Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-07-11 | Page 4 | An Old Man Speaks

I i. i n 1 Aln An Old Man Speaks D- D DELIGHTFUL Booth took a backward back ward look looking out to sea from rom the porch o of his summer home in Maine What he saw was vias Penrod and his cronies cronies' living abundant abundantly abundantly dantly dant y in a small town of horse-and-buggy horse days Then he y ventured the prophecy that life ahead of the pay boy of today will be less free and easy easy he he will have less les chance hance for adult happiness happiness happiness hap hap- than in the days of P Penrod when the principal influences in his life were the home school and church The three predominant in influences influence's influences influences in- in s fluence-s in the lives of boys of today he said ar are arc moving pictures radio and the B Boy y Scout o II movement menh We had no idea Booth had grown so old old not not in years but in his notions No one can blame him for reminiscing about his boy heroes and their adventures their play and their chores their school-day school romances They lived a generation after Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Huckleberry Huckleberry Huck Huck- leberry Finn Today's boys and girls are a generation ahead of Pen Penrod od and his chums chums- and as Penman Tar ington says they are no better or worse worsen than lads in these days of ra radio radio radio ra- ra dio and movies Adult dult happiness surely lies ahead for those now young Youth today is developing a greater capacity for enjoyment of life lile than was possible in horse buggy days Modern ways of doing things things' make work less irksome and its compensations and pro products are are larger th than n ever Life will probably grow even more complex and it will take more things to fill it There will be bc a better balance between work and leisure The only problem is to prepare to-prepare prepare to utilize this leisure rationally for or recreation and for growth within We must not be overwhelmed by these thesel puzzling puzzling times Life will always be zestful for those sound minds in sound bodies and andt t today day more than ever before emphasis on physical and mental health is preparing the thc younger generation for bigger and better living living living liv- liv ing the fruits of research and nd progress in social physical and medical science On the other side of the frontiers we are approaching lie undreamed undreamed undreamed un un- un- un dreamed of adventures stimulating even to think about We Wc are are glad had hada a boyhood boyhood boyhood boy boy- hood he likes to relive but boys boys' and nd girls of I here and now have nothing to look back up upon n. n For them there is the future future and and it will be better than our imagination can picture it