San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-23

We had our smart alecs too wLo
sat on the park fence and whistled
rum-ti-dum, rum-ti-dum, rum-ti-tidGy-
ti-um, ti-um when the peg legged tail
or passed just as we have brash youths
today who delight in bawling out wait
ers. Times have changed but manners
haven't.
! know n father who was much ex-
crcised because his daughter bedecked
the front of her dress with frat pins
coaxcd from admiring young SWANS.
He threatened to send her away to Il
convent. But one day his crouch eva
porated. A friend of his to whom he
was reciting his woe reminded him Of
| the days he used TO go TO grammar
school with his coat lapels festooned
with printed celluloid buttons bearing
such inscriptions as 20, You Kid"
and "23-Skiddo.
Living in a swiftly moving city
where youthful carvings on are often
compared to the carvings on of wick
ed Paris and the west end Of Berlin
! find saffron journalism has cOntri-
buted largely to the gross exaggeration
and that the young men from New
Haven who jazz about in the midnight
clubs with the necks of gin bottles
showing from coat pockets are not 81
numerous as popularity supposed.
! Whereas in our day We went to the
peep shows in penny arcades and
viewed "a Burlesque Queen Caught in
the Bath the youth Of today goes 10
the Follies, snatches an orange drink
on the way to the station and takes
the midnight train back to the college
campus.
Don't Cover it Up.
There was Just just as much wicked
ness among the younger generation &C
years ago as there is today. perhaps
more, for the youngsters today are
moro inclined to come out Of the shell
tered seclusiOn into the public places
They do not fear TO be seen which
is 4 step forward.
can remember when Young WON
an in my town was asked by thu
EOme town newspaper to contribute {
cooking recipe for the benefit Of thu
readers.
CO." she protested. 81 couldn't en-
dure the notoriety." She was he SAM
woman who few years later dcscrse,
her husband and two children :,
clOpe with the hired man. The mod
crn youth has shucked off false mo
iesty He refuses TO be seen and no
heard and | have noticed that whel
hc speaks he has something to say
something to which his elders nigh
we'll listen with profit.
We nre being deceived by appear
ances. America is not raising n natio
Ct milk-sons. There are n mighty fin
} number of them sleeping in the hlon
soaked fields Of France upon whor
we older folk once looked with som
disdain. They wore wrist watches
Their lair was vaselined. And the
knew all the latest steps Of the shin
my dance.
1t is. after all. somewhat waste q
/ time TO write an article in defense &
: Youth. From what ] see of them the
are not wrinkling their brows ahou
what we old birds think Of them. The
? seem to be masters If their destinice.
: They are on the high road and liz
] to them is Quixotic adventure.
! we give them p cheer on their wa
, they are aDpreciative hut IL we don
2 thev don't much care. They are g0in
{ TO bucl: the line and accent the blu,
eeonings without n whine. History wi
P show our flapners and cakc-paters ~
warn and wool of the same stuff tn,
n made us the greatest nation in I'll
s world today.
p Copyright 1929. by The McNausl
81 Syndicate. Incl