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Show TASK FOR YOUTH, TO BRING ABOUT THE NEW WORLD Summarizing the vexed economic situation, and looking into the future, 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 need of poverty. There Is no longer a class struggle which is rooted In any physical reality. With Intensive scientific agriculture, the state of Kansas alone could grow enough food to feed the entire world, and the soil could be constantly revitalized revital-ized and reconditioned. Working at half the time they do, the workers of this country could produce sufficient suffi-cient automobiles, sufficient shoes and suits of clothes, sufficient apartment apart-ment houses, bathrooms, detached cottages, kiddie cars, electric cooking cook-ing stoves, vacuum cleaners and what not for everyone to live at the standard now enjoyed only by the upper middle classes. My generation genera-tion envisaged this possibility. It was the basis of our optimism and our faith. "Now It has come to pass. We have chained the lightning, . disciplined disci-plined the soil. If we like, we can go further, and subdue climates and find new sources of power. Man's long struggle with nature Is ended. And what is the result? Unemployment Unemploy-ment ; poverty ; bread lines. "We have organized nature. But we have not organized men. An old-fashioned old-fashioned man lives In a new-fashioned world. And you, my young friends, it will be your task to turn away from the conquest of things, the uiailjiiue ijl eiemeuLS, uacK lowaru "the proper study of mankind,'-which mankind,'-which is man. "It Is possible it is even probable that man will prove far more Incorrigible In-corrigible than nature." |