The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-23
Youth Today
Seeks Happy
Married Lot
BY MARTHA LEE

If the older generation is con-
temptuoous of the younger, it surely
can be said that the feeling is
mutual.
The older folk have the idea that
youngsters in these days are wild,
irresponsible, immoral. That, they
sheer at the things these old people
Rugged to their hearts when they
were very young. That they defy
convention with fair that is dis
turbing, to say the least.
In return the youngsters feel that
the older generation has made a
mess out of things long enough.
They refuse to be bound in by the
trivial, petty things known to older
folk as conventional doings. They
mean to live their own lives, learn
their mistakes for themselves and
profit by them, if they have enough
sense to see just where they can.
Fad Nearly Has Died Out
They think older people have
made a mess especially of love and
sex. They think their marriages are
pretenses at happiness and that
they themselves are going to do
much better with it.
Revolts always are instigated by
such as these. And so the revolts
against conventions and discipline
usually come from the coming gen.
Grafton.
Among the latest plans they have
concocted to make marriage a surer
happiness is the ccnpanionate mar
riage. AS a fad it has pretty well
died out since its instigation two
years ago. But the idea of it, and
the purpose it was intended to full
fill, have not disappeared.
Taking an unbiased position in
the fight between the older and
younger generation there is a lot
to be said for the youngsters. They
have done lot of heavy thinking.
And some mighty keen observing.
Understand Unfairness
These frequent trips to the
divorce court, followed by a rapid
walk up the aisle with new frau
has not been especially uplifting
for them. In mary cases they have
been children of divorce themselves,
and understand the unfairness of
such situation to the children.
AS many times they are children
Of parents who have absolutely no
affection for each other. They have
been reared in loveless, unhappy
homes, where they have seen how
heavy the yoke of marriage has
weighed on the necks of their I'M
fortunate mothers and fathers.
Being young, they are idealistic.
And being ideahstic, they want to
solve the problem, if not for the
world, at least for themselves. And
so they decide they will make none
of the mistakes their fathers and
OldSters Grow Irate
The solution, to them, seems to be
love casually until one is sure it is
the real thing. And this caSualnesS
has made the oldsters too irate to
remember some very important
things.
That boys and girls are the same
the world over, generation after
generation. That in spite of all their
modernis.nS they are bound to fall
in love, sincerely and deeply, re-
CARELESS of how old fashioned it may
seem.
That when a boy and girl are in
love, they will want to marry just
like their fathers and mothers and
grandfathers and grandmothers did.
Really, if the older generation
would let the younger generation
alone things would be much better
They hammer away at the kids until
they think the only thing they can
do is stand by their revolutionary
guns. AS a matter of fact, the chill
dren merely are doing something
that has been done since the time of
Adam and Eve--looking for happi-
ness over the surest and most per-
manent route possible.