The Washington times., 1922-06-14

.FLAPPERs ARE
SWEET THINGS
I'VE Are Emerging Into Age Of
Culture, Woman's Age" 4.
s. Says Pastor.
BY WINIFRED VAN DUZER.
Universal Service.


Universal Service.
NEW YORK, June 14.-lt appears
that the flapper grows on you, like
any other acquired taste.
Whereas she was "razzed" by the
world, or most Of it, only bit ago.
she is now being endorsed as a figure
of progress, sweetness and good
sense by persons whose opinions
have quite a little something 10 do
with guiding public thought.
The Rev. Dwight McMurtte, who
came up from Birmingham, Alabama,
to look over New York's flapper-
hood from vintage point OF the RITZ
and eyirons, today stated that she.
bad been malinged and nlisunder.
stood-the short-skirted. short.hair.
ed one.
DR.. McMurtie is one OF six mem.
bers of a jury who has been asked
to sit in Judgment on the young girl
of today. Five of the number found
her not guilty of undesirable quail.
ties: the sixth was against her, even
while he admitted that she Is charm.
ing.
Just Like Parents.
DIR. McMurtie said:
1--WE move in the same mental
grooves that our parents and grand.
parents moved In. When the present
generation of fathers and mothers
were young and determined to do
things their own way, their parents
declared that nothing would save
them from themselves. Their grand
parents had the same to say about
them, and so on back through his
tory.
Short dresses have become almost
universal, and so they have lost the
element of newpess. 1t 10 from this,
the unusual and unknown, that our
horror OF innovation comes.
I'VE have accepted long hair as
proper for women, but there - no
reason why short hair shouldn't b"
just as proper. Painting the face Is
new only in daylight hours.
THE 'flapper' as she Is called, Is
no more exotic to this day than her
their own"
DR.. McMurtie's statement is, in
effect, practically a repetition Of that
which the Rev. Almer Pennewell
made from the pulpit of the Cove
nant Church, Chicago:
"Flapperism is not a disease but
diversion. Bobbed hair, short skirts
Fand knickerbockers are not signs OF
sin but a declaration Of independ.
ence. The girls are a jolly lot and
they will give US the finest genera.
ton of women the world ever has
known.
1--WE are passing from the man
aga a rough age. and emerging into
the age of culture, the woman's age.
That is why the flapper exists to-
day"
DR.. Leo. Dretzka. noted physician
of Detroit. Michigan, was another
member of the jury. He endorsed
the flapper on grounds of health:
'In ten years all women will be
wearing short skirts and bobbed
hair!
THE 'flapper' is the most sensible
! type of women we ever have had. 1t
would be a shame IL fashion design.
ers should prevail upon women to go
back to the dust and germ catcher
! dress OF few years ago.
THE long skirts unhealthful and
therefore a menace. | can remember
when women sewed brush braid
round the bottom to sweep up the
dust. Can you imagine our flap
pers' doing that? The weight of
| there is no gainsaying the sanitari.
ness of short hair"
Fayors the Flapper.
w A Harris, l.. L. D., correspond.
ing secretary of the board Of educa.
ton of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, likewise voted in favor Of
the flapper.
DR.. Harris, who formerly was presi-
dent OF the Northwestern University
and chairman of the Chicago vice
commission which made investiga.
ton of the vice situation in that city,
will not admit that the world is going
to the dogs. He said:
There are many things now Ia.
boo among young people which were
tolerated in the older days. Group
morality'continues to crystalize along
sane and sensible lines despite digres.
sions which lead many TO think the
race is headed. toward it's own des-
truction.
Besides short skirts, paint and
powder and short hairy what dis
tinguishes the So-called flapper from
any one else in this age. Her syni.
cism? ! believe in this the flapper
and the so.called cake eater are only
reflectinE the spirit OF the times
The after.war reaction accounts for
1t as it does in the business man and
other types.
I'm my opinion 1t all comes back
TO the old tendency of each genera.
ton in view with profound and self
righteous approval the new things
ushered in by the new generation"
Laura Jean Libby is the only
woman member of the jury. The
famous writer Of love stories and
creator of more heroines than any
living author asserts that flappers
are sweet. She continued:
Perhaps their skirts are some.
what short and they have a little
too much powder on their noses, but
otherwise they are very attractive.
I like their little clothes and their
little bobbed hair!"
The dissenting voice was that of
Frank X. LeidendeCker. one Of the
best known artists and illustrators
in the country. Ills astonishinI
statement follows:
THE modern girl has no heart. no
soul, no sentiment. II sht has, she
refuses to admit 1t. You do not dare
to talk to her of classics nor OF
other serious things for she simply
will make no attempt TO absorb them
C,L L.. CT.