Under this spicy title Colonel Willson has seized the opportunity to lambest and attack all the things to which he objects, from closed cars, jazz music and modern painting to over-population, Now it seems quite evident that indignation over some at these subjects cannot be laid at the doors of the "present generation." The vigorous, if opinionated, author has opened himself to some criticism in not defining the age limits of "youth" more carefully. Perhaps, after all, he really regards youth as a state of mind, even though he does not so state. He writes of the "tyro of thirty-five" in his foreword, and then uses the word "youth" to mean anything from a schoolboy to à motorist of any age who prefers riding in closed cars to "bowling along in an open car at twenty or even thirty miles an hour," He characterizes the deficiency in character and reverence as the most deplorable lacks of the present generationi The West examples of this deficiency are, however, not found in the chapter ostensibly taking up this subject. Por it is in this particular chapter that he has located his diatribe against the automobile.
Northeliffe's Young Men The baleful influence of irresponsible youth is most dangerous in journalism, says the author. Ho tries to explain adult readers—"How certain popular publications can continue to-be read by rational adults is a peychologies] mystery." Having thus, as it were, exanersted the adults, the suther attributes the youth moyement in British journalism to Aifsed Harmsworth's first adventure in ats. us proide et, a|Hampstead ju the early nineties.
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Of moderation, of put el sell; cultivation right up sympathy with the crowd, growing up up, he was instantly dis-tu short, of summits, a perpetual
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