Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-02-16
word just before those two little boys
ran ZIP along the bank shouting for
us to come in TO supper. And that
It was bound to bel" 4
BERTA RUcK.

My just oe4VIe tnOSe Two little boys
ran up along the bank shouting for
us to come in to supper And that
It was bound to bet" #
Authors Postscript
word? It will be made OF Questions,
I'm afraid.
Are sweethearts so certainly bound
to meet" or are they not? Was the
girl right, o. the boy? Is there a
chcrub with Cupid-wtngs sitting up
aloft keeping watch ver such. as
they? Or is"it all a toss-up; Blind
Chance with no a to know, more
to care?
don't know; but, personally, !
To me 1t seems to matter very
much what happens to the love- lines
Of these straight-limbed lonely lads,
of these nice and Unattended girls who
should. be their mates The state is as
anxiously watchful as any Grannie in
the world that there should be Edu-
cation for every Jack and every Jill.
Why is the education that comes from
than the irreplaceable education Civ
en- by sLove? The world perhaps
, could do without some Of our scholar
ship-holders, but why must it remain
poorer Of healthy and delightful babies
that could be born of all these love-
matches that T made.
h working-class mates as a mat
ter-of-course. So does the letsured-
Class. But the sturdy, wcll-derived
wasted, Emotion unused, Force lost to
the world.
What can be done about this?
0nfc 7 chArtAhAH a .npaoro nf Mad
ing the answer. l dreamt that State
Centres for Lonely Young People Of
the ~so-called better classes should be
started, a social hall in every village,
a score to a hundred in every big
Town. l 'dreAmt that the Jacks at a
loose end and the Jills who knew no
young men could go there as a mat.
ter-of-course instead OF sticking" at
home or. roaming the unprotected
streets. I dreamt that these boys and
girls could meet ION the square" and
as il it were in n big family circle,
with the influences of Homo about
them and. over all. that care which
is like no other, the carr of a Mother.
They were not to be let in at haphaz-
ard. these candidates for companion
ship and love. Each was to pass be-
place In which he or she found him
self. l dreamt that this could be com
posed Of three persons who in their
separate characters. should be sup
posed to have insight into the natures
and needs Of young people. r
The first should be = Doctor. 5
The second I had thought OF as q
Chaplain, preferably n who had
served with the Forces during the
War. It was . young soldier who
pointed out to me that any good ReEi-
and had been beloved BY his men
would do as we'll
The third was TO be = Woman: hap
PLY married.
Then I thought it over and doubted
asatn.~ For the weak point OF this
scheme Is summoned uni one word.
Who2 Who RAJ to be that doctor
on each committee, that leader, who
that, motherly woman OF the world ?
Would Eet filied. By the pushtnl, the
thick-skinned, the man ont Of q. SAL
aried job, the woman ont for social
notoriety.
For the proper people for such posts
would be crowded out by reason OF
the very qualities most REQUIRED; dell:
caey, tact. sympathy, reticence, the
loving power of cleaning young
hearts secret and keeping II = 1 trust
not to IS betrayed,
Instead, Ia would como the 4Rieaal
With his caSd-indexss. hiS filfne.clSrk
to turn up tabIlAtsd emotionS Il the
turn OF q bell. In would Come Qsuxs-
tons Of alarrY. r6ltine, departmental.
Ism cut-and-drtad. inside would
pc these cornpjecent oflcillS. And
Outside Ia. ths.coM weuld SjaIaain ,J6ir
kAAnsitive lonely lAds ard k1flS, 1.-THE
wsatheafts It'll unntSt.
SO much for that Dream.
Some people who are greater belisSy-
sts than I M II the pow1r Of INK
think that this thtnS ma ~ done
W coryaspondShN. They, a~ppassntiy,
would take the sIisks Of tntrodneiraK
by letter, young men whom they had
never seen. to younE women OF whom
they had never heard In their lives
before. But what u that but the Ma.-
nmoniAl Bureaus II spits OF which,
press Onsf
Doss. then. ne.hing remain 10 b
|done7
Personally I think yes. Like %
!, eth ether reforms, Z = left to Pr-
There have iisayst bsen peopls ~aas