The northwestern bulletin., 1922-03-11
CONTEMPORARIES
GIVING YOUTH A CHANCE

Wherever goes nowadays among grown-ups one
apt to hear loud complaints about the conduct
and of the young. 1t makes little difference
whether you in church. club in a business
office There seems to be unanimous opinion that
something is decidedly wrong with the young and
of today. We have the wife of famous college
professor going and down the land deploring the
dons under which most social functions held at
leading institutions of learning The president of Prince
ton out in strong protest against the influence
of the automobile for evil in the lives of his students
Good sportsmen aghast at the revelations Of cheap
ideals and total lack of loyalty in the recent
of the prevalence of professionalism among college al
goes. speaker the Association of Com
the other day made the first real attempt to face
this of affairs and place the blame that has
attention. The speaker was the headmaster of the
and oldest school for boys this country
hundred and forty her have gone forth
write her in the annals and history of this
try This who knows the spirit of youth it is
and done the fault lies with the fathers and mothers and
their friends rather than with the boys and girls them
selves We think he is correct.
All about have the spectacle of lack respect
for law; of complete surrender to violent and criminal
passions When boy his father break the prohib
tion law of the country with assurance When a girl
her mother adopt for her the and dress
of cheap actress. When newspapers and magazines
feed their readers with everything that course vulgar
tnereDy
it is time for to stop and take stock. No amount of
blame thrown upon youth will from our
own responsibility To be you and may not like
the spirit the letter of the Vostead act Nevertheless
is part of the law of the land ought obeyed
changed Why blame the youthful fapper for a lack
of manners which many times to indicate
spending lack of morals when of not hesitate
to introduce into homes and the homes of our
friends the and the latest cabaret
performer. The individual is largely and usually infu-
enced by those about himnot, perhaps, by the
altogether, but by the nsstent voices says Pc
re in his survey for the Outlook of Civilization The
really essential condition in each period and gener
alton is the frame of mind.
What is the true frame of mind our own time? Are
the distressing things about only symptoms of
passing hysteria and lack of control? they
truly the signs of ncpient decay that beginning
gnaw at vitals, sign since the beginning of
time of the dawn of Leadership and control by
more virile and dominant people? At any rate let us
stop blaming the youngsters altogether for
and heart of every of them there is struggle for
control and again puts the baser above the better
OF us will that given chance the average youth
is prone to follow the dictates of the him. al
though at times he will slip back control of the
animal passions which betray all Are helping him
if hold before him all those things which tend to
debase rather than those things which to elevate?
After all who has the real responsibility?
A. l.. Jackson in the Chicago Defender