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THE UNITED AMERICAN
YOUTH
Bulletin of the American Iron and Steel Institute, New York
MAY 1925
alarms. The man who rules himself can rule his
fate. To such it is safe to intrust the administration
of affairs in private business or the statecraft of a
country. Those who consume their energy in fret
and worry need to observe and follows the way of
those who abstain from turmoil, conserving their
strength for any crisis through an equanimity that
nothing can destroy.
Y OUTH IS NOT a time of life; it is a state of mind.
It is not a matter of ripe cheeks, red lips, and
supple knees; it is a temper of the will, a quality of
the imagination, a vigor of the emotion. It is the
freshness of the deep springs of life.
Youth means a temperamental predominance of
courage over timidity of the appetite for adventure
over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of THE DEFEAT OF THE TWENTIETH AMENDMENT
From “Christian Work”
fifty more than in a boy of twenty.
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of 'T'HE PROPOSED Child Labor Amendment to the
years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. 1 Constitution received its coup de grace when the
Years wrinkle the skin; but to give up enthusiasm legislatures of Ohio, Kansas and North Dakota refused
wrinkles the soul.
to agree to it. Popular thought had expected the
Worry, doubt, self-interest, fear and despair — southern states to oppose it more than the northern,
these are the long, long years that bow the heart and and to be sure, Georgia, Louisiana, Oklahoma, North
turn the greening spirit back to dust.
Carolina, South Carolina and Texas appear in the list
Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human of the thirteen states which voted against it. But in
being’s heart the lure of wonder, the sweet amazement addition to the three northern states already referred
at the stars and at star-like things and thoughts, the to, South Dakota and Washington contributed to its
undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing, child defeat; the legislature of Wyoming postponed action
like appetite for what next, and the joy of the game on it indefinitely, and the Massachusetts legislature
of living. You are as young as your faith, as old as will scarcely pass it after , its condemnation by a great
your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old ¡majority in the state referendum last November. The
as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your result is the more surprising since both great political
despair.
parties committed themselves to the Amendment.
In the central place of your heart is an evergreen The wording of the Amendment greatly weakened it.
tree; its name is Love. So long as it flourishes you It suggested to the man in the street that under it
are young. When it dies you are old. In the central Congress might forbid parents to make their owni
place of your heart is a wireless station. So long as children work about their own homes. He clearly did I
it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, grandeur, not take it for granted that Congress would always
courage and power from God and from your fellow use common sense. The fate of the Amendment
men, so long are you young.
suggests that for a while it may be more difficult to
amend the Constitution than it has been for the past
THE CALM MIND
sixteen years. The great amount of talk that the
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger
Eighteenth Amendment was adopted contrary to the
'T'O COME into the presence of a tranquil spirit is will of the people is making legislatures desirous to
like finding the deep silence at the heart of a learn the actual sentiment of their states before they
forest or beside the still waters of a pond that mirrors accept other changes in our fundamental law. Other
mountain walls.
state legislatures have 'been talking of imitating
Existance, for too many of us, resembles the erratic, Massachusetts by submitting the Child Labor
fruitless agitation of gnats in the summer sunshine. Amendment to the people for advice. Senator Wads
They dart hither and thither while the brief day worth and some others of the standpat leaders would
holds, but the power of wings has taken them nowhere. like to alter the federal Constitution so as to compel I
They keep with the same crowd, repeating the silly such procedure- in the future. They believe it would I
gyrations. “A fly,” says Emerson, “is as untamable make Constitution changing a more difficult sport. I
as a hyena.”
Every human being is on earth with a prospect of
THE SUCCESSFUL MAN
usefulness before him, though adverse circumstances
Elbert Hubbard
may seem to constrain and fetter his volition. He
has a work to do. By his mere example of mean or
valorous performance he changes the aspect that life shouldered responsibility, not evaded it; who has I
wears for those around him.
gotten under the burden, not merely stood off, looking!
Conscious of a charge to keep, the leaders of man on, giving advice and philosophizing on the situation.!
kind are those who with serenity and self control face
The result of a man’s work is not the measure!
whatever the day brings. None of us enjoys immunity of success.
from pain or a monopoly of pleasure. Look behind
To go down with the ship in storm and tempest is I
the scene in the life of one apparently carefree and better than to paddle away to Paradise in an Orthodox!
you may easily find burdens that the world knows
not, carried with unfaltering hope and faith and in canoe.
To have worked is to have succeeded — we leave!
tranquility that never cries rebellion or despair.
There are no riches in a bank vault or a jewel the result to time.
Life is too short to gather the Harvest— wel
casket that compare with the treasure of a mind at
peace though beset with vexing problems and loud can only sow.