'There are, however, graver problem than' house-boys' cumshaws for the women of the world to face to-day, recording to Mr. Sokolsky.
Ata recent DAR, gathering held in Shanghai, the address which Mr. G, Sokolsky gave at the Continental Congress was read, and a most interesting and stirring one it must have been, but, much as we admire this speaker's erudition, and in spite of the regard we have for his experi-fence, there are points in his address ith' which some of us will not agree.
He said, for instance:
"Youth (o-day here, in Europe, in 'Asia, is without guidance: it is afraid: there is not moral leadership in the world. 'The Church has failed, the 'School has falled, the Family has failed, and until these things are réslored Government' will fail to provide leadership for youth. 'This, he told the women, "is your problem," and only women can solve that prolem. The men of the world not do it, they fight over trivialities, Poor Youth! Every writer and speaker seems to pick on that to sharpen written or' oral. eloquence. When there is nothing serious a-doing, capital 1g made out of the modern iti, her lipstick, her free manners, and her dress-or lack of it. Boys Who can wield the cricket bat and dis like office desks ure scoffed at, and now that the world is involved in every sort of serious: trouble, the chief concern of some seems to bbe how this will react upon modern youth—and the burden of correction is Laid upon frail woman It is possible that youth is sulferiix. not from lack of guidance, but from too much spoon-feeding, and too much interference with its psycho-fogy. During the past 20 or 30 years it seems to have had n good deal of Captain Alfred Frederick Summerfield and -Aiss Muda Dorothy M Ware matricd at Holy Trinity Cathedral sections have done a- great deal of harm, and that through a curious in-
A Discovery Unfortunately for the Child, the thowers of sue! of, navehlogy Was sch thing as the Child Mind. cars ago discovered tht there
Actually: they were women with an of their own. who, consciously unconsciously. sought outlets. for thir own repression, Doublless with the best of intentions, they picked on the Child, but whether they realized It"or not, this appeared to be more fo et off their own steam than one him, Our children in spite of steler eonaiffons. had, after al, ived much Hike happy" litle animals, and had. found their" own means of enjoyment. Suddenly they discovered that they were the centre of sdult interest: Thele actions were watched and their sayings noted; they found themselves fof tremendous Importance and con Sequently played up to this treatment ike the thorough tte. actors they are at heart. Actually they were Tabbed of one of their chief delight, ind that was the Enemy Adult. Tt Dut them out somewhat to find that Tnstead' of having lustiable grief cance. against adultz these queer people suddenly ranged. themselves their side, taking the wind out of heir salts completely. "The poor litle things became payeholowieal studies. were set on these lines, and directed those tnt, not Xnoving where they mere, they promptly went of alt the" tacks at once Doubtless when the adage "Spare the rod and spoil the child," was a common belief, tumes were bleak. for children, but now we seem to. have swung to the other extreme, Quite suddenly earnest folk discovered thut Youth was not having fair chance, and that something must be done' about it, but excess of misguided zeal, it seems to me, certain women have been the But, just as some children wilt often' become, erudite in spite of Wrong teaching, soothers will survive and flourish despite interference with their "unconscious minds." "sup-Dressed memories" and what-nots. Now, maybe, it is the would-be mentors ho are "iummioxed,"—not Youth. Perhaps it is that the former look on Youth to-day, find it good, and are nonplussed at having no further worlds to conquer in that
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