Youth in the World's News

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22320, 18 January 1936, Page 4 (Supplement)

Youth in the World's News

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WITHOUT doubt this is the most wonderful era of achievement the world has ever known so far as the exploits of youth are concerned! Almost every day there is some mention of youth in the world s news —some record of daring escapade or adventure, some act of heroism, or it may be just some item of]interest in connection with one or other of the world's lloyal children. Within the past week or two there have been paragraphs in the press concerning young folk whose doings have won for them the attention of a public that extends far beyond the boundaries of their own country. First and toremost comes the amazing achievement of Patricia Bourne, a young girl, twenty-two years old, who thrilled London a few weeks ago with her team of performing lions at Olympia Circus. Surely the ancient slander of women jumping on chairs when they see a mouse will receive its death-blow now that our girls are taking on lion-tam-ing as a profession! Very smart and trim looks this intrepid young Patricia in a photograph, which shows her putting her team of jungle monsters through their paces. Another news item concerns a New Zealand girl, also in her early twenties» Lieutenant Mavis McKenzie, of the Salvation Army, who has decided upon a life of devotion and service as medical missionary in one of the Army's outposts in China, She is now in Sydney

studying medicine at the Sydney University, having already completed a three years' nursing course. Miss McKenzie visited China recently, and was so shocked at the suffering and sickness she saw there that she decided to devote her life to service for humanity. As organiser of the transport arrangements for the recent election in England, an Irish girl, Miss Paddy Naismith, aged 24, has won conspicuous success. She was responsible for the marshalling of armies of cars and aeroplanes all over England, and high tributes have been paid to her splendid organisation for the transport of electors to the many hundreds of polling stations. And what about the boys? They, too, have won their share of space in the world's news. One of the most interesting paragraphs concerned two young Czecho-Slovakian motor-cyclists, who have been travelling all over the world for the past eleven years, and have just arrived in Capetown. They have completed a trip right through the heart of the Dark Continent, and have crossed five ffreat deserts in their epic journey through Africa. They carried no firearms, and consider this fact was responsible for their safe pass" ing through the country of wild tribesmen, who would have thought nothing of killing the youths for the sake of securing their weapons, which are hard to obtain and prized by the natives.

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It takes courage of no mean order to embark on a tour such as this, and in the course of their wanderings the travellers have journeyed through Australia, India, Europe, much of Asia and Africa and have taken over 20,000 photographs. They expect to continue their travels for two or three years more, and then returfn to Prague. News of a very different type is that of one of the world's most gifted children, young Yehudi Menuhin, who visited Auckland in the course of his great concert tour last year. Yehadi, who is not yet 19, gave 100 concerts, playing in 63 cities and 13 countries, and now, at the very pinnacle of his fame, he is going into retirement for two years. He intends to study the great masters, and to develop still further his genius in the seclusion of the retreat his father has planned for him This is a magnificent estate of 100 acres in the mountains not far from San Francisco. Yehudi—or his father! —intends that bis privacy shall be com* plete, and to that end has arranged for a three-mile private road of approach, and a Chinese wall to be built all round the property, so that lionhunters will have little chance of coming face to face with their qiiarry. The xoung violinist has recently toured the Continent, and was expected to make his final appearance before his retirement this week, with his sister. Hephzibah, at the Queen's Hall, London.