| Show s ace Generation Shifting n Population See Yh Crisis t In the last decade n a strange new v impact has hit the lives f youngsters uprooted from their home roots b by a shift shift- jV e population Heres Here's the first of five fi dispatches that tell tat i is happening to Americas America's children based on preview f the comprehensive reports to be aired at the lite te House conference on children and youth next month B By Douglas Larsen NEA Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON Nov 27 Tod 27 Today's 27 Today's ys y's youngsters are a dis- dis generation No previous crop of U U U- S. S children has ever been forced adjust to such revolutionary changes in the American way of have taken place in the last 10 years The magnitude of the problems and their significance is reed re re- ded ed for the first time in one of the most comprehensive series reports ever made on the status of U. U S. S youth Just com com- Ted made available through NEA Service exclusively the theare Acts are the results of more than a years year's work by ors tors rs educators judges and other experts aided by teer laymen The They were ere prepared in the 48 states and territories for dent Truman's White House conference on onen onen en en and youth to be held Dec Dee 3 This and succeeding iries ri sin in in a series are based on an analysis of the brand brand new new newin formation in the reports 1 Here Are Significant Changes Here are the most significant changes which have taken see in American life which are having a major effect on the theES theand ES and personalities of U. U S. S youth families have suddenly become mobile treating Creating ling lifting ling population The need for a family to plant roots S to be an obsolete idea Unfortunately for American ren schools playgrounds and community community health services enot not mob mobile le at all lR Result sult Jammed schools in some places empty ones else else- re re And childrens children's personalities arent aren't as mobile as their es s. s esThe The tremendous increase in the number of old people in population as a result of lengthening the life span of the thew w ge person has put this group in competition with the th of the country for welfare funds public assistance bene- bene Nand sand and social services This takes place at a time when most fetes Jes tes and communities are being g forced to reduce such expendi- expendi tas es eg below what they were before the war I 1 The nations nation's youth has been exposed to a world orgy of facial acial activity featuring the inhuman persecution of misty mity mity mi mi- sty ty groups 1 f Slow Healing Bruise rube on Minds blinds Result A bruise on youthful minds which is very slow aling mg tAt fAt At the same time new attitudes laws and court decisions V recreated created a revolution in race relations in the past 10 years Result American youth is being asked to try to take a social leap in this respect where previous generals genera genera- ls have ha taken only mincing steps Mothers have made a mass exodus from the home to take outside And every day more of them are leaving the hen en for a place on a a. a pay roll Result Millions of kids know the head of the day-care day Her r better than their mothers 1 lAs As a result of World War Val II U marriages millions of young young- arc are just beginning to get well acquainted with their ers s And hundreds of thousands of other children know to t fathers only from intermittent visits to veterans adminis- adminis lion tion hospitals t l Much i is s made of the country's record postwar s prosperity fur far as millions of children go its it's strictly phony The family a a new ew shiny car because that's the only way daddy can get r r Job which is 20 0 o miles at away r aS f Families in Debt Prices Rise I Result The family is in debt and when food prices inch Youngsters P the e youngsters get got hot dogs four times a week f t In Jo addition to the new major postwar social and cultural es which are making life so turbulent and confused fore for e nean youth the chronic social problems which have alis al- al alj alys j is ys been en around have been n greatly aggravated bb The The The wave of organized crime now gripping grinning the country 1 g billions Imons In m profits from families that cant can't afford it is JS g 1 its bad bad cf effect on U. U S. S children The general ral moral or l tit t Y which life is is evident in so many mans phases of American doing its damage to young minds V I I On n to top t p of everything else there is is the p phenomenal war and ajar Viar ar increase in the country's birth rate Even without the Problems r the mere addition of so many youngsters to the hon tion would have created a crisis The increase grossly es all of the other problems The wheels i The roots have become I i |
