Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1914 — Rising Generation. [ARTICLE]

Rising Generation.

For one, I like to believe that the young people of the coming genera* ’ tion are not less able or less earnest, not less willing or less devoted, than those of dur own young days. Those men in buckram whom we boast of having fought, were they indeed so much more formidable than the giants In the path of the youth of today? Were we never “cowards on instinct,” pluming ourselves on our “discretion?” I feel that we, the talking generation, might suffer in comparison with the youth of today, did not our memories so often play us false. Certainly not all of us have achieved even honesty and courtesy and common human kindness. Did we all once have , learning and wit and zeal? Where are our zeal and wit and learning now? Are our sons and daughters so ■ much our inferiors? No, by my halldom! And we know it! —Fannie H. Eckstorm, in the Atlantic.