ONE OF YOUTH'S PRIVILEGES
"Youth may tliink the generation which is passing," states the Western Morning News, "has made rather a mess of things and left them an indifferent legaey. One of the privileges of youth is to think meanlv of its immediate predecessors and despise their aehievements. If ever there were exeuse for such a eynical attitude it is to be found in the history of the last quarter of a century and the present state of affairs. Youth ean turn upon its mentors with a reminder . that the greatest war in history brought our boasted civilisation to the verge of ruin and yet Avas so far from conveying a lesson and a warning that every nation is now engaged in preparing for anothcr outbreak to completc the eatastrophc. Tho boon of sharing in the government of the country is, in fact, go little appreciated that its every cxtension has been niarkcd by the display of increasing indiffcrence. Doubt may well be felt as to the future of democraey when in practice only about half the electors can be persuadcd to go to the poll." ___ ^ _
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 176, 12 August 1937, Page 4
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186ONE OF YOUTH'S PRIVILEGES Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 176, 12 August 1937, Page 4
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