LEADERSHIP OF YOUTH UP TO ADULTS, EVANGELIST ASSERTSFULLERTON, Jan. 4.—“Don’t blame youth; he is only a victim of the environment the adults have made; place youth in proper environment and with right leadership, youth will respond,” John E. Brown, educator and evangelist, declared when he spoke at the Christian Men’s brotherhool meeting last night. Nearly 150 heard the speaker.His topic concerned “Education* and Youth/1 and after flinging his challenge to adults as the cause and cure of the difficulties of youth,the speaker quoted Dr. Robert Hutchins, president of Chicago university, who in a recent series of articles on education declared that ‘youth cannot think; higher education is loaded with triviality, mediocrity and chaos/'Program la GivenMembers of the Homemakers class and the ushers club of the church served dinner. Ed Hover presided, and the R^v. L. I. Cham-lee, pastor, opened and closed the meeting with prayer. R. E. Brown-ell played cornet solos; Dr. William H. Wickett, master of ceremonies, led in group singing; T. K. Gowen introduced special guests, and Catherine and Ellen Collins sang a group of duets prior to the talk. Charles Peckham was accompanist for the musical numbers.Announcement was made of a special series of meetings to start January 9 under the direction of Teddy Leavitt, Oregon state evangelist of the Christian church. James Burt will direct the music for the series.BO If GAINS UTILECondition of Bob Elliott, 15-year-old Anaheim high school athlete, who is in St. Joseph’s hospitaltoday as the result of an accidental gunshot wound received yesterday, was reported by hospital attaches to be slightly changed for the better.Following an operation last night in which the bullet was removed from his abdomen where it had lodged after entering his hip and had penetrated the appendix, Bob was “resting as well as could be expected/* The accident occured when Jimmie Starr, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Starr, who was riding hLs bicycle, with his finger on the trigger of his loaded gun which lay across the handlebars, fell from his wheel, and the gun exploded.Bob is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Elliott of 608 North Olive street, Anaheim.