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KATHLEEN NORRIS IN SECOND OF WOMAN TO WOMAN TALKS REVEALS THE MENACE AND THE CURE OF THE FLAPPER PARENTS TO BLAME FOR NEGLECTING SOUL OF BUDDING WOMAN While Schools Teach Our Girls Only Astronomy and Manners aid Smart Dressing We Will Have the Flapper and a iandred Other Evils Rot Ufalte So Obrloos bat Jnst as Dangerous , as She, Says Noted Writer. OF course the flapper la not a disease In herself, she Is merely a symptom. Nationally speaking, our boy* and girls are our puis*; we Judge our health by the normality and ?teadlnesa of the rising generation. For six months?for a year. In deed?we have been calling upon our specialist*. Here la a pulse, we chorus, anxiously, hammsrlng along at something like a hundred and six?a hundred and seven. What's the matter? What's to be done? We ourselves, who represent th* lungs and stomach and legs and brain of the union? Oh, we're all right, of course. Nothing the mat ter with us! . PUZZLED SPECIALISTS LOOK AND SCOWL. It's only that wretched pound ing pulse that must somehow be stopped, or bou/nd up too tightly to move, or out out, or somethlngl Btop the pulse, and we shall do very nicely?nothing else is wrong except Just that foolish throbbing, throbbing at our wrist*. Our specialists look at our flap ping pulse, scowl and ponder Im pressively. It must b* stopped, (hat's that. Rut how stop tt with out seriously affecting every other portion of our natioaal anatomy? Something is wrong, something is gravely wrong. But the real frouble, as all the specialists know, la in the disease and not the mere visible disorder that Indicates the disease. I have before me the prospectus of a girls' school. And in this exquisitely made and illustrated booklet is the anrwer to the prob lem over which ?re are all?we older men and women?so serious ly concerned. "ANT CHURCH IF DESIRED" IS AN INDUCEMENT. fpr note, this Is an exceptionally fins school, calculated to give a growing girl a better chance for a thorough education than y mere villa** high school. The women in charge of it are con scientious and highly cultured, and the school itself represents a hun dred years of experience in dealing with young gentlewomen. I turn its pages, and my heart grows ?ick within me. Ho much social reference; so much clothing, gym suits and rid ing breeches. 80 much French, Latin, astronomy and mathe matics. Certain afternoons at the opera, certain concerts and lec tures. Carefully chaperoned dances, and the "correet drawing room manner." All these are promised. And "attendance at any ehurch If deaired. Well, you can teach a phono graph French and mathematics; wooden figures can Wear riding breeches, and some pianos can play Chopin when you drop ? nickel in. But what of the soul of -this flapper; what,of the precious and miraculous essonce of her, that is to be a woman so soon, that make* her different from the phonograph and the wooden dum my and the mechanical piano? POOR OI.D BEATITUDES! WHO BKLIBVB8 IN THRMf ' Where la that soul? Who la interested In it? Who teachea the Beatitudes nowadays?about the meek, and the pure In spirit, and they that hunger and thlrat after righteousness? Who ballevea In them, anyway? Not the churches, with their law suits and their money-chang ing, and their locked pews, to ward which furred figures In pur ple and fine linen flutter so con fidently. They have somehow lost touch with life?young life, any way. Not the schools; goodneea and service and eelf-denial are not In cluded In any curriculum. Not?alas, and to our shame forever?not the homes, the American home that !? the real church and the real school. WHAT MOTHER 18 THINKING ABOUT 18 INTERESTING. No?In the home of today mother Is thinking something like this: "Shampoo the first thing In the morning?and 111 have my hands done. Jean'? dress?I do want her to look well at the Davlsea, KATHLEEN NORMS SAYS Running breathlessly after false gods our selves, always dissatis fied, always jealous and hurried and anxi ous, modeling our selves physically upon the prostitutes of the French race tracks, and mentally upon any foreign faddist or freak who can rent a lecture hall, need we be surprised at any thing our children do? Who teaches the Beatitudes nowadays?about the meek, and the pure in spirit, and they that hunger and thirst after righteousness? Who believes in them, anyway? the dear child. Ths cheese for dinner?I'd better get It. Flower* to the hospital Tor poor Edith; I'll telephone her mother. And the wall pap?r?Dad's been auch an angel to uae that shabby study, so long! Bates about my bulb garden?Lucy about the club election?" I>ad muaea In his turn. "Sev enty-eight, heyt I'll clean up ?4i that yet. Good thing, too. Mary'U be pleaaed. Huit atop on the way to the flub Saturday and watch the Boy's game; the little fellow wanted his Pad to s<>e him play ball. My new clubs?I'll telephone about them. "Little girl was very pretty In her gold dress?hop* Mai y known exactly what they do at thoae par tie#. But I gueaa we all Beared the frown up* In our turn! Maybe I'll Mnd Mother and Anne a check to morrow?they can alwaya uae a little extra money. Where did Mao nay he cot that flcotch?" FRANK YOUNG PASKION JIUST FOLLOW SUIT. Helflah? Of coume It lan't! Do you auppoae Mother'* concern for the chefae, and Je?n'a dreaa, and the nick friend, and the wall paper la for heraelf? Doe* I >ad pW-ane hla won or himself when he atop* to aee the game, hi* mother or him ?elf when he aeml* the check? No, It'a not aelflah. But It la material. And Juat that?Juat ma terialism?we know la the mentct and. curae of our age. While achoola teach our glrla only as tronomy ar id manners and amart dressing, we will hare the Flapper, and a hundred ether evils not quite ao obvious, but Just as dan gerous as she. Why don't you and I, busy women of forty, flap? Why do we look with honeat pity and con tempt at the painted lipa and the tinooraeted, half-clothed little fig ures, and listen with apprehension and shame to the reckless talk? Why don't we discuss seriously, rather than fearfully, when we meet what these youngsters do, with their pocket flasks and their frank young passion, their trips and disappearances and scandals? HOME DA V WE'LL LEARN THE FRUITS OF OUR FOLLY. Why, because we know better. We know that all this is dead sea sowing, and bound to bring forth bitter and shriveled fruit. Some day they'll learn wisdom; aorne day these hysteric, painted, demor alized girls will wmnt to be sweet and dignified women?and .they won't know how. It will be too late for sAnlty and sense then, for all the discipline aad sacrifice that makes for happy wifehood, for the suffering a*id giving that Is the crowning splendor of motherhood, for beautiful, balanced, useful living. We are afraid of our children. We won't teach them, we won't anger them, we won't deny thon. Never having risen to the posui billties of our own motherhood, never having dared to say, "You may not," we now can only 9tand try and wring our hands. FLAPPERS SHOULD ANALYZE THEIR ELDERS. Running breathlessly after false irods ourselves, alwaya dissatisfied always jealous and hurried and anxious, modeling ourselves physi cally upon the prostitute# of tiie French race tracks, and mentally CHURCHES ARE NOT IN TOUCH WITH LIFE, NOTED WRITER SAYS "Like the Schools, and Alas and to Oor Shame Forever, the Homes Do Rot Teach the Beati tudes Nowadays?About the Meek and Pure in Spirit?Who Believes in the Beatitudes Anyway?" upon any foreign faddist or freak who can rent a lecture hall, need we be surprised at anything our children do? LJttle Flappers, you much-n.Lus ed result* of our mismanagement, why don't you analyze us In your turn? Why don't you ask us whore our souls are, and why paint and expose th? worsh|> of tne body, why rampant, bra'fcn materialism Is worse In you titan In us? At least you have youth and beauty and the call of life to excuse you. Why don't you, when critical and shocked ITncle Jim Is next shaking a cocktail, ask him out right why he Is a law-break** ? Why doesn't one of you write. In the fresh anger and protest of your extremely articulate generation, to the newspaper or magazine that exploits you. and tell us wHdt we are doing that disedifles you? That our divorce laws are a men ace to the nation: that our domes tic service problem contributes mightily to this failure in home making; that 'hundreds of thou sands of precious baby lives are thrown away each year needlessly through Ignorance, and that an appalling per oentage of our school children are undernourished men tally and physically?theee things are not at your door, at least. These are a few of our Jobs as American citizens, and women. Personally, I am Inclined to think the flapper almost the least at them. She la young, aha la vital, she la like the yeaat that keeps our sluggish measure of meal from stagnating, that shows us now and then, as women, how badly? how flagrantly, we fall. Was It yesterday or a hundred years ago that Wordsworth wrote: "Plain living and high thinking are no more, The homely beauty of the good old cause la lost. Our peace, our frearful Innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws." (Copyright, 1992, by Th? Republic Syndicate) Thin la one of m series of Woman-to-woman Talks on pres ent day family and social prob lems that Mrs. Norris la writing eeper tally for The Washington Times. Another article entitled "Are We Women Rtapidf" will b? printed next .Sunday. By FERRERO: How Long Is the God of Industry Alone to Hold Europe's Nations Intact as the People Grope for Government? By GU0LIELMO FEBRERO. (Tht Forrmctt Living European Historian.) PARIS, April 29,?Propaganda has tried to prove the world war the result of war-madness of a single military power, but the future historian will see that the entire world was in a mighty sweat in the decade between 1908 and 1918, changing its systems of gov ernment, with Europe and America, Christians and Mussulmans, whites and yellows, throwing pell mell into a common pit the corpses of political regimes or systems in which they no longer believed. First came the Turks, who discarded the absolute dootrine of the Califat. Mexico followed, burying an antique dictatorship which had grown decrepit with the masterful ruler Diaz, who had originated it. China earns next; she overthrew the Manchu dynasty and proclaimed the first Yellow Republic. With what joyous surprise Europe and America acclaimed the Turkish and Chinese revolutions! A parliament was chosen and met at Constantinople. The sacred words, "Liberty, Equality, Democracy," were freely bandied about from lip to lip on the streets at Peking, on the Bund at Shanghai. Occidental ideas triumphed in Asia over the tenacious principles of despotism 1 The illusion was brief. If the old regimes had no longer the strength to govern, neither had the new. In Turkey, as in China and in Mexico, there occurred a series of revolts, of ephemeral dictatorships, of pro nunciamentos, of coups d'etat, of f Motions. Three states, immense within their bord< fell, with hun dreds of millions of human beings which peopled them, into the permament anarchy of civil war. PIT REMAINED BOTTOMLESS But the pit remained, bottomless as ever. The World War commenced. One after the other the corpses of the Russian Empire, of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, of the German Empire, were sent crashing to the bottom. Even the oldest dynasty in Europe, that which during three centuries had carried the crown of Diocletes and of Constantine, disappeared. The red flag, which in 1848 Lamartine refused to let fly from the City Hall in Paris, floated from the flagpoles of Potsdam and Schoenbrnnir. Again America and Europe were exalted, seeing the resplendent epiphany of Liberty realized after a cen tury of development. The Great Dream of 1848 sud denly became a reality: Poland arisen from its ashes, a republic proclaimed at Moscow, another at Berlin, another at Vienna; the powerfullest emperors and kings Reposed and hurried into exile or their graves?and the people called to govern themselves, crowned with uni versal suffrage of a liberated Europe! This timo, as before, the illusion did not last long. In Russia and in Hungary democratic revolution failed. After a few months universal suffrage was dispossessed by military dictatorships which had as titles of power only force; in otlyr words, of all elements of governor Genoa Only Reaching Out Blindly for a Solution; Machine of Production Maintaining a Certain Order in Place of Fallen Authority; Russia in Chaos Because Not Only Was the State Dynamited, hut Production Stopped; Germany Going to Other Extreme, Making the Discipline of Labor Maintain the Social Order. ship the most uncertain, the most capricious and, all things considered, the feeblest. In other states created by the revolution hastily from the ruins of the Hapsburg and Hohenzollern empires the will of the people, expressed in universal suffrage, still governs. But it is feeble, hesitant, uncertain; sometimes it appears to recede as though terrified at the responsibilities before it; it does not command, but temporizes; it has difficulty even in defining and in recognizing itself. More, it is torn apart by internal conflict; it is at war with itself in every new state? here by reason of inter-party hatred, heritagevof the old regimes; there by the old, old jealousies of classes and intertsts; elsewhere by religious dissensions or the diversities of languages and races. ? SOUDITY DIGNIFIES GOVERNMENTS All is uncertain in theso governments, the will power which animates and divides them.. Their sybilline sen tences, their equivocal acts, show that no one can understand them because they do not clearly under stand themselves. We do not know whence they came nor whither they go, what they wish nor what they can accomplish. Uncertainty is born in them, and this un certainty is a weapon affecting even the contiguous governments still dignified by a solidity. As with individuals, so with states, when principles are abandoned, when every act performed belies every promise given. The Genoa conference, like eleven other international conferences before it, is groping for a solu tion, for a program. The pit is not yet full. It awaits new corpses. The enormous disorder of Europe has had its reverbera tions even to Asia. British statesmen had imagined that after the Russian Empire fell England would be able to stretch out her hand and rake in all Asia, with out even leaving her island. Error! The Russian Empire is fallen and is dragging its powerful rival, Britain, into the abyss. In Turkey, in Persia, in India, England had nations, parties, interests which demanded her protection while the Russian colossus remained in the north to threaten. From two ills any wise man will choose the lesser. Now that Russia iaa ceased to frighten, Asia is in revolt against England. The lesser evil becomos intolerable when the greater evil disappears. England is losing her grip ovor India, she has had to evacuate Persia, and she will not stay long in Mesopotamia or Constan tinople, precisely because her ancient rival is no longer there to dispute the prey. European domination is slipping from Asia; it has already shipped from Egypt. If governments, their institutions and their principles are the backbones of nations, the entire world Is affected with disease of the spine. The nations with solid backbones are the rare exceptions. A government is nothing bnt an answer to a ques tion: "Who has the right to command, and within what limits! Who is obliged to obey, and to what extent? This is the greatest problem that concerns the destiny of man on earth, for all other problems depend on its solution. SEARCH FOR THE PERFECT Thus, through all the centuries, men have searched for the perfect and eternal solution of the problem of government. They have never found it. The world is ever-changing, sometimes by orderly process of evolu tion, sometimes by revolution?but always changing, discarding the old and worn out and trying something new. All countries, at one time or another, have undergone the test. But now the test seems to have developed proportions until now unknown in history. The entire universe is boiling with troubled revolt against they know not what; the whole world is feverishly searching for some new and better principle of government. None of the previous solutions are satisfying; none seems just, veridical, sure and sincere; all are held in fear or contempt, and to none will the peoples confide their destiny. The bones of the world are no longer solid. We are living in a period of universal disorder. And yet, every morning the ancient tyrant which since a century has been our servant and our god, the Fire of Industry, awakes the world of labor. The furnaces glow rodlv, the chimneys belch forth smoke, the wheels of work begin to turn and grind the products of the nations. The farmer returns to the land, the worker to the fac tory, the merchant to his store, the employe to his office, the banker and the lawyer to their desks. They do not return with the good will prevalent ten years ago, but they all, or almost all, return, even though they groan in doing so. Every day and all day in Europe and in America the gigantic machine of production Wns, turns indefatiga bly, maintaining in the world a certain order which replaces the ancient, fallen authorities. Machines driven by coal or electricity have bocomo our tyrants, because they oblige us to produce and to consume, even though our legitimate needs are satisfied and out worn out nerves demand reposo. The labor of tho modern GUGUELMO FER.R.ER.O | man is a heavy slavery, but it is collective labor and not solitary, as in olden days. It chains individuals, classes and professions one to the other; it unites the cities to the countryside, citizens to the state, peoples, continents, one to the other. As long as these chains do not break a certain order will continue to reign in the world, even thongh all the civil and penal laws have been discarded, even thougjj governments are no longer obeyed and civilization enters a sort of impotent second childhood. PRODUCTION GUARDIAN OF ORDER Industrial production is today the guardian of order instead of the kings of old. Dynasties and states which believed themselves immortal have fallen in the twen tieth century, but have not carried with them in their collapse the powerful machine of production which the nineteenth century built. If everywhere the backbones of nations are enfeebled, labor has become a species of armor on the exterior, which takes the place of back bones and sustains a part of these peoples and nations. The world has found the principle of a new order, the discipline of labor imposed by the monstrous en gines which it animates. How long and in what meas ure may this new principle carry on in the place of the old principles }t has discarded T Only the future can Bolve the problem. Those who have studiod without prejudice or passion the great events happening before our eyed in tho last fifteen years now see clearly that two errors wore committed that all peoples should avoid.