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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1926.

THE MODERN YOUTH.

WIDOW OF BISHOP MAKES DEFENCE.

A defence of modern youth by a woman of 10 Mrs. Creighton, widow of a former Bishop of Lon- don, was a striking feature of the Church Congress Southport,

Older, people, she said, did not realise what a dificult time this was for youth, with disillusion- ment.in the air.

They must not bellove they had a claim on the gratitude of the young, who asked, "Why should I owe you gratitude? You brought me into the world for your own pleasure; I did not ask to come,"

Mrs. Creighton said that in the past children were looked upon as the property of their parents, and especially their fathers, and as ex- isting for the good of their parents.

All that was now. changed.. The modern depot in the family was the child, not the father. Parents were supposed to oxist for the good of their children, not children for the good of their parents.

The war had precipitated the change. Men who had faced re- sponsibility on the battlefield could not be expected to sumit to parental rule."..

The New Family Life.

Whatever the elders might think about it, the young at present meant to be independent and it was clear that the whole character of the relationship between old and young was changing.

How were parents to meet this? Parents, whether father or mo- ther, should have an individual life of their own. They should not, as they often gloried in doing, live for their children.

No. form of selfishness was ́ so insidious as family selfishness. The devision of parents, especially, perhaps, of mothers, could be mere selfishness.

It was often asserted that the attitude of the young at present. and especially since the war. amounted to a revolution, that the individual parent was powericas to resist the tendency of the age. Re- volt was in the air. The young were determined to go their own way. to defy authority. They should not try to shut their eyes to the greatness of the change which was taking place. To resist it would be futile. They had to seek the good in it, to discover how the evil was to be avoided; and work with the good...

Why Be Grateful?

The elders were first in the fleld, and they must hand on what they learnt, to the next generation. But the mistake was to hand it on as the final truth..

The advantage of being the first In the field would be lost by the lenders if they tried to make too much of it. They might believe that they had nelaim on the grati- tude of the young, but

there was really no answer to the question, sometimes consci- ously, sometimes, unconsciously, put by the young: "Why should I owe you gratitude? You brought me into the world for your own pleasure. I did not ask to come."

Gratitude should never be de- manded or expected. It was a gracious gift.

At present there was a tendency. to fuss much too much about the young. They were treated and spoken of as if they were a caste, even if they were not treated as untouchables.

Youth as A Castle.""

"We isolate them. We plan separate organisations of all kinda for them, and we grieve when they refuse to fit into the organisations which we created. We watch and notice and criticise, but, although we may persuado-ourselves-to-the- contrary, that does not mean that we understand. We generalise from our imperfect observation, and so the young, like the working classes, or our domestics, or those we speak of as the poor' really, become a caste in our thinking.

"Perhaps we, elders, when we look back with regret to the cul-

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Real tear gas was used during fashion, or, rather, revived an old the mimic battle on the hills south one, by taking to wearing a Shet-

tured leisure, to the comfortable any real call, aa quick and ready prosperity, to the wall ordered as was the response in those first homes of Victorian days, do not days of the war. sufficiently realise what a difficult "What they need is the inspir-land. shawl, several of which she of Bagshot. When a battery com time this is being for the younging call; the leader who will show has bought since she went North mander indicated that his guns

"There is disillusionment in the them, the great cause. We nced Her Majesty used to don them

aside.

air.

Everything is being ques-prophets, and there seems to be some years ago, but then pat them were firing tear gas shells an um- tioned. We see the immense need no word from the Lord.

pire with the enemy was notified The great thing about Shotland "We elders must give what shawls is that no two of them are and he emptied a conister of gas leadership wo can; not so much by alike, so that one cannot have the

for hard, steady work, and some of the young ask,.. Why should I work and others, What is the good of any work? What purpose is there in life at all?' and they go on to drown thought in a feverish rush after pleasure which leaves

them still unsutlaşd

"Yet there are plenty of signs of their capacity for response to

trying to point out special work to dissatisfaction of getting a beauti-at the place indicated. The gas be done, or the need for hard work, ful pattern only to and one's pet was not sufficent to cause Injury, as by the courage with which we enemy wearing a similar, things bag

do our own work, by the way in It is said, but never been proved, but men who hesitated to fix their which we regard it, by our joy In so far as one knows, that a couple respirators Immediately found it

It, by our constant effort to press of pounds of the yarn used will forward?"

stretch to a distance of 30 miles! impossible to restrain their tears.

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