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Show SLANDERING YOUTH A Philadelphia clergyman said on Wchissd-y: .'"It has bes-proved bes-proved sixty-four per cent of the young people of America are dishonest." dis-honest." Pie gave as authority for this indictment "tests made by clerks in different stores." Sixlw-four per cent? Why not seventy-one?. seventy-one?. The latter figure would be no more loose and reckless than the former. Many are basing appraisals of youth on ephemeral fashions and habits. Every age has its own. Censors find confirmation in authors au-thors whose output deals with "flaming youth," any one of whose typewriters, given a few of the obvious features of present-day life country clubs, independent dress,- short hair and motor cars could today almost do the job itself. But the picture is not true. For every boy or girl whose exuberances attract attention there are a. dozen going their real ways with real purposes in life, with ambition, ambi-tion, with determination. They seldom figure, however, in popular popu-lar fiction, nor are they often themes of utterances from pulpits. Nine millions of women and girls are working in this country; the great majority from necessity, of course, but their ranks contain con-tain thousands who are working simply because they wish to "do something." The great summer schools never have had more students stu-dents than they have today. Our great industrial armies never have had more keen, ambitious youngsters, "willing to begin at the bottom." bot-tom." New York Times. |