The Spokane woman. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1921-1935, 1929-06-20
By Pauline Suing Bloom.

kane and California today is Miss jeanette Don
adson. She has finished another term as Dean
+ Women at Cheney Normal School and is seek
ng adventure" route to California where she
viii study awhile during the summer Berkeley.
She has not determined whether to return to Che
ney or to accept an offer to spend year in similar
work in Honolulu. She expects recreation, the adj
venture along the road, days which come and go
without schedule plan of action.
Sometimes we blame young people for seeking
adventure" Miss Donaldson said Why that is
what the whole world seeks. You may give II
another name but the quest for happiness which Is
the underlying principle for all life is nothing but
adventure. We sometimes are very unjust to youth
very harsh and unknowing in our criticisms.
Sometimes think they doing silly things
when they simply unfolding lifes pattern in the
most natural way imaginable
There has never been time since the world
began when young people fine they are
today
Happiness is such an important thing in life
that we may not blame youth If ii has a healthy
appetite for ii.
Much has been said of the youth of today. Some
of it has been eommendation much has been con-
demnation. Some worthy critics have catalogued
the conduct of the youth of nation total de-
pravty; others have denounced it as extreme fri
voy and still others have looked carefully into
the undesirable part of the behavior of youth and
have dscerned in it misguided desire for express
sion.
Youth today has more freedom. With more free
dom and more opportunities to engage in varied
tvities the young people have more opportunity
to choose unwisely and to carry out their choice
without the wisdom OF years.
THE youth of the present age likes thris-but
the present age is not unique in this respect. A
great many of young people have of their own
accord crystalized their experiences with these va
rious thrills into a belief in the following principle
There is enough thrill in the best of this new free
dom of ours to make 1t altogether unnecessary for
anyone to choose to waow in the worst of it, The
thrill of championship games, grand council fires,
committee meetings of grave Importance dealing
with extra curricular activities to be conducted
with expedition and efficiency lead youthful energy
into comparatively safe channels.
Not all the mistakes of youth can be attributed
to youthful folly. Problem adults contribute in
great measure to the problems of youth. Problem
adults include any grownups whose influence on
youth is not constructive.
II have word of condemnation for the parents
who allow their children to grow up without re-
gion. Religion must take on the flavor of happi-
ness and when it does it transforms the life OF
the college student. | believe in the earliest reli-
gious training and that continues through youth.
Early religious training in the home tells in the col
ege student. The boy girl has something to tie
to who has the stabzing influence of religion.
Students away from home are not so apt to drop
into respondent states of mind when they have had
this training. They want religion pure and unde
filed, not dogma II will accept substitute.
Il have never been in favor of a heavy sex diet
for young people; here again may blame prob
lem adults for contributing to the problems OF
youth with the filthy books they would place in
their hands. | believe that every girl should have
sufficient knowledge to protect her womanhood
That is where girls are so fine. Their training
enables them to guard their conduct and at the
time to meet the world in a manner that
puts to shame all of the subterfuge and decetfu
with which they meet the problems of life
No has opportunity of coming close
to the girl student as the Dean of Women of
school, Miss Donaldson believes We have a more
serious group of students in the normal schools
she believes, and the dean must concern herself
with their social life and activities. There are,