Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world peace through diplomatic negotiations seems to have halted, temporarily at least with the signing of the Kellogg Pact. Since political machinery for assuring peace will run only in low gear, new plans for preventing war have a special interest. Such a plan has been put forward by the "Youth's Peace Federation" which hopes to organize nation-wide resistance to military service...
There are without doubt large numbers of people in this country, although perhaps a distinct minority, who, convinced that even the triumphs of war are Pyrrhic victories feel a moral obligation to refuse to fight. By uniting these men, the "Youth's Peace Federation" may weld together an important force for the prevention of war. In any case, the Federation has contributed much to the cause of peace by adding its weight to the growing movement of "militant pacifism...
...Heartening to Negroes was the news, three days prior, that the second of six Atlanta whites who killed a Negro youth last year had been found guilty. He was sentenced to jail for from two to three years. One of the murderer's accomplices had already received a 12-to-15-year sentence, rare for Georgia...
Same day as the U. S. Protestant report appeared, the Congregation of the Holy Office in Vatican City issued a decree condemning the tendency to instruct the youth of both sexes regarding the phenomenon of procreation...
...California), supports President Sproul's appeal for concentration upon an institution of highest ideals as "sound, eloquent and moving." Democracy can do best for itself-not by multiplying mediocrities but by developing intellectual superiorities. There should be such spread of preparatory opportunities as will make certain that the youth who have high abilities will be discovered and put in the way of taking advantage of the highest training that the State can give. Emerson went so far as to make this a supreme function of the State when he said that "to make the wise man, the State exists...