Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1925-12-25
ONE IDAHO CROP THAT is TOO
MUCH DISCREDITED

Idaho's Christmas stocking thi
year will not held even all the fig
ures BY the time all are in foi
agriculture, livestock, dairying, min
ing, timberins, ETC., it will be pretty
well "statisticked. 1t all makes fol
merrier Christmas, for the figures
are symbols of year of greater
prosperity and prophetic of the flu
ture.
There are some other things that
ought to go in, though. For in
stance, Idaho's crop of young folks
is also lusty one, a very important
one. and a too much discredited one.
At any rate, we hear little about it
as favorable as the quality of the
output justifies. But
We do hear that our young people
are hopelessly superficial, shallow
fighty, lacking in earnestness of
purpose, without serious objectives-
given over to friyolity, jazz joyrid-
ing and gleeful law violations.
That's an inexcusable libel
The writer has taken some pains
to observe the young folks. They
have been seen at work and at play,
in our university, our technical in
stitute, our normal schools, our pub
lie an dprivate schools. in the homes
and on the streets and, if you please,
in the Jazz parlors. And we take
most serious issue with the elders
who level that indictment against
them.
Our belief is that there never was
time when the young people of |
Idaho were more earnestly engaged
in preparing themselves for useful
lives, and that belief talks into con-
sideration all the jazz and every
other element that is utilized as the
basis of charges against their sub
stantiality, their motives and their
morals.
II 1t is true that our young folks
are lacking in moral fibre because
they have, quite naturally, accommo-
dated their lives to present day CON
ditions, 1t must also be true that our
banking institutions are in danger
because the banker occasionally
throws off the cares of business. and
that our educational institutions are
going into early decay because dig
nified professors become enthused
over a football game.
Young people of Idaho today are
effervescent; so are the elders. They
are at times frivolous; SO are the
grown ups. They are often indis-
crete, so are their parents. Most of
those who are damning these juv-
eniles ought to first look themselves
over carefully and determine if thew
are flawless examplars.
The truth is that in some respects
the young people set the better ex-
ampl q
The Liberty Magazine last week
reproduced an Interpretation from
very ancient inscription-2SOO years F"
B. c. 1t demoaned the conduct of :
The youth of those days. An article !,
reprinted from newspaper of the :
evolutionary period related that the ?
luture of the country was all the =
more clouded because of the way the
BOYS and girls We're carrying on. The
'ame thing has been heard in all :"
'ges-yet these boys and girls grew !.
Up into splendid types of citizenship, :
Nth percentage OF exceptions so I,
mall as to be negligible. =
The boys and girls of today will -
ecome as goo dcitizens as those in -
barge perhaps better - -
For the large part innocent in =,
heir amusements, though apparent =
holder just as grandma is bold to y
he extent of bobbed hair, powder ~
nd rouge, and honest in their aims "'
hese young people of Idaho are en-
tied to more prideful consideration ~
han they are getting and to more y
enerous encouragement. ~
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