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| THE YOUTH OF GERMANY.

Building Anew.

The following article is by Mr. Coningsby Dauson, the Berlin correspondent of the Daily News, an organ with Touteniz sym- pathies, and must be road in that light, but is of interest as con- tributing to an all round view of the situation.]

The youth of Germany are in revolt. They hava established an invisible system of trenches in overy school, every university.

Though they may not know it, and would perhaps disown it, thay lare banded together to withstand [that same Intolerance of auto- cracy which hurried lovers of freedom from the ends of, the earth that it might be crushed on the Western front.

These new armies, which are rowinning the old battle, have given themselves & name, They call themselves the Freie Deut- ache Jugend-the Free Youth of Germany. Their ranks are made up of girls as well as boye.

In isolated instances they are organised, but for the most part they are knights errant.

The Free Youth of Germany: range in age from mere children to university students. They are against fyranny in every |form; against meaningless con- ventions, against conscription, against war, against inherited batos, against all traditions and institutions which hamper and capacity for self-developinent. If you ask them to formulate their doctrine they grow vague. Each

happy that is what it amounts to. and they have never been happy.

VICTIMS OF THE WAR.

ono answers in torins of his or her personal idealism and reward: more, who held that it disilusionment. They want to be was rewarded. The latter must have been right, for is it not a fact that among the men most! remarkable for uprightness in those days were those who made The world of grown people has They will It is twenty years to-day since the largest fortunes? Consider proved itself cruel. the good Queen Victoria died, and the great, flourishing, typical have nothing to do with it. They the period that we know as the British businesses of to-day They will build society afresh. refuse to accept its authority. Victorian Aga" came formally Most of them were founded in

end, wates Mr. R. A.the early-Victorian period. by tell you, the youth of all countries Ito an

Scott-James.

men worthy of the statues erected has been hectered and abused; From such a distance we look to them.

to

stand-

From time immemorial, they

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back upon that dom other-world Even those who failed they are going to harness the which gave us our first impres; maintain these high

youth of every race in a Titanic sions of childhood, an age peopledards in all activities of private effort to correct the injustice of with tall frock-coated seniors for life wore careful to conceal their human affairs. whom crinolines and side-faults.

"Humanitarions at the duckling In the domestic circle stage," a cynic might call them, whiskers were a memory of yes- at least no careless word might and then add as his verdict. terday, when willowy girls were be spokon. Sins were kept for They'll grow out of that." God blushing maidena, and

"boys the company of sinners, and re-forbid that they should! Their would be boya," and middle-age spectable society ignored their was terrific in the respect that existence. Before the young lay the most hopeful sign in Central attempt to break their chains is was due to it and the odour of the choice between Paradise on sanctity it shed abroad.

the one side and Hell on

Europe. the

We

It is gone; and still the abiding other. There was no half-way of a new generosity.

They have seized on the dream memory of the admirable Queen house.

ho presided over it is that of her

It is true, it was an age of un-heads of their adults to the youth They will appeal over the goodness." Though we know precedented poverty. existing of the nations for friendship. that she was versed in European side by side with unprecedented children were Court politics, that she contribut-wealth. The suburbs were built they say. "We did not make the never enemies.** ed no small part to the making of in those days, and glum pro- the British Constitution, that she parties became good investments. We were not consulted."

war. We were the victims of it. knew when to give way and was There were more charities than immovable when sure of her had ever existed before, and there ground, yet, when all is said and done, it is her conspicuous and dominant" goodness" that makes her the human epitome of her

THE REVOLUTION EGUN.

ment. But their demands are not "Poor kids," is one's first com-

to bu dismissed so lightly.

was more occasion for them. The poor. wore still the "lower) classes." They might have re- mained so to this day, and the

The Free Youth have already commenced a revolution. It is a middle classes still be practising revolution of ideas-ideas in the the same virtues if some

main which have not became And it was an age when men pestilential fellows had not come

articulate, But these child

age.

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men who were thriving in Eng. and when Victoria came to the throne gradually disappeared, and good men took their places.

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No one can foresee to what ATTEMPTS AT ESCAPE. lengths their yearning for freed- For 20 years we have been try-om may carry them. It should ing to live it down, to escape be the business of the Allies o What a galaxy of impeccable from what seems to us to ho its show them sympathy and give persons! First the Prince-Consort hypocrisy. For 20 years wet them directions.

concentrated on the youth. For the ministering. They realise that, himself; and among politicians, have been trying to get rid There are three points in their American relief the Society of if there is ever to be peace the Brights, Cobdens, Gladstones, of 再 habit

of mind which movement which deserve to be Friends are the dispensers. At between the sons and daughters Bradlaughs; among Churchmen, put propriety before righteous-made emphatic. The first is that the present

moment 600 000 of the nations who fought, the Pusey. Newman, F. D. Maurice. ness, charities before charity, un-they are absolutely correct in children are being fed at American peace must commence in the and a hundred others; the gentle etuousness before spirituality, ap-their assertion that the children relief stations which the Friends heart, virtues of Tennyson and Mrs. pearances before realities. The of the Allies were never at war are operating, but there are at The point which cannot be | Browning were an example to spirit of that age was challenged with the children of Germany. least 400,000 more who ought to made too emphaticss that Young poets, and the dreadful aspect of in the social battles of 1900 to The second is that the Free be included. Whether they are Germany is no party to the the Martineaus, George Eliot and 1914,

Youth of Germany are fighting included depends on what funds offences of the middle-aged Oor- Ruskin inspired awe in the hearts The rise of democracy dealt it for precisely the same ideals for are forthcoming within the next many, It is just that a distinc of the young and ardent. Dickens, a heavy blow. It had cast abich the Allies fought, and are month.

tion should be made between the and even the sardonic Thackeray veneer over civililation. It had doing their fighting on German The schemes for saving the new and the old. were nothing if not moraliste, left its imprint on institutions, soil, where it will be most youth of Germany are exceeding- The new is fighting our battle Good, exemplary people, nearly and its langugage had been effective. The third is that they ly thorough. Starting with the for us. In the universities it is all of these great men and women spoken in Parliament, in the ara showing a spirit of regener- unborn child, they finish with fighting the professors who insist And around them, on all sides, pulpit, and on the Bench. Its ation which, if it is encouraged, the student at the university on toaching reactionary doc- hundreds of lesser oracles, of authority was now in question, will become the national spirit By far the larger part of the trines. The students. being virtue, personages whose con-its solemnity ridiculed, its pre-of to-morrow.

funds for the student feeding are spicuous good works earned them tensions exposed; it was castigat- For the safety of the world, if contributed by Great Britain. the statues which perpetuate theired by every novelist, dramatist for no less selfish reason, their The thirst for learning since memory in the public places of and freelance thinker who re-movement deserves the Allies, the close of the war has become London to-day--the men who membered with bitterness the consideration.

abnormal.. Students attending tho completed the abolition of the discipline of bis childhood.

A part of their ideal has already universities are one-third in them for our friends. Not to slave trade. the men who founded

Finally came the war, and found expression in the new Gor. excess of the capacity. They are desire it would be a crime un- Sunday schools, the man who what seemed to be the death-blow man Constitution, which was young men and women drawn pardonable. To destroy a bad urged the rights of small nation to Victorianism. But its spirit passed two months after the from every class and welded world was necessary, but to help alities (internationalism was not was strong and deeply engrained. signing of the Peace Treaty. The together by an almost painful build a good one is braver. then invented) the pioneers of I doubt if it is dead yet. It is too clause is No. 148, and reads: enthusiasm for democracy. missionary enterprise. They live¦ useful-an-adjunct of privilege to,Our schools must educate our The sacrifices which they make A few drops of this wonderful Essence sprinkled on the in the memories of those who be allowed easily to die, Handkerchief and inhaled, Cures Colds, Banishes Headaches, still carry on and collect funde for the institutions they founded, Hay Fever, etc..

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