The Washington times., 1933-06-29

GILBERT sE1DEs in love with young girl Ii woman
is forty-fve the sgracefu fact is mentioned
Apparently such young country that even the
characters in our fiction refuse to grow up.
Never-Never Land
This Peterpanc interest battling Really young people
are enormously interested in their elders their elders
find out when they try from the enthuslasms
Of the young There is middle age OF youthfulness
(around SIXTEEN pehaps when the young want to be left
alone and need sympathy less But at twenty most human
beings interest themselves in the thoughts and feelings
Of grownup and Only where are they to be
found?
The important men and women in the movies are age
less the characters in comic strpsand not nearly as
complex We allow ourselves only the most limited range
beauty after five years of appearing to be about
movie star shot through gauze that the
signs of age appear Naturally, emotion more
serious than those of green girl can be permitted
Radio for Babies
Our night entertainment from the radio and here,
with the kiddies Of nineteen asleep might expect
thing adult Wet get oo when the sponsors have missed
quarter hour event. connected with the RADIO
and be put the air The radio is frankly not
bad the movies Only after devotng itself to
making and remaking bad puns it cannot assert that it
really understands the hearts of mature human beings
About five years ago definite revolt against this per-
petual babyhood of the American arts took place when
people began reject fiction and to favor biography and
history. But the young have caught Biographies and
history being treated in the terms of ad
ventures don It wonder that toward the end of his life
Arnold Bennett began read the essays of Macaulay.
Dull they may be- but they were written for men In long
pants.
HoIiday-Maker
have been resorts from New Jersey to Colo
RADIO and yet discovered statue to the who
invented the two weeks vacation perhaps he
began by nventng the oneweek holiday and flushed with
success worked it up into the two weeks after tme)
For that natter what English lord thought out the
passngy brilliant idea of early closing Saturdays?
These benefactor of humanity ought not to be lost IN
oblivion.
In the days when experts got contracts friend OF mine
wrote in clause giving him two months vacation-and he
is still getting them He u.s. think, forerunner of great
significance, for it is obvious that tenmonh year Is as
reasonable as fve-day week six-hour day fancy
Of plant and structures will protest and muter
angry about their overhead but they did the thing
when the sixteen and the twelvehour day attacked
! Leave 1t to Science
It isn't suppose practical for the entire working
ation Of the world to knock off work during July and
August; but half of it could 60 to beache mountains or
the public libraries in June and July; the other half IN
August and September It ought be the ultimate aim OF
scientists and engineers to create not only machinery
but systems production and distribution under which we
could all work three four months year. But II they are
ambitious enough let them set the tenmonth year as
their immediate objective And incidentally give us some
thing to do during those ten months