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“A Paper with a Purpose*’ Printed l>y tke Reformatory Boys Doing tke Beat Tkey Can. Published Promptly as Often ee Possible Au echo of the State’s effort to give every boy a chance in life Published Every Saturday Afternoon GEORGIA STATE REFORMATORY JOSEPH E. LOWORN Superintendent Entered at the Milledgeville, Georgia Post Office as Mail Matter of the Second Class Subscription: $1.00 In Advance CHAS. A. STALLINGS. Foreman FRANK A. WIND, Apprentice JOHN D. INGRAM, Apprentice HARRY WALLACE, Apprentice HINTON E. BARFIELD, Appientice ERNEST T. RANDALL, Office Boy Saturday, January 16, 1915 OUR CREED For every article under the sun There is an author, or there is none. If there be one, go and find it; if there be none f never mind it. Governor Blease must have resign ed because he could not stand the thought of having the people celebrate his retirement to private life in con nection with the birthdays of Robt. E. Lee and Edgar Allen Poe. QUESTIONS FOR NEXT WEEK ( i ) A newspaper pirugraph savs “The Little Blue Hen” state .still maintains a pillory and whipping post for evil doers, in every kind of county jail. What state does it mean, anc how did it get its name “Blue Hen”? (2) If no candidate for president and vice-president received a mo- jorily of the votes in the electoral college, how would they be elected? (3) What is the national song of the United States? (Answers to last week’s questions) (1) What Queen of history was formally crowned and dedicated as King? (1) Queen Christina of Sweden ; the only child of the great Gustavus Adolphus, born in 1626. She suc ceeded her father as sovereign up on his death when only six years old. She is described as beautiful and brilliant, and was given the literary course then only given to men. By her own request she was crowned king instead of queen, and for several years she proved a ruler of exceptional ability ; but her adventurous nature could not long endure the restraint on her personal actions which her station as queen made necessary, so she resigned the throne in favor of her cousin Charles reserving full authority over his own household. She was now 28 years old ami travelled over Europe to her own liking. She alternated between conducting religious services, and riding horse back as a knight-errant. Finally becoming tired of this wandering life she sought the death of King Charles as a means of regaining her throne but in this she failed. • She died at Rome in 1689. - (2) Who wrote the poem begin ning “Stont walls do not a prison make. Nor iron bars a cage,” which was printed in the Future Citizen some time ago? (2) The poem “To Althea from Prison,” which contains the lines: “Stone walls do not a^prison make, Nor iron bars a cage.” was writ ten by Richard Lovelace, a cava lier pi.et of England. This beautiful lyric was not pub lished in the Future Citizen, but only a short poem which referred to it, and quoted the two lines a- bove. Lovelace was an Oxford scholar and a leader of the Royalists. He presented a petition to the house of commons asking them to restore the King to his rights. For this he was sentenced to prison, and spent several years behind the bars. Here he produced his best lyric poems. We have for some time noticed that many of our bright exchanges among the school publications have a department devoted to exchanges in which they say things about each other. This a beautiful and saiu- tory custom, and we like the spirit of fellowship it develops and fosters. We have long wanted to invade this field and express our apprecia tion in a more concrete and person al way of the helpful, highclass pub lications that come to our table; but we hardly know where to begin. With practically every publication in Georgiu, and the educational Journals published by the institu- of almost every State in the Union we will be undertaking no mean task to even mention all. We are emboldened to at least pay a passing tribute to those of a strictly educational nature, such as are issued by the various schools and other institutions. But we have observed among some of these a slight disposition to be hyper critical, and speak of each other, not only as they are, hut as they are’nt but ought to be. This makes us tackle the job with a good deal of trepidation. So far, our illus trious contemporaries have been exceedingly kind to the Future Citizen, and all seem to “View us not with a critic’s eye, But pass our imperfections by,” and we hesitate to take the risk of disturbing our peaceful tranquility, because we would hate to see our. beautiful hide stretched on a pole. Anyhow, it kind o’ strikes us that according to the rule of the eternal fitness of things, these criti cal folks who know exactly how a newspaper should be run, and en joy telling about it, have got no business running a publication, All such ought to be enjoying life liber ty and the pursuit of happiness and the evasive coin, in other walks of life; so that '.ney may feel free to give advice to all the editors of our land and country, without let or hindrance, and where none can molest # or make them afraid, or, words to that effect. On second thought, we have de cided to wait a little and see what happens to some of the other angels, before we rush in where fools fear to tread. Fault Is a thin* anybody can find, but some quicker than others on account of intimate familiarity