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DOParties Like The One At The BamSay Something Is Badly WrongA group of youngsters estimated at from 30 to 100, presumably from Huron and presumably high sehool-age teens, had a party at an abandoned barn not far from town Tuesday night. From all appearances, the set-up was as for something of an orgy.Strung out all around the building and surrounding barnyard were beer bottles and cans of all brands and sizes, and empty soft drink bottles which still smelled ofsomething stronger than the original contents.Inside the barn, hay was spread liberally and pointedly around the loft, which was generously decorated with obscene drawings and inscriptions of a filthiness beyond exaggeration.Outside the barn, barely 10 feet from tinder-dry waist-high soil bank cover, the party-goers built themselves a large bonfire, burning old tires and all manner of other combustibles. A steady wind wasblowing, and only a miracle prevented the bonfire from setting ablaze surrounding fields of soil bank weeds and starting a large-scale prairie fire.The bonfire undoubtedly added a lot to the party atmosphere and the setting of an irresponsible mood. It also provided a warning signal to outsiders who thus discovered and broke up the party.Without a doutit, there's hardly a parent in Huron who would knowingly have allowed his teen-ager to participate in such a gathering as took place Tuesday night. Therefore, we must assumethe parents didn’t know—30 to 100 sets of Huron parents didn't know where their youngsters were or what they weredoina Tuesdau.cernment and judgment, so devoid of moral courage and so stupid as to follow such leadership is the incomprehensible part of it all.It should have been obvious to more than it was that the leadership which could dream up and create such a set-up as there was in the barn should be shunned rather than followed, even as panderers are shunned, not followed, in grown-up life.(Several adults who thought ThethoughtDaily Plainsman had overplayed the story viewed the interior of the barn and reported to the newspaper that, if anything, it had underplayed it.)It is to be hoped that the exposure of the affair of Tuesday will wake many youngsters — and even oldsters — to the realization that the “facts of life.which many kids seem all-too-eager tolearn, include much, much more than the bit about the “birds and the bees.9 »For instance, here are a few of many additional facts of life:Parents who don't know or care where their children are, are asking for trouble not only for themselves and their children, but for their communities.Children who habitually lie to their parents are building up acceptance for a personal pattern of untrustw'orthiness which will prove a great handicap to them in adult life.Youngsters who are stupid enough to follow such leadership as could conceive of the interior of the barn had better drop around to the butcher shop and buy themselves a new set of brains.f1
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Huron Daily Plainsman
Huron, South Dakota, US
Sun, Oct 29, 1961
Page 19
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SD, USA 10 Feb 2020
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