THE TRAGEDY OF YOUTH
Their
Generation, Now Unemployed, Must Fight the War
Then Become Slaves in
by FRANCIS P. YOCKEY
No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by
the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than
The alien-minded minority in control of the cinema, the radio, and the
newspaper and magazine press has poured out a constant stream of propaganda
with the intent of gaining complete spiritual power over the minds of young
Americans emerging into maturity. With what success the attempt has met
everyone knows who has talked on their own level to representative American
youths from the ages of 19 to 27. One and all their world-views have been cut
out for them in
Appalling numbers of youth have been led into a cynical
ultra-sophisticated attitude which regards drinking as a badge of social
aptitude, which makes a fetish of sport and professes eroticism as a way of
life. A perverted and insane pictorial art, lewd exhibitionistic dancing and
jungle music form the spiritual norm of this sector of
Books, Magazines Carry Propaganda
For those serious-minded youths, who are genuinely interested in the
tremendous problems now facing us, another insidious attack has been devised. Books
have been written, plays staged, and an unending train of lecturers have
mounted the platform all to convey to these thinking youths the same message of
class war and international hatred.
Magazines have been founded for none other than propaganda purposes --
vide Life, Look, Click, Esquire, Ken, Coronet -- and have been made up in such
a way as to prove attractive to the young readers.
The result of this campaign to destroy Christian Americanism among the
youth is that every periodical, 95 per cent of the books, and all the lecturers
are Leftist. Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American
youth breathes. The young person whose reasoning powers have come to full
development within the past seven years has never even come in contact with a
conservative, Christian view of life. His professors are in the main Leftists,
those who are not are afraid to speak out for fear of their jobs. Most of the
parents do not realize the spiritual regimentation of their children because
they themselves have been indoctrinated along with them. Those parents who do
think otherwise are considered "old-fashioned," and proponents of the
"horse-and-buggy days" by the preachers of Roosevelt Leftism.
Youth Victims of Red Demoralization
The tragedy of this conscription of American youth under the banners of
atheism, class-war, and social degeneration is just this: that the continuance
of the economic and spiritual distress of the youth is an integral part of the
revolutionary program of the same Communist forces which have seduced and
indoctrinated them.
According to Communist leaders, the revolutionary struggle in the
"It will be a government which will give the working-class and the
Communist Party all possibilities for agitation, propaganda, organization and
action, a government which will make it possible to prepare for the complete
seizure of power by the working-class (i.e., by their self-chosen leaders), in
brief, a government which will be a prelude for the armed insurrection for the
dictatorship of the proletariat... For the Communists, the Popular Front is not
a tactic of expediency. Still less is it an election move. It is an element of
their fundamental policy, and application of the principles of Marx and Lenin
... " (From his speech at Villeurbanne, January, 1936.)
Prosperity Fatal to Communist Hopes
Now it is easy to see that this program, however successful to date in
The tactic that is being employed to bring about the necessary crisis
for the "complete seizure of power" is that of producing a financial
collapse by profligate and insensate government expenditures on everything and
anything. It does not matter whether the projects are needed or not, all that
matters is that the money gets spent, and spent in such a way as to make the
greatest number possible dependent on the Government, thus to break their
spirits and render them fertile ground for planting class hatred, and prepare
them for enrollment in the Left Army, an army which now includes labor unions,
W.P.A. workers, those on relief, organized Negroes, the teachers and professors
and the greater part of the youth.
The tragedy for youth lies in this, that every condition for the success
of the Communist scheme is created at the expense of youth, and every tactic
employed in actualizing it makes the position of youth more desperate and more
nearly hopeless.
Revolutionists Do Not Want Improvement
First, there is the ghastly extent of unemployment among the youth. Hundreds
of thousands of young Americans up to the age of 27 have never had any other
employment than Government relief work. When will they realize that the
alien-minded minority in control of our country does not want this condition
with its revolutionary possibilities removed?
Second, the burden that the ever-growing national debt imposes is almost
solely a burden on the youth. No matter how this debt is liquidated, by
confiscatory inflation, or by being paid off, dollar for dollar, it will be
paid at the cost of liberty and happiness of present-day American youth. If all
the private and corporate wealth of the nation is confiscated to pay off the
debt, what economic force will be left in the country that can run a country
and employ the idle millions? And such a collapse is just the crisis out of
which a Red dictatorship will fasten on
Third, the individual future of almost every American youth has been
jeopardized. Not one of those same young men now in universities and
professional schools who spend their conversation in deciding "how to stop
Hitler" knows where or whether he can start his career.
Where is there research or construction to take up all the young
engineers, business to take tip accountants and stenographers?
How many families can now afford to have a doctor every time they need
one?
Or to litigate their legal claims?
Where is there a future for those trained in commerce?
Youth Always Fights the Nation's Wars
Lastly, American youth by the millions will be conscripted into armies
to be sent to
Those to return from the battlefields where world Communism would send
them to a Communist America would perhaps wish they were in the war cemeteries
of
With this prospect -- with the assurance of Communist leaders that the
Popular Front is not only to defeat Fascism, but also to bring about Communist
dictatorship -- with the mask torn off the Leftist trend of many in high posts
of control in the Federal Government -- no longer controlled by Americans -- is
American youth to wait supinely, absorbed in picture magazines, for the
butchers to start their blood bath here?
Youth of