The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-03

June, where 40 you WISH 10
live?' I asked girl who csme be-
fore me in Juvelile court. and she
said. ANY place but home"
So tells Judge Mary Bartelme of
the Juvenile court of Chicago, add
ing-"the American home as an
American institution has broken
down in an alarming number Of
cases."
But, unlike the General Fedora
ton of vomen's Clubs, for instance,
which recognizes "the breakdown of
the American home" and yowls for
a return to the, fireside, this judge
advocates that more boys and girls,
especially girls live away from home
than do.
I went through the newest girls
half in our own city just a day
or so ago. The hall was built by a
rich real estate syndicate as the re-
suit of housing QUESTIONABLE" an
swered by the working girls of the
city. The girls asked for "a club
sort of hotel" where they could have
private rooms, food at little cost,
enough parlors for private enter
tanning.
Two thirds of the girls who live
in this hall have homes in the
same town. They are daughters OF
parents of a generation which took
it for granted that any and all
daughters would live at home until
they had homes of their own. 1t
was net easy for these girls to make
the break.
The woman in charge of this
girls hall, a woman who has worked
with social questions for two dec
AIDES, talked about this epidemic
of "hotels for girls" spreading over
the land.
at is hard to know what ! really
think about them," she said. 1--WE
can ask only so much of any girl.
1t is unfair to ask a girl who has
caught the glimpse of clean, gracious
new-world living to ruin the best
years of her life and all her chances
at marriage that could give her
a better life, by forcing her to live
on in an Did unclean home, the
product of Ter parents standard of
living which is bound to be different
and which, talk as you will about
the girls opportunity to bring up her
home standard, cannot be changed.
It's the leopard's spots.
"That's one thing. The girls who
hand over all their earnings merely
for the privilege of sharing a bed
with two younger sisters, being
molested by the inevitable 'roomer,
forced into the movies to entertain
their beaus, are one class"
(They are the Junes of which the
woman judge speaks. They are the
girls who are urged into living quar-
tiers outside their own homes0
"But there's another type of girl
living in these halls. Girls from
good enough homes. But these girls
are products Of this Age Of Anes-
thetics. They will not play the game
of give and take. If they don't like
the living room wallpaper they re-
fuse to consider that perhaps their
own room with its lacquer red fur
niture is thorn in their mothers
flesh. They forget their compensa-
lions. If they can't give a bridge
party on Thursday night because
mothers club is coming in that
night they get mad and forget that
when the gang comes in on Friday
night, mother will have Scrump-
tious lunch for them and wash the
dishes at midnight without a muir
muir.
They refuse to make any adjust
ment, any sacrifice. They see nc
worth in family unity. They prefer
to spend their 81 a week and live as
they please even if their parents
must take in strange roomer at
home to help out on the family
budget. I sometimes believe that
these girls hotels are merely monu-
meiits to the supreme selfishness OF
modern humans"
Interesting ideas, at any rateI