| Show VOICE OF THE PEOPLE By Telegram Readers Scrooge Raps Teen Agers As Discourteous Group Editor Telegram Cant Can't something something something some some- thing be done about teaching our teen agers the rudiments of Courtesy Our high schools give lessons in auto driving home economics hygiene and other useful subjects but as far faras faras faras as courtesy goes the students might as well be living in Inner Mongolia for all the instruction they get I have borne with this for a along along along long time in silence but the teen agers' agers antics during the current Christmas shopping season season season sea sea- son has caused me to blow my top These are the kind of things that I and hundreds of other adults have to contend with Boby parade down the streets five or six abreast and you'd just better walk in the gutter or you'll be shoved there anyway They get halfway through a astore astore astore store doorway and then stop dead blocking traffic while they exchange His with others of their ilk Your elevator stops but before before before be be- fore you can get out the door in in fact hardly before the door opens opens opens-a a swarm of young hoodlums hoodlums hoodlums hood hood- lums streams in carrying all before before before be be- fore them A we weary ry workman waiting waiting- for his bus is elbowed out of the way by giddy girls who dash out of the drugstore at the last minute An elderly woman has to stand in a crowded bus bus' while longhaired boys occupy the seats A mother with two children tries to get off the bus but finds her way blocked by self self- centered teen agers who are arc oblivious to her pleas of Let meby me meby meby by please You stop at the fountain for fora a coke and sandwich and a couple of nit wits comb their hair over your food And the tile store clerks suffer even more these teen agers shop shop not not buy buy in in pairs all the while licking ing their inevitable and damaging mer mer- chandise I could go on and on but I know your space is limited Anyway Anyway Anyway Any Any- way other suffering adults can add to this calendar of crime Now I love children and I like people but as far as I can see sec these those teen agers are neither Cant Can't parents or schools or both do something something- to correct this situation Civilization is getting more complex and cities more crowded and the present teen agers are going goin to have to learn sooner or later that courtesy is a necessary part of life We Ve must respect the rights and convenience of others Having said my say Ill I'll sign the name that the nit wits I have been writing about will call me although I assure you Im I'm not really one Scrooge Salt Lake City little scaring it might make us do a little checking on the facts and learn what is the correct correct correct cor cor- condition of our economy A scientist docs does not reject the findings of another scientist because because because be be- cause of personal dislike of him himor or his nationality He checks theother's theother's the theother's others other's statements and findings and if he finds them correct he does not hesitate to confirm them regardless of or color or na na- na- na That is what we will wUl have to learn to do and quick Our problem is an American problem There can be no grafting grafting grafting graft graft- ing of free enterprise and communistic com com- philosophies in the effort effort effort ef ef- ef- ef fort to produce an economic hybrid to save our doddering price system North America can no longer be occupied by a high energy civilization ci operated on a haphazard haphazard hap hap- hazard basis We Ve must learn t to plan for our survival but quick Intelligent action comes only through knowledge Stephen Iwanick 2nd ave |
