OLD AGE THE CRIMINAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3472, 28 April 1920, Page 5

OLD AGE THE CRIMINAL.

ATTACK BY YOUNGEST I\I.P. ON ', “WISDOM OF OLD MEN.” E

Old age had 21 remarkable attack made upon it at; a League of Youth; meeting in London. Captain Oswald,-' Mosley, youngest member of the House of Comnlons, made the onslaught, and here are some -of his most striking phrases:—-

The method of achieving the new world is not so clear to the mind Of youth, diétracted as it is by the jarring cries of self-seeking factions. The world today has learned to believe in youth, and to desire the quali-+ ties of youth in the seat of Govern‘ ment. A

The World has learned to distrust. old‘ age, and to loath its attributes, a be‘lief in precedent, an arrogant confid deuce in a vaunted experience. It has grown ito Lbefiieve th»a,t these rgreee-4 dents—-this so-called expe?ience—-are in these days but a trap and a. snare, and, indeed, these much-canvassed assets of age scarcely bare examinestion in the searching light, of our times.We may well ask what will precedent avail us in the face of problems without precedent, or can experience save us in days such as these, to which the past can supply no analogy? My warning is, bew-are lest old age steal back to rob you of your reward: Beware lest these old dead men, with‘ their old dead minds, embalmed in the‘ tombs of.the past, creep back to‘ dominate your new age, cleansed of their mistakes with the blood of your generation.