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. .JN A AMERICAS HOPE The events of the past year have been important ones to the young men of our country. They lead to a future which no one can at this moment predict. Yet what- ever turn the events may take will no doubt have a very decided influence upon the character and lives of our young men. Today we see the nations of the world in a mad race, one against the other, to see who can build the most and the worst instruments of death to be used in the war which all fear and yet which none apparently wish to avoid. If the last war, as we are told, left the United States in such a bad economic state that we are unable to employ our idle millicns, cr put our factories and farms to full use, or pay, or col- lect, our debts, dollar for dollar, then what will the next war bring? We are told that there are enough factories and farms with enough equipment and machines already installed which, if put to full use, could clothe, house, and feed every American adequately. '1'he.e farms and factories could do all this without employ- mg the workers beyond a few hours a day. Yet we are inventing more machines and equipment which will turn out more materials and use less labor. And we can- not put the men we now have to work. We cannot distribute, or make it possible for our people to purchase, the goods we now can produce. What is the answer? Rome undcr the Caesars was rich and powerful. Under the influence of these rich- es and power its people became weak, corrupt, and pleasure loving. Rome decayed and ceased to be a factor for good in the world. America today has most of the gold of the world and more is pouring in every day. Its people are being propagandized on all sides to render them weak and divided in their thoughts. The major use of ad- vertiing today over the very inrluential radio is to sell cigarettes, toilet accessories to vain people, and patent medicines to overcome physical defects due to lazy bod- ies, and too many of the programs on the air are of a slap stick comedy, or crime, nature. Each adult generation, when viewing the schools of its time, makes the same state- ment, i. e., We never had such schools when we were young. Yet many of the things the schools of today are teaching are due to the inability, or lack of desire, of its adult people to do for themselves the things they should do. We must clothe and feed the children because our economic society will not make it possible for the par- ents to do it. We must teach character because the environment of the cities is tear- ing the character of the young people and old folks to shreds. We must stress health to our young because people no longer eat plain foods and live in the open, or work physically as did our ancestors when they built up our frontier. We must teach trades and vocations and skills because it is no longer the custom for father to teach his son his skills, or for industry to train its apprentices. We must teach our young people how to live together because in our cities people. who know not each other and who have no real love for one another, must live piled one on top of the other. ,All of these problems and many more are with us today. Their correct solution lies in the future and in the hands of the young men of today. From among the young men and women must come the true leaders. It is the duty of our young men and women to train themselves to be able to recognize, and to be willing to follow, these true leaders. If they are unable, or unwilling to do so, it will become inevitable that false leaders gain control and wrong results will follow. America's fate lies in the hands of our high school graduates to do with it what- ever they will. What these false leaders fear most is a thoroughly educated, honest people. The thoroughly educated person realizes that social changes are made best when made slowly. The uneducated make changes rapidly. The first represents plan- ned progress, the other, revolution. The one appeals to the intellect and the heart, and the other to the emotions and to hatred. QQ- Z-
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