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Show too bk; doses If there is any criticism of the so-called so-called rapid age, it is that the curtain cur-tain is pulled clear back and the youth, who should be a sort of adventurer, adven-turer, seeing never too far ahead in life, glimpses all of the show at one glance. Instead of being satisifieu, it works the other way. He becomes satiated, loses the interest that pursuit pur-suit cf learning and adventure holds, Then what happens? Perhaps part of the answer is found in the three university students who committed suicide while home on their holiday vacations. Or again the answer may be found in the urge to manufacture something they believe the world will not have to offer them after looking over its wares. Then we have such as Leopold and Loeb. Still another answer might be found in the army of loafers among the youth, who instead should be keyed up to high pitch and going full speed, accepting what comes, or discarding it for the something that awaits just ahead. In the case of the students, one, hardly seventeen, left the puzzling word that he had found life barren and futile. Another, a few years older, concluded, he said, in his message, mes-sage, that he had experienced all that life had to offer. The third had the only possible excuse. He was a cripple crip-ple and the bare truth flashed through his inner self that he was too queer to marry or bring happiness to himself. Let's not blame youth. Shall we, who are older, not be responsible instead? in-stead? It is within our power to raise the curtain at will. We, through experience, should know it is not well to lift the screen and say, "Here is the world." It is humiliating humiliat-ing to admit that we have released the restraint spring and flung the door open. Ask your 10-year-old son, yes, 6-year-old lad; he can tell you how far ahead of his time he is today. Wrise beyond their years? No, unwise. Superficiality has tak-, tak-, en the place of steady materiality. Never has it been more true than now that "knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." How sad, when the world is just beginning to unfold its wonders, to present its offerings, that the age so fortunate has broken bounds and boots its tremendous opportunity. Salt Lake Tribune. |