The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-05-27
NEWSPAPER SAYS
BOYS AND GIRLS
BEHAVED BADLY
THE NEWS-REPORTER TELLS
WHAT HAPPENED AT THE
EIGHTH DISTRICT MEET.
"A ROUGH AND ROWDY BUNCH
Danced All Night, Whisky Flowed
Freely and Couples Fell Asleep in
Autos on Roadside. Parents Warn
ed to Keep Children at Home.

ed to Keep Children at Home.
Some of the students who attended
the Eighth district high school meet
at Washington, Ga, are said to have
been guilty of the most unbecoming
conduct, and the Reporter,
printed in that historic town, gives
the following account as warning to
parents who want to raise their chill
dren in the ways that are right to
keep them away from high school
meets in the future That paper says:
"For some time the News-Reporter
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 winning football team or
baseball team than to producing win
ming students-students who will go
out in the world and win places in
those things that really amount to
something for the race.
All Night Orgies.
with the gaiety and hilarity which
attend these football and baseball and
field events in schools, at which whis-
XIV drinking and all night orgies are
common, in which girls participate as
well as the boys, these school meets
are becoming menaces to the future
of the race and it is time that the par
ents Of the young folks were awaken
inb to the seriousness of the situation,
if the school faculties are blind to
them.
"The News Reporter has especially
in mind the high school meet held in
Washington last week.
"A vast majority of the students of
the schools of the Eighth COMPRESSION
al district attending this meet doubt
less conducted themselves as ladies
and gentlemen, but there was a large
number of them-entire1y too large
a number-who took liberty for Ii
cense and went the limit
"They went so far, in fact, that The
News Reporter feels itself duty bound
to tell the parents of the children of
the Eighth district just what kind of
influence their children come under at
these meets and advise that they keep
them at home in the future.
Whisky was greatly in evidence 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 boys and girls, without
chaperones or other restraints, danced
all night, or that part of the night
they were not out in automobiles on
the public roads of the county, quite
number OF couples having been
overcome by too much liquor or ex-
haustion from other causes and fell
asleep head to head, in their cars,
where they were found the next morn
ing before they had come out of their
stupor by Wilkes county people COM
ing to Washington.
MANY citizens of Washington who
were entertaining these young people
in their homes stated that their guests
in many cases came in at 4 and 81
o'clock in the morning, after having
been out all night with male compan-
ions.
Threw Overripe Eggs.
d
hoodlums-and they were represent
ing high school-became incensed
with the boys and girls of another
high school and took their revenge,
probably after having INDUCED in
enough drinks to kill all sense of de-
cency, by rotten-egging the latter as
they were riding through the streets.
TN the car that was engaged were
both boys and girls and it is said that
at least one OF the ancient eggs hit a
young girl squarely in the face,
streaming down her neck and over
her clothes One of the boys in the
car stopped several eggs, his clothes
next day showing this beyond doubt.
"The conduct of a number of the
boys and girls attending this meet
was disgraceful in the extreme, and
every girl and boy in attendance could
not help but come under the harmful
influence OF the bunch of roughnecks
both male and female-that made
the two nights they spent in Wash
ington perfect orgies of debauchery.
THE News-Reporter understands
that the officers of the district asso-
citation voted to discontinue the meets,
as a result of the horrible condition
that developed in Washington How
ever. If there is an effort started to
revive the meetings the News Report
er is sure that the parents of the
young people of the. district, when
they know the truth about their
daughters and sons, do not want them
to again come under such influence.
THE editor of the News Reporter
will certainly not allow his daughters
or sons to participate in such future
events, and it is quite safe to state
that the majority of the parents of
feel the same way about
it"
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