Judge — January 30, 1932 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE Look Forward you been AVE some of the ks about our recent past? (Per haps the best of them is Frederick L. Allen's study of the ninetes chuckling over numerous 1 twenties entitled “Only Yesterday.) A re- viewer of these books has said. “It is the fashion of the moment te look backward gleefully to avoid looking forward dubiously.” This is shrewd comment, s Looking forward dubiously has be- for one But the remedy lies however come much too easy, and we are sick of the ainusing; it is in the bolder and more clear-eyed vision of the future. Ee but ion notin retrospection hoinie depression is bad enough, not so bad as the spiritual depres into which we been sinking. In particular, we are in danger of unfairly reviving the nineteen-twenty pessimism about the ner ation, We had snapped out of that attitude, and for whiie had been talking hopefully of youth and the new leadership it would bestow. Now have younger the grumbling is heard once more Typical of this is the ism of the students at a western. colle made by a brilliant professor: “The only thing they seem to get excited about # game of the foothall season. intellectual interests are not apathetic, but unexeited. The pres ent crop of students iy in a mood of acceptance. They do not exert them- selves on abstract questions of poli- and is the bi heir tics economies,” freedom generation of youth that has no special intellectual curiosity or spirit of revolt in them is the really ‘lost rather than that genera- tion that was prematurely diyillu- siened by the war.” Well. we ourselves have been look ing over a wd many young people, in and out of the Incident- ally, we noted that last fall) football nes Were colleges f less importance te un than he fe aduates ever are convinced that youth is: thinkin more hter, These ilizations arc only the reactions dult mind under the spell of ing gh Wearied by are ind str: a pre ness. our blundering, we uneon- sciously playing the old trick of the overwrought parent—taking it out on the youngsters. If bad. education misdirected world own business is ind the awry. it is srown-up doing We have spoiled a lot of thin probably we have spoiled asa yin dividual children as our ancestors did. But vou can't spoil a whole genera- tion, because ay it takes care of itself. t whole 2S D The truer picture is that drawn by Walter Lippmann: "There is a new generation at the threshold of au- thority, the generation which survived the War and the post-war era, and they have no emotional commitments to that past. They are tired of the old dull calenlating faces. They are tired of stuffed shirts, They are tired of the fawning and the flattery, of the evasiveness and the straddling, of the soft and the fat and the timor ous, of the shoddy optimists. the ignobly self-indulgent. the greedy and 4 who battencd upon the which the intla- the parvenu distortion of values tion produced.” Optimism it is, but not a sheddy optimism, to remember that the world has been in muddles like thiy before, and has come through them trium- phantly. And it has come through, not 13 by any mystic Jum” or tuen of the but because a fresh and vigorous new do for And swing of the pendu regiment of youth has ebar, ward, crying “Wrong! wrong! we will set it right.” So it is today and se it will be to- morrow, What Price Statesmen? I" ML tures limits for campaign expendi tre set inca bill which Sen ator Nye has introduced in Congress, f his commission's investi gation of what happened at the last election. asa result Here's the 1982 seale of prices: rothe nomination of a $250,000 President. For the election of a President and a View President, 900,000, For the do cleetion of a Senator, Vor the declection of a Representative, $10,000 Somehow it doesn’t seem worth it. Slogans Are Boomerangs Ty sloganeers are at it ay in A contest has evolved one for the Democrats: Tec! Haw! We're coming back Those who picket that one forgot that yeu never can count on what a jackass may do. The have invented but it would be unkind te quote them. Somebody showed us the other day a gold pice Cimitation, of course) that was passed out at the Republican conv 19) On one side it said, “This is good for four more years of pros perity.” Republicans new slogans, t RJ,