Since Adam erred in the garden of Eden, it has been a custom, carefully carried out, for the more matured generation to tear out hair, rattle false teeth and run the blood pressure three hundred and sixty degress above disdain, condemning "the modern age." Our press is over crowded with desparaging notes written by our wise elders, wondering "what will be the end"; our senior clergy is undergoing a violent case of "Delmens Tremens" because of the so-called revolts against God, and our education, those of the pre-war days have just about "given-up". Hearing sermons, reading various articles and listening to speeches from the aforementioned groups, one is forced to conclude that the preceding generation has lost hope for "this modern age; so lax in morals, so skeptical of religion and so disinterested in advancement.

Are the charges true? Can they be proved? Let us consider. Space in this journal, or no other journal would permit a discussion of the accomplishment, attitudes and aptitudes of every young man and woman living in this age, but we can present a fair idea of what "the modern age" is doing by a few outstanding examples.

The Federation of College man and women started a world-wide movement for equal rights among all men. Of course this was and is today, considered by many as communism. Others view it as a case of extreme radicalism, but ernestly desiring world-brotherhood, and genuinely striving for equal rights and universal understanding is but religion, unheralded, which places our so-called "jazz mad, radical upstarts" in an entirely different light from that which some of our leading theologians would see them.

In our Race, the few outstanding books for the past two years, have been written by young authors. The most important legal problems have been solved by our younger lawyers and all, or certainly most of the places in the "New Deal" are occupoied by Delaneys, Vanns, Kinkles and others who belong to the class of moderns.

In looking for the reasons behind religious, educational and political advancement during the past decad, one is provoked to slight laughter over the state of "nervous anxiety" manifested by some, and is elated over the achievements of This Modern Age.