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ROBERT LYND ASKS A QUESTION
WAS glad to read Lord Tweedsmuir's eulogy of modern youth. I have long been of the
that opinion
there is nothing the matter with modern youth apart from the young men and young women and boys and girls with whom there is some- thing the matter.
What Is
Modern Youth
gentleman,
WHEN I think of mo-
Anyway?
was like
It was
there
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A PART from such
well authenticated generalisation as "All men are mortal," I can think of no generalisation about human be- ings that I could not contradict with a good conscience.
If you say, "Young people have helter manners than they used to have," I am inclined to
ill-mannered
young
The reason why there are so many different opinions about modern youth is that people are thinking of different specimens of modern youth when they make their generalisations.
He would have concluded that Most of them, I think, were agree with you, but I liave seen One elderly brought up in the pre-cocktail modern youth was on its way to honest, fair-minded, generous, enough
was lazy, good-humoured men who said people though not only young age, goes into a bar and sees a the dogs-that it number of young men and wo- lounging, lie-a-bed, in revolt what they meant, men you could people on the roads to make men drinking side-cars and against discipline, untidy, soft- trust in difficulty. In fact, they Bronxes and talking more noisily muscled, and soaked in nicotine. seem to me to have been as fine out a strong case, if I wished, than any human being should A youth of the time once said a set of youths as ever breathed on the other side.
never the planet. But I on talk, and on the strength of this to me good-humouredly about
If you say, "The young are thought
modern of them as he expresses the opinion that myself and the friends with
youth.
more pleasure-loving than they modern youth is empty-headed, whom I most consorted: "I al- frivolous, self-indulgent and
ways think of you and your pals I doubt whether modern youth used to be," again I agree with If the decision for War or vulgar. Another elderly gentle as a lot of wall-polishers. You was ever conscious of being mo. you; but I know so many serious and self-sacrificing young people man meets a number of young know the way fellows lean up dern youth until after the war. Peace in Czecho-Slovakia were men and women who take the against the wall of a public-house
then that the gen- that I believe I could almost in the hands of the statesmen serious things of life seriously at a street-corner, and the way eralisations about modern youth persuade you that the younger without losing their sense of the wall gradually takes on a began to be flung about reckless- generation today is the most who are striving to avert
humour, and he immediately con- polish at the height of their ly. Never before had
idealistic younger generation entaclysm in Europe, prospects cludes that the present younger shoulders where they have been such an orgy of cocktails for Pence would be brighter to-generation is the most delight leaned against it. I never see and cigarettes and powder and tut the world has ever known. "Whether modern youth is day than at any time since the ful, courteous, intelligent, idealis- that polish on the wall without paint and pleasure. Never be-
WBS modern youth tic, physically and intellectually feeling that you and your pals fore crisis arose. But new and more courageous younger generation should be there-leaning against trounced by people, who had more benefited by our praise or dangerous factors of incalcul- the world has ever known.
the wall, never doing a hand's never even seen a young woman our blame, or whether it is in- able and forbidding portent | I, myself, høyer between these turn, and talking from morning drinking a cocktail. Not even fluenced by it one way or the
an article entitled "Clergyman other, I do till night."
not know. AIKI have developed, so much so that opinions.
Defends the Cocktail Girl" could know is that we shall go on stem the tide of denunciation. they, and not the dictators and
But the clergyman, of course, praising it simply to relieve our statesmen, must now be con-
minds. IF he had been an older
was right. Modern youth was sidered the most potent dangers,
тап he would no
as sound as a bell apart from a
I confess I like to hear modern L dern youth as it doubt have written to the papers number of young men and to the peace of Europe. Millions
youth praised, but I do not like existed in my own youth, I denouncing modern youth as
women who were by no means as of men have been mobilised, realise the difficulty of making generation of wall-polishers.
to hear it flattered. It seems sound as a bell. camouflaged though the pro- infallible generalisations on the I myself simply do not know
to me to be as foolish to say, Another generation of modern "All's right with modern youth" cess may be by calling it subject. I imagine I was at the what modern youth
time a sort of representative of when I was young, I enjoyed youth has come into existence “manoeuvres," and they will re-modern youth myself. Suppose, its
us it is to say "All's right with company immensely, but since then and we are paying main under armis
so long as however, a greybeard had based modern youth consisted for me it the dubious compliment of the world." All has never been there remains a single possibili- his opinion of modern youth on of hundreds of individual youths continuing to generalise about right with modern youth since all sorts of different it. We could not stop doing so the beginning of time. Much ty that their services will be what he saw of me, how hope- with
sometimes and even if we wished. There is, has
been right. lessly wrong his opinion would characteristics - heroic required, One careless or have been!
timid, humorous and solemn, something in the human mind That is as far as we can go. irresponsible net-the acciden-
obedient and rebellious, hard- that forces us to make generali- working and indolent, truthful sations about human beings even tal discharge of a rifle, un-
we know that all witting Trespass
have ended eighteen months and not so truthful, good-look- though across #
human ago. To-day it is not a war of ing and grotesque-looking tall generalisations about frontier,
covert "inault";
beings are at least partly false. and short. race against race, but of Totuli- dozena of possibilities
are tarianism against Democracy, brought to mind would set with Great Britain almost the them at each other's throats, as only bystander. it set Japanese against Russians in the Changkufeng incident.
To-day, however, the grenteșt danger is not from these armed menaces to civilisation, standing at ease with their deadly and destructive weapons of war, but from the mounting list of bor- der clashes between Czechs and
pared to afford the two sides in Sudetens. So far, happily, the
a Czecho-Slovakian civil war.) clashes have been sporadic, but Hemmed in as it is by nations they may develop from isolated who are either openly hostile or incidents to organised riots, avowedly friendly to the course, from riots to insurrection and she is espousing (Spain at least
has a lengthy coastline, and aj from insurrection to full-dress,
neutral Portugal across which civil war. International inter-
munitions and men do not flow), vention la synonymous with Czecho-Slovakia would rapidly civil war, as Spain has found to become the battlefield for a con- her sorrow, and intervention| flagration which no power on would ba forthcoming more earth could prevent from spread-j readily in Czecho-Slovakia than ing across the entire face of was the case in Spain. Had the Europe. It is a dreadful pos sibility, made more terrifying to Spanish peoples been allowed to onlookers by the impotency of settle their differences, the war statesmen and dictators to halt that has torn that hapless coun- | this-Frankonstein monster they try for over two years would themselves have created.
It is not difficult and not pleasant to foresee what would be the result of intervention in Czecho-Slovakia. The assistance) rendered to General Franco in Spain by Germany and Italy, and to the Loyalist Government by Russia would be infinitesimal compared with the assitance in- terested nations would be pre-
GRIN AND BEAR IT
☆ As for modern
youth to-day, Lord Tweeds- comes muir's tribute luckily under the category of praise, not
By Lichty of flattery. The danger of flat-
"Cadwell spends so much time browsing. In bookstores, it's the only way he can read comfortably!"
tery is that it may produce com- placency. The virtue of praise is that again and again it is an incitement to effort.
·
Modern youth certainly de serves praise because, having been flung into a more bewilder- ed and experimental age than has ever been known since Chris- tianity was introduced into Eng- land, thousands of the young have shown qualities of intellec- tual and physical courage' that would have ennobled any period in history.
I often disagree with moderir. youth-I do not, as I have said, quite know what modern youth is-but I think it deserves all the praise that Lord Tweeds- muir has lavished on it.
If only it agreed with me about politics, religion, conduct, litera- turė, music, painting and a few other matters, while retaining: that glorious Intellectual and physical courage, I could become quite enthusiastic, about