"Prior to 1929," Mason said, "kids had too much of everything. Then after the crash, they didn't have enough of anything. So they became too much concerned with economic problems. We began to think too much about sharing the wealth, instead of creating it. Youth should create something, and it should have something to create.
"The modern youngsters are coming into a different scheme of things. There'll be heartaches. There'll be fighting, and hardships -- and death -- but those who survive will have been tempered in a crucible of fire. They won't put up with makeshifts. Make no mistake about it, Witherspoon, you and I are going to be living in a different world when this war is over, and it's going to be different because of the young men who have suffered, and fought -- and learned."
The Case of the Drowning Duck, Erle Stanley Gardner, 1942,
Pocket Edition (1949), p. 4-5.