Show Modern Youth Criticized By Official l Secretary Wallace Calls Collegians Too Smug and Complacent II W Washington D. D C. C IP C.-IP IP A new youth movement is needed in inthe inthe inthe the United States because college students as a whole are altogether too smug complacent and self satisfied Secretary of Agriculture Agriculture ture Henry A. A Wallace said here herein herein herein in addressing a national conference of students interested in politics A true youth movement h he said must be a new vital adventurous adventurous approach to the potentialities ties of the coming age Our college col col- college l lege ge life has expressed itself in such rackets as organized football or college activities of a sort which remain essentially the s same same me from generation to generation The depression of the past three years shou should d create a genuine youth movement Hundreds of thousands of boys and girls wl who o thought they were going to slide through college on fathers father's money now know that they will have to work their way through college or orthey orthey orthey they cant can't go at all Thousands of students recently graduated cant can't get jobs Of necessity therefore hundreds hun reds of thousands of young people people people peo peo- are asking the question Why should this great grief have cometo come cometo cometo to us What has suddenly gone wrong with civilization What can call we do to fix it up TJ 1 the extent that the administration administration adminis adminis- administration is striving desperately to get a mechanism for social justice enabling it to balance production with consumption and guide the nation in a decent sensible way in I its relationships with other nations the New Deal is in itself a youth movement the secretary said It seems to me that youth in instinctively instinctively in- in instinctively believes in the doctrine of the New Deal as against special privileges In another portion of his speech the cabinet member said in part Many of us are beginning to wonder if the colleges themselves are as vital as they should be in in n furnishing the leadership to enable the youth of today to grable in an adventurous way with the realities of the coming day America has never had a youth movement worthy of the name I I |