America’s Development

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18313, 3 February 1934, Page 9

America’s Development

WHEN Aaron left St. Louis for ” Tejos City in Texas, the cowboys laughed at him for opening up a small trading shack in this wild and woolly western town. But the cowboys did lot realise that the railway was coning to Tejos City, or that oil would suddenly spurt out of virgin soil. So Aaron’s little shack became a shop, a store, and finally an emporium in the large modern business quarter or what, is sometimes termed a "mushroom growth” city. Aaron’s young son Xatc eventually ran away to New York, and returned a few years later to apply New York shop principles to Tejos City’s provincial prejudices. Gradually he pushes Aaron out of the business, util there are some illuminating sidelights on shop-window dressing and bargain sales policy. . Aaron has his share or family troubles; there is the tragedy of blindness, but his grandchildren, at the end of the book grown-up young men and women, arc ready to carry ou. The two generations sketched in by Mr Harrison in "Yonder Lies Jericho” represent an important era in Amcticti’s social development, and here :s a novel that takes a great deal in its stride and gains its chief effect from the author’s restraint whilst handling his emotional scenes.