In The Master's Service

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ARE CHILDREN REALLY TO BLAME?

Mrs. E. B. Grant - Copied

We read in the paper, we hear on the air,
Of killing and stealing and crime everywhere;
We sigh and we say, as we notice the trend:
"This young generation . . . where will it end?"
But can we be sure it's their fault, alone?

Too much money to spend; too much idle time;
Too many movies of passion and crime;
Too many books not fit to be read;
Too much evil in what they hear said;
Too many kids encouraged to roam;
Too many parents who don't stay at home.

Youth don't make the movies;
They don't write the books
That paint the pictures of gangsters and crooks.
They don't make the liquor, they don't run the bars,
And they don't make the cars.
They don't make the drugs that addle the brain;
It's all done by older folks, greedy for gain.
In how many cases we find that it's true . . .
The label, "Delinquency," fits older folks, too.