WHEN WAR CAME

Evening Star, Issue 19994, 11 October 1928, Page 2

WHEN WAR CAME

HOW GENERATIONS WERE SPLIT,, “ The war has divided us up into three generations, which find it very difficult to understand one another,” declared Mr A. D. Lindsay, the master of Balliol, at the prize distribution at Keswick School last July, reports an English exchange. Just as the Greeks, he said, used to ask; “ How old were you when the Persians came? ” There was the older generation, say, those over thirty, the younger one still who grew up during the war and post-war years. The last generation was growing up in an entirely different atmosphere from the others. The older people eould only try not to understand the young generation, but simply to turn their hearts to them and give them the sympathy their parents gave to them. The world was getting dried up altogether, and every part of it was going to be more and more affected by the impersonal and so far abominable forces over which the ordinary person had little control The younger generation was likely to grow up wffh little respect for the things of the older generation.