The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-12
Youth Today
/. Puts Ban on
HypocriteS
New Generation Makes Up
With Frankness for
Lack of Manners.
SEPT. II, 1884
BY ELEANOR GUM.
lines special Writer

u often the uScful citizen o. TO-
lday. and the girl who vas a prob
Hem 70 her parents and threatened
60 be a menace 20 her tribe now
has an Al rating as a good citizen,
too. Which Us as IL should be
but has not always been.
The severcst critics Of the pres
ent generation we're themselves and
not 80 very long ago young saw
ages 20 "A bad LOT" Who would come
to no good unless they mended then
ways. It's no trouble at all 70 re-
member scads OF bad boys and girls
OF former years who have turned
out 20 be remarkably fine men and
women.
II it's a lack Of good manners
about which the critic complains
and it usually is among a dozen or
so other things-What IS reasonable
in expecting the standard Of man.
ncrs 10 remain static2 Everything
else changes. Why not mannersI
Suppose, according 10 pre-war
standards. modern manners do need
a little sandpapering in spots; at
least it can not be said that they
are any worse ia private. Your
modern young person seems 10
riory IN getting of on the wrong
foot. stiIl keeping up with the pro-
cesslon and convincing every one
else that they are out Of step IN
stead.
Darling" Once Fighting Word
In a world wherein everything
changes why shouldn't the standard
OF what's good manners change
also2 Take the little matter OF
clubbing every one darling II
such a term OF endearment no
longer endears and is banded about
among casual aCquaintances, why,
then. 10 doesn't mean anything.
Think up something else to call the
current favorite persons. that's all.
Unless one meant 10 back up the
declaratiO with one Of marriage. 10
call q girl darling was once among
the fighting words. Unless you're
hopelessIy antediluvian don't believe
what you hear. that's all
The current attitude on suavlty
. certainly also has undergone a
. Change. Were not especially for II.
not any more. having had 1t
brought home TO us in gangster
films galore and in melOdramaS 10
10 end where the smooth. suave
character is the one who really
committed the crime.
We have come 10 know that well
oiled hinges make for secret golngs
on and that a little suave hand
kissing and bowling low from the
waist usually covers a multitude OF
sins. We know that suavIty can be
taken on and of like a coat, so We
use It only when conditions seem
to require IL.
Brutal. But Not Malicious
Modern young persons are not
overly gifted in play-acting-they
prefer 10 be themselves. They are
valiantly trying. sometimes clumSlly
but withal WOrthily. to squeeze the
make believe out Of life and subSti-
ute something that is at least
Z Onest.
Suavity usually is insincere, as
ell as being a frightful bore. Per-
ons are justified in eliminating
,arrot-hke axiOms and meaningless
phrases. If youth is brutally, often
hockingly, frank, 1t is at least sell
> ON malicious.
The young crowd finds itself
. launched in a world anything but
rdendly. II can not be blamed for
ortifying itself by any manner that
y iii enable it to get through life
With a minimum amount Of agony.
MauyTdom is entirely out OF date
and with II. praises be. hypocrisy.
II the young have no manners,
they at least have a very pleasant
attitude toward life. They have
practically abolished the Scarlet
Letter They do not hold indiscre-
tiOns against others forever and
DAY. They have smOthered the
Puritan and the hypocrisy that
turks III practically every man and
woman.
II the casual gossip refers to
woman today as the owner of
crimson past the young skip it as
topic Of conversation. They are not
interested or even amused. Which
certainly makes for tolerance and
less prickly path 70 tread. and
threatens TO make gossip a lost art.