The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-06-09

other has come to be in effect though
not in general with intention, great
deception which is befogging the point
;cal atmosphere of the land' ne
has written this book with the nope
of clearing the air. If enough people
read II. II should accomplish that pur-
nose for ii is carefully accurate IN us
data conclusive in its proofs OF points
raised: and the points appear wei
taken. Like Bass and Moulton, COL
cord believes in fearless leadership,
one that is noble enough to rise
above the exigencies of party leader
shin and expediency and make him.
self the moral leader Of. his party IN
the senate"
| The fact that all the ministers in
the east were preaching about the
problem raised in Joseph Hocking's
new novel. "Prodigal Daughters
| (Revell, S1.75), naturally made me
curious to read it. What most i'm
pressed me. when l did so, was that
we in America have long accepted
what now comes as a shocking new
thing in English households as part
of the upset of war conditions: the
disobedience of children, their refusal
to accept the jurgment of their par
ents. Is it a perverted manisfesta-
ton of American freedom and
democracy? Or a result OF par
entail neglect because of preoccupa-
ton with exterior affairs? Or
phase of the mistaken kindness that
hesitates to cross the will OF loved
child? The English parent has claim
the unQuestioning obedience OF the
children, where we are accustomed
to hear even babies crying fretfully,
''Why, mamma, why can't l? Will,
too :" Hooking does not refer to
American children in any way, but
of course we make instant COMPARE
son in reading He reflects moral
and social results of the war
through the medium of the family of
ICol. Lester Trelawney, gone six years,
leaving a sweet. spineless little wife
to deal with four strong-willed child
rem The eldest boy turns spendthrift,
deep in debt; the younger proves
the sheet-anchor of the family. The
tale deals largely, however. with the
1.-TWO daughters: Eleanor, aged %. and
| Peggy, II. In war work Eleanor
lcame into contact with radical I'D
ed woman in the Amazon Club, and
was so carried away with their talk
of independence; release from out
worn convention and creeds that were
termed collections of myth; the bond
age of marriage; free love; the slav-
cry of home duties; the tyranny of
parents over children-that she aids
/ and abets Peggy in a passion for a
fortune-seeking 'bounder" with whom
she runs away. The colonel, return
ing. puts a sudden stop to the un-
chaperOned running about to public
dances at all hours of the night with
men he does not know or approve;
forbids Peggy's sweetheart the house.
and Eleanor's radical club friends as
well. Both leave home. and their
parents have bad time OF it till they
find them. In the end. of course, the
unpleasant things they go through
bring them to realization of their
mistake, and they go home. In Amer
lea it might not have happened in
just that way, for business opportuni-
ties here are so much more freely
open to women than in that tight
little island" where there are never
enough jobs for the new generation
of men, and some must expect as a
matter of course to go to the colonies.
! doubt, too, If war relaxation of NOR
ais had the same effect here on girls
of the Trelawney class-of stimulat-
ing cigarette and drink consumption
which brings us up against the ON
nipresent VOlstead Act.