YOUTH OF AMERICA'S 'MISBEHAVIOR' BEING 'EXPLOITED' FOR PROFIT SAYS METHODIST SECRETARY
Clarksburg, West Virginia (JFK+50) Associated Press reports on September 28, 1925, that, according to Deets Pickett, research secretary of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church, "in their present-day misbehavior" the youth of America "are more sinned against than sinning" by those who "exploit their tendencies."
Mr. Pickett, in an address prepared for delivery today at the West Virginia conference of his church, cites "erotic dances, erotic plays, salacious novels and magazines" that are produced for profit by mature men at the expense of America's youth.
JFK+50 NOTE
"Flaming Youth" refers to a 1920s cultural phenomenon of rebellious youth of the Jazz Age. It is also the title of a 1923 novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams.
In a PBS Documentary on "The Flappers," one former flapper said that before the 1920s it was considered bad manners to get "drunk" in public but during that decade "it almost became a dare."
SOURCE
"Morals of Youth Being Exploited, Methodist Avers," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., September 28, 1925, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
