Dr. Adler Tells Degeneration of European Youth

In Europe, adolescent youth is disillusioned, embittered, hopeless; delinquency among them is increasing steadily!

Stressing this fact, Dr. Alfred Adler, famous psychiatrist, spoke before a large attendance in the Oakland Auditorium on "Three Important Subjects of Life, Namely: Work, Love and Social Interest."

The significance of that statement was not lost upon the audience, who immediately thought of Hitler's lack of difficulty in recruiting the youth of a once-cultured Germany to his policy of persecution, or of Mussolini's ability to send thousands of young men to their death in Ethiopia.

Dr. Adler, in part, went on to tell of the increase in suicides, notably in large European centers. Partly responsible for this noted increase in self-annihilation are the many political prisons and concentration camps of a decadent Europe.

A constant change of occupations among many people was noticed by Dr. Adler and commented upon. This change, Dr. Adler stated, may be perceived chiefly in the untrained, the misfit. They find fault with the ordinary tasks of life and drift from one occupation to another. This again can be overcome by training people and, above all, children in useful pursuits.

MARTIN ROTKE.

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Fuente: «Dr. Adler Tells Degeneration of European Youth», por Martin Rotke, Emanu-El and the Jewish Journal (hoy J. The Jewish News of Northern California), San Francisco, 21 de agosto de 1936, p. 14. Transcripción hecha sobre la imagen de la página y el recorte del artículo en la California Digital Newspaper Collection (JW19360821.2.87), cotejada con el OCR de la plataforma. La entradilla, en negrita en el original, se da en negrita. La fecha exacta de la conferencia no consta en la crónica. Se omite el anuncio insertado en la columna («The Oakland Forum presents Dr. T. Z. Koo»).