One of the most discussed topies throughout this country just now is that of the morals of tollage men people into the national need forlané women. It is often averred aircraft, Mr, Randolph Hearst that the young men and women who employed the best brains in the attend the universities of this coun-country through hi chain of news: papers, to defend Mitchell, declaring that the men who ought to have Leen on trial were those who try have developed a code of morals. which would not stand the light of day if compared with conditions that their fathers and mothers! eaving the ation without defence and open to such attacks as Ueseribed so persistently by articles extremely worded and illustrations: of horror.
One of the papers referred to said:—"The red-tape experts not keep newspapers from telling the truth and warning the people, they threaten, try; and even a youd Army officer for truth-telling.. "We cannot imagine war as it will be next it breaks out. knew.
In every college and univers: ity magazine in the country the subject is blatantly given far more space than one, would wish to see, and even in the recent church con: ference in San Francisco the parsons took sides upon the burning ques-ion of whether the youth of the United States were going headlong perdition, or whether the church /was failing in its duty in ignoring modern problems of the sexes as they exist in the great university contre students in various centres, with the view of securing their opinions on questionnaires submitted. In series of articles in "Liberty"—a popular weekly—magazine—the writer, in a survey of college morals, included opinions expressed by presidents of institutions throughout the country, as well as by college deans and professors and, judges and chiefs of police in college centres. While admitting that a certain degree of "looseness" exists in college life, these authorities contended that' this "is not due to increased viciousness on the part of the students, but rather that it is in keeping with the life of the new generation." This wa: the views expressed in heated discussion recently church conference at San Francisco: it was declared that the church has failed to recognize that the youth of to-day are growing up among, conditions entirely different from those of 60 years ago, and the divine defending the young people and their ideas aot morals made out fan exceedingly strong case for them.
All the same, there is an underlying belief that most of the college men and maidens are little short of rapscallions. They do publicly those things which shock their elders. They have ne shame. Most of them drink. Nearly all of them "pet" shamelessly, And so on. But the! writer in "Liberty," while chief reporting the opinions of those men and women who have most to do with the colleges in this country and offering Jittle comment of her own, seems to make out that, morally, among the youth of this country, there is no perceptible change in attitude, but that socially there is courageous disregard for -public opinion. In short, students appear' to be infinitely less moral than they really are, and they seem to glory in appearing to be so. One student, however, wrote:—"I suppose, if we were to describe conditions as they actually are (and I have visited most of the Big Ten colleges) the older generation would throw up their hands in horror. But, strange to say, we are not worrying parti@Mlarly' about our ability to carry on' in the fature.
'This seems to hit the nail on the head. December rarely remember 'May. This was pointed out by. another student, who rounded out' his opinion in this way:—"Possibly. the younger generation, and the college student in particular, is headed towards Hell's fire' and brimstone. But you will find the mass are earnestly striving to settle the eternal and ever-present question of the why and how and wherefore of life better than their parents did. You must admit that they (the parents) "have not made a howling. Success of it. Why not let the next fellow try out his ideas, and give him a boost instead of a kick? The idea may work, and, even if it doesn't, he is the one that is going to Hell, not you."
Taken all in all, it is likely that the youth of to-day will compare favourably with the youth of any. others time in human history, thought 1t may appear to be other-
Toxyo, July 20—An aeroplane belonging to the Tokorozawa A\ tion Corps, while flying near Tokorozawa yesterday fell on the ground probably owing "to some engine trouble, with the consequence that Lieutenant Itoh, who piloted the machine, was killed on the spot, while Captain Hata, who was on the machine, was injured very seriously.—Teho.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.