The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-22

Dear Jane Jordan am high School
girl in my early teens and crave good
times once in awhile I just can't see
reason for living. 1 can not have dates
and am allowed to attend few parties;
I have a smaller brother and sister ana
/ suppose my dad thinks / should go out
and play like 4-year-nld
AZ school ! go with fellow =, in ,o his
late teens and we are very mucn IN love ioHe,
beautiful evenings. MY boy frleno gets
tired of Just seeing me in the day, time
/ am sure that my mother would let me
have dates II my dad would -.
When I'm home, | lust worry about bout
my boy friend continually Cant even
contented a few minutes of the day. Oh,
it's terriblei l need advice from you anu
other readers, Would IKE 20 near AZ from
some parents, too. What can dof
woRRISOME. WEARISONdE LOVER.
Dear Worrisome, Wearisome Lover
Whenever I read a letter such as
this. I am moved to wrath against
the curious blindness of parents who
arrange so conveniently to forget
the surge of impulses and emotions
which pushed against them In their
own youth. An appalling number OF
Young girls whose spirits are OPP
pressed to the point Of misery by
the too severe exercise OF parental
authority write to me.
The old system of guarded girls is
impossible under modern conditions.
It is out of step with the trend OF
times and can result only in worse
evils than those which the parents
seek to avoid. The
Don't Use duty of the par
emf is not To rule
Iron Hand the s girl with an
With Girl iron hard, but to
help her find
satisfactory adjustment to life by
friendly cooperation and direction.
Youth is gregarious and one of its
keenest needs is healthy association
with the opposite sex. To forbid a
girl the companionship of boys and
prohibit her from mingling with the
group of her contemporaries is to
crush her spirit completely and
stop the very breath of her life.
All too frequently, the young girl
experiences a gnawing sense of lone
illness in the bosom of her own fam
lily. To move in a congenial social
circle is as i'm
portant to her as Give Some
pLTIIr Ao0N " Thought to
These parents Problems
never have given
serious and constructive thought to
the problems that their daughters
present. They issue unreasonable
prohibitions, with the foolish expec.
tation of blind obedience. 1t goes
without saying that their vetoes and
restrictions are about as successful
as the well-known Volstead act.
Young girls still sneak off to meet
their boy friends. They lie to escape
the bonds of home which parents
have made hateful. The home which
is not a happy gathering ground of
the youth of the community simply
can not keep its own young. Sooner
or later they will escape into free
dom, without knowledge of what to
do with it.
I receive fewer letters from par
ents than any other group of read
ers. They do not
Write and reply to requests
for their view
Tive TOUR points. I do not
Viewpoint know what Is IN
WHY they are so lethargic in re-
spending to the Garment appeals that
Young girls make for better under
standing between youth and ma
turity.
one more ask mothers and faith
ers who read today's letters from
very young girls to come forth with
letters explaining their side of the
problem. The best letters will be
published, in the hope that daugh-
tiers will profit by them. Let's have
a column of advice to daughters.
written by the parents themselves!
n
Dear Jane Ior1an--T took your advice
and tried 70 ind s0.ssane else. Il worked
only hall way. : tAfl b-sng my new
boy friend ho;ae. 81 A,p .stnCr won't let
me. Tell me, % i9l Tick X would be
disrespectful to raX parents and family
to meet him Slln sW he-e clSs7 j have a
right 70 live and chose my friends but