YOUTH

Radio Record, 5 August 1938, Page 21

YOUTH

rT IS ON THE MARCH SHE power of youth to , do: and ; to know, contrary to the proverb, is the creed of Mr. D. Ingram Smith, commercial announcer for stations 2UE and 2GB Sydney, who passed through Auckland recently en route to Vancouver and, ultimately, Vassa College, . New York State, where he will attend the second World Youth Congress. | This tall, young Australian with the breezy manner and the easy speechhe is only 28-is certainly the type to prove youth is becoming a growing force in the world. "In Australia the Youth Movement is growing," he said. "Tt includes all sorts of organisations -.. from life-savers to girl guides, from clubs to wolf cubs! Anybody. between 20 and 32 or so." At the recent Hducation Congress in Sydney, he pointed out, the only re- . mits of any real value had been moved by youthful representatives. ‘We are not out to put the world right, but we. think that in time of war, it is youth who pays... so we should have some say in the control of affairs." Mr. Smith explained that the principal discussion at the forthcoming Congress concerned the economic and ° political status of youth. The Australian delegation, of which he is leader, is attending mainly to observe world youth tendencies in order to link with international activities, The World Youth Congress was really an off-shoot of the League of Nations, The first congress was held at Geneva, but. the venue had been changed to America because it was felt there was a better chance of getting all nations to co-operate. It was expected 1000 delegates would attend at Vassa College. The youth movement throughout the world was a growing strength, said Mr. Smith, but members viewed with, alarm the tendency in some countries to use the power of the movement for political purposes. "Youth wants to set its own ideals, not to be told what todo. These conferences will assist in correlating the ideals of all youth movements in the world." Following the congress Mr. Smith will make an eight months’ lecturing tour of the United States and Canada. fle will hold conversations with President Roosevelt, Mr. Aberhart, Premier of Alberta, and other prominent leaders both in America and Canada. He has been commissioned to write a number of ‘atticles for Australian papers. In the person of this young man, youth does indeed seem to be marching on.