The Syracuse Journal, Volume 28, Number 27, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 31 October 1935 — Page 7

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Little Lights on LIVING ® By MARIA LEONARD , Dera M Women, University of Illinois • WMtvrn StwiHWf Union. WHAT YOUTH NEEDS MOST VFOUTH Is often maligned and some- * * times given credit for the trend of the time* by aome middle-aged peeudo phllosophers. This is avowedly unjust and untrue. After almost two decade* of close contact with both generation* young and old, 1 have come to the conviction that the older generation ha* dodged some definite and fundamental. obligations to youth along moral and spiritual lines. If the moral tone I* lowered today, and I say “if" since some people think so, I firmly believe It cannot be laid upon the shoulders of youth. Not long ago a minister In Chicago said to me, “It is surprising and distressing, isn't it, bow modern youth 9 looks on love and marriageF "No," I said, “this is not as surprising to me a* how middle age look* on love and marriage today, for the divorce* ar* coming largely from the older generation. What else could we expect from youth with such example* to follow T* Tooth learns largely by Imitation. Children learning to talk, speak correctly or otherwise, as they hear it in the home. The same is true of behavior. Because of this fact one of the deepest needs of youth today Is the need for “models more than critic*. “ A young lad who was once dropped from hi* college for gambling, made the plea for himself that he had heard hl* father from childhood speak of hl* gains from gambling with friends In dubs, race* and sports. A young undersized freshman once told me how clever her parent* were in securing half rat* fare* for her through her high school years. This as an ethical question had never even occurred to her. Her parent* wore her pattern. There is a deep need In the lives of youth today, as 1 see it, a need of more enlightened parenthood. Establishment of homes as center* where hnman life I* developed *long the highest line* physically, emotionally and intellectually ; home* where parent* are models, not masters of their children. If our silver screens would go as far lln educating our youth tor noble manhood and womanhood as they have assiduously torn down the Ideals of our youth about love, marriage and home life, there would be no need today of a crusade of decency against them. One other and greatest of all needs, which looms large as a forgotten responsibility of the older generation to the younger one. Is the need of spiritual Interpretation of the world today. Some on* has rightfully Said we are living 1n the Twentieth century scientifically, but only tn the Sixteenth century spiritually. Are we equipping youth to finely manage these scientific force* of the world, for if this power be mismanaged, civilisation's light may be extinguished. • • • YOUTH LOOKS AT MIDDLE AGE ACHARMINOyopng freshman with bobbed curly hair rat facing me aero?* my desk one morning recently. She had failed in mathematic*. “Did you ever fall In high school F I asked. "Yes, once," she answered, “but that was the teacher's fault." “Why do you think *of I inquired. "Because she was too old to teach.” came the ready response. "Too old? How old was *h*F Young seventeen looked out of the window with narrowed eyelids, and thinking a moment, came back with this remark: “If she was a day, she wm thirty-five.,» The surprise was like a cold dip to me, for L too, was above thirty-fir*. 1 drew her into conversation about her teacher, aad discovered the following. “She rarely smiled,'* said the girl, "the student* annoyed her and became afraid of her. Sb* not only refused Invitations to our parties, but ridiculed them; she was always criticising youth. This is why I am •ur® *he was too old to teach." tn my heart I agreed with this child, before me, for “age is a thing of the spirit, not years." One can never reach the heart of youth by negative critlcism alone. Praise Mid encouragement warm their hearts and make them grow. For "the way to make a man Is to think him <>ne." The process we call “growing old" does not mean withdrawal from joy and bapplneaa. Rather it is fulfillment of life's richest experiences. We all have seen men and women past the sixties who are twenty year* young, whose capacity for deep enjoyment and self-reullsation far surpasses that of inexperienced youth. Youth should be taught that life I* a progression, of which youth is not the apex. It I* wrong to tell youth their “teen time" is the happiest, for this is untrue. Adolescence is the matt carefree tlnae. but who wants to lire continuously without life's obligations? Just as the sunset brings deeper color* than the dawn, the fall trees and flowers richer shades than spring, so is this growing oid, "the best . . . yet to be, the last for which the first was made" Lives like this grow more radiant a* ths year* paw. When we cease to grow, we begin to grow old. This Is ths secret, let us keep our heart* young eten though our hair grows gray. Fir* Most Dfrattro** ■?>. A asrteua &q I* about th* mott disaitroo* thing that can happen to a business. Out of every 100 Industrial anti (xmtmirelal comwhose tag* bum, only 5T attempt to survive ai>a *0 of this number suffer greatly from a heavily reduced credit rating *r a substantial loss tn Income.—ColButs W«ekly- — Only Virji* Rod Coda, Lambermen say the only remaining *W**t c *^ ar to Unite* I

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