America’s Youth

Series

Series Name

The March of Time 6th Year

Issue

Issue No.

3

Date Released

Aug 1940

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1America’s Youth

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Summary

Documentary News Letter synopsis: This issue of the March of Time states some of the problems confronting the twenty-one million young men and women comprising America’s youth. Swiftly and in the traditional tempo, it shows us youth on the sporting fields and int he jitterbug contests, youth studying in the eighty per cent co-educational colleges, youth in the cafe-society atmosphere of glamour boys and glamour girls, youth at work, and youth looking for work. Case histories from the records of the American Youth Commission are used to survey the educational, business and social lives of typical members of all the youth groups - the youth in colleges, in white-collar office jobs, on the farms and in the factories. It is startling to learn that one fourth of the younger generation is deprived of any chance of earning a living. This volume of unemployment is accompanied by lowering health standards and a twenty-two per cent increase of crime among city youth in the last ten years of the depression. Perhaps it is this unemployment, as much as "love of adventure" that accounts for the thousands of young men crossing the border to enlist in the Canadian army and the many more crowding into the armed forces of the United States.

Researcher Comments

This story was included in Vol.6 No.9 of the US edition.

Keywords

Sport; Organisations; Education and training; Entertainment and leisure; Military; Youth; Employment

Written sources

Documentary News Letter   Vol.1 No.8 August 1940, p12. Used for synopsis
Fielding, Raymond. The March of Time 1935-1951 (New York, 1978)   p254.

Credits:

Production Co.

Time Inc.