Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-07

The "home town" paper, which comes
to thousands Of Government workers
every week, contains both instruction
and amusement.
In its columns the "exile" may renew
old acquaintance and old times; the
small paper Is the one link between him
and the place Of his birth.
Mostly these fruits of country jour-
naltsm are wee&lies, with special cor
respondence" from villages and nearby
communities occupying prominent place.
Recently. We unfolded one Of these
papers. published in a community OF
particular interest to us, and spent a
pleasant hour reading all about the
doin2s Of the home folks.
Cine Of the featured articles was an
address by DR.. Stanley Coulter, dean
emeritus of Purdue University, who
spoke before the luncheon club of the
town where this paper is published.
DR.. Coulter spoke briefly on the
trend OF modern times and the part
that individuals and organizations could
and should play In solving the prob
lens that confront this generation"
It is with pleasure that we quote, be-
cause DR.. Coulter, who perhaps is bet
ter known in the Middle West than
In the East, said "a mouthful," as
the Vernacular has it.:
DR.. Coulter paid a glowing tribute
to the youth of this generation when
he said that they were no worse and
no different from the youth of past
generations, but were only doing the
same things that their ancestors did
but using modern methods and means
in doing 1t.
He laid the ills of this age, not to
the youth, but to the adults because Of
their many evaSions of law and au-
thority and their 'standardless' method
of living.
"'Unless history fails to repeat it.
SELF said DR.. Coulter. this age of law
evasion and standardless living pref
aces a period of serious crisis for this
Nation, and 1t Is only when the adult
population becomes conscious stricken
and sets up high standards of conduct
and reflects them to the comrnuni-
remedy can be expected
Well, we'll, we'll! 1t would SEEM
then, that all the pow-wow thrown
up during the past decade about the
viciousness of modern youth was all a
Smoke screen" to throw everybody off
the track, to keep the youngsters from
Suspecting where the trouble really lay!
All the learned articles about pet
ting parties" and "necking," the dia-
tribes about TASKS and joy-rides, in
reality were on par with the outburst
of the guilty party who makes a coun-
ter accusation before the innocent VIC
tim can get in his legitimate kick!
Personally, we believe Dean Coulter is
exactly right.
X X X y
Here we have an item concerning
nine members of one family in the
same hospital.
1.-The Lem Duncan family, who live
on the Neal farm near Henryville, are
all at home again, after having been
in the Methodist Hospital at Center
town for several weeks.
1.-THE last four of the family returned
home Sunday. Mr.. and Mrs. Duncan
and their seven children were taken to
the hospital on December Is suffering
with severe cases of the flu, and the
father and mother were both in serious
conditions with pneumonia and it was
feared they could not survive; two
others also developed pneumonia. The
parents and three children left the hos
pital 10 days ago."
There one has "fiu" in wholesale lots,
What Christmas that family must