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Show PARENTS ARE NOT TO BLAME Dr. Lucius A. Whipple, president of the Rhode Island Is-land College of Education, is optimistic as to the young people of today, declaring, "They would do a much better job of guiding the destinies of the world than my generation has done." We are inclined to 'agree with Dr. Whipple in this conclusion and also in his statement that the calamity-howlers, who rail about the so-called younger generation, may have some virtue in their complaint, but it is more probably due to "poor memory." We parat company with the educator, however, when he continues that if youth have found it difficult diffi-cult to adjust themselves to the present national crisis, "the blame rests with the parents.'' Certainly, if today's young people are handicapped han-dicapped by the frailties and failures of their parents, par-ents, there is no use in attempting to assess blame upon any particular generation. Rather, we should understand that the handicaps handi-caps of human beings represent an inheritance of the race, passed down from generation to generation, and that these difficulties can be surmounted only by individuals who resolutely, determinedly and intelligently intelli-gently attempt to control and improve themselves. To those of us who believe that human beings are steadily improving and that the race is making mak-ing progress in the development of better men and women, it is right and proper to expect greater achievement from each generation. There is little sense in young people blaming older people, peo-ple, or in parents howling about the faults of their young successors. |