Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-05-17
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Glendening's Youth
By Idah McGlone Gibson


Perhaps have coveted my
neighbor's wife, confessed Glen
denis story, but the tenth com
mandment-and for that matter
the seventh-are not seriously re-
garded today. Listen to the jokes
in any theater. That gives good
cross section view of mems atti-
tude.
To break the seventh command
ment Is a tragedy only to e wo-
man. Jim. Have you ever realized
that in the eyes of the world, an
honest man is one who does not
break the sixth commandment
and an honest woman one who
keeps sacred the seventh? And yet
We have been told that each oi
the ten commandments is sacred
1 sincerely believe, Jim, that when
we have the single standard OF
morality that women talk so much
about, grated on to the unwritter
laws of men, the world will be BET
ter.
l returned home from Annapo-
lis and drifted into a place on Q
small paper in my home town.
found the job Of reporting to my
taste. 1 did not have to keep any
hours. | always had an excuse for
being out at any time of the day
or night. 1 could stde-step any par
ticular thing 1 did not want to dc
by saying that l was busy wit b
something else.
And these circumstances, trivia
as they may seem, were an influ-
ence moulding my character. 1 re-
call that during my stay at Annap-
Oils a professor, in a course in ply
sical geography, pointed out to
the class how environment moulds
character. He cited the stony New
England farms producing a hard
working, puritanical, thrifty, NOR
al people, while the ease of life in
certain tropical countries produc-
ed a luXury-loying, lazy, lax peo-
pie. Environment explains the diff
ference. So now at this formative
stage of my life my whole char
acter was changed as a result of
he people | met and the things l
did
1 learned that I liked all kinds
# people and they liked me.
was more or less interested
in every persons story. 1t matter
I'd not to me whether they were
priests or penitents, men of wealth
Or paupers. All of them had some
thing interesting to tell. And even
in that small city in the middle
west, found that newspaper work
was perhaps the most interesting
to man of my temperament of
any in the whole field of human
endeavor.
l don't remember, now, when
first became conscious of the
fact tina both men and women lik
ed me very much-indeed, perhaps
more than | liked them, for l
have met very few people in this
world that l cannot instantly for
get when they go out of my life
True, if they come back into my
life / begin all over again with
the background of memories, but
it Is an idiosyncracy of mine that
the man of woman who is with.
me, is the only man or woman
that I know at the moment. l rec
ognize that this quality is at once
weakness and strength, but
more strength than weakness. No
man, and only two women, have
played important parts in my life.
You will say this is very egotisti-
cal and selfish and l quite agree
with you. But l am what l am,
Jim, and honestly I think that per
haps I am doing one of the best
and most decent things 1 ever did
in my life to try and make you
understand just what l am. Writ
ing my own life story makes many
things clearer to me.
Alice had gone away to school
when l went to Annapolis. She
was able to stand the gaff and
was still in college when l return
ed home. Then followed a number
Of oDioodoc of mora or loco Inn mort