Show OUR HOPE IN YOUNG YOUNG PEOPLE It Is le really loo loa bad but those elderly gentlemen who bIU ever er they even think ab about lit the i ways of ot our Clur young people people are areat arai II at al li Ii again A retired c m an Cleveland rises to remark r that Americas America's youth h Is la Into a Bet et of ot gabby soft sott carefree oh oli well troll you OU know known n ne customary epithets Theres There's nothing so 80 very try new bout this sort sort ot of thing From ume immemorial It has been the custom for lor tho graybeards to take wallops at flaming naming or near flaming youth O Always Iwas the cry ot of what t Is the tile younger gen gen- ration gen ration coming to coming to Js is I earl In Inbe inbe be land Back In 1915 and In 1 It was the same lame Our oun young men were assail assail- assailed assailed ed u freely In press and pulpit asI as I lacking the sterner virtues that tha hould bou characterize the ree free born ree-born born American merican male It was p pretty etty gen gen- generally gen generally agreed amon among the viewers viewers- lib alarm that Americas America's young youn men weren't what they used to be Then came 1917 and aDd the war ar What h happened ed The gidd giddy spineless spineless young men who had seemed to care for tor noth noth- nothing tag ing g but ease and Pleasure proved that bat they could stand their share of 01 pain and and danger and hardship and fatigue and darkness as well as any The fhe rant of at the tho gray gray- graybeard gray beard beard faded laded and was heard no nomore nomore nomore more When the destroyers went through the he cold North sea waves on their dark hunt for death Even the blindest of us aw once and for all al all that our young oung men no DO less than a cen een century tury tur ago h ero II Bluff tuff oC which h to build nations Bin Dul now the tho war Is ts over oler over And he old old cr cry Is be being n heard again What Is la here bere to It anyway Nothing whatever Our Our young men and men and young ung r 1 wo women men lIre men are our only hope We older older what ones what hope dl do we hold out one None at all We have learned to bury our Ideals and fine line Impulses and noble hopes beneath n layer laer of caution conformity o I did daring challenge to hide bound hide tr tradition lUon and deadening custom can be expected from us It Is for forthe forthe the young oung to do So lets let's have a holiday from this eternal criticism of our nur youth fouth The young oung men and i women In America today are not a whit worse one than the young oung men end and women of ot 20 or 50 years rears ago Probably lY the they i att y ott t n |