The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-04-14
Picked Up Girls
Anderson Mail.

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Anderson Mail.
1t is alarming to see notices in the
newspapers of the many times that
young girls are picked up by some
man in an automobile in passing
along who asked if they would like
to take a ride. Without momen's
hesitation an affirmative reply is
made, and in jump two or more girls
who are out for good time with
strangers going whittier they know
not, and seem to care less, perfectly
Indifferent to the consequences.
When they get in they find that there
are several men totally unknown to
them, but that is a matter of small
concern, and all goes on nerrily un-
til there is a sudden jolt, and the
party is found in the hands of Of
ficers held to give an account OF
themselves.
Then, the shame of the thing is
brought out. There was revelry OF
all kinds disclosed, with the usual
drinking, incident to such occasions.
The girls. tell that they did not. care
to go any way, and if they did. they
thouht, of course, that it was just
for ride around town, but they soon
found out that they were being car
ried far out into the country or to
some strange city, and they cried
and protested all to no purpose, and
they let it be known to the officers
that they were treated improperly
against which they protested, and
here they are away from home, par
ents and friends with accounts ap-
pearing in the newspapers which are
very far from being satisfactory, and
which very seriously reflect not only
upon their characters, but upon their
good sense.
1t matters not how long girl may
live, and how very seriously she may
regret such step, she will never get
over it. She may weep her head off,
and not only determine to be more
careful in the future, and prove to
those who know her that she is sim
cere, but the result of that ride will
never be effaced. Others may over
look it as an act of youthful indis-
cretion, but they will shudder to
think of it, and she herself will feel
it's effect every time her memory re-
verts to it. go
Our advice, girls, is, never think of
yielding yourself to such tempta-
ton. Beware of the man who ap-
proaches you whom you do not know,
and to whom you have never been
introduced, and there are some whom
you know all to we'll of whom you
should beware. Certainly, if you hold
yourself in that high esteem that you
should, you Will be more than care
full about automobile rides when you
do not know where you are going,
and what the occasion calls for.
In the long ago, when young man
wished to meet and form the acquain-
tance of girl, he had to depend up
on some friend of hers to introduce
him, and by so doing he stood in q
certain sense responsible for the
character and the good conduct OF
that young fellow, and if he did not
behave himself, it meant the end of
his reception into the company of
other girls, and the immediate dlsso-
luton of friendly relations between
young people of both sexes. But girls
seem to have discarded all such for
malities in these days-or rather
good hard common sense which would
serve as a protection to them. The
old way is too slow for the modern,
fast little thing.
What about advising the parents OF
girls of this makeup? That would
be more than useless. It is entirely
out of the question. They have NJ
real fathers and mothers, they JUS