The Junior Historian, Volume 2, Number 1, September 1941 Page: Front Inside
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THE TEXAS STATE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
1897-THE OLDEST LEARNED SOCIETY IN TEXAS-1897
President: Recording Secretary and Librarian:
HARBERT DAVENPORT WALTER PRESCOTT WEBB
Vice-Presidents Treasurer:
EARL VANDALE CHARLES W. RAMSDELL
IIERBERT GAMBRELL GEORGE A. HILL, JR. Corresponding Secretary:
P. I. NIXON MRS. CORAL HORTON TULLIS
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THE SOUTHWESTERN HISTORICAL QUARTERLY
Managing Editor:
WALTER PRESCOTT WEBB
Associate Editors:
CIIARLES W. HACKETT RUDOLPH L. BIESELE H. BAILEY CARROLL
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,THE JUNIOR HISTORIAN
Published by
The Texas State Historical Association
University Station-Austin, Texas
Editor:
H. BAILEY CARROLL
"No man is fit to be entrusted with the control of the PRESENT,
who is ignorant of the PAST, and no People, who are indifferent
to their PAST, need hope to make their FUTURE great."
OPPORTUNITIES AND MODERN YOUTH
....... .. - rte. ... . . .A generation ago we were hearing of
"golden opportunities" on all sides. Qra-.
tors and speakers emphasized these op-
portunities in glowing terms. White-
collar jobs were held out with all the
oratorical gusto the speakers could com-
mand. "Go west, young man" was a
saying all too common. Inferentially,
the meaning was to go west and make
money; to make it honestly, if possible,
but to make money. I am afraid that
too much of our national effort has been
directed toward material and temporal
things rather than toward the spiritual
and moral values which are fundamental
to the happy and successful life. Selfish-
ness and greed are always ready to mani-
fest themselves in human beings and
if people condone, even encourage these
traits, as has been done in the past gen-
eration, the result is 'an abundance of
graft, dishonesty, and national insta-
bility.
The opportunity that modern Amer-
ican youth has now is to clear away some
of the "rubbish" left by the present gen-
eration, go down to the fundamentalbed-rock of civilization (the practice of
the Golden--Rule)and build a nobler civ-
ilization which may ultimately affect the
world and make it better. If America,
through its young people, does not re-
spond, to this challenge now, it is my
opinion that America may lose its place
in world leadership.
We must learn that no man is com-
pletely happy without something to do
-Work! By the sweat of man's face
shall he eat bread. Work must be re-
spected, encouraged, and properly com-
pensated-but not allowed to kill the
"goose that lays the golden egg." Those
in capital and labor who are true Ameri-
cans should have the active support of
American youth in forever eliminating
those who seek every opportunity to dis-
rupt our way of life. Our forefathers
fought to build what we now enjoy, and
we can well afford to fight to maintain
and strengthen it.
W. B. IRVIN,
President, Texas State
Teachers Association.
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