PRESENT DAY URGE OF YOUTH.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1928, Page 6

PRESENT DAY URGE OF YOUTH.

“A Church that went out to light corruption, commercialism, greed and exploitation would have behind it the enthusiasm of the youth that mattered, the intelligent, earnest youth that today is contemptuous of the Church's timid contradictions. People are watch ing with dismay the hold that Bolshevism on the one hand, and fascism un the other are gaining over the mind of youth. I fear iron creeds and the domination of dogma, lint the fascination of these lighting faiths to youth is. that they seem to be doing something, to be getting somewhere. 4 lie 'under twenties’ of to-day are contemptuous of tin* comfortable. With intelligent minds they are experiencing the bitterness of being used as robots, or, still worse, of not being used at all. No creed can reach them that preaches contentment and Heaven’s delights. They believe that their elders have made a horrible mess ol things and are not much beiter than they are. It is an uncomfortable creed for tno-ir elders, but if is a stimulating challenge to the Church of the Carpenter ol Nazareth.”—Miss Klleu Wilkinson, ALP.

WHAT IS PRKYKXTIYK MKDidNK “Preventive medicine means the organisation of human nature—the cultivation and health ol maternity, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adult, life, old age, the postponement ol mortality; and such cultivation means not only the central and local provision of medical and sanitary agencies for the fuller control ol morbid process, but the development of the hodv and mind of man that they may reach, in each individual, the fop ol their capacity. Nothing is more ceitain than the fact that the 'physical advancement and health of mankind is dependent not upon a ‘dot t or’s stunt here or a ‘sanitary instil ill ion’ t here but. upon the whole social evolution of (he people. Now these desired ends are not reached merely by announcing them; still less by leaving things to chance, drift or Late. They can in any case only he partly re.'e-lie.l

each generation, and none o! them can be readied at all without foresight. organisation and expenditure.” Kir (leorge Newman, C'liiel Health Officer, British Ministry of Health.