Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-04-03
OVERLOOK VITAL
FOR TRIVIAL EVILS
Broughton Deplores Tendency.
to Apply Microscope to Re-
ligious Disputes.
SHUTTERS SILLY FADn
Says Snow Did Not Last Long
Enough to Get Shipment
of "Flappers.''

While the police OF the city chaso
booze cars and the people apply the
microscope of disapproval on tho
'happers" and "Shifters." the un..
chaperoned joy cars OF the younger
generation stand around disgracefullyi
poorly lighted parks, Rev. Len g.
Broughton, d. D.. pastor of Grove,
Avenue Baptist Church. declared last
night before his congregation. Too
much publicity has been given the
trivial, while the vital evils have
been overlooked, he stated ~
Just so around the parks, and the
lakes particularly. and see how: dark
they area disgrace to r city go pau
perizcd that IL cannot nut iiYhts5
around to protect the people Where
are the police Of the city? or chasing
booze cars. This Is a good thing. but
the JOY car, unchaperoned. stands in
the dark parks so thick that you can
hardly drive down the roads,"
Apply Microscope.
The habit Of applying the micro
scope to religious disputes Is In prac-.
tiee now. Somewhere in & sp,all COLI
lego or university professor has dis
descended from a monkey. Ministers
get all excited. without consid ering
the nincty-nine other men In the
same institution that do not con slider
that they sprang from a monkey, SO
long as they are not put In a cage.
Every one Is not going 10 bo,put in.
monkey cage because one man
comes out in support OF eyplution
from monkey. I heard In college
more talk OF this same matter than,
Is going around today. -. s
You have never seen a .Rapper' In
Richmond. The snow did not last,
long enough to get shipment Of.
fiappers, but they were in fun blast
IN Boston with those great rubber
felt-padded goloshes left unbuttoned.
They went down the street Tapping
around like the wings OF an old bug
zard. being heard quarter OF e.
mile away. Some people thought the
world was going to the devil for this;
but no woman like this could be Il
temptation to anything on earth. I
cannot conceive OF a better .protec-
ton for woman who has to 70
around at all hours of the day and
night than to wear goloshes, In this
way. If people would stop arguing
with these girls. they would BIO bet
Ter Off, for argument does not do
any good with any one without sense.
Shffters Ii Latest. 4l
"Fads fad while the fad lasts and
then fad themselves out ThSs.Shift-s
ers' Is the latest. 1t started in the
grammar schools. spread to the COL
lege and university. and now to the.
high school and general public. IT
Is TOO general to last becauise It Is
not classy enough. The latest inyas S
sion OF this fad Is into the lunatIcs
asylum and every one there lis now
shifting. 1t is only a lunatic that
would take up with It anyway,
These things are all too siily and
little to have microscope applied
10 them.., In our days. we had slllv.
fads. too. I challenge any one to
md any one more foolish than we
were in our youth-except among.
me Shutters. Socially there have beens
problems always to face and they,
were as Intricate as the problems
or today. Our fathers faced them,
perhaps: not In the same form, hut
they were Just as great, vexinr ana
destructive. but never before. in the
history OF the world, have we had az!
many silly women or silly girls. buts
.hey are not caused by society, bur
py TACK between the eyebrows and
crown OF their heads" s.