Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1918 — Reconstruction Period Will Place Heavy Demands on Youth of Today [ARTICLE]

Reconstruction Period Will Place Heavy Demands on Youth of Today

By LELAND S. PARKE,

, Sttte Cub Leader, Univenity of Arizona

A reconstruction period of stupendous proportions is ahead of us. It will place heavy demands on our youth of today. Since our entrance into the war necessity has forced us to accept modem science in many phases. Almost unbelievable progress in more than a thousand ways has been made. To hold the ground gained and to make it secure for aH time to come means that we should “speed up” and “tunfe up” our educational machinery in every possible way. The training of the young, ambitious youth, with his plastic, responsive mind, is without doubt our best'means for guaranteeing such security. The world is looking up to America today. Our ability to do big. things in a big way has been an “eye-opener’* to every nation on the globe. With America on the crest of world progress not a stone should be left unturned to keep her there for all time to come. Thanks to the foresight of our leading educators, who are bending every energy to give our boys and girls every advantage that modern science and modern thought can afford.