The Washington times., 1922-07-16
G|RLSAND BOYS
WILD PAGANS,
JUDGE INSISTS
Alfred ]. Ta!Iey. Of the Court Of
General Sessions, New York,
Points to Menace.
WOULD RESTORE THE ROD
Time 10 at Hand for Parents to
Resume Control of Their
4 Families, Jurist Warns.
BY MARY MAMIE.

fdmiiieS, JuTiSt warns.
BY MARY MAMIE.
I. NEW YORK. July 15.--America is
asveloping a race Of young pagans
And II the civilized element in the
Iand does not suppress them
The pasans will take possession OF
the country, and these United States
will go the way that Rome in all Its
spiendor and Greece in all its
grandeur went!
These thoughts are not mine
or, no! I'm a pagan myself and am
strong for the New Freedom and
the Open Road and the Brotherhood
Of Woman and all the rest Of the
things that you don't understand ana
] Idon't either!
But what is set down at the top
Of this column are the ideas of
Alfred j. Talley, Judge of the court
Of general sessions, who stands FOR
sanity and common sense-an un-
usual attitude in this town Of ours,
and interesting because II Is unusual
Won't II be a subtly sweet re-
venge on moderen pagan youth to be
roped In at last by-home, religion
and the unspared rod!
All the ducky young girls, with
short hair, fiat heels, emancipated
and proclaiming it-wouldn't 1t be
startling II they were all brought
back to normal human restraints,
the hardly tolerated Home. Parents.
and the rest of the worlds regu-
larities?
: Inevitable. He Says.
Judge Talley says this is the in
evitable. At the end of the present
Kand rampage of youth there will
Be a peaceful d quieting down and
acceptance of tried standards, he
"And youth will be much hap.
pier; youth will like it," said the
Judge. comfortingly. There is no
-"I say that II they keep on as
end to American life in very short
time
Judge Talley first gained notice
by advocating publicly the old
adage-almost confused with being
Biblical-"Spare the rod and spoil
the child" caught him in his
chambers after he had spent the
day in the criminal court. where,
he says, modern youth is really
showing it's hand-and a pretty bad
one.
The Judge Is a pleasant visaged
man, with large round features and
fine dignity. He has a reputation
for Puritan strictness, but he was
wholly human TO me.
Then And Now.
when ! came to the bar here
twenty-five years ago." he said. 'it
was an extraordinary thing to see
boys seventeen and eighteen years
old held on serious crimes; today 1t
would be almost as extraordinary to
see mature men in the majority.
,,,"There Is a startling and disheart.
ening proportion Of apparently
hardened criminals among the very
young men Of today, and I can lay
II to no other cause but their up
bringing without respect for parents,
law or authority.
Too much freedom Is hurting the
boys and girls of this city and coun.
try, and it's hurting the larger cause
Of good citizenship.
"An the modern tendencies on the
part OF youth are very distressing
and very menacing, and It requires
immediate thought and action on
the part Of peope who think 10
correct 1t. say earnestly that II
we permit things to keep on as they
are going, we will see an, end very
soon to American life.
III we are aspiring to develop into
. pagan nation and go the way of
destruction which all other pagan
nations have gone, we have only Ia
continue our present methods. be.
cause we are developing by our
fhulty education and the mistaken
nome training a race of young
paSans In America today.
The modern extravagances on the
part OF young women are even NOR,
harmful to society than they are to
the offenders. We are departing
sadly from the ideas with which this
- country was formed. All the found
ers OF the country insisted upon re-
lfsion and moral stability. You can
not have a nation unless YOU have
morality and you cannot have mo.
raiity without religion.
Parental Duty.
The freedom-it Is a manifesto
ton that we are raising . whirlwind
OF improperly trained youth in the
United States. Parents bring chill
dren into the community and It Is
their duty to exercise proper author
tty and restraint over them.
Nobody but a fool would give q
young colt all the freedom a coli
wants. You have got to train ami
mails and you have got to train chill
dren at time of their lives wher
their mentality isn't to be trusted.
Il don't know but that the pas,
generations did not have more re
spect for their parents because they
were chastised occasionally. I have
yet to meet the man or woman tha,
an1ounts to anything that has evel
said they have ever suffered becaus.
OF any childish chastisement.
Taking away from teachers II
the school the right to impose Judi
cious corporal punishment has un
doubtedly tended to make children
defiant Of authority and Of theil
teachers, and with moral teachins
absent from the home, combined
with it's neglect in school. makes 4
small wonder that young people ge
out into life with their immatur,
willis uniformed, and come to believ,
there are no restraints to life.