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Show )KT0 FOURTH GENERATION er Sees Little to Praise in the irst Three Generations of Modern Mod-ern Americans. ie North American child is too i merely the by-product of niar-. niar-. It serves as an outlet for that which its parents cannot always inably take in themselves. It is d, cajoled, pampered, overdressed underdist'ipliiK'd, till there is evolved a strange pigmy for whom the world soon grows banal, who is destitute desti-tute of the petitionary appeal of child-lood child-lood and who surveys an already fin-icipated fin-icipated and thoroughly analyzed fu-:ure fu-:ure with the colli eyes of unnatural Knowledge, Alan Sullivan writes in Harper's Magazine for August. The world is its foolball. It is smart beyond be-yond description. But there is in the forced garden of its life no sheltered lied where may hloom the flowers of graciousness or peace. Of such will be the new aristocracy, and its Traditions Tradi-tions will vie of grandfathers who, ly virtue of that fine native American longheadedness, delivered the goods of their period and were promptly and suitably rewarded. But there will be few 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 oo busy spending. The second sec-ond generation offers no promise and 1 the third but jittle. The fourth will probably open a new and finer cycle. |