YOUTH KNOCKS.
"Everywhere the younger generation is knocking at the door. What will they do with the power they so soon must wield? We cannot give an answer to this question, for we claim no clairvoyant gift of seeing into the futnre. But at least we know that the decisions that must be taken relate to a world far diiferent from that of the generation that is passing away. . . . We have better and quicker news of the world's affairs than we thought ppssible even ten years ago. To-day, whether we are employers or emplo'yed, manyof us have cars or motor-cycles and side-ears; and if we have not, we can command luxurious travel, whether by road or rail, for a shilling or two. The world is open to every man; the nations of the Continent are nearer neighbours than ever before; and as a resnlt onr own national life, especially that of the younger element in it, is subject to much wider oultural and intejlectual influences." ? — A writer in The Economist, * '
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 5, 21 January 1937, Page 6
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170YOUTH KNOCKS. Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 5, 21 January 1937, Page 6
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