SHAMELESS WOMEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 206, 28 August 1920, Page 19

SHAMELESS WOMEN.

TnElft LOST "AURA OF MYSTERY." PROFESSOR'S INDICTMENT. American women have in recent months . been made the target for several attacks ■by social philosophers, novelists, and others, but never before have they had to answer charges quite so startling as those j preferred on July 4 by Dr. Ilibben, bead of the Princeton University. | Briefly Dr. Ilibben lays at the door of ' American womanhood the responsibility for all the grave unrest with which the country is now afflicted. His reason Is that, as ' stated In bis baccalaureate address, Amerll.'nii women bave lost tbeir "aura of mystery." with the result that American I men have lost their old-time reverence for them. This, says Dr. Ilibben, is fundamental and a.counts for most of the Ills tbat America is suffering froiii. 1 Iv tbe course of the past year Dr. Ilihben's duties have caused him to travel more ; thnu ll.dOO miles ln all parts of the United States. In describing what he saw bei ' refuses to mince words. "It was tbe samel In Ihe west as in the cast, ln the north as in j tbe south," he says. "Everywhere there exists tbe same barbaric license ln women's . dress, familiarity in manners, • and' ' barbaric license in dancing. Tbe modern I flan.-c Is an orgy, and women expose themselves shamelessly and invite a familiarity j which is shocking and repulsive." Dr. Hlhhen gives some details concerning! , dances be saw. He was asked: "Whose! f.iu't is it—men's or women's?" Unhesi- . tatingly he answered. "Women's. They half . undress themselves and fling themselves at ,1 men's heads." , "What do you think causes this?" he was I next asked. In surprising tones the great educationist replied: "It Is not the young 1 women, the girls; it is the mothers, the 1 older generation." ' He said: "Two years ago .the young men were taken out of the country: they went ' into the army. For two years there were 1 no young men for the girls to marry. The young men came flocking back and tbe mothers wanted to catch up those two ' years of lost time. They undresstd their ' girls and drove them out to sell their ' charms to the men. Mothers force the girls to do It; yes, and they do It them- ' selves."