THE “BRIGHT YOUNG PEOPLE.”

Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1929, Page 2

THE “BRIGHT YOUNG PEOPLE.”

“ A certain sect among us who are called ‘ the bright young people ; have caused a mikl disturbance in the country at large and an acute one in a London square by holding what was named with happy alliteration a bib and bottle party.' The popular Tress is educating us, as far as it can, in the aims and objects dl these bright young people,” writes “ W ..M.” in the Nation,” but he goes on to add that there are still a lew daily papers in Jtngland which have thought it beneath them to report the party and these young people’s doing. “Their leaders do noL know that it was held. But there are others'in which it has assumed the importance of an earthquake or a rising. On the front page of one newspaper it has been made the headstone ol the corner; another one thought that four headlines were not doing such a piece of news too proud, ti e might well be uneasy, thinking that so many ol our fellow citizens should he continually Pal like this into mistaking gnats for camels. Hut things in this world ha veil way of bringing their own compensation and corrective. The newspaper which applies the irritant on one day never fails with the counter-irritant on the next. It forgets yesterday’s comet in the arrival to-day of another one. still more portentous and alarming.”