The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1923-02-02

You can never read bad literature
too little, nor good literature too
much Bad books are intellectual
poison; they destroy the mind
Hawksbury Ag College Journal, sgd
ney, Australia.
Caroline at College" is sweet |
and wholesome book for young girls; |
and older people who know the beau |
tiful campus at Berkeley, the hills
and sea shore. or the haunting gran
deur of Pixies Peak Tin the neiglbor-
hood of which a part of the story Is
laid) will also enjoy this new book
by Leila Horn Richards. Q4ittle,
Brown; SLID 1t is sexual to her
previous book, Then Came Caroline
but unlike many sequals, it makes
very delightful whole in itself, and III
no way depends on the readers pre-
vious interest in the heroine TOT lts
cnarm. Caroline is a merry, mlschleV-
Gus, gentle and generous young tnlhg
very democratic in spite OF the arls-
tocratic blood of an old Virginia FAM
ilv. Her affectionate consideration OF
her mother and father, and her SIS
tiers. and their eager self sacrifice Tor
each other are very pleasant things
to see. Though there are vElous
collage boys introduced into the tale,
and the natural affairs OF young
people. there's not a line OF silly
sentimentality; all the way through
the right things are emphasized
without making the characters in the
least "goody-goody." M. l.. Greer has
given it pleasant illustration.
ut is possible that some people are
incorrigibly lazy; but a proper sys-
TEN of vocational guidance and train
ing would certainly discover for al
most all men and women some WORK
to which they would be willin gto give
reasonable amount OF energy, says
Durant Drake in his chapter on that
universally interesting topic, pros
perity for all, in America Faces tle
Future (Macmillan, $500. Some
people, of course, are stupid, he
continues; "bM appropriate education
can make all of these useful producers
except the extremely sub-normal; ane
these the state must look after-if FOL
no other reason, to prevent their hav
ing children. Some people will b'
improvident, and fail to provide To-
illness or old age; proper system
health and old-age insurance Will re
move this gamblers risk and protec
people against misfortune Differ
ences in productive ability will re
main. but not such as to deny to an
one a decent livelihood. There is n
need of anything more than sporadi
poverty and want, overwork, under
nourishment, or indecent housing. ]
is our fault, our national crime, tina
these evils exist on large scale.
$50
l have three very interesting book
on community interests: Augustus v
Hays on Rural Community Organize
ton" University of Chicago Pres
$3.50, Howard Copeland Hill
Community Life and Civic Problems
(Ginn and Co. $1.40), and Renee
Sterns "Neighborhood Entertain
ments" (Macmillan). Prof Hayes,
sociologist at Toulane University
Louisiana, has evidently had vii
and intimate acquaintance with mt
and measures calculated to form al
mould rural policies, with t
changes in rural psychology wal
have taken from the farmer much
his individualism. He puts his fling
on the weak point in the system
organizing according to trade are;
and points out how the farmer of
day with his good roads, automobi
and telephone, demands variety
interests and contacts calling for
broader basis of organization tn
tnat of the little district school neis
borhood He knows the rural par
and its wide Emergencies, the ineff
tual civil township division, the va
of tle open forum and democra
government of the New Engls