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Show j 'YOUTH AND PROGRESS t WHEN President-elect Roosevelt remarked, In a 4 ii recent after-dinner speech on "the unequal contest between youth and progress," he summed J tip in a few words a matter that has been bother- , lng parents and educators for a long time. What Mr. Roosevelt wss getting at waa the . way in which the distractions of a moving world tesr young people away from their moorings. It ; Isnt exactly a new spectacle. But It contains a I problem which we have hardly begun to solve, t j and in it ar the sources of a whole multitude of ; ' tragedies, j It sejerns, sometimes, as if the world ss a whole , had suddenly tripled its pace in the past genera- ! Uon. It has equipped itself with devices acting ! in competition with home and church and school, ; holding out to youth a lure that is both stimulst- f lag and dangerous, t . The youngster these days fsces a different set- j up than his father faced. Life beckons him from a thousand angles. It offers him sn infinite num- ber of channels Into which he can pour his energy, j It make it easy for him to cut loos from th J old ties snd set out on his own. All of this csuses a great many shipwrecks. It i Is part of progress, and we can't Isolate our"young t folk against it Whst w can do Is to get a new : appreciation of the problem involved; a new sym- j pathy and understanding for the strange compul- I sions and dark confusions which blind progress I : Is putting upon youth. We csn realize that youth needs wise and kindly guidance from the older i ! generation; and when youth comes a cropper we can make ourselves admit that it isn't all youth's XauU. ........ ' ;1 " |