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


spiders under stones, the habits OF
barn swallows, the home-making Oh
chipmunks, the distinction between
different varieties of warblers. And ne
says: Many walk take in the fields
and woods when gather no new Facts
and make no new observations; and
yet feel enriched. have been for an
hour or more on intimate terms Win
trees and rocks and grass and BIRDS
and with Natures primal sanities;
the fragrance of the wild things ling
ers about my mind for days"
Margaret E. Sangster. author OF
'The Island of Faith" (ReyelD, shows
much promise of bearing forward the
literary light of her famous grand
| mother who died in 1912. This is her
first novel, though she is already
known to the magazines through her
poems. short stories, and descriptive
articles. One feels really acquainted
with her when reading the novel, for
Rose-Marie, the sweet little small-town
girl dropped into Stun settlement is
Margaret Sangster herself. Hers is a
| face of dreams and ideals, and one can
quite imagine her gentleness and real
love of humanity having the same
! effect on those with whom she came
in contact in her settlement work as
Rose Marie's in the New York tena-
ment. Three things-no, four-predict
success in her writings: first the fact
that she writes of people and places
she knows; second, her style is easy
and natural; third. she EVIDENTLY
likes folks, and is ready to see the
best in them: and fourth. she has a
heritage of literary association that
should be very useful The book is a
good one for girls-and their elders.
OF the vast amount of writing that
has been done on economic conditions
in Europe and the relation of Amer
lea to problems connected Herewith
probably the sanest. most thorough
pieces of work has been done by DR..
Harold G. Moulton of the University of
Chicago and John F.. Bass, long for
eign correspondent in troubled coun-
tries Together they have written a
volume just published by the Ronald
Press ("America and the Balance
Sheet of Europe" s3) which really
answers the questions of all those of
us who are ignorant or only half in
formed as to whether business is head
ed in the right direction now: if the
war debts must be cancelled, or il that
would be a mere sentimental over
flow; whether We are going back to
practically free trade policy; why
the Allies in their present procedure
are forcing German default in repara
tons; why our own prosperity, in ev-
cry district, is dependent upon like
prosperity in Europe; and whether
prices here have at last struck bed
rock. 1t is remarkable thing to have
actually covered all that ground and
formed wise conclusions, in a single
book of some $50 pages. Yet Bass and
Moulton have done ii, and SO well that
a college economist has told me that
he is requiring his classes In Money
and Banking to read the chapters on
The European Monetary Situation, and
The German Monetary Collapse; and
class in foreign commerce must mas
ter the chapter on The Preparations
Problem. Though it is deeply
thoughtful book 1t is written with a
clarity that adapts in to any inquiring
mind. For instance, in summing up the
four basic requirements for the way
out" of the international difficulties,
the writer's say: -Four things must
be accomplished If the existing pro-
cesses Of dissolution are to be over
come and the world again set in the
direction OF economic and social pro-
gress. First. domestic production
must be increased in every country.
| Second, unrestricted and balanced
trade between nations must be reestab-
lished. Third, the gold standard must
be restored. The budget OF European
countries must be balanced.-balanced
in the sense that expenditures do not
exceed receipts from taxation" at
may safely be said" they conclude" if
these four things are secured, the eco
nomic world will again be on its feet"
And, in the financial chapter, show
ing how 1t may be done, the writer's
emphasize the great need OF a cam
paign of eduction, both in Europe and
America. People must understand Just
what the situation requires, and that
only by international cooperation.
can economic and social disaster be
avoided. We, here in the United States
can take our head out of the sand and
realize that We cannot destroy prob
lens by ignoring them; we cannot say
Europe is in a mess; / will not con-
taminate mystelf by mixing into inter-
national affairs" We are in already,
and can not get out by just shutting
our eyes and saying mo, MOI" We
must realize that our prosperity is in
the same basket with that of the rest
OF the world. The public must" be
educated to point where 1t will de-
mand OF the American government a
whole-hearted participation in a con-
strnctiye program of international re-
construction, worked out through an
association OF nations" A worldwide
campaign OF publicity and education
by pulpit and press and statesmen is
pieader for. and fearless leadership for
the great reserve of willing strength
that is ready to follow those inspired
by lofty ideals rooted in truth and un-
|derstanding.
Much the same spirit, with much the
same conclusions really, may be found
in Samuel Colcord's political volume.
The Great Deception" (Boni & Liver
light, s1.5O. 1t is avowedly an inter-
probation of the nations vote which