Read&Write

Stop and consider the generation between twenty three and twenty five years of age. We were at war when they were born. Then peace and the reconstruction period, while they were kids. Prohibition and the bootleg era while they were growing up. Gangsters and wide disregard of the law. A crazy boom and then the crash, while they were at the half-way mark. They’ve heard nothing but depression, failures, debts and all kinds of trouble ever since. They’ve seen a world-wide crazy form of philosophy working its way into the blood stream of the world. A machine age, technocracy, racketeering in labor, managed economy and the development of class consciousness. And now another war in Europe and all of us on the dangerous edge of it. If we get into it, these are the fellows we’ll send to take the brunt of it. What a life – not a normal year in it. But after all, what shall we call normal times?

~Nelson Douglass Jr. circa1939/1940

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