MODERN YOUTH

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 498, 21 July 1932, Page 5

MODERN YOUTH

(To the Editor)

We have heard a great deal lately about our modern youth and the general laxity of morals among them. This, of course, has been the complaint of the older generation about its vouth since the birth of time. Th* usual procedure is to wait until two or three disgraceful exhibitions in which young people are involved, scandalise the news-reading public and. then to assail youth generally. If youth to-day is inclined to be somewhat intolerant and to ignore the advice of its elders there is a reason. Modern youth has been reared in an. atmosphere of post-war chaos. Is it any wonder that they have lost faith in what is told them by the old men, who caused the war, caused the depression and plunged the world into the most hopeless mess in history? To-day youth is sceptical of tradition, and custom, especially of the churches, who cheerfully preached peace in peace-time, but who, in war time, with equal facility blessed the greatest crime of all—legalised murder in the form of war. To-day youth is analytical and searching and will not aecept ready-made doctrines or dogmas simply because they were good enough for their fathers and grandfathers.—l am, etc., ONE OF THEM.