Life — March 19, 1925 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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LiFe's Question Contest Announcing the Winning Answer to Question Number Four: “What About the Younger Generation?” OR the first time since this Contest started, there scems to be a complete unanimity of opinion among Lire’s readers on one question. “What About the Younger Generation?” has provo a blissard of answers, almost all of which are violent in defense of modern youth, Juvenile Dementia HE trouble with the yo tion is that it is younger: Ie does not have rheumatism. It docs not under- stand rheumatism in others, It does not puff when it climbs stairs and tains. It does not wear a wig or a toupee. When it paints, it paints for the fun of it, When it drinks, it drinks for the fun of it, not because it has to. It exercises, it plays, it goes t0 it giver’a pany, it smokes, it swears, it gambles—all for the fun of not because it has to. spends money for the fun of it, ‘ause it has to, It gets money from the older generation and gives no. money back. It gets advice from the older generation and gives back advice in re- turn. It is irresponsible and happy. It has dt. yet become, the. older gencra- tion and begun to scold about the younger generation. But it will al- ways has. ger gencra moun, not because it has to. a party, It even not be 367 West 113th Si York City. Standing Definition HIE Younger Generation, of any era, is that sanguine portion of the Body Politic which, confronted with the frail- ties of its elders, gallantly tries to live them down, or shoulders arms and dies for them, as occasion may demand. V. M. Tillotson, 1003 Corona St., Denver, Colorado. The Sanity of Laughter ELL, what about it? There's glamour and gold about it. It is clad in the morning—and damned little of that. But it is WE a generation ago—if we had only had the initiative and the nerve! We were too slow, too Victorian—flat tires. We Tue Prize oF $50.00 1s AWARDED TO: George Grimes World-Herald, Omaha, Nebraska For the following answer: HE younger generation is at once the problem and_ the promise, the despair and the hope of cach generation. It was so yesterday, it is so to-day, it will be so to-morrow. To-day's younger generation has acquired the largest heritage of sin, of knowledge, of freedom, of responsibility, of all time so it is impressing its elder gen- cration as more irrevocably hope- less of redemption, The younger generation, however, is handling its heritage with a blithe courage that should inspire us with con- fidence, rather than with distrust. It is kicking down conventions that have long been a barrier to happiness; it is setting up few new ones that will handicap to- day's grandchildren. It has reached a larger degree of emancipation than any other younger generation, and so should pass on a higher accretion of the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness that the younger generation of 1775 de- cided to die for. didn't realize our chance. We were not wised to it. We were dumb. The next generation may be even specdier. We old ramshackled road-hogs have slipped our gears, missed a cog or two. The Younger Generation is just LIFE on a rampage. It realizes for the first time how young and glad it is to be alive and kicking with both feet. Forever panting and forever young! We never knew this YOUTH! Our youth was bewhiskered and solemn. We were born old. These children will be young in senility. NEXT WEEK —The winning answer to Question Number Five: “Is Democracy a Success >” will be published in the Beauty Number. And, because of them, the world will never be so old again as when we knew it. They've given Old Time a jolt— whirled it back, or spun it forward. Our watch in the night didn’t count on thedial. But I am glad I can chortle with it. I can complacently leave the next gen. eration to the sanity of its laughter. Stanhope 820 Henderson St., Sams, Columbia, S. C. Erratum younger generation is a mistake. It ought never to have been permitted, Find out who made the mis take, and have them correct it. Dr. G. H. Cresse, Bor 125, University Station, Tueson, Ariz. great Salute N the presence of the younger genera- tion, which carried through the World War, the older generation can only reverently take off its hat. William Trumbull, 853 St. Nicholas N York City. Chapter and Verse 20." camesto ‘pass, when! ‘Methis: ¢ selah was six hundred and ninety years old, that his heart was troubled. and he lifted up his voice and said 21, Woe that I have lived unto this ay wherein the younger generation for saketh the paths of righteousness; 22, For my boy Lamech, who is but five hundred and two years old, hath taken unto himself a second wife, albeit his first wife still liveth. 23. And for the remainder of his years, which were two hundred and seventy and nine, Methuselah ceased not to mourn that the younger generation heeded not the words of the elders. And it came to pass, when Lamech was six hundred years old, that his heart was troubled, and he lifted up his voice and said: 25. Woe that I have lived day wherein the younger gen- eration forgetteth its duty to posterity ; unto this comicbooks.com