Show x fI FOOTBALL OR POLITICS 0 READING the address of young oung Henry Wallace Wal Wal- x ct lace secretary of agriculture before al a l relational conference of students in politics provokes the thought that either he picked S he he the wrong teams all through the last football eason or that he has no liking for the game gameon on general principles JJ The Th se secretary as a matter atter of fact sees see iHO gains gams for college youth in ill the pursuit of any ny extra curricular activity The boy who 93 to save the country is the grind who keeps J Pis his nose in the books takes copious notes at lectures and with his diploma ma in ha hand d sallies sal- sal Mies lies forth after graduation to save the world J s sa a bespectacled leader of youth movements H M H After reading of foreign youth movements Me e has reached the conclusion he said that J there is something al altogether too too smug com com- and self satisfied about the youth o of the United States i j Why Mr rr Secretary I Haven't your yoU been around T 1 L The he visitor to any campus must co come e away with w-ith the conviction con that youth not only is not satisfied self e but it t is not satisfied d with any- any thing Today youth is complacent only when j soun sound asleep What 1 Mr r. r Wallace has taken for jor smugness i is the tolerance s sympathy and andi i pity with which youngsters regard the best minds of the country as they sit Bit with 1 wrinkled brows unable to see a way vay out of the mess into which tl they ey have led ledus us all It Itis i is not conceit or affectation which is to be read in the countenances of the young Their faces ae get that way from trying so hard to repress r smiles of kindly indulgence t If Jf Secretary Wallace is broaching propaganda propaganda prop ai a- a i ganda ganda for some youth movement in America Ameri a w that involves distinctive shirts marching k fancy salutes and speechmaking in civic centers cen ecu it is a safe guess that our young yo folks hear him acutely All in all Mr WalI Wallaces Wallace's Wal Wal- I laces aces outburst was a trifle bromidic Youth through all the ages has been told that it was C going to the dogs All youth wants today is isS S even ven break and it is not getting it That pU B the problem up to the oldsters who are t now iov w in the saddle Its It's their next move |