New Britain herald., 1927-01-27
CHAMPIONS YOUTH
 IN ITS REVOLUTION
'. N. (. X. Secretary Also Hits
 at Proselyti1g in Orient
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 Bristol. Jan. 27-A defense of modern young people was made last evening by Clarence H. Barnes, gen. eral secretary of the New Britain Y. M. C. A., in an address on "The Birth of the Gods" at a district young peoples meeting in this city.
 MT. Barnes also took fling at change the religion of older races, rather than leave them to their own conception of God.
 His address in part follows:
 "The Birth of the Gods"
 Flaming youth and its revolt are phrases made familiar by news papers, magazines and books which seek to startle an adult world into reading about the exploits of their offspring. The terms applied to youth are inventions of their elders. Folks who have lost their youth but not their imagination, magnify pet ting parties into place of much greater importance than the affairs hold in the thinking of the partici-
 
 world Is bound for the bow-wows. This news Is probably surprising to those who are intimately concerned with tho retrogade process. For them life Is exceedingly good in their own world and rather dull as reflected in the life of the censorious.
 That, of course, is an extreme statement on both sides of the ques- tion. Not every adult is out of sympathy with the ways of the younger. nor is the present genera ton entirely blind to it's own faults.
 There are plenty of people who remember their own youth in the days of their disgression. Such per sons Erant youth share In the priv 1lege of error. assumed by the older generation. Until a perfect day presents itself, mistakes will mark the progress of all people be they young or old.
 When the flapper appeared, bob bing her hair and shortening her skirts she was called immodest be- cause she violated a convention that custom, by its own authority, had made right. Later, when her elder sisters stopped talking about immodesty and adopted for them selves the modern modes, new con- vention made locks and scanty skirts 1 "right". That's the way the world | always manages to save its face when social customs are changed.
 America follows a similar ritual In political life. Not so many years ago the socialist howled on soap boxes for women suffrage and other changes. After the war intervened tho orthodox policies of the socia- lists. Whereas these principles were wrong when they were held by the radicals, they became right" when adopted by the conservatives.
 Changes in Religion
 "So also in religion like process is constantly taking place. The God of our fathers has altered His ap- pearance just as the grandfather's God differed from that of his sons. Moses God and Jesus God were changed by the centuries which in- tervened between these two leaders.
 Playing the flapper Is 50 com mon that some people have under taken to defend her and interpreted her willingness to defy conventions in dress, as an indication that she was ready to revise her thinking about important matters of life If ,he found that they needed q new That seems more im- portant than whether girls wear their hair and dresses long or short.
 The usual attack against youth Is directed against their morals. Of course dress doesn't have any rela- with morals. One only needs to study dress customs of peoples to find out that scantily clad folks of hot countries are quite as moral aS Is the Esquimo dressed in fur twenty-four hours a day. A little background Of facts helps to set us thinking straight. The manner of wearing clothes has some effect on morals. but the quantity of garments has no bearing on the question. A woman might easily be more in- modest dressed in the fashion of the Iay nineties than is her granddaugh- ter in one piece bathing suit. It
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