THE BLACK LIST OF STATES
Below we
give the black list of States, showing the limit at which fathers,
brothers and husbands have placed the age at which a little girl may
consent to her ruin:
SEVEN YEARS- Delaware.
TEN
YEARS--Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina.
TWELVE YEARS--
Kentucky, Louisana, Texas, Wisconsin, Virginia.
THIRTEEN
YEARS--Iowa, New Hampshire, Utah.
FOURTEEN YEARS--Arizona,
California, Connecticut, George, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana,m Maine,
Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, North
Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Vermont, West Virginia.
FIFTEEN YEARS,
Montana.
SIXTEEN YEARS, Arkansas,
District of Columbia, Massachusetts, Missippippi, New Jersey, New York,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennesse, Washington.
SEVENTEEN YEARS: Florida.
Kansas and Wyoming have raised the age of consent to 18 years. Colorado
has made it twenty one. The bill was introduced by a woman, and the
Legislature so records in its archives.
[Source:
Montgomery Advertiser, August 5, 1913; Submitted by Jo Ann
Scott]
SCARED
FOOTBALL PLAYERS
At Tuscaloosa, Ala. (not to be
confused with Tuskeegee, Ala., site of the Tuskeegee Institute for
Negroes), the University of Alabama football squads were practicing last
week on a rainy, soggy field. Football is their very serious occupation,
for every university student pays $13.50 for the support of athletics
(and the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A.), and can see every home game free
because of that. As the footballers scrimmaged, a plane piloted by one
Johnnie Howe who was having motor trouble in the rain, sought to land,
but flew away when the players came within sight. Wallace A. Wade,
University athletic director and football coach, swore out and had
served on Pilot Howe a warrant charging him with "recklessly driving a
motor vehicle" and scaring his football squads.
[Source: Time Magazine,
Monday, Oct. 14,
1929- Submitted by K. Torp]
NEW WORLD'S
RECORD
Track:
60-yard High Hurdles — Weems Baskin of Alabama, 7? sec.; in
Manhattan.
[Time Magazine, Monday,
Mar. 04, 1929 - Submitted by K. Torp]
