FALSER, ALASKA
CARL RASttUSSEN, EDITOR
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• • * PISTOL PACKIN’ MAMMAS IN THE POST WAR PERIOD.
We hear a treet deal of criticism about the behavior of the average
teen ace children lately, especially in the schools. Various reasuns
have been advanced for this condition which must undoubtedly exist
or'sd many people would not be talking about it. Some blame the war,
some the parents, some the teachers and bthers the- children themselves
and many believe that several of these groups are to blame as a whole.
Probably there are many reasons for the fume. We have done a little
observing and thinki.n& about It too, and may we add our contribution.
Lodkinc back over the years that foil owed the first World War a little
ov r t\\ nty years a^o, wo saw a' condition that reminds us of the pr sent.
Now fundamentally .there is nothin^ wronG with the women of our time
or any other time, but women arc affected just as muchas men to changes
in envir nnent and conditions of. life. No one who has studied the
question would deny that the men who have joined uo in Military on'
Krvhl or rations are ^ein<_ to be the same hind of men that they ware
in the free ?nJ easy drys of civilian life. It does something to r11
of them and with the change from reace to war in a country the women
are’affected too, but not many of the men in the Foreign Service r\rl
ize just how much that change amounts too or what to expect dur3nc
their absence or after their return to civilian life.
We believe that the hysteria of war causes n reservoir of pent up
emotions that can in most cases only be relieved by physical outlets.
The hard work that women are doinc in war plants rn1^ on the farms
indicates that they have much more physical stamina than they were
suppose to have by ordinary person. Men working under similar condi
tions, where the hours of work are lonc and !the time for recreation
short, usually become rather boisterous and not too-careful about the
tyre of recreation that they choose. There is a moral let-down nearly
every t*’ie and it sometimes wrecks the lives of those who let them
selves o too far and too often.
Then to 0et to the wry this affects children. We believe that when
c mother, father, brother or sister lots themselves in this manner
it is certainly observed and often tried by the children who imitate
the crcwnuos just ns close as they con erd who observe a lot more than
is wonv.rally noticed. When the mother and father to out on r Saturday
ni0ht p! rty end come home under the weather in the early mornin0 hours,
then insist that the children Lo to Stindny School while they sleep
their indisposition off, they are foolish to think that their cbil ron
don’t luow whnt is all about.
Parents who expect their children to be ^ood citizens and useful
normsl human beinps in later life must wet them a poor1 example or it
is doubtful if their wishes will be realized. If the present trend
is not changed, we will have the same period of racketeers, and both
men r.n^ women will enpfn e In r.’ mild but destructive war on their f llow
citizens. Most of them will be youn£! people who ^ot their start durinc
the war period. Veterans who returned from the First World War were
astounded at the condition that they found when they returned home,
and unless somethin^ is dene about It, it mav be that way aa,ain.