The evening world. Newspaper, December 27, 1921, Page 14

MALISM” THE ROOT OF SINS | HAT BESET YOUNG PEOPLE AND CT DRESS AND DEPORTMENT ontclair Pastor Deplores Prevalence of “Sex Talk’? in the Younger Generation and Con- demns Feminine Dress Which Leaves Nothing to Imagination—Blames Parents. malism,” bluntly asserted the Luke M. White, pastor of the nable St. Luke's Episcopal ch, Montolair, N. J, “is at the of the much criticised dress, ng, conversation and conduct of m young people. They know about sex than thefr grand- and grandmothers, No topic © in conversation. et the young people themselves fine lot. They are a most tal- generation, Their ideals of as we saw during the war, & the highest. They are justifi- in revolt against hypocrisy and The blame for their behavior d be placed on the parents and elder people. Who are we, to and talk about and deplore when we are responsible their very existence?” listening to Dr. White, in the attractive living room of his gt No. 75 South Fullerton Ave- Montclair, because, though he ly describes himself as a Witry parson,” echoes of his recent it thunders travelled even to Row. For example, the other » Speaking at a Unity Service of denominatio: held in the First Church of Montclair, Dr. declared that the consumma- marriage at the petting party wulefly responsible for our high rate, and that when even Glyn finas fault with what ‘on in our drawing rooms it is for the rest of us to wake up. he commended St.. John the jst for his supreme virtue of ness, and admitted that in “sig ihe er proposed to do," I urged, when ‘I found at home‘at the ena of a gray afternoon, | “Only the other an article for The World, H and say just what you think onsible for the ‘moral holiday’ more seems to be taking at the clergyman, who carried ‘slender figure as lithely as boy, though his thick Gepver| answered with the “tact Word at the beginning of it is at the root of everything,” tinued, “although it is what seem to dislike putting into even at ‘meetings called to ir the various manifestations hich it is responsible. Every- there is the insistence on sex, a Bhysical, ple even shake hands differ- by ’ from what they used to do. physical contacts have in- 4. They are helped by the of the modern woman, which, th in some respects it was never ble, is yet, on the whole, de- to reveal the body in all its aspects. Very little is left > imagination, and I think any ; would tell you what effect! display has on the minds both, young women who wear the| and of the young men who see of the best ways of judging social customs of an age is by is. If we want knowledge of clety of the eighteenth century, to the novels uf Smollett and ing. Similarly, if we want to £ own society as it is, we turn ir fiction. ve in such a remarkable novel Norris's ‘Brass’—written, I am ‘with interse seriousness of pur- but showing the rottenness of tructure of modern marriage, al- all the varieties of marriage end in divorce. Moralists criti- the novels of George Moore, in the last century, but in them nor anywhere else do d such conditions as those . At least, in Moo: And what a picture Joined to a preponderance oi or physical, Dr. White at- he social conditions which ; chief among them, the of sex in conversation and friend whom I have every rea- fo believe,” he said, “tells me sex topics are the chief subject iversation among the young and ot that none is tabooed, even among young women. Franxness js all very well, but frankness carried to any such excess takes the bloom from the cheeky the dew from the rose. recently addressed our Parents’ League, called attention to the way in which girls are allowed to go about unchaperoned, and to the petting parties in the automobiles. All over our roads—two and two and two~ you find these petting parties. From them engagements often result, yer a marriage made in such a fashion is headed straight for the rocks from the very beginning. It is an attempt to base a permanent union on mero physical attraction without spiritual or mental communion. The reason we have so many divorces is because 60 many of our Linger rd are con- summated at petting “Some one told me the other day of a party given in a fashionable home at which the young guests found no one to whom they could say ‘good evening’ on their arrival, or ‘good- night’ on their departure. Yot the whole house was thrown open to them, and, according to the report of one of the maids, all the bedrooms were occupied. A man described to me a party for young people of ‘twenty years old and leas which he attended last summer, The favor at each plate was In the shape of a little monument containing enough whiskey to fill a glass.” “Don't you think that Prohibition is largely responaible for follies Among our young people?” 1 sug. gested. “Such widely separated au- thonities as former President Eliot of Harvard and Meredith Nicholson, the Hoosier novelist, recently have com- mented on the prevalence of drun- enness among the young, since the passage of the Eighteenth Amend- ment.” “Prohibition undoubtedly has done widespread good," declared = Dr. White, “and no ohe would havo tho saloon back. But I think one effect, for the time being, among certain .| groups of young people. has been to increase overindulgence. “Having a law we should enforce it. And I do not think any host or hostess should serve liquor to the young, who do not know how to use Then he voiced his belief in the younger generation's fine possibilities and the older generation's grave re- sponsibilities—that older generation, which, in his phrase, has itself been living on “borrowed spirituality” and therefore has had none to hand down to ite children, “[ do not believe in policing the “Mrs. Trowbridge of Princeton, who | young, but I. believe im protecting | them," he explained | allow their young daughters to go © to a party in an automobile with one or tWo men and no chaperone, and | to return at any hour of t night |without any member of the family being on hand even to unlo he door and let her in, thowe pare re simply courting disaster! “The (rouble is that they are like- ly to be more interested In social Climbing than jn building character. | Their daughters must be popular at cost, must make ‘a good mar- ge, and #0 must not run the risk of being ‘different’ ‘That is why I assert we need to cultivate the | virtues of tactlessness and courage— that we need to call wrong things by their right names and to set our faces sternly against them, It all] comes back to the parents, Tt is 1,| it is the men and women of my gen- ation who will be to blame for the wreckage of these young lives!” oe HOLIDAY DINNER LATE, SO HE SHOOTS AT WIFE She Pro: Fr 4 o' Clock, but Failed to Show Up. Michael Pitticelli of No. & Chrystie | Street was taken to Essex Market Court | to-day for the correction of his domes- tic manners. Mrs, Pitticelli, leaving yesterday for her married daughter's home at No. 24 Forsyth Street, had assured her hus- band she would be back in time to have his dinner on the table at 4 o'clock. Shoe had not returned at 4 o'clock. Mr. Pitticell! weat to the home in-law, opened the door, said to hia wife, “1 will teach you your duty,” and shot at hei Mrs. Pitticell as he fired a second ay, Pitticelll met Po- cl, who was coming to find Out about the ‘shots, and was arrested, Mrs. Pitticellt Aboot hd not alt MRS. GEORGE \ V. MULLAN Ections of Board An- nounced at College. Mrs, George Vincent Mullan, wife of Justice Mullan of the Supreme Court, has been elected ar. alumnae trustve of Barnard College of Columbia Univer- ity, it was announced to-day. . Mrs. ullan is the second alumnae trustees to jected under the revised charter. Serving with her Is Bra. Alfred I. Hoss, whose teri expires | Other elections Fonsi G. Mil- Mabel Choa daughter of the Iat seph HH. Chon c : Plerro Jay, ban board; and George A. ‘Plimpton, . publisher Clara B.’ Spence and Dean HL. C, Rob- hing of the Cathedral of St. “John the Divine were elected members. of the Executive Committee. Seah ALTMAN EMPLOYEES RECEIVE XMAS BONUS. Other Nearly #400,000 Distributed to Workers by Foundation, turkey, cranberry sauce and plum pud= ding of the employees of B, Altman & Co. in Fifth ag nue, for on Saturday there was distriButed among them from 350,000 to $400,000 from the, Altman undation, created by the late founder of the famous dry goods house. Every employee in the house, number- OT even the most radical reformer objects to the measuring of “When parents | ™ | DELPHIA” Cream Cheese. 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