The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-06-16
GEORGIA JUDGE AsSAILss
The MODERN TENDENCY.
.,n1rv TELLS EMORY GRAD
mrs RARE KNEES VULGAR,
n,1NTED FACE CLOWNISH.
SocALLED FREEDOM SCORED
g., line Between Youth and Matur
itv Has Been Abolished, Chaperones
Are Things of Past and Risque
1okes Are Rampant.

ity Has Been ADoliSheo' Nil"pe.o
Are Things of Past and Risque
1okes Are Rampant.
ATLANTA, Ga.-Painted cheeks,
aodern ball room dancing, nude stock
:.os and other innovations that have
.on,o with the so-called modern free
Jor, for women were roundly scored
by United States Judge Samuel H.
cibev speaking before the Emory
University graduating class OF 1879
members. He deplored modern ten
denotes in dress and conduct, and urg-
Cd his hearers to study and "see where
we are. where we are going, what the
consequences are to be, what the rem
edy is"
NNoman is now politically free,
economically free. cynical about mat
r;nonv and free lance in dress and
social conventions, said Judge Sib-
lew Our girls are included in the
peneralizaton, because the line be-
tween youth and maturity is one OF
the things that has been abolished.
Loved American Girl.
q have always loved the American
oir capable free in thought and mo-
ton. trusted, and therefore good, mod
est without prudishness, virtuous by
preference, protected because innocent
and pure in heart. God bless and keep
her so. Is she today sacrificing her
self in the new freedom? What winds
do the blowing skirts disclose?"
Here are some OF Judge Sibley's
comments:
Nude stockings and bare knees
look like plain vulgarity.
Short hair saves time and annoy
ance, and often adds to beauty; a
clownsh coat of paint over the face
does neither
Transparent waists and one-ply
cEnging skirts may be cool; they do
not advance the cause of modesty,
which is believed to be not yet wholly
lost in the world.
Feminine pajamas have their place,
but it is not in the ball room or on
the pages of the newspapers.
Though churchman, | always
have defended decent dancing; / can
not defend the so-called dancing that
is pulled off now.
The petting, 'risque' jokes, and
conversation that are familiar now
may be frank, but they are not whole
some
The grand jury of Fulton county
declares that there should be a single
standard OF morality for males and fe-
males Daring girls reply: There is;
we adopt that of the boys; what they
do we will do. We have the same right
to indulgence, thrills, vices, expert
ences, as they. Our crop of wild oats
shall equal theirs. Cigarettes, whisky,
anything!
Heart Out of Matrimony.
Is the future girl to marry having
had every experience in life save moth
erhood? Or is she not to marry at
all: Having taken the heart out OF
matrimony is the institution to be
abandoned? Are chastity of thought
and body to surrender to license and
SIM
u do not know, cannot know, how
Tar the current of which l am part
has borne
"Sensuality, getting the upper hand,
srangles, suffocates, crucitles tender
ness.
My fear is that through society
sSeansuality is being given control
Chaperoning has been abolished,
shame has been choked down, free
dom has been declared that this dark
sovereign may reign, Romance, faith,
~orShpiul admiration is giving place
10 cynlcism. A girl, it is said, is no
longer to be protected; she knows as
much and is as we'll able to take care
Oh herself as anybody. She. is not treat
ca with real courtesy and respect, Tor
little IS felt for her. The hat when
raised 10 her is mockery-she is as
Dad as he who wears it.
Marriage is a hasty impulse, to
Clothe sin with decency. Divorce IS
an early and natural consequence
%hen Sensuality has eaten up all ten
oerness, and then died of surfeit.
II freedom here is going awry,
GosSlng nature, wandering in the will
utrnesS beyond the third side or the
triangle the remedy is truth, more
mp'h' the whole truth-ruth to see
where we are, where we are going,
MHat the consequences are to be. what
.ne remedy is. Error, through inno-
Vence may be fatal Error is close to
I'm II this be freedom, what price is
Needom: Can we pay the price?
NO MANS LAND IN MIDDLE,