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THE A. J. 8HOWALTER CO., Proprietor*
T. S. SHOPS Editor
T. S. McCAMT Associate Editor
TELEPHONE 18.
OFFICIAL ORGAN
of the United States Circuit and District
Courts, Northwestern Division, North
ern District of Georgia.
The Citizen, ever since the idea was
conceived by it to build along the line
of Sherman’s march a great national
highway between Chickamauga Mili
tary park, Chattanooga, and Ft. Mc
Pherson, Atlanta, has had faith in the
project. The road is almost sure to be
built by the government. There are
the very best of patriotic reasons for,
building it. It would commemorate
one of 'the most famous marches in
Terms of Snbscrlption:
One Year .........,i. .$1.00
Six Months >50
Three Months .' 25
Entered at the Dalton, Ga., Postoffice for
transmission through the mails as second
class matter.
The Citizen will not accept whiskey ad
vertisements. Patent medicines of a ques
tionable nature, and cure-all nostrums can
have no entry into these columns.
DALTON, GA., THURSDAY, DEC. 9.
PAY UP.
The people are prosperous, and so is
The Citizen. Many subscriptions are
now due it, and our only authorized
collector and solicitor, W. E. Franklin,
is now out. When he presents your
bill, please pay it. You will feel better,
and so will we.
If there a're any who do not take The
Citizen, now is the time to subscribe.
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A jail is not necessarily a pesij house,
Good roads in the county indicate
good officials in' office.
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If Dalton h$s a health officer he
should “pull” the jail.
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Maybe if the jail was disinfected
with limburger cheese it would help
some. . '
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“Grady Hospital Needs More
Money,” reads a headline. Conun
drum: How are we like the Grady hos
pital?
You may break, you may shatter wet
laws if you will;
But the scent of the moonshine "will
cling ’round the stilL
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The first train to leave Chattanooga’s
new passenger station was- bound for
Atlanta. Did any one think it could
have been otherwise?
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The Bartow county grand jury has
recommended an issue of $200,000
bonds for the purpose of binding good
roads. That’s business.
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A dispatch from London says there
will be 100,000 political meetings there
before the first of January. And we
have been thinking Georgia harassed
by politics!
The Savannah News doesn’t want
the usual Christmas eve racket on
Broughton street. Brother, you’d bet
ter be glad the street is not like its
Atlanta namesake—noisy all the time.
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“There is danger tha£ such mild
weather may force the premature bud
ding of the spring poet,” says the At
lanta Journal. Here’s hoping it will,
and then maybe the freezes of winter
will kill the bully.
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Tom Watson is going to write the
story of the south and west, and, ac
cording to the Jeffersonian Mazazine,
“it will set a crown of glory on our
beloved southland, and the vast em
pire of the west.”
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The Georgia apostle of loving kind
ness, thfe Darien Gazette, tells a great
truth in the-following: “If you con
tinue to hammer at an evil the people
are pretty apt to do some hammering
themselves after a while.”
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The Butts County Progress is now
among our exchanges. It is a good
weekly and has a look that indicates
work. Many papers are filled with
junk and such other stuff as requires
no effort to get up. ^
There are many things in this world
that make life worth while, but none
of these things quite come up to the
inspiration that is produced by the
words of encouragement that fall from
the lips of golden-hearted friends.
Away with that barren cynicism that
is not moved by the presence of real
friendship, nor influenced by the sin
cerity of those who prove their real
worth by hearty action!
A very peculiar thing about friend-1 the history of any country. Gen. Sjber-
ship is that it sometimes inspires jeal- man, along the route of this proposed
ousy, causing other friends to discount road, was 100 days marching 100
even that which another good friend miles, so perfect were the strategic
has done or said. Colton thoroughly movements of his glory-covered oppo
understood this. He said: “Our very nent, Gen. Joseph E. Johnston,
best friends have a tincture of jealousy An important consideration is the
even in their friendship; and when fact that should it ever be necessary
they hear us praised by others, will to move an army by march from
ascribe it to sinister and interested mo- Chickamauga to Ft. McPherson,
tives if they can.” However, this from Ft. McPherson to Chickamauga,
jealousy in no way takes from or adds the road would be the means of easy
to friendship. It is a frailty of human and expeditious transportation,
nature, and proves the fallibility of Gordon Lee has his heart set on get-
the race. ting an appropriation for the building
J. D. McCartney, editor of the Rome of this road, and if he remains in con-
Tribune-Herald made the editor of this gress he will do it. There is little doubt
paper a text for an editorial in Tues- of it. It is important that Gordon Lee
day’s issue of his very valuable paper, be kept in congress until this road is
He said a great many things about us, an assured fact, and the proposed can-
and we fear that his friendship for, didacy of any ambitious, politician
and his good fellowship'toward, us has should be frowned upon by the people,
led his splendid imagination into fields A dispatch from Gartersville, Ga.,
of speculation. brings the' glad tidings that Bartow
After the usual amount of editorial county is behind the movement with
by-play was indulged (the coming event I all the force its progressive commis-
warranting it, of course) our good sioners can bring to bear. It is to be
friend closed as follows: hoped that .other counties along the
“So here, ‘Tom’ Shope, talking proposed line will urge the movement
■sure enough,’ is a stout grip of the as vigorously as the Bartow commis-
hand and a warm wish of the heart I sion has.
from the pencil pilots of the Tribune- j The dispatch in full is as follows:
Herald. When,we used to read your
paper before we , had ever seen you,
we knew it was'edit'ed by a man who
was true-blue, straight and square, who
loves- truth and honor, and despises
hypocrisy and sham, whether found in
high places or low. Personal acquaint
ance has but confirmed and raised that
opinion. We know it won’t swell your
old bald head when we tell you that
Georgia needs men like Theron S.
Shope to edit her papers, men who are
big of heart and brain, narrow in noth
ing, mean not at all, of strong convic
tions, uncontrolled by influence, and
with the courage to express those con-1
victions with voice and pen.
“We rejoice most heartily that this j
crowning measure of joy has come to
you, that you are henceforth to cease
mere existence and begin real life. For
you and for ‘her’ we wish what both
deserve, tjie unclouded happiness of
perfect years in paths of pleasantness |
and ways of peace.”
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DALTONIANS BUILDING UP
CHATTANOOGA.
The. Eatonton News asks its fnends
to hand in news items when they are
fresh. “We prefer not to publish a
birth after the child is weaned, a mar-
. rfage after the.,.honeymoon 4% over, or
the death of a man after his widow is
married again,” it says.
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A woman in the insane asylum offers
as proof-that she.is sane the fact that
she understands everything Browning
wrote. This fact is liable to cause her
to remain in the asylum,' for we are
.sure no sane person ever understood
' even-One-half what Browning wrote.
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This Macon News has decided to
take bur word about what spik
punch is. That is much better than
taking the punch.-—Dalton Citizen.
Again,'We take your word for-it.—
Macon. News. The question is ,now
settled.
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This country is not as bad off as
some seem to think. The value of the
cotton crop for this year is $850,000,-
000; corn, $1,720,000,000; hay, $665,-
000,000; oats, $400,000,000; wheat,
$725,000,000; barley, $88,000,000; to
bacco, $100,000,000; potatoes, $212,-
000,000. With such an extensive farm
’■ihq"usfe'- bf~teHing
have just what he
Dalton and Dalton people are always
interested in the good report of Dal
ton people in other places. Frank T.
Reynolds, Secretary Chattanooga
Chamber of Commerce, is doing such
splendid work in Chattanooga that the
papers of that city never tire of com
mending his work. The Chattanooga
News, speaking of the Booster trains
that city is sending out, says:
“The Chamber of Commerce is
to be congratulated and com
mended for the splendid manner in
which the enterprise was directed
and managed. Secretary Frank T.
Reynolds did much of this work.
The committee appointed to ~per-
sonally arrange the program did
splendid work. It could not have
been done better. And the en
thusiasm with which the business
interests entered into the trip
shows that the Get Together spirit is
militant in Chattanooga. It means
bigger things for Chattanooga and
the territory from which we draw
our tirade. The News congratu-
ates all concerned over the splen
did success of the first excursion.”
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A VOTER’S PRAYER.
Cartersville, Ga., Dec. 4.—Car-
tersville and all of Bartow county
are becoming’enthusiastic in the
good roads movement. At the last
session of the grand jury it was
recommended that the ordinary of
the county call an election on the
question of the county issuing
$200,000 of county bonds to run
30 years, the proceeds of these
bonds to be used for road purposes
only.
On Wednesday of this week the
board of commissioners of roads
and revenues for Bartow county
held a meeting and adopted resolu
tions relative to the Chickamauga
to Atlanta highway. The John-
ston-Sherman line of march was
favored by them, and the follow
ing route was. authorized:
Beginning at the lines between
Gordon and Bartow counties,
where the public road crosses the
line, thence south along said road
to Adairsville, Cassville, Carters
ville, Allatoona and to the line be
tween Bartow and Cobb counties,
at or near the old Tapp place,
where the said public road crosses
this line.
It was also—resolved that the
road authorities having charge
of the Johnston-Slierman way
through this county be authorized
and directed to properly mark
said way by signs and to erect
suitable markers showing all im
portant historic places.
It was also resolved that the
people of Atanta and Chattanooga
and of the counties of Whitfield,
Gordon, Bartow, Cobb and Fulton
use every possible effort looking
to the procurement of federal,
state and local funds to be used
in making the Johnston-Sherman
way a permanent macadam ro^d
such as will be a fitting memorial
to the military powers of the na
tion so notably exhibited along this
famous way during the Civil war.
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A VEXED PROBLEM SETTLED.
The Emporia (Kans.) Gazette se
verely criticises such of the citizens of
that place as patronize mail order
houses and buy their goods away from
home. The Gazette says:
The man who buys his goods of
a mail order house and expects his
neighbors in Emporia to buy goods
of him or to buy labor of him, or
to buy professional service of him,
is economically a leech. He is
sucking industrial blood out of the
town and gives none back. He
sends his profits out of town like a
Chinaman and has no more right
to a standing in the community
than a foreigner. We are all neigh
bors industrially in this town, and
the man who' sends away for his
goods is no,t one of us. He is of
. another industrial system, and de
serves no man’s support in Em
poria. oi pj; ■
What is true of Emporia is true of
any other city. The mail order houses
pay none of your local taxes. They
do not help your roads, schools and
churches. They spend no money in
the community from which they take
it, and invariably the goods bought
from them are cheap refuse from
the factories, manufactured frequently
right in -the town where you live.
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delicately. When it is all over and the ests” in his country.
4 insurgent leader has been duly placed in been so heretofore. South and Central
full command of Nicaragua, we shall American revolutions
no doubt hear that he is on friendly usually begin in New
terms with some great American cor- made to succeed
poration which has extensive “inter- Macon Telegraph.
It has always
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m our time
York and are
Washington.—
The Man With Wheels.
The man with wheels in his head
may have his day after a while.
Edison' says that wireless trans
mission of power is the next thing
to come.—Augusta Herald.
And then after this let us hope that
the politicians will become wireless.
John Chinaman.
There are 400,000,000 people in
China,, and only 25,000 officials—
one official to every 16,000 people.
- China is a darned poor place for
politicians.—Dalton Citizen.
Maybe that’s the reason so many
of them come over here.—Rome
Tribune-Herald.
That may be so, but he gets no office
here.
Can’t Find ’Em In Rome.
Evidently Dalton is jealous of
Rome when it comes to the census
returns. We would be willing for
men from that city to be our enu
merators.—Rome Tribune-Herald.
Name the Dalton people you want
FROM OVER IN FLOYD
(From Cedartown Standard.)
A correspondent of the Lindale Free any of them could or would enter into
Lance, over in Judge Mose Wright’s -any sort of an agreement that was in
home county, suggests that this bril- contravention of the public good. Be-
liant jurist be placed upon the supreme j ing in the public service and pay, pub-
or appellate court bench, where his lie officials are under every obligation
fine legal talent would be put to excel- that can bind an honorable man to
lent use, and that Hon. Gordon Lee safeguard the public weaL But even
be sent back to congress, where he has should they be willing to disregard this
done such excellent service and where I plain duty, the law itself, which they
his capacity for usefulness is con-'are sworn to obey and uphold, wisely
In and we will see what we can do for
buying goods ffom these mail order you. Sorry enumerators can’t be found
houses you must®ay carriage on them [in Rome,
both ways, and, added to this, you must
pay for the trainloads of catalogs is
sued by them. You cannot possibly ex
pect to get your money’s worth from
them, and it is axiomatic that what
is bought from a mail order house is
cheap, shoddy stuff.
Can’t you, dear reader, see the
point?
“IN LOVE’S
DOMAIN.”
What's the Matter With Baldwin?
The Rome Tribune-Herald wants
the marriage laws changed. That
editor is a married man and should
remember there are a few who
have not been so fortunate. By
all means, let the law stay as it is
until Clair Rowell and Shope get
off.—Griffin Herald.
Clair is plausible, but somehow or
other he doesn’t carry conviction. We
One of the most beautiful gift books I would advise our- friend not to worry
of the season—beautiful in language | about us.
and thought as well as in appearance—
is the book of verses bearing the above
title and written by H. E. Harman, a
prominent publisher, of Atlanta. The
book is just from the press of Stone &
Barringer company, of Charlotte, N.
C., and is perfect in binding and ty
pography. ♦
Mr. Harman is not one who would
be styled “a professional poet,” but he
writes for the mere pleasure his work
brings him, and lovers of genuine po
etry profit thereby; for his thoughts
are beautiful and he clothes them in
language that well, becomes them.
That the title of the book is ex
tremely appropriate is shown in the
dedicatory poem, and the same content
ment and peace found therein is the
theme running through the book:
Who walks the way of sweet content
Outward and back again,
Who feels the thrill that joy has sent
O’er all Love’s soft domain!
stantly enlarging. This would prove a
very popular solution of the congres
sional tangle in the Seventh.
He says, among other things, the fol
lowing in reference to a reported
agreement among the prospective can
didates :
“The parties mentioned are all pub
lic officials, in the enjoyment of high
official stations at liberal salaries paid
by the people. It is inconceivable that,
holding a commission from and in the
pay of the people, these gentlemen,,
restricts the freedom of contract, even
between private citizens, to such agree
ments as are not hurtful in tendency
to the public. That which has a ten
dency to be injurious to the public, or
against public policy, is forbidden. It
is plainly against public policy and in
jurious to the public welfare for any
private deal to be made whereby a
competent and faithful public officer is
to be removed from further public use
fulness for no other reason than that
his place is wanted by another.”
A Day's Work.
“What constitutes a day’s
work?” We figure it out that it
depends altogether on your occu
pation. If you lay brick, eight
hours; if..you keep house, sixteen
hours; if you preach the gospel,
two hours; if you are a porter in
a sleeping car, twenty hours; if
you serve the government, one
hour; and if you are a newspaper
man, twenty-four hours.—Eaton
ton News.
And if you are a politician you
never quit work—ing the people.
Whose nights are filled with music
sweet *
And-days with ne’er a pain,
Where perfume of rare blossoms meet |
Adown Love’s fair domain!
Come, walk with me this little while
Across this amber plain
And learn with Joy and me to smile,
Content in Love’s domain.”
Ecclesiastical Exaggeration.
An Atlanta preacher, speaking
in Tampa, Fla., is quoted as hav
ing said: “Yes, I will venture that
you have as many blind tigers in
the city of Tampa without a state
prohibition law as we have in At
lanta with 200,000 people with a
state prohibition law. J will ven
ture that assertion.” Whereupon
the Charleston News and Courier
observes: “Of course, a man who
would venture to assert* that there
are 200,000 people in Atlanta
would venture to assert any
thing.”—Rome Tribune-Herald.
It would appear that a law prohibit-
From this until the close of the book “S. men ? f th ? cIoth from in
happy trend of thought is found, not | their P ul P lts mi S ht heI P so °? e
single line in the entire booklet show-
The following is not taken from* the
Bible, but simply a spasm of a North
Dakota editor: “That the politician is
my shepherd, I shall not want for any
thing during the campaign. He lead-
eth me into the saloons for my vote’s
sake, he filleth my pockets with good
cigars, my beer glass runneth over.
He inquireth concemeth my family,
even into the fourth generation. Yea,
even I walk through the mud and rain
to vote for him, and shout myself
hoarse at the election,- he straightway
forgeteth me. Although I meet him at
his own home he knoweth me . not.
Surely the wool has been pulled over
my eyes all the .days of my life.” .
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Judge J. H. Price, of Tennessee, is
reported to have said that “Booker T.
Washington is as great a man as our
first president, as great as Thomas Jef
ferson, and Madison, and Monroe, and
Lee and other Virginia worthies.” We
will go a little further and say, as com
plimentary as it may sound to Booker
IT., that we do not consider him as big
a fool as Judge Price.
The Tribune-Herald is now advising
the people of Rome to walk, as well as
drive, to the right. We hope,that the!
agitation .will.- avail much,: j
rather hard on the bibul<
At last the question, “What is whis
ky?” has been settled, and we trust sat
isfactorily. It is several things, and it
does several things.
The Macon Telegraph is the settler,
and here it is:
Whisky has a family resem
blance to red ink, but it is not so
wholesome; men take it to warm
them when they are cold, and'to ’
cool them when they are hot; if
they are sick they take it as a pre
ventive; ..they take it for one thing
or another until it has its innings,
and then it takes them. Whisky
has such an unpleasant taste that
most men 'who drink it have to .
wash it down with something that
savors less of a glue factory; and
when one dose of it is down and
anchored, it protests against the
hermit life and insists upon having
company; . and when a second
drink is sent down, the two insist
upon having a third as referee,
and the three of them clamor for
a mass meeting; and so it‘goes
uptil the qian who harbors-them is
loaded into a wagon with red
lamps on it, and hauled away to
the police court - and deprived of
ten bones for carrying around a
headache that. violates t)ie ordi
nances against pyrotechnic dis
plays. Most any old , wife-beater
can tell Uncle Sam what whisky is.
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Right on the heels of the Standard
it it is I Oil decision the pie makers are prepar-
!S pedes- ing to form a trust. Such a display of
to expect them to live square crust ought to cause the courts.to knock
up to the rule during the holiday sea-1 the filling-out of them.
4 | The opening session of the senate
Describing the opening of the first I was exactly 13 minutes long. Thirteen
session of . thp hopse, dispatcjies sp'eakj being an unlucky number f it’^ a sign
the gavel; desbpnfling “witR a re- the coun|iy*p going tb catc^ .thuifder
sbimdirig tefbhand whack:”* 1 We didn’t* beforq : congtoss.fldjouins. '. -f t h *
know “Uncle Joe” was a southpaw.
“She ate chloride to cure her cold,”
Jack McCartney ■ says ■ the -Emory j reads a headline. No, Nancy, physi-
boys used to carry toeir' bdoze'm skoe ciaiis, by hard Work; knocked the"
boxes. Wonder how Jack knows? [undertaker out of another little job.
ing the least evidence of pessimism I
which so many writers seem to delight
in flaunting in the face of the world.
By his verses Mr. Harman shows that
he is enabled to always accept the op
timistic view of things through his un
bounded faith in the all-powerful |
forces of Love—
“While in the lowly cot, barren and ]
bare
Of all the goods which smiling For
tune share
There I have seen the look of |
sweet content
With all the gladness of good for- |
tune lent
Because the Master, Love, was dwelling |
there.”
In another poem, “A Day oh the I
Farm,” is the following beautiful met-
Likes “Norf” Best.
A colored citizen operating a
New York elevator was arrested
on a charge of killing a couple of
men out in Missouri. He admitted
the charge and further confided
to the officers that he had not long
since barely escaped a lynching in
Georgia because of an ugly crime
he had committed in that state.
“Oh, I like the Norf best,” said he,
“dey don’t notice things here
much.” Post it up conspicuously
so that those persons of color who
are inclined to indulge in homi
cidal and other criminal manias
may read it plainly, “go Norf,
where they don’t notice things like
that, much.”—Chattanooga Times.
The papers in “de Norf” are now
aphor, showing his belief in loye as the very busy calling southern people
pression in “The
jfully illustrated
four lines, to be
lumber of the |
most powerful factor in life:
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“When every prayer ;was like a lover’s
song,
Because to live was love and love is
prayer.”
The strong antithesis of Mr. Har
man’s thoughts to those of Omar
Khayyam given ex
Rubaiyat” is fore
in his stanzas of
found under a
larger illustrations and which follow
directly after the style of “The Ru
baiyat.” Mr. Harman seems to have
adopted this/style for his bright arid
cheerful cut lines to give "went more
forcefully to his sunny disposition in
making the reader thing of the gloomy
verses of the great Persian poet, the
resulting antithesis being so strongly
drawn that it is impbssible to fail to
appreciate it. In the following little,
skit to the daffodil, Mr. Harman seems
to have taken the writer of “The Ru
baiyat” to task:
barbarians about that burning affair
that never happened in Cochran, Ga.
As to Roads.
A good country road is always
to be desired and is a source of
comfort and convenience to every
traveler. Good roads attract popu
lation, as well as good schools and
churches. Good roads improve the
Value of the property, so that it is
said a farm lying five miles from
market, connected by a bad road
is of less value than an equally
good farm lying ten miles away
from market connected by a good
road. A larger load can be drawn
by one horse over, a good road
than by two over a bad one. Good
roads encourage the greater ex
change of products and commodi
ties between one section and an
other.—Eatonton News.
All these things are true. Good
roads save teams, wagons and. bug-
. . gies. Bad roads cost the taxpayers
“E’en yet while snow is still upon the more than good ones.
bills,
Where the Revolutions Begin.
Secretary /Knox has given the Nica
raguan representative at Washington
his walking papers in language that
And Winter’s icy touch, the valley fills,
God sends a pledge of what the
'Spring will be ., : . >
In golden glory of the daffodils.”
; wou bl like to reproduce the en-1 might appropriately be addressed to a
tire book here, but that would be im- notorious outlaw or pirate. President
possible. The poems are the kind that Zelaya, head of the de facto govem-
make people the better for having read ment of Nicaragua, while fighting the
them, and the book is one that, after it insurgent leader, Estrada, may have
^ has been thoroughly read, it . will be behaved like a pirate and an outlaw,
placed in a convenient place for ready for civilization in Central America is
reference at all times. j not of the highest type, but if he were
t . +— »— . - - strong enough to go- to war with the
Without^ doubt, Zelaya has a strong United States we venture to believe
fellow-feeling for Mr. Castro. I that he would be handled much, more
BOYS RUINED IN THEIR OWN HOMES.
(Americus Times-Recorder.)
The report from the larger cities of /proper punishment at the hands of the
the land showing the rapid increase in * father, who condones his disregard of
the business of the juvenile courts is ' ' ’' - - - -
not an encouraging feature of the life
of today. It indicates either a moral
degeneration in the race or careless
ness or absolute indifference in the
training of the young that is suggest
ive of very sad consequences in the
coming years. Added to the tremen
dous increase in crime throughout the
country among adults, the sweeping
growth of divorce, and the flood of im
morality that characterizes the great
cities of the country, it is well calcu
lated to produce serious thoughts even
among those not inclined to view things
with a pessimistic eye. A nation where
violation of the laws is becoming pro
nounced among the growing boys faces
a problem that may be difficult of solu
tion, but that must be grappled with
if the very, foundations on which pub
lic peace and the permanency of gov
ernment rest are not to be weakened
and rendered insecure.
Three factors must be put to work
to remedy this condition, this appar
ently growing trend among the youth
of the country toward a false view of
life and the weakening of the moral
standards of the future generations, if
not toward the actual commission of
crimes. They are the home, the public
schools and the church. Their relative
importance is about in the order in
which they are given. First andi most
important stands the home. Given a
home in which respect 'for parental
authority is observed, in which respect
for the rights of others is inculcated,
where obedience to the Jaws of the com
munity is taught and insisted upon,
and where a cledn atmosphere sur
rounds the children, and the output in
men and women is apt to measure up
to x a reasonably good standard of de
cency in all things. Given one in which
the parents fail in these essentials, in
which offenses against neighbors or the
public generally are condoned, in which
the children are sustained in their'
inclinations toward wrongdoing, in
which the wishes of the child and not
its best interest govern, and the result
is almost inevitably an addition to the
cases to be dealt with in the courts.
Indifference on the part of the par
ents of the land is undoubtedly today
the one single greatest cause of mis
demeanors and crimes. The father who
fails to know whether his boy carries
revolver, whether he is reading trashy
stories, whether he is running the
streets at a late hour of the night, is
laying up stores of trouble for himself
and the community. The mother who
excuses the boy’s misconduct in school
and places the responsibility on the
property rights and indulges his idle
tendencies, is apt to find sorrow and
shame her reward in later years. Yet in
how many homes are these the preva
lent conditions? In the home circle
the foundations must be laid on which
character is to be reared, and in too
many homes the foundation is purely
one of quicksand.
Discussing this feature of some re
cent bold crimes by boys, a writer in
the New York Tribune insists that the
reformation , of many parents is really
what is needed. Says he in tfrig con
nection :
“Precocity seems to be inherent in
the modem youth, but to judge from
the number of stories of crimes com
mitted during the last few days by
boys who ought to be in the grammar
or high schools it would appear thaf
the time has arrived to restore the
rising generation to its old status. In
Kansas a youth of 17, with a com
panion of 15, robs-a bank, kills a po
liceman and injures another man. At
Syracuse two young men with wild
west aspirations, one of them 18 and
the other 16 years of age, climb aboard
a train while at the station and enter
the express car to rob it after the train
is well under way. At New Albany,
Ihd, a 17-year-old reader of cheap
blood-and-thunder novels, in an effort
to rob the Merchants’ National, bank; ..
shoots and kills the cashier and se
riously wounds the president of the in
stitution.
“There is some reason to believe that
the boys themselves are not entirely at
fault. Parental responsibility rests
teacher, who protects the boy from spring.”
more lightly upon heads of households
today, apparently, than it did a gener
ation ago. However we may deplore
the use of these persuasive means so
much in vogue in the boyhoods of the
grandfathers of the present generation,
and however .much we may approve
of the modem methods of moral
suasion—where it works—there still
lingers the suspicion that a session in
the woodshed with the stem father and
a good strap might have a most salu
tary effect on some of the present-day
juvenile criminals. Probably many
parents might say, if they would, in
the words of the New Albany father:
‘To tell the truth, the boy never had
proper care. He has reared himself
and was an inveterate reader of cheap
novels.’ It is to be feared that many
parents are too busy to devote the
proper amount of time to the training
of their children, and where this is the
case they have only themselves to
blame when shame and disgrace are
brought upon their heads by their off-
With the transport Dixie on the way,
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now sure enough.
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organ-eyezation.
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