Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-26

| woman who expects her callers to
take her out, and where the lights are
| brightest. Woman is not only not
| content to stay in the home, but she
Is taking man out of the home with
her.
Makes Hip Flask Charge.
What young woman today doesn't
shink a man Is piker If he hasn't
flask on the hip? These observations
are common knowledge.
"a year ago Patrick Cardinal Hayes
was asked whether modern youth had
lost faith In the church. He replied:
Certainly our young men have
not. Our men are fiocking to church
In greater numbers than ever before.
1t is our young girls that we worry
about. l remember as a young priest,
80 years ago. noting the laxity of reli-
gtous interest among the young men
Of that day. This has all changed
1t is man today that 10 religious
,, do you foresee any dangers to the
Nation from our present moral con-
dition?"
Certainly I do" said Mr.. Oursler.
mo nation can survive when its
standards have gone. And no nation
can last long when it's women start
taking their clothes off their backs.
The great lesson of history Is that ma
tons perish more from sensuality
than from anything else. Rome was
| conquered not by the barbarians. but
| by sensuous women. The French rev.
olution was the outcome OF Trianon-
the voluptuaries whose costly upkeep
Slapped the economic life of the nation.
Wants America to Think.
1T is time that we in America be-
| gan to think more about our moral
condition than about our economic
| splendor."
What would you do to bring the
Nation back to moral normalcy?" /
asked.
THAT Is a very difficult question to
answer. 1t Is easy to point out the
| disease, but not so easy to cure It..
Sometimes think that If gigantic
plague would be visited on America
1t would do a lot of good. It would
perhaps instill in our hearts a little
| more fear Of the hereafter. 1t would
perhaps check the mad philosophy of
| after us the deluge, which has appar-
entity taken hold of us as a nation.
I'm the absence Of any beneficial
plague, have often felt that man
| would have to put woman back in the
| home. Certainly we should, first of
all, get woman out Of politics and get
HcE DhCk Oh the JOD III the nome.
don't know whether we will put her
there by force or by persuasion. But
the point Is that she must return.
Comparison With Past.
"a century ago we had candlelight
It's fitckers fell on families about the
fireside, on boys and girls spread out
before the fireplace reading Shake
| speare or the Bible or some good
book. The younger children were in
bed. There was evidence Of religion,
Of happiness, of fine men and women
in the making, Of fathers and mothers
who would turn out Of the home fac
tory product in manliness and wom-
anliness in morality and religion.
To-day we have electric light and
automobiles. In their garish rays we
see sense-mad women dancing the
black bottom at in the morning, de.
serted fireplaces in the evening. booz.
ing boys and girls on the back seats
of automobiles, and in the headquar-
tiers of our woman politicians new
ukases of morality in the process of
being formulated.
1--WE must get back to candlelight
morality. But in order to do that, we
must get rid Of few moral an.
archists."
Copyright. 1920