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Show Across 4 fhp&tA , 'iffp'isX'tJ jdeos from other editors ! From the Shamoktn Cltiten, Shamokin, Pa.: Frailty exists at every age. The frailty of old age is easily recognized in infirmities that evoke our pity, summon our helpfulness, help-fulness, and command our solicitude. solici-tude. ' - The appealing frailty of an ln-ant ln-ant wins a mother's tender care and a family's devoted attention. Frailty of middle age often brings forth such warnings from a concerned spouse as, "watch your diet," and "don't overdo it" But the frailty of youth often provokes angry admonitions. It may be that in vigorous, zest-ful zest-ful youth, we can see no frailty but a wilful disregard for all the self-preserving rules of life. It is not frailty but wildness that adults see In the youths who rush Into the pitfalls that seem espe-, espe-, cially to be contrived for them. After highway tragedies in which a young driver figures, there Is often an immediate, angry reaction re-action from the public: "These crazy kid drivers." Even before the facts of the accident are established, es-tablished, the Judgment is made. The frailty of youth goes unrecognized un-recognized while oblivious youth goes on to maim and to kill, not understanding its own susceptibility sus-ceptibility to speed and to power. The energetic child with confident con-fident agility begins to climb a high porch bannister, and the worried mother runs o grab him from danger. The llfe-lovlng teenager teen-ager gets into the family car and roars out of the driveway with no hand to restrain him. Youth, with a dim view of seemingly seem-ingly remote death, can be excused ex-cused for not knowing the meaning mean-ing of mortality. But adults, who once were young themselves, cannot be absolved of responsibility responsi-bility for failing to recognize the frailty of youth. By education youth might be given a more adult insight into the moral responsibility of driving driv-ing a car but only if more adults set a better example on the highways. |