Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-05-14
MODERN YOUTH.
MODERN IDEAS

terest, and it was one of the out
standing topics of discussion at
the Fort Atkinson session Of the
Madison district. annual meeting
Of the Congregational churches,
attended by NJ. c. Crandall last
week. Mr. Crandall says:
Full of life - pep - inexperi-
enced, youth is bumptious, self
confident, it is willing to discard
existing order and try anything.
1t is prone to think things should
be different than they are. 1t
must think so, else we would be
in lockstep with Abraham and Lot.
We see their misuse of the auto
such as late-at night joy rides,
with the evils that follow But we
give them autos as playthings,
and, unschooled in life, they use
them occOrding to their own light
that Of inexperience. One per-
son, relating his own boYhood eX
pcrience, apparently, said the farm
boys of that time had to help with
the morning chores, hitch up the
team and drive to the factory with
fhe milk and get back before break
fast, then walk or perhaps ride
horseback four TO six miles to
school. He believed it good for
them. Now an auto bus takes them
to a consolidated school Youth
must have opportunity for physical
expression, but he was inclined to
think the older way developed a
better fiber of life. Adults should
not merely correct or restrain
youth but point out to them the
disadvantage of violation of law.
A woman, once listening to a
preacher discourse on the hayward
ness of youth kept nodding APP
prevail. He was reading from an
other discourse delivered in 1878.
So it is not a new problem.
The process of life is educative
and parents should remember
that they are only a score or two
Of years ahead in knowledge and
experience and should endhavor
to keep in sympathetic touch with
them.
Churches are usually built and
services planned for adults only.
Our modes of expressing religious
life have not kept pace with those
Of business life Youth dislikes
the term religious life". Call it
normal living modern phrase.
A Chicago college youth com
mitted suicide. His frank diary
record revealed a false philoso-
ply of life and vicious living, APP
parently unknown to his parents.
But it was the youth of Oak Park,
Americas largest village, of
$4,000 or more population. that
organized the recent notably sue
cessful fight against allowing Sun
day movies in Oak Park.
The publicity agent Of the
James Way" farm barn equipment
manufacturers was a former pas
tor of the Congregational church of
Fort Atkinson, conducted the dele
gates through one of the company's
commercial dairy barns, where the
ceiling is painted, the beams var
nished, the COWS brushed and
bedded deeply in shavings, the
attendants in white suits, the barn
odor scarcely noticeable, and re-
hinder of "spotless town" all a
bout. The milk, from full grade
and full-blood nom ubercular
Guernseys, is umpasteurized and
uncertified, but retails at Is cents
quart. 1t is commercial, not an
advertising proposition.
Mr.. James said, Those COWS live
under better air conditions than I
do in my own house"
The agent explained his attitude
thus: The Welfare of the country
is based on farm prosperity, up-to-
date methods make farming prof
table, prosperous farmers can SUP
port churches more adequately.
Explore Poultry House
A poultry house was explored.
where many experiments are made
as to the best methods of poultry
care. Several score, insulated
wires were seen which terminated
in all parts of the house, to exper-
mentally determine the heat and
moisture conditions under different
arrangements. The open front
houseeds being discarded as chang
ing too suddenly heat and moisture
conditions.
Then into an incubator factory
OF this same firm, where the dele
gates saw an incubator of over s.
coo egg capacity, and another one
where nearly 1000 downy white