Evening star., 1932-06-12
PRINCE OF WALES TELLS
YOUTH OF OPPORTUNITIES
Heir to British Throne Gives Three
Points of Conduct to Meet Present
Depression Conditions.

Let each one Of us ask Of himself what
he Is doing, or Is prepared to do, I'd
give them that chance.
We meet in time Of national anxis
ETY., but let us also say, taking strength
from the past, that 1t is q time of ma.
tional opportunity, when the traditions
We inherit should be more than equal
to the need. Emerson wrote q good
many years ago that he found the
Englishman to be him of all men who
stands firmest in his shoes, and I am
sure that Is true of the rising genera
ton today
1t was not your fault that there was
a war. 1t Is not your fault that there
Is now world crisis. But do not con-
gratulate yourselves just because in
these things you are blameless. Better
to realize that you alone are the ones
to repair wrongs, to do those things
that have been left undone. And 1t Is
not going to be easy.
Courageous Faith Needed.
There is a danger that some people
are, so to speak, getting too used to the
present critical situation. They read
of it daily in the newspapers, find 1t all
very complicated, but feel that, some
how, sooner or later, things will all
come right again. 1t is no use waiting
for that doubtful thing-a good time
coming. We have got to fight to keep
England "a bulwark for the cause Of
men," 70 keep our great heritage in
trust for those that come after 1t has
been said that the most hopeless hour
IN national history has always been the
most hopeful, because 1t is precisely the
moment which calls forth the best and
braveSt in the soul Of our nation.
! We have before us today a world sick
with fearful doubt. weary with repeated
dlsappointments, a world of troubled
nations whose vital need is courageous
faith in each other. 1t is an era of DO
tential plenty, when confidence should
be supreme, yet We see in almost every
land widespread distress and perplexity.
The wartime generation still doubts, is
stlll seeing through a glass darkly, and
here lies youths opportunity. For you
nave 1t In your power to confront every
obstacle with boldness and originality.
with the faith which means To triumph.
and TO encourage and invigorate those
who may be older than you in years
and experience.
Friendship 10 Unemployed.
Youth cannot long remain a spectator
Of life; it will only be short time be-
fore the work of the world will be placed
on your shoulders to carry. Many tasks
wait for your help-knowledg to be
discovered, open spaces to be peopled,
natural resources to be developed, sick
ness to be conquered and wrong to b
righted. With these high quests before
you. you will realize that the mere ac-
QUESTION Of material things is not in
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national purpose. and IS as little COM
pared with the satisfaction derived from
your own effort, especially when that ef-
fort advances human welfare and hap
piness
want you to understand that we are
not just facing few months of grin
and bear it" but that we must get into
training for long period of work
hard work and effort. sustained despite
| possible disbursements. You must be
| prepared, as other have been before. to
enlist 'for the duration" without ask
ing how much may in the long run be
required of you.
You cannot hope to influence direct
ly the trend of international affairs.
but close at hand is a domestic prob
lem, vast and bafiing If looked at in
tne mass, though easier to help when
broken up into individual pieces. It
is made up Of men and women, boys
and girls. I am, as you will have
I guessed. thinking of Unemployment,
l am thinking now neither in terms of
economics nor of politics. but of each
member OF the unemployed population
as single, separate personality beset
! ey depression, laboring under a sense
OF Illustration and futility-a blank
wall in front of him which he can
neither climb over nor scramble round.
My appeal here is not to statesmen,
nor even to philanthropists, but to all
those who are in work to play the part
OF nelghbor and friend to the man cut
OF work That is the open road Of
duty and a short cut to happiness all
round. There is no central machinery
here in London that can provide a
substitute for the good neighbor.
Community Self-Help.
The enemy today is depression and
apathy. Let us attack them with two
Of our old-fashioned characteristics
| good sense and good humor believe
! there are groups of the unemployed
here and there, dead sick OF prolonged
idlenesS, who are themselves feeling
out towards ways of giving their un-
hired labor IN cooperative effort for
the help Of others in need It is I'D
to us to back such attempts with every
! possible support. Get together wherever
this burden lies heaviest, face up to
the most urgent local need and see If
the community on the spot cannot
make its own self directed contribu-
tion towards this vast problem. So far
| as Is humanity possible let us break it
up into little pieces and refuse to be
browbeaten into paralysis by its size.
I am talking, I repeat, neither on the
economic nor on the political plane.
but on the humane plane of simple
friendship in those places where the
clouds are darkest, where the pits are
closed or the furnaces damped down.
What matter If some trif1ing blunder
is committed here, or some project fails
there. The very attempt Of the COM
munity to achieve some social better
ment for the sake of the workless in
their midst will lift the general level
of hope and make easier every national
solution BY statesmen and economists
OF much that I have spoken to you
tonight we Engiishmen find 1t difficult
to put into words. But the things which
have been speaking are present In
many minds today up and down the
country. and We want the subconscious
thoughts to become concrete and to take
concrete form in action and life.
Democracy and New Age.
The world passed into new age with
the end of the great war. Never was
new age born in greater agony or in .
more difficult environment for healthy
and normal growth What we make of
it as a democracy Is of vital concern
not only to ourselves but to the whole
world
So far as my part is concerned, many
paths in life are closed to me. Much
tnat I would like to do I cannot. But
have tried to bring more closely to-
gether the people of the Empire. tne
English-speaking peoples. and to further
our interests abroad. I have had my
failures. I know; but In these years, with
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