Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-10-30

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declared with enthusiasm at was waste
of time"
why should girl know anything about
domestic duties other than managing a
household? There is no great mystery
about running house When she has to
go into the kitchen and cook, when she has
to make beds, she can pick it up quickly
enough. Otherwise 1t is far better that
she should devote herself to more useful
occupations.
Women Of to-day have a far greater com.
prehension of politics than they had a
generation ago. They may not be qualified
yet to enter into an active political life,
but they are getting there rapidly enough
They're on the way.
when you go to generalizing about the
progress of society,"" the author concluded,
ut all depends ON the angle from which
you view the picture. Watching the same
scene from varying positions, you can
get totally different results. Possibly that
is why my views do not coincide with Mr.
Johnsons.'
Alexander Black is more ready to con
form with Owen Johnson, although he
tempers his judgment with genial sense
Of humor.
1.-THE views Of Mr.. Johnson as reflected
in THE SUNDAY HERALD interested me
deeply" said Mr.. Black Each generation
leeds its jolt and IL Mr.. Johnson IN mis-
book induces the snug American to look
himself over he will have done a good
thing.
1.-THE 100 per cent. stodgy are vastly in
need of illumination. People who think
that mere Americansm is going to float
them are likely to be sharply awakened.
Being a bigoted American isn't good
American. man sized citizenship doesn't
strut about with label on its chest like a
country store manager.
Afnericanisn Never Complete,
Il In Alexander Blacks Opinion
4Amercanism will never be finished. 1t
has only begun. The American who doesn't
want any more changes is the kind oi
American who keeps the schools, from
kindergarten to university, as they are.
The university teacher who tries to meet
the new day is called dangerous radical
II think Mr.. johnson is quite right in
saying that the children of the successfully
rich do not carry forward as they should.
The people who are best at carrying are
those who have had to hustle to get some
thing to carry. But I do not agree that
this is a new appearance. The world has
always been that way. Each generation
thinks that it has invented backslidng.
plato spoke reverently of the 'ancients.'
From the beginning people have thought
that there were giants in those days'-the
days far enough back. Snowstorms were
deep when measured on boy legs, and corn
cakes were wonderful to young stomachs.
wealth is seldom well handled by those
who haven't earned 1t. The father hustles,
with the prospective fun of spending. The
son, true to form, having the wherewithal
in hand, starts after the good time at once.
Great families are not built UP that way.
Neither are great nations. The United
States, with a huge Inheritance, often
seems to be acting like spoiled boy. That
progress has-to be earned seldom appears
to be considered by the inheritors of rich
past.
IL HuStle cOuiu De lnn6TlLeu, IL we COuiu
transmit wisdom, perhaps we should have
lot Of supermen and lopsided world.
Maybe this Is Natures way of keeping the
balance. Each Of us has to grow his own
wisdom, such as 1t may turn out to be.
Big men don't drop Off family trees ready
built. They grow UP out Of the soil.
This ia one of the reasons why I'm not
afraid of foreigners. We're all imported.
The Pilgrim Fathers we're foreigners to a
man. The men who managed to get this
country started were all foreigners or the
sons of foreigners II immigrants once
represented the pluck to get out of one
place and start over in another, l can't
see why the same quality shouldn't be
recognized to-day. AT precisely what hour
did the foreigner stop being new blood
and begin to be scum?
"The club called the United States may
be right in limiting its membership and
having waiting list. But ! object to
insulting the new members. don't be-
lieve Mr.. johnson has any such idea. He
uses his argument about foreign born in
the hope of injecting little energy into
any complacent older members who may
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