Show TASK FOR YOUTH TO BRING ABOUT THE NEW WORLD summarizing the vexed econome eco nomi t situation and looking into tl e future dorothy thompson writing in the cosmopolitan magazine boses th u b challenge to youth there is no longer any war with nature there is no longer any ally need of poverty there is no longer 7 a class struggle wl ich is rooted 1 in n any physical reality with intensive scientific agriculture the state of 1 kansas ansas alone could grov gro v enough food to feed the entire world and the soil could be constantly iced and reconditioned NN forking at half tl e time they do the workers of this country could produce clent automobiles sufficient shoes and suits of clothes sufficient apart ment houses bathrooms detached cottages kiddie cars electric cook ing stores stoves vacuum cleaners and what hat not for everyone ever one to live at the standard now enjoyed only by the upper middle classes sly my genera tion envisaged this possibility it was the basis of our optimism and our faith I 1 isow ow it I 1 las as come to pass we have cha ned the lightning d sc elined the soil if we like we cin go further and subdue climates and find new sources of power mans man S long struggle with nature Is endel and what Is the result ment poverty bread lines we have organized nature but we have not organized men an old fashioned man lives in a new fash toned world and 3 ou my youns fi lends it will be your task to turn away from the conquest of things th discipline of elements back toward the proper study of mankind which is man it Is possible it Is even probable that man will pi giove piove ove far more in corrigible than nature |