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Show , Tan editorial by 1 1 florence davies : 4 BOUND TO MOVT ON Mrs Mary Roberts Rinohart flnda morals trending upwards She says so in a recent Interview. To which our answer is "Well, she'd better." And jthat not to be flippant, but to be quite serious. ! The truth is that we have spent j time enogh to decrying the present state of affairs as regards our chan- j In? social usages. It Is Just as Mrs Rlnehart says. "The old order of family life with father, mother and young people gathered about the lamp with their newspapers land mending and books has passed !into the memories of yesterday, because be-cause without desire on the part of jtho family modern living Is all pulling awa from home." Sadly enough this Is true. And because be-cause this old order of things was a very fine and beautiful one, we aro inclined to mourn it and to wish It back again. But that Is a mistake. The hands of tne clock never trael backward They move on. We are only wasting time when we day dream over the past. i Kine a lt was, lt Is gone, idealizing idealiz-ing the pur.t and regretting tho present Is purely negative business and therefore there-fore destructive. Thorc are things about our modern way of living which do not seem as flno as the ways of a generation ago. VY seem to have lost some very worth while values in the lois of home life and In tho amazing freedom and frankness of our conduct. All this we admit. .Some of us have even grumbled a good deal about lt rind tried with all our strength to turn the current of the stream Ui kward But customs that dlo can't be revived re-vived by main fprcc. You might administer ad-minister a little oxygen but lt would i nly produce a temporary flutter of life. , An organization which Is on the wane had better be put out of its misery mis-ery and a brnd new ono started in its place. A cuBtoni that s dying a natural death might as well we allowed al-lowed to repose in peace Preaching about it won't bring It back. There's only one answer, and that is while letting the old wnjs go gracefully, grace-fully, to bend every effort to make something worth while out of the new That's where Mrs Klnehart sees hope. Tho picture, after all, Bhe says, is or.h gray, not black. If the girls of today aro franker, breezier, seemingly ruder and iuop selfish than of old the only thing thai concerns us. Is how to turn those traits 'to good account. If the home Is dissolving dis-solving the club and the movie and the outdoor recreation must be made nio.-e I worth w hile. No one ever yr; made a stream flow t backward, but the course of many it stream has been deflected into B more useful channel There's no use to deny changing Conditions. We have first to accept I them and then to ruake them into j something even better than the old. |
