Evening star., 1935-08-25

trained brains of every business
and profession. Government to-
day requires higher and higher
standards of those who would serve
it. 1t must bring to its service
greater and greater competence.
The conditions Of public work must
be improved and protected. Mere
party membership and loyalty can
no longer be the exclusive test.
We must be loyal not merely to
persons or parties, but to the
higher conceptions Of ability and
devotion that modern government
requires.
There was day when political
sageS, or those who controlled
them, took the attitude that any,
thing new, or what they called
"new-fangled." would lead to dire
results. There is nothing ne win
those prophecies Of gloom. I read
these lines in a paper the other
day-a little poem entitled Going
to the Dogs:
My grandpa notes the porlds
tUorn cogs,
And says mere going to the dogs:
His grandddd in his house OF logs,
Swore things ,pere going to the
dogs;
His dad, among the Flemish boos,
Voped things tDere going to the
dogs;
The capeman In his queer skin
togs,
Saio things Uere going to the dogs;
But this is tD1tdt ,Dish to state
The dogs haze had an dwtul trdit.
Principles Are Sacred.
I would be lacking in any sense
of responsibility and lacking in
elementary courage If shared in
such a hopeless attitude.
I, for one, am willing to place
my trust in the youth Of America.
II they demand action as well as
preachments, should be ashamed
to chill their enthusiasm with the
dire prophecy that to change is to
destroy. I am unwilling to sneer
at the vision of youth merely be-
cause vision is sometimes mistaken.
But vision does not belong only to
the young.
There are millions Of older peo-
pie who have vision, just as there
are some younger men and women
who are ready to put weary, self
ish or greedy hand upon the clock
of progress and turn it back.
We who seek to 60 forward must
ever guard ourselves against a
danger which history teaches.
More than ever we cherish the
elective form of democratic govern
ment, but progress under it can
easily be retarded by disagreements
that relate to method and to de-
tail rather than to the broad OBJ
iectives upon which we are fgreed.
It Is as If all of us were united
in the pursuit of a common goal,
but that each and every one OF us
were marching along a separate
road of our own. If we insist on
choosing different roads, most OF
us will not reach our common des-
tination. The reason that the
forces of reaction so often defeat
the forces of progress Is that the
Tories of the world are agreed ana
united in standing still on the
same old spot, and, therefore,
never run the danger Of getting
lost on divergent trails. One might
remark in passing that one form
of standing still on the same spot
consists in agreeing to condemn
all progress and letting it 60 at
that.
Therefore, to the American
youth of all parties I submit
message Of confidence-Unite and
challenged! Rules are not neces--
sarily sacred-principles are. The
methods of the old order are not,
as some would have you believe,
above the challenge of youth.
Let us carry on the good that
the past gave us. The best OF that
good is the spirit of America.
And the spirit of America is the
spirit of inquiry, Of readjustment,
Of improvement, above all a spirit
in which youth can find the full
fillment of its ideals. It is for the
new generation to participate In
the decisions and to give strength
and spirit and continuity to our
Government and to cur national
life.