The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-07
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

finds occasion for it's attack in a re-
 cent volume of short stories written
 ty the wife of foreign minister to
 the United States. Speaking of the
 particular volume the Review said:
 If it were an isolated one. if any sign
 of disapproval had been forthcoming
 from the women themselves. the is-
 sues involved would be individual ana 1 of no inportanee.' But the London
 publication said further, Not only is
 the book not an isolated instance, but 1t accurately reproduees the tone and style and point of view of the flood
 of novels from the hands of women, hat have poured forth ceaselessly
 during the last six years, without we believe a single protest, encouraged by the two or three women critics who came into notoriety during the war. and exhibit a virgin ignorance alike of scholarship and mannerl
 and, more disquieting are to be found on the shelves Of the local cir
 culating librdaries for every boy and girl to read. Examine these pages Not from the standpoint of moral ity, which would lead us into deeper inquiries than can be handled here, but from that of ordinary taste, de- ] corum respect and observance of those restraints which civilization im- poses if we are not to return into anarchy Marriage sensualized ana vulgarized is painted in itss most
 sordid details: genealogical details are given suitable alcne for a mld wifery textbook CTneir Hearts'): the ties between mother and child are treated from muddled' notions Of
 Freud's theories of sex, and the most
 sacred relations defi1ed even the
 children are not respected: the child
 Joanna Gin The Open DoorD at nine
 years old sees a mans hairy ankles
 and has guilty thoughts; and there
 Is a passage in A Marrying Man in
 which a boy of r states his views Of
 the relations of his fair mother to
 man with a black coloring. after
 being asked by the degenerate hero
 Inc. woman of 45. whether his in
 terest in women is pathological or ] something else which We believe .o be without parallel. All the wom- en intellecetua1s smoke. drink. and say damn on the least excuse. In Martha and Mary which the pub fisher. If he has any conscience, will
 burn, one of the heroines says to her lover, Owen, for goodness sake stop
 making that bloody row Chastity in
 this dreary sordid atmosphere, is either tactiiy or by actual express sion, regarded AS an exploded theiry.'
 Certainly we do not mean to say
 that no novels written by women are free from these deterioating and destroying clements. nor that women alone are responsible for novels of questionable character. but that the above mentioned class of books Is becoming more and more popular, and If We do not stop its growth in some way we shall in the near rrrure DC producing a race Of men and women whose lives are poisoned at the source. The reading of such books is TO way to make a world condi- ton better.
 Sixth The world has no know1- edge of a real living Christ. Religion
 has come to be a poular fad with
 many. In the church for policy's
 sake. There Is no deep and abiding
 spiritual life in the masses. We fail to see the touch of His hand in things about us. We fail to realize that He Is the Bread of Life. and Water Of Life in that hungering and thirsting after righteousness. We do not feeD the throb of His heart on account
 of our following Him 'Afar off me sooner every man needs His com- mands and accepts Him as Savfors Christ and King, the sooner will world conditions be better. For Jesus the remedy for all world ills"