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Mount Vernon, Ga.. Thursday Morning, Sept. 4, 1913.
Place the Boys in
The School Room.
“Train up a child in the way
he should go; and when he is
old he will not depart from it,”
says the Wise Man. In this as
well as hundreds of other
proverbs, Soloman knew what he
was talking about. He had somt
experience in raising boys (not
to discuss his family affairs, at
all, however) and knew the im
portance of home training. The
proverb quoted should not be ap
plied entirely to boys, of course,
but since it fits this species so
aptly, we rise to remark on th<
importance of looking after the
moral and educational welfare of
the coming men of the nation,
particularly those of the neigh
borhood, whose daily walk como
under our observation.
For the past four months the
schools have been at recess, and
the boys have had a long rest,-
rnost of them nothing but rest —
and now that books are in order,
there is no further room on the
streets for the boys, except those
who willingly sacrifice the op
portunities of their lives, and
look with scorn on the school
room. Certainly they need the
vacation those who are regular
school term students hut in so
many cases the rest cure has
been overdone and an attitude of
vagancy has supplanted it. If
there were no school advantages
offered the boys, there tnight be
some excuse for a lack of brain
building and character strength
ening; but the lack of education
al advantages vanished with past
history, and no parents, be they
ever so blind to the needs of their
children, can fail to realize the
present day opport unities for the
eduction of their children.
The day of private tutors, even
for the rich, likewise passed with
the past century, and now the
poor and rich alike can share the
benefits of the public school room,
where equal priviliges are ac
corded to all alike. In fact, the
educational advantages were
never greater in this section, or
any other section of tne state as
for that. Ileforo the close of
this week, hundreds of school
rooms will have opened inviting
doors, and thousands of willing
minds will be applied to studies.
So much for those who tire will
ing to accept the opportunities;
they receive the untold benefits
arising from broad views of
trained minds the power of ed
ucation.
Hut, what is to come of the
boys who fail to grasp the oppor
tunities offered through the pub
lic school room? Their mark is
seldom made, and its many cases
they receive the brands of crimi
nals. We do not say that edu
cated men are immune from
criminality, for such is not al
ways the case; but as a matter
of fact, there goes with intellec
tual training a certain atmosphere
of movul training, neither of
which ever reaches a l>oy while
he is allowed to squander his
time on the streets or around a
baseball diamond, or any other
questionable surroundings. The
school room is the place for the
mind training, and the home is
the citadel of moral training, and
not the streets and perpetual
play grounds.
This view, however, is not
shared by a majority of the pa
rents of this community, judging
from the great number of boys
who have Ikhmi allowed to spend
the summer in absolute idleness,
and on the public throughfares
at that. The parent is the natu
ral guardian of his child, and as
such is to a very large extent
responsible for its training and
welfare, and likewise for the
tltimate success or failure. The
chool room is a great safeguard
against failure, coupled with the
home training, of course; and be
fore the close of this week we
hope to see these streets as va
cant as the sands of Sahara, as
far as boys are concerned. If
there are any who did not enter
the local school at the opening
Tuesday, let next Tuesday find
them in their places; and let it
he a disgrace on any parent to
have his hoy found on these
streets during school hours. Th<
vacation period has passed, and
with it any excuse for vagrancy
on the part of the hoys.
The tendency toward neglect
is probably not characteristic of
this neighborhood only during;
the summer months, but extends
far and wide. Our remarks,
however, are based on local con
ditions, with which we are fa
miliar and which we deplore.
Not half a dozen boys of this
community have sought employe
ment during the vacation season,
while scores, anywhere from six
to twenty-five have haunted these
streets and highways from early
morn to dewey eve, filling the
very atmosphere with their idle
prattlings, seemingly indifferent
to everything but idleness and
vagrancy.
We do not advocate all work
and no play, for this makes dull
ness, intellectually; but thi
eternal vagrancy is more than
can be tolerated in this advanced
day of opportunities. Put your
boys in the school room, where
J they may receive some training
fitting them for after life. The
school is a public institution,
hence we continue to advocate
it; the home is a private institu
tion, and therefore we do not
take the liberty of prescribing a
system of training beyond this
sacred threshold. Parents are
morally bound to administer some
form of home training, and to a
great measure they should be
legally hound to administer intel
lectual training which readily
harmonizes with the home in
fluences. And while we have
never advocated very strongly
compulsory education, in many
cases the need of such a law in
the good state of Georgia is evi
dent.
i Raise the standard of intelli
gence and reflect credit on tin
home by placing the boys in
school and keeping them there;
make men of them, and not va
grants and criminals.
The progress of the times de
mands it; the common moral at
mosphere demands it.
The fate of the Titan tic last
year, then the largest ship afloat,
and the hundreds of souls that
went down with her, and the
recent severe damage to the Im
perator in New York barber by
fire, now the most massive and
palatial floating palace, prove
that even the larger ships are
not immune from danger. They
are unwieldly, and their destruc
tion shows that there is a limit
to man’s greatness.
Expects 600 Pounds of
Pumpkins From Vine.
Statesboro. Sept. 2.—Probably
the record for pumpkin raising in
Bulloch county is held bv J. R.
Miller, editor of the Statesboro
News, and manager of the Bui
| loch county fair, to be held in
October. He is cultivating a
large tract of land for display
purposes and stated today that
he picked two this morning
I weighing 100 pounds each. He
says there were nine on the vine,
but the others will not be a*
large as these two. He states,
however, that he expects be
tween 500 and 600 pounds of
pumpkin from this one vine.
Some of Mr. Miller's neighbors
are of the opinion that he in
tends to live on pumpkin pie for
' some time to come.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR THURSDAY, SEPT. 4, 1913.
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Macon Telegraph: —A bell boy
stole S9O from the hotel room of
Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes while
she was making a speech in
another part of Lima, Ohio. In
stead of reporting the case to the
police, she asked; “What is my
+9O compared with that boy's fu
ture?” What was her poor little
->um of S9O, indeed, compared
with that boy’s future hauls, for
without a salutary check at the
outset he is likely to do similar
business on a much larger scale
later on. The sentimental lady,
without knowing it, would harm
the hell hoy as well as deprive
society of its needed protection
against criminals.
Valdosta Times;—Atlanta is
not a cotton market and Atlanta
banks do not furnish much mon
ey for moving crops, but reports
from Washington indicate that
Atlanta banks are going to get
more than half of the money
which Secretary McAdoo has
laid aside for Georgia. This
looks like somebody had been
“hogging” it for Atlanta.
Greensboro Herald-Journal:—
The man who spends his time
sitting like a toad on a tussock,
waiting for a grand opportunity
while the mildew grows on his
boots, and the moss on his back,
and cobwebs on his brain, will
some day be run over by oppor
tunity—and he ought to be.
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Darien Gazette:—The courts in
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Graymont Hustler: —An old
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Ten-year-old William came
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