Show TASK FOR YOUTH TO BRING ABOUT THE NEW WORLD summarizing the vexed economic situation and looking into the future I 1 dorothy thompson writing in the cosmopolitan magazine tosses this challenge to youth there Is no longer any war with nature there Is no longer any nee need of po poverty venty there la Is no DO longer a class struggle which Is rooted in any physical reality with intensive agriculture the state of kansas alone could grow enough food to teed feed the entire world a and nd the soil could be constantly revl revitalized tal and reconditioned working at half the time they do the workers of this country could produce sufficient automobiles sufficient shoes and suits of clothes sufficient apartment houses bathrooms detached cottages kiddie cars electric cook ing stoves vacuum cleaners and what not for or everyone to live at the standard now enjoyed only by the upper middle classes sly my generation envisaged this possibility it was the basis of our optimism and our falth faith now kow it has come to pass we have chained the lightning disciplined the soil it if we like we can go further and subdue climates and find new sources of power mans long struggle with nature Is endel ended and what Is the result unemployment 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 you my young friends it will be your task to turn away from the conquest of things the discipline of elements back toward the proper study of mankind which Is man it Is possible it Is even probable that man will prove far more incorrigible than nature |