River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-02-02

three major vices. They go hand in hand. They
are allowed to run rampant in the city OF Den
ver." So men and women Of Denver have organ
lied the Cooperative Law Enforcement associa-
ton.
In Illinois an Illinois Vigilance association has
been organized ito bring back dancing and substi
tute it for the one-spot wggle that reigns today"
In Chicago Joseph L. Moss, chief probation off,
GER of the Juvenile court says:
"Girls are worse than boys. 1t used to be axi
omatic that the average girl is better than the
erage boy, but that's now a tradition. In 1920 we
had 1912 boy cases in this court, against 1882
this year. During the same period we had 638
girl cases. compared to 684 in 1921 Fifty-fve
per cent Of the 6S4 girls before the court this year
were there because of delinquency. None of
the 1882 boys arragned on that charge
Thirty three per cent of the delinquent girls
incorrigible, as against only IL per cent of the
boys"
Reading between the lines there is found here
an indictment of woman almost if not quite as
strong as that of man.
Some of the visiting foreigners express them
selves rather plainly about American women. For
example, Princess Antoine Bibesco wife of the
Rumanan attache at Washington and daughter of
Margot Asquith, whose saucy book about person
ages in England caused a storm of criticism, and
herself the author of still more audacious book,
says:
american men are charming, but it's just be-
cause they are so charming that the women aren't
so nice. They are utterly spoiled and good for
nothing"
Prof Albert Einstein, whose theory of 'Rel-
ativity" made him famous, made some observa-
tions about us of America. lie said:
"Women dominate the entire life of America.
The men interest themselves in nothing except
work They think of nothing except work-and
to an extent have never seen before. AS for
the rest of the men, they are nothing but the lit
lie playdogs of the women who spend their money
in reckless manner and veil themselves in mist
of extravaganza. They do everything for the WON
en- that is in vogue or the whim of the passing
moment.
So; in view Of these indictments various ac-
tivities of women take on an added interest and
are being widely discussed. OF course the women
who are doing things and discussing things
stand by their sex. Lady Aston the first woman
to be elected TO the British parliament, has this
to say, in part:
as there such a person as the New Woman?
Or are women much the same as ever. In spite Of
apparent changes in their position?
"The war has given tremendous push to the
reaction from Victorian social ideals which had
already begun, and the quickened pace has been
disconcerting. The early and mid-victoran girl
was brought up in as complete ignorance as pos
sible Of the fundamental facts of life and of mar
riage while the dark side of the picture, the social
evil, was kept closely hid from her.
During the last twenty or thirty years girls have
escaped from these narrow walls.
'When women first began to realize the existence
of some of the worst social evils 1t made some
of them embittered against men, in way which
was comprehensive. but, nevertheless, uiGeason-
able and anti-social The moral problem is no
doubt one of the causes which have put women