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Show LOOK TO FOURTH GENERATION Writer Sees Little to Pralbe .In the Flrtt Three Generations of Modern Mod-ern Americans. The North American child is too often merely the by-product of mnr rlngc. - It serves as an outlet for that pride which its parents cannot always reasonably take In themselves. It H petted, cajoled, pampered, mordrcHsed and underdlMclpllned, till there Is j evolved a strange plgm for whom the orld Miou grows banal, who Is ilestl j ute of the petitionary appeal of child- j mod and who surve.vs an already nu-Mclpated nu-Mclpated mid thoroughly iiualyM-il fu- ure with the cold eyes of iiri.ialural knowledge, Alan Sullivan writes in Harper's Mngai'liic for August. The world Is Us football. It is smar; be-jond be-jond description, hut there Is In tin forced garden of Its life no sheltered bed where may bloom the llowers of graclousness or peace. Of such will be the new nrlstocrac, and Its traditions tradi-tions will V of grandfathers who. ' virtue of that fine native American Uuighendedncss, delivered the goods of their period and were promptly and suitably rewarded, ltttt there will he fe,w traditions of courtliness, scant reminders that noblesse oblige, and but scattered memories of inherited responsibilities. re-sponsibilities. The sempiternal dollar will still dominate. One generation was too busy collecting and the other will be Vio busy hpendlng. Tho second sec-ond generation offers no promise and the third but Jlttle. The fourth will probably open a new and finer cycle. |