Gideonse deplores the trend of various frustrating forces which prevent youth from assuming an economically or an emotionally adult rôle in our society, forces which are likely to render youth vulnerable to a fascist solution of his dilemma. The influence of the family and of religion in shaping personality has dwindled sharply, in contrast to the tremendous influence now played by advertising and the somewhat less blatant but only slightly less destructive pressures of American journalism and cinema. The educational system as constituted today appears to be hopelessly outweighed in shaping ideals and principles by those other forces which are guided by commercial aims almost to the exclusion of what constitutes the public good.