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G Genn enn r. r i c THE HE younger generation have had in their h hands the marvelous gift o ol of freedom More glorious opportunities have been theirs than were available to the youth of ot former generations Yet thus far what have they done with this gift gUt Nothing ng except to destroy them them- selves Believing that freedom means lack of or restraint and disregard for customs customs cus- cus toms that have been in hi existence for lor centuries they have accordingly become wild and reckless The result is that instead in instead in- in stead of or finding greater freedom they have in reality reamy fettered themselves with more mor chains than their parents had in in their youth It Is because became many of or the more intelligent in- in in intelligent young people are coming to realize that they have been blindly following following fol fol- fol- fol lowing loving the multitude without making any valuable use of or this gift which is theirs that we can now hope for a a. right about And if they once begin to use their freedom as it should be used used used-to to d-to to develop themselves they themselves they will beable be beable able to blaze blazs a trail to toa a a better and andI I happier civilization than we have yet known THUS Honore Willsie Morrow one of ot Americas America's foremost novelists who always always al- al ways Trays has something ing significant to say about our young people sums SUlm up the situ- situ atlon That she has an unusual understanding understanding understanding under- under standing of or them is not only due to the fact tact that she Is a writer of or acumen and herse herself the mother of or adolescent children but In addition she recently set herself herselt the task of getting to the root of or the revolt of ot the younger generation by studyIng studyIng studyIng study- study Ing it This she did by touring the country and making as thorough an Investigation in investigation In- In of conditions as was possible It was therefore with no mere super super- observer of or youth that the interviewer interviewer inter inter- viewer discussed its problems Although Mrs Morrow had been inthe Inthe in inthe the midst of working on a new novel she Me willingly put her work aside to relate some ome of or her experiences I found she said that the reck- reck of the younger generation was no idle idle le dream Nor was WM it as manye many seemed e med to think only confined to o the wealthy class of people The youngsters were from all walks of me even life even among the the working hard-working and self supporting a I reyer yer I vent went whether it was In hi a a. Dig city or a small town and no matter In In- what s section of or the country I learned o of promiscuity and of or drunkenness Everywhere Everywhere Everywhere Every- Every where I saw saw the constant search for pleasure l and excitement the irking at parental restraint and what Is more the complete absence of religion I was appalled appalled appalled ap ap- palled not only at the in indiscretions ot of youth but at it the boldness with which h It haunted flaunted them There Ther are many who blame this 3 defiance de- de fiance flance of youth on prohibition but when I went to England I saw there the same breaking down of barriers the same re rebelling rebelling rebelling re- re belling a against restriction To listen to English parents parent complaining of t their boys and girls was to think that they were speaking of the American young people da dav v 4 Honors Honore Willsie Morrow American novelist believes that the children of the present wild younger generation a b will awaken to the necessity of spiritual guidance and have haye greater regard for the moral code than th their ir i parents i if f t II 1 N Ny y c o A Aix 1 ix ti y w f r 3 pl y rp y Since they cant can't blame it on Prohibition t they attribute It to the war But again t upon st study dy and investigation I could r not see ee where the war had anything todo todo to t do with it The young people who were j behaving so madly had not not- not been been in the war Ot Of course ourse cne may argue that youth has always been defiant and rebellious Al And d I 1 Indeed Indeed In Indeed In- In that it is noth n nothing ng new agree deed smiled the author I r I will even i admit that I was defiant myself as a a youngster youngster So were all the olds oldsters ers who today bewail this defiance of youth Butth But th difference Is 13 that we at least leas had been taught self-control self and discipline Consequently we seldom broke the moral codes Sen Then to what do you rou attribute this the interviewer asked C change in youth routh To the new methods of bringing up children wa was her pr prompt reply In Informer Informer in former generations children were taught t to obey their parents and they were 5 punished when they did not For every some penalty was paid Then along came t the e psychoanalysts who Slavery New lavery New V Style DRINKING D KINKING and petting just because every every- everybody's body's body s do doing 1 in it t and to escape being called a a. a flop nop-is nop is this freedom asks the American nov nov nov- r lis If s so then this freedom is a a. a delus delusion on For Fr FrI Forin I neither in In Just just blindly y following ng the multitude there there I is I neIther independence nor self-expression self instead in to- n- n I stead It its it's its s a form of slavery Constant searching f for or pleasure and excitement excitement excitement excite excite- ment irking at parental restraint complete absence absence absence ab ab- ab- ab sence of religion frank indulgence in drunkenness drunken drunken- e n ness and promiscuity promiscuity promiscuity-by by such wild and reckless means is youth today destroying itself To ro tear down the barriers that for ages have protected women is considered tomake tomake to tomake make them free and independent s souls I But has it it freed them Rather I should it has blighted them say spiritually mentally mentally mentally men men- tally and even physically physical y G t r rI ra I H a f w 3 0 f ff fy v y f talked of or complexes and repressions and d the necessity for self 1 It If the 15 parents parents had llad been better trained and had id 1 had more than a half-baked half understanding understand understand- ing toe of these new teachings the effect S would not have been so dire They began begano S too to o encourage their children to express re themselves They never attempted to check them or to punish them nor did M they try to form their characters Since e they were afraid to correct the child for or fear ear he would develop inhibitions it was as inevitable that the child chUd should become oe devilish and spoiled cc since sincee we e had been en NATURALLY IN keeping our hands off the children en during those important years when they ey grew w older older they were entirely The results are seen today inthe inthe in the wildness of ot youth in the many marriages marriages marriages mar- mar ir- ir that go to pieces In the numerous us failures that we have in business an and nd social life lle Our youngsters have not been en taught discipline consideration and the tho iho fact that life has responsibilities which ch cannot be solved by evasion f YiT J Jr r 1 r d f 55 r yin A Y Y h e v r rr rv v h hU r U t 6 ta o RV r rv v r. r S 'S 4 r y t t The head of a large publishing publishing- organization organization or- or orse related to me recently innumerable Innumerable innumerable in- in numerable stories of or young people who are unable to hold positions for any len length th of time because they hey expect tobe tobee to be bee pampered and indulged in the same manner manlier hey fliey are at home They are unable to stand critic criticism sm They flare fiare up i and lose control of or themselves at the slightest provocation They are unable to work with their associates or to take i or orders ers from those above them FURTHERMORE since the new methods meth- meth th- th P of te teaching the child call for makIng making mak- mak ing their lessons and their work as as interesting inter inter- interesting esting and as amusing as possible they r e expect 1 to have their tasks In the business world orld made just as pleasurable for them They rebel at routine work they become j bored quickly and they are arc unable to concentrate As if to make matters worse in not t having prepared our children for th the tha 1 great tasks of life we have the advent of or orthe I the automobile the cheapness of which puts ruts it within the he reach of even a mOde mOde- Se ate Purse we have the movies the radio o and the widespread dissemination of f literature affording easy access to considerable consIderable considerable con- con harmful information All of or orthis f this gives them mem still more power and yet et t they arc are less prepared to handle it than n any young generation has ever been Isit Isit Is Isit s it any wonder that our young oung people have c been ru running ming wild is it any wonder that t they have not not- i been able M to tn use their r great gift of freedom with any degree of ot if intelligence 7 ET d despite spite the fa fact t that the younger T YET i generations have utter freedom from n restraint and liberty to express themselves them them- selves Mrs Morrow questions Morrow questions whether r they are really as free as as they think they v af arc arcI I believe she he said that when you OU IU come comedown down to brass tacks the tho freedom m prates about t that the younger generation fa Is nothing but a delusion How often do ao you ou hear a girl say that she simply must st drink or pt pot or she will be left out out of the crowd And so you ou find that she tie does these things not because became she enjoys enjoys en- en Joys them or even wants to do them but ut because became every cry one else does them If It she tie doesn't pattern herself after aUer the rest of will dubbed a flop nop n the crowd she be or a dead number Is Is' Is this freedom n is this self-expression self In our day wo we weren't practically Uy forced to become promiscuous in om our relations re- re e- e lU lations with boys in order to be popular ir We weren't forced to drink or to dance ce indecently for fear of being dropped It C f a qA se seems t to me me- that all this freedom freedom is m merely a a. new form of slavery The very cry fact also that young women omen ap ape mans man's ways shows what a a. false conception conception con- con ce they have of or freedom To do do i wl what man does docs Is their idea of being free T To tear down the barriers that have for forages forages ag ages protected them and been for their be benefit Is to make them them free and independent independent inde- inde p pendent souls But has lias it freed them R Rather I should sho say it has blighted them i m mca mentally and spiritually and even ca cally That Thatis Is why I feel that the young oung pi people e l have vc used this gift of freedom only r to tc destroy themselves to bind themselves s w with more chains than they had before P For For- Forto to be really free means to cultivate u independence of or thought-Independence thought bt bf w judgment Today young people are ol offered the rare opportunity to live e their r lives ives fully and richly and to do the things s i they want to do because It Is best for r W them and not because the rest of the s n mob dictates it to them Yet they arc are 2 n not taking advantage of it Unconsciously the thc generation that isnow isnow is s n now growing up the younger brothers and d sisters will come to use their freedom as asit asit s J. J it should be used These youngsters are e still Ull in the age of idealism the age when a t they haven't as IUS yet et begun to come como up p a against the hard f facts of life They are e s still dreaming dreams They look Jook at their r 0 older brothers and sisters and see what t failures they are making i their lives s. s n They look at their fathers and mothers s and inwardly resolve o that they will not t j be like them This utter disapproval al of ones one's parents i Is Js oddly enough an encouraging sign t c Of course youth has always found fault It with its parents One wouldn't like the tho ie way ones one's father ate his Ills soup or the ic way mother dressed or the old-fashioned old ri J furniture she insisted on keeping In the ie I house But what were these defects compared com com- i- i pared with the ones ants the youngsters hive e e today agi Ans ag their pai My mother one lad told me smokes and ge gets drunk She looks a D. sight I Itell tell you ou it Just sickens me at the atoms atom i- i ach you VOU you see sec these children have ha real al vital faults to find with their parents par- par parI r- r and this will have hue a tremendous us influence on them when they emerge merge from m for they will want to be dif dif- f. f ferent They will not permit themselves es to become disgustingly drunk and thus is also they will be unwitting factors In enforcing enforcing en- en ci- ci forcing prohibition Indeed I believe that at the one ono great hope for prohibition lies es in the tho genera generation on now growing up 7 h H d t ti Y r i Si 14 f J 3 F Jn J n r. r 1 Answer i 1 from HONORE HONORS WILLS WILLSIE IE MORROW M 0 m t i i iY W x w w 7 O i. i S x x t 3 Y i Y Ha Y i d Ao r x zy rP x rt 8 And yet again when those of the pros pres present cr ent younger gt generation have children of ot tn their own they will ill give gi them bett better tr training and better preparation for life lle Oi One can be almost sure that they will gi give their children the two great th things nga wl which were denied them them discipline discipline and re religion Already one hears young mothers sa say that their children will not be brought up ui the way they were While they will mu munot n not return to the cruelty that was shown cl children In other generations yet they w will not believe in sparing the rod al- al to together Their children are arc not going w to get away with deviltry by camo in ing it as self sel Having suffered too for their o own cj cynical lack of faith they will consider it their duty to instill religion In their cl children They will realize that It makes make no n no o difference what kind of ot religion Its itIs It Js Is s. s Just so long as It makes one feel responsible responsible re- re si to r. r higher power For no one p person is strong enough chough to stand alone JUST t C the other day a case e cameto came to my tl attention in which a a. young boy bitterly bitterly bit bit- t terly condemned his parents for not hating having hat har- ii ing taught him something of reli religion on V What had bad happened to awaken him to his n need of or It it I do not know But one hears o of such instances more and more frequently fre- fre q We can give our children every p pleasure and advantage in the tho world but l 11 if we have e not helped them to attain s spiritual fullness they will wUl never find true t happiness However modem youth despite Its l lawlessness St St. Its lack L of religion Its Us disregard dis- dis r regard of or moral codes possesses qualities which make it superior in many ways wars to t the youth of thy rhy generation They have haTe c done away with ith prudery with pretense a and sham They have torn down the theold old f false and insincere standards by which t their parents and grandparents lived 1 They have superb hearth health 1 and alert cues cues- ues- ues 1 boning minds The They know more tf of life fife t and of the world It is only a a. c c of time before they will begin begin to to r realize t that the gift of ot freedom which has been 1 handed them has hu lurking |