a letter of commendation to sash off
ADDRESS REAP BEFORE
the three? And to the Portland Tele
W. C. T. U. COHVEBTIOH gram as well?
Coming to
PO RTLAND
I wish moet earnestly that women
and girls who think 11 so exceed
ingly smart to smoke aad carry Jew
eled flasks, could aee a few of the
hopeless Idiots la our state Institu
tions— sickening tumps of human
flesh whose minds wsre stolsa aad
bod 1 m distorted by the use of alco
hol and nicotine by their fathers.
And now. If the mothers of tbs race
are to All their veins with ths poi
son. God alone knows what ths re
sult will be.
Furthermore .the up to date moth
er and her flapper daughter who
smoke, are about a hundred years be
hind the times. It Is s matter of
history that in the early east and
south, many women used to amoks
with their men. hut good senm earn#
to the rescue and ths craze died out
before the hoop akhrt came into be
ing. Only rarely in the west, and In
the mountainous districts of Ken
tucky. Tennessee and the surround
ing states do we Had ths counterpart
of what our gay young flappers will
be at their ages shriveled, sallow,
flat chested crones who dip snuff or
draw sway at coruooh plPM while
baking pone or fryin g sowbelly.
I am not a pessimist or * calamity
howler.
I know th ai even today
there are more saner and lovely girls
and women than any other kind.
There are thousands o f homes where
discipline Is enforced and where hap
piness holds sway, tens of thousands
of becomingly dressed ladles, old as
well as very young. Fine young
boys, and manly man. Every school
and store and library, hoy and girl
scout troop and kindred organisa
tions .are turning out the best fin
ished products the world has ever
seen. In many ways America stands
today as big brother to the world.
But you and I and every honest par
son knows that much !s fundamen
tally wrong.
We all need discipline. Life Is a
training school and discipline is like
measles, the older we are when we
begin to take it. the harder It goes
with ua. Let parents love their
children with every atom of their
beings, which means with thsir
heads, as well as with their hearts.
Let them use tenderncM and gentle-
and moral suasion by ths ton.
but when It comes to a showdown,
lot no one hesitate between n
temporary red mark on a rebellious
little body and a permanent black
mark on an immortal soul.
Some years ago. before paper mon
ey was In general use ha the west, a
young man who had been appointed
to a federal position employed a
government official to teach him
the difference between genuine and
counterfeit bills. When the first les
son came, the expert said: "1*11
teach you what tbs good ones are,
than you’ll know the bud.”
I f children are taught reverence
for God and home and law. respect
for age. and the high, and noble,
they win naturally ehooee the right
and w ill have no use for the coun
terfeit.
At the FraM f Detention
Home. I have seen bullet headed lit
tle waifs change in manner aad ap
pearance almost over night. A ll the
k Id dim need is a chaaas— and some-
obs to tnstUl ths beta Ideals Into
their waiting brains. W hile talking
to the delinquent girls to the dormi
tory after prayer ease night, trying
to etmaurage A s m to forget evil
ways and to brace up and make good
I discovered that I had delivered
quite a lengthy homily.
"W ell, girls,” I langhed. “ I didn’ t
In here to preach you a sermon
but I seem te have done It. One of
grandfathers was a lawyer and
In other words— cigarette the other was a Methodist minister,
i. and “ dainty" pipes for ladles. so perhaps I ought to be able to
Who in Oregon cares what vapid talk.
women, with more dollars than
Miaa Kelly,” responded a four
sense, do in London, Paris. New teen year old girl who had been ar
York or any place else? Why should rested with nine men In her room,
a paper of the standing of the Ore “ I f we girls had beard more o f such
gonian spread such tommyrot before talks, most of us would not be hers
the eyes of our growing boys and now.” Ths great heartbreaking pity
girls? What have we done about It of it! Millions of acres of the best
— written a scathing protest to the soli In the unlveies lying idle, tor the
editor, or sputtereed a little to our lack o f some one to sow the grain!
friends and relatives and let It go
America Is waking up! Ws are
at that? Don’t you know that n per slek to death of crime and filth and
sistent effort in letter writing would sensation, of boose and Jazz and flap
mighty, soon put such pernicious pers. According to the shorts« cate
propaganda in the waste basket chism “ The chief end of man Is to
w here ft belongs? Twenty letters, glorify God and enjoy him forever.
rtiort. hot and to the point, calling For the last two years, the chief end
the editor down for such destructive of woman has been from the knees
trash would make him sit up and down. No one of Intelligence wants
take notice. At the next offense, to return to the train and bustle, to
repeat the doee. double strength, and crinoline or mutton leg sleeves, hut
you would soon see a change off pot ws have seen enough of rouge and
'ey
Papers and magazines are run rats and peekaboo waists to last a
f°c gain, and no editor will long con lifetime. No one doubts that woasan
tinue a series that he knows Is o f Is n biped. 8he has shown the world
fensive to his readers.
enough o f spindle shanks, off dray
Aad in speaking of magazines, I horse legs, o f twisted seams and
am reminded of the featare story in flimsy stockings, of swollen veins and
the current Woman’s Home Compau moeqito bites to last a thousand
Ion, "The Bridegroom’s rather,” by lifetimes.
Ines Haynes Irwin. I wish that ev
Let’s get back to common
ery woman here today would read and common decency!
Let’s fight
It. and. If she has not already done firs with fire. Purchase space on MU
so. that she would write a letter of boards and launch a clean and clev
protest to the editor
er campaign for modest styles and
What point there is to the thing, wholesome living.
U m the radio!
is a confession of hls early lafatus- Gat speakers who have snap and
{ tlon for his office assistant and of sympathy, wit and understanding,
Ms making a clean breast of the af and broadcast clarion calls te girls.
fair to hls wife, by the father to hls Our men are what ws women make
son. a young physician who baa Just them— they will fall in line ■
married an ultra-modern girt, who
Jasz Is on ths run. Let’s send the
rushes lato the den where the tete- rouge pot with it— hartllng back to
a-tete is In progress, smokes a cig the denizens o f the underworld
arette with her veil still on, rouges where they both originated. Let’s
and powders her face before the face encourage social centers and givs ths
of her newly acquired husband and young folks places to congregate un
father-in-law. sits on the arm of the der cordial supervision.
letter’s chair, has him light another
America is a vast and wozderful
etgaeette in hls pipe howl, smokes H garden, sown with the finest i
and scurries out te Join the crowd o f the world.
Let’s tear out the
of merry-makers while the rather thorns and thtstlM of deceit and
tells hls son that she Is a very un crime, ths poison Ivy of sex appeal,
dem anding girt, aad that he Is very the deadly nightshade of boose, of
tueky indeed to have
’ "poppy and mandragora and other
gem.
He ends by saying that she Is drowsy syrups.” sod give our ¿olden
worth fighting hard to keep.
grain a chance.
In contrast to the tenor of this
Our boys and girls are our chol
story. I wish to mention that Me fruit and flowers.
Are thdy not
Call’s magazine recently announced worth fighting for?
America la
that, hereafter, their stories were yours. Weed your garden!
going to stand for something help
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ful aad uplifting. The Ladies’ J
flaUaCaettou la « M g word, sad
Journal has waged rolmftlsss
It’s s big thing to ha aMs to give ths
against Jans aad la el
paMte atoag with «heir pur-
fal la its articles and sditsrtala, aad
Ws*rs aaUtag satisfaction aa
The American Magaalae ie oae off the
as printing. A n you eatisflad?
moet inspiring publications ever con I f not, yon sto not getting 70ur
ceived. Can we not, as a body, scad printing bara.
tf
(Continued from pegs «even)
women stand. They amoke, fight,
steal end lie. drink moonshine end
Joyride.
Young women who can not speak
rhetorical English or write an Intel
ligent, correctly spelled, properly
punctuated letter, paint their feces,
wear their dresses to their knees, re
fuse tp attend school unless supplied
with silk stockings, smoke cigarettes
end prate tolerantly of womanly
women as "old dears.” prudea fos-
Vtetorlan relics end dead
hHe at Carmel. California,
a writers' and artists* colony of rare
natural beauty, two years ago. I was
reliably Informed that there was not
a girl la the seventh end eighth
grades of the grammar school there
who did not aseoke.
Our times are grevlously out of
tune. Instead of Joining the aong of
the stars and the divine harmony of
worlds In apace, we have had to en
dure the hellish strains of Jaxz, that
corrupt combination of dlpeords
which originated in the under world
and which no stretch o f Imagination
could dignify by the name of music
— to say nothing of the dance.
Of the greet and wonderful art o f
riot Ion pictures I can truthfully say
that many productions are clean, up
lifting and Inspiring as any'sermon.
Much on the screen Is not only edu
cational and amusing but also con
structive and helpful— hut all too
often, in order to see the high class
play one has 'gone to view, one is
compelled to alt through one or more
Inane or lewd slapstick comedies that
are an Insult to intelligence and a
challege to docency. With the pro
miscuous love-making and whole
sale familiarity abounding in the av
erage so-called “ comedy" la it any
wonder that there is nothing sacred
to the ultra modern rising genera
tion? That Joyrides end “ petting
parties’* flourish, or that helpless,
unnamed, unwanted bits of humanity
are left on door steps, or abandoned
in pansy beds?
I hare wondered manjC many
timde Just how «ea rly nude, how
coarse and suggestive a photograph
would have to be to be (Mused pub
lication in our leading papers Take
almost any paper, at almost any
place In the United States, and watch
It for a week— dally edition and
8unday supplement as well— and see
If, In that time, there Is not at least
one picture o f an actress in an un
womanly stats o f aegtlgee, or sug
gestive posture. W hy do we stand
for it?
Some comic sections really are
humorous and contain the human
touch y e all appreciate, but the
groat majority are lurid, cheep end
slsngy— yet children In ell classes of
hornet are I pfiowed to pore over them
and abaorl
rb their atmosphere and
Ideas without the slightest parental
censoring:
Whnt wlU be the psychologic»!
effect In a Tew years more when we
add to the «hove the flaming litho
graphs of radiantly appareled women
swooning or cuddling 1* the arms of
handsome heroes, on oar billboards—
announcing a change of program at
the movies, and at the ever-present
Iff the tobaeeo trust, fe t
a l tractive young women en-
Jsfftag their favorite “ Camels” or
Foxy Grandpas and “ Velvet Joes“
having their pipes attentively light
ed by dainty miaees with flaxen
carle?
Five times, within n year, has the
Oregonian insulted the clean woman
hood pf its readers by running mr-
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Kameber above dates, that eoaaul-
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that his treatment Is (liferent.
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a tattMewife,more trying to her nerves, than
dark, dingy, unattractive kitchen. A n d
nothing it easier o f correction.
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