Evening star., 1934-01-01
WALLACE DEGREES
YOUTHS SMUCNESS
AND SPORT RACKET
Secretary Predicts Depres.
sion Will Produce Worth
while Student Movement.
NEW PARTY LINES SEEN
INCREASING INTEREST
National Politics Conference o.
poses War, R. o. T. c., Fascism
and Race Discrimination.

American youth was called SNUG and
self-satisf1ed and college foot ball de-
scrloeo as racket" by Secretary of
Agriculture Wallace in an address yes.
terday before the National Conference
on Students in Politics.
He also said he doubted there was
anything so extraordinarily worth
while IN extra curricular activities.
"As a matter Of fact" he continued
many OF US are beginning to wonder if
the colleges themselves are as vital as
they should be in furnishing the leader
ship to enable the youth Of today to
grapple in an adventurous way with the
realities OF the coming day"
He said American college life has ex-
pressed its vitality in such rackets as
organized foot ball, or college activities
Of sort which remain essentially the
same from generation to generation. -
Ihere Is more to college life than talk
ing about foot ball scores and college
dances. he declared.
America has never had a youth move
ment worthy OF the name. Secretary
Wallace asserted, but predicted the de-
preston would give rise to one. He
said his reading about foreign youth
movements led him TO believe that
there is something altogether too SNUG,
complacent and self-satisfled about the
youth Of the United States"
Must Be Vital.
"A true youth movement" he said
must be a new vital, adventurous ap-
proach TO the potentialities Of a coming
| age. There has never been anything OF
this sort In the United States because
hitherto our youth have seen fit to dis
agree with their elders only on super
fatalities
The depression of the past three
years should create a genuine youth
movement. Hundreds Of thousands of
boys and girls who thought they we're
going to slide through college on father S
money now know that either they will
have to work their way through college
| or they can't go at all. Thousands of
students who have recently graduated
can't get jobs.
"Of necessity, therefore. hundreds OF
thousands of young people are asking
the question, Why should this great
grief have come 70 US? What has sud-
denly gone wrong with civilization?
What can We do TO fx it up?'"
The speaker predicted a great in
crease Of interest IN politics by youth
when the party system ultimately re-
solves itself into a liberal and a con-
servative party rather than each party
containing mixture Of the two ele-
ments
Because it was required in order to
obtain the use of the Chamber of Com
merce auditorium to promise not to take
any definite stand, no resolutions were
adopted by the conference. It's Executive
Committee. however, got around this
| difficulty by drawing up what it thought
to be the sense" of the meeting.
Greetings From President
This expression opposed war the Re-
serve Officers Training Corps, naval
and military expenditures, Fasctsm and
| race discrimination. ALLEGATION to edu-
| cation of Federal funds also was ad-
vocated.
Former Gov. William E. Sweet Of
Colorado delivered to the conference
greetings from President Roosevelt. He
said the President understands the help
youth can give in public affairs.
Prof. Reinhold Niebuhr Of Union
Theological Seminary said in an ad-
dress that "Fascism is the delirium be-
fore the death of civilization"
Morris Raphael Cohen, professor OF
philosophy in the City College OF New
York, also spoke. His subject was
students and the Good Life"
The conference adjourned after yes
terday's sessions. The first meeting
was Friday night.