Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-06
Toleration Is What the World Needs:
ills Another Word for UnseHishne,
All the Little Groups Which Think So Deeply Around The
Small Circles Need to Be More Tolerant of One Anothe
ONE of the recent novels takes up tn

ONE of the recent novels takes up the
~ timely question Of the boys and
girls of today, with their new. free
thoughts and ideas.
An elderly man with a huge house
and fortune had q number OF nephe~ss
and nieces whose modes Of living, and
thinking seemed utterly depraved 10
him!
In order to teach them what real
home life was like and 10 save them
from their ultra modern ideas. he In ;
vited them all to spend year in his
house, giving each large sum OF money
to give up all their activities, and pay
ing two organizations literally to re-
lease them for the year.
They were miserable at first. The
suffrage worker had only scorn for the
home life and "womanly arts of cook
ing and sewing, which seemed so lovely
to her uncle. -.
The Socialist snorted with disgust at
the wealth and luxury with which he
was surrounded.
The musicians life was horror.
placed as he was in his uncle's office
surrounded by routine which was as
foreign to his nature as his cello was
to his uncle.
The little Bohemian artist wound her
uncle and his money around her little
finger and, giving up her imitation art,
really had wonderful time, defying
everybody.
DUT ns the story went on, and they
- became accustomed to their new
way of living. as family in real
home. il was the uncle who was mis-
erahle.
He couldn't understand them; they
would not give up their strange ideas
and the home that he had expected to
be SO pleasant and comfortable was just
innglc of conflicting ideas.
In time. with the events in the story.
the Socialist and the suffragist dis
covered that they were very fond OF
<heir old uncle. in spite Of his old
fashioned ways and his method of deal
ing with his family
And the Socialist turned right square
around from his modern ideas.
ut isn't socialism that we need in
the world he declared; "it's tolera-
ton"
And II everybody would adopt this
for n motto. battle cry, keynote,
the great problems of the world today
would be easier to solve.
Toleration-of one creed for another.
Of one race for another. of older people
for youth. of youth for age. Of old GUS
toms. old rules and conventions for
modern lack Of them, of the world for
progress.
CUFFRAGISTS might not have been
~ militant If there had been more
tolcration feminists would be less ag-
grcssive If there were more tolcration
girls and boys would he more obedient,
less selfish and independent If there were
more toleration older people would he
less shocked. old fashioned people would
he less amazed and unhappy. domestic.
retiring women would not be 50 SGT
apart il there were more toleratiOn in
the world today.
But each class. each sect. each group
of thinkers and non thinkers, secs itself
only. its own ideals and ideas. 1t has
no time for anything that deviates in
the least from its own prescribed lines.
And then it wonders why the world
is so stubborn, why il will not be con
vcrted.
We need toleration moro today than
we have ever needed il before. We
need broadening, We need to learn that