adolescent, coming from a home
where interest in art or literature has
not been encouraged, breaking from
| home authority for the first time. very
naturally follows in the wake Of the
only apparent sources of amusement
dancing and movie going. Now when
you dance two or three times week
| and attend a movie as often. these
amusements grow pretty dun. To
stimulate excitement and interest,
therefore, the indecent movie and the
indecent dance have been imported to
our college towns. We have seen dane
ing in college halls that would not lie
tolerated In decent public hall.
| In Greater Boston the other day,
where it is estimated that nearly 10000
college students come every year in
pursuit of higher learning, we entered
a movie in a supposedly high class
| theater. There, before the eyes of
hundreds OF students, we saw three
films. applauded vigorously. in which
| all that was vulgar, coarse and obscene
was exhibited. The days program was
no exception to rule. A day or two
later Kreisler played in symphony
Hall. Again the audience was made
up chiefly of students. The great vio-
linist was encorcd again and again
by students. We state these two in
stances from actual experience to
show that students do respond to the
true and the good and the beautiful,
as well as to the ugly the coarse, the
bad. What are you critics, your COM
placcnt Pharisees. of the "holier than
thou" disposition doing TO bring us the
good and the true and the beautiful?
What substitutes do you offer us? We
take only what has been handed down
10 us from the older generation.
Religious Work Succeeds.
Where faculties have failed. and