Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-17


so aptly expressed it.
The editorial in full, headed
School Meet Discontinued -
Misconduct of Students Bring
Ban On Competition, follows;
''For some time the News-Re-
porter has believed that athletics
in both high schools and colleges
have run away with the good
Judgment of both the faculties
of the schools and the parents OF
the students.
1T has come to pass, that in
many schools, more Importance is
attached to having a winning foot
ball team, or baseball team tran
to producing winning students
who will go out in the world and
win places in those things that
will amount to something for the
race.
with the gaiety and hilarity
which attend these football and
baseball and field events in
school at which whisky drinking
and all night orgies are common,
in which girls participate as we'll
as the boys, these school meets
are becoming menaces to the
race, and it is tim that the
parents of the young folks were
awakening to the seriousness of
the situation, if the school facul-
ties are blind to them.
"The News-Reporter has espe-
cially in mind the high school
meet held in Washington last
week.
"a vast majority of the stu
dents of the schools in The
Eighth congressional district at
tending this meet doubtless con-
Quoted themselves as ladies and
gentlemen, but there was a
large number of them-entirely
too large a number-who took
liberty for license and went the
limit.
Whisky was greatly in evil
dence at the meet, and it was
young boys who were drinking it
largely. An all night dance was
INDUCED in. A hall was hired and
the boys and girls without chape-
rones or other restraint, danced
all night, or that part of the
night they were not in automo-
biles in the public roads of the
fvIfIf "a n
couples having been overcome
by too much liquor or exhaustion
from other causes and fell asleep,
head to head in their cars, where
they were found next morning
before they had come out of
their stupor, by Wilkes county
people coming into Washington.
Many citizens of Washington
who were entertaining these
young people in their homes stat
ed that in many cases that their
guests came in at four and five
o'clock, after having been OUT
ALL NIGHT with MALE COM
PANI0NS.
GIN another instance a crowd
of hoodlums - and they were
representing a high school-be-
came incensed with the boys and
girls of another high school, and
took revenge, probably after hav-
ing INDUCED in enough drink to
kill the sense of decency, rotten
egging the latter as they were
riding through the streets.
''In the car that was egged
were both boys and girls and it
is said that at least one of the
ancient eggs hit a young lady
quar- e | y in the face,
streaming down her neck and
over her clothes. One of the
boys in the car stopped several
of the eggs, his clothes next day
showing this beyond doubt.
"The conduct of a number of
boys and girls attending this meet
was disgraceful in the extreme,
and every boy and girl in attend
ance could not help but come I'M
der the harful influence of the
bunch of roughnecks-b male
and female-that made the two
nights spent in Washington
PERFECT ORGIES OF DE-
BAUCHERY.
"The News-Reporter under
stands that the officers of the
district association voted to dis
continue the meets, as a result of
the horrible conditions that de-
veloped in Washington. Howey-
er, if there is an effort started
to revive the meetings, the News
Reporter is sure that the parents
of the young people of the dis
trict, when they know the truth
about the Washington meeting,
will see to it that their daughters
and sons do not come again UNI
der such influence.
"The editor of the News-Re-
porter will certainly not allow
his daughters or sons to partici-
pate in such future events and
it is quite safe to state that the
majority of the parents of
Washington feel the same way
about it."
Public school or high school
meets that require the absence
from home over night of the pu-
pills attending, should not be
permitted.
The public school is essential
ly democratic institution.
Among these pupils are those
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