which are
at work "to make order out of casualty, beauty out of confusion,
justice, kindliness and mercy out of cruelty and inconsiderate
pressure," we find ourselves appealing to the confident spirit of
youth. We know that it is crude and filled with conflicting hopes,
some of them unworthy and most of them doomed to disappointment, yet
these young people have the advantage of "morning in their hearts";
they have such power of direct action, such ability to stand free from
fear, to break through life's trammelings, that in spite of ourselves
we become convinced that

"They to the disappointed earth shall give
The lives we meant to live."

That this solace comes to us only in fugitive moments, and is easily
misleading, may be urged as an excuse for our blindness and
insensitiveness to the august moral resources which the youth of each
city offers to those who are in the midst of the city's turmoil. A
further excuse is afforded in the fact that the form of the dreams for
beauty and righteousness change with each generation and that while it
is always difficult for the fathers to understand the sons, at those
periods when the demand of the young is one of social reconstruction,
the misunderstanding easily grows into bitterness.

The old desire to achieve, to improve the world, seizes the ardent
youth to-day with a stern command to bring about juster social
conditions. Youth's divine impatience with the world's inheritance of
wrong and injustice makes him scornful of "rose water for the plague"
prescriptions, and he insists upon something strenuous and vital.

One can find innumerable illustrations of this idealistic impatience
with existing conditions among the many Russian subjects found in the
foreign quarters of every American city. The idealism of these young
people might be utilized to a modification of our general culture and
point of view, somewhat as the influence of the young Germans who came
to America in the early fifties, bringing with them the hopes and
aspirations embodied in the revolutions of 1848, made a profound
impression upon the social and political institutions of America. Long
before they emigrated, thousands of Russian young people had been
caught up into the excitements and hopes of the Russian revolution in
Finland, in Poland, in the Russian cities, in the university towns.
Life had become intensified by the consciousness of the suffering and
starvation of millions of their fellow