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Show THE COUNTRY'S GONE SOFT We've been hearing a lot lately about how the country's gone soft, and the youth are all reds or I anarchists or close to them. And sometimes we look ! at our own sons and summon up some frost-bitten ! memory from the days of our own youth and pontificate pontifi-cate about how "things ain't what the used to be." Now this is a funny way for us to be acting. Practically the whole nation is yowling its head off for more naval bases in South America, more production at home, a bigger army to defend America, a more belligerent governmental attitude atti-tude when America's toes are stepped on by any foreign power and the ones we have selected to back up this yowling are our soft youth. Maybe we're a mite inconsistent. When we stop to think of it, this crazy world hasn't been any bed of roses these past ten years for the boys in our town. Some of them are just now getting get-ting started in good permanent jobs ; and while there are always some loafers, most of them have been trying try-ing all the time. Why even now all we have to do is run an ad in the "Help Wanted" column offering a 1 half-way decent job and the post-office does a land office business in stamps. i Our youth are all right. Any bunch that can I get turned down fifty times for a job and come up still hoping for the fifty-first are bound to be all right. And that's a lucky thing for us. Who'd we get to back up our yowling if they weren't? |