The Winslow mail., 1925-10-13
THE YOUNG PEOPLE
sGVXIE WILL have to admit that,

people are more reckless today
than they were in the days of our
grandfathers. There are reasons
for this" DR.. Deets Pickett, Wash
-ington, D. c., told the ministers at
Glarksburg, West Virginia, last
week
DR.. Deets Picket is research sec
retary of the Board Of Temper
sance, Prohibition and Public Nor
ais. He has been making survey
and study of modern literature,
plays and theatres. DR.. Pickett
has also been studying boxing and
prizefighting as it effects the NOR
ale of the American youth.
81 come tonight with defense
and a challenge said DR.. Pickett.
"a defense because 1 am a young
man and the ways of youth today
seem to be arousing the country.
A challenge because 1 am young
man and there are some things in
this country that will never be bet
ter until young people make them
better.
"Are young people today worse
than they were when our grand
fathers and grandmothers were
causing their parents sleepless
nights? Perhaps they are. There
are reasons for this. In the first
place they have at their command
greater wealth than the world ever
knew before and wealth express
ing itself in terms of comfort and
luxury as well as of power, null
fiplies the influence of every evil
as we'll as every good deed. Our
.grandfathers were limited by the
trotting range of 'old Dobbin hitch
led to the farm buggy. The young
man of today is limited only by the
range of a high-powered automo-
bile. The radio brings vaudeville
and Jazz into his home; his bulg-
ing pocket book gives him the
price of favors that may be bought.
There is also the element of an
Increased leisure. Young as I am,
I can remember the time when the
workmen toiled from six to six
Now there are as many hours of
play as there are of work. Pub
lic golf links and tennis courts and
swimming pools offer new oppor-
1tunities for play but, nevertheless,
time hangs heavy on the hands of
millions of young people who long
for excitement, adventure, expert
renee. There is also the considera-
dion that our parents are more care
less than they used to be. Former
ly father and mother were chiefly
concerned with rearing their chill
adren and they made that supreme
duty in life the subject of thought
and prayer. Today father is play
ing golf and mother is at the beau
sty parlor having her hair waved.
Parents are too busy with their
Dwn amusements to pay much at
stention to their children.
tsOf course under these circum-
stances, youth is Furnishing it's own
reputation. But let us not forget
that never before in the nations
history has youthful idealism been
SO vigorous. The conferences of
church young people, the institutes
where they put in long hours of
Z study of methods by which they
can help their fellow men, these
prove that the heart of youth today
is as warm and as true as it ever
was.
'.But 1 want you to get this
thought; even in their misbehavior
young people today are more sin
med against than SHINING. They
are being exploited for profit or as
a means of over turning the tradi-
tions and customs of the country
The erotic dances are evolved by
bald-headed dancing masters. The
erotic plays are written and pro-
duced by men of maturity; salaci-
GUS novels and magazines. are not
the product of youth even though
they are produced for youth.
'sIn the first place we want to
note the existence of a small but
determined group composed mostly
OF the product of recent immigra-
ton which is actively hostile against
the social organization and historic
customs of America. They believe
that 'Puritanism' must be destroy
ed before we can have the beauti-
full America of which they dream
They sneer at religion. Decency
is hypocricy; mercy is weakness;
justice-there is no such thing.