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THE FUTURE CITIZEN
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SUCCESS
A prize wms offered by a Kansas
newspaper for the best essay on
success. Many were submitted,
but the beautiful, short essey, writ
ten by a woman, carried off the
first honors: “He has achieved
success who has lived well, laughed
often, and loved much ; who has
gained the respect of intelligent
men, and the love of little children ;
who has filled his niche and accom
plished his task ; who has left the
world better than he found it,
whether by an improved poppy,
a perfect poem, or a rescued soul;
who has never lacked appreciation
of earth’s beauty, or failed to ([ex
press il; who has always looked
for the best in others and given
the best he had; whose life was an
inspiration, whose memory a bene
diction.”
Well worth reading over and ov
er again until memorized.—The
Home Journal
Wholesale Liquor Houses Seeking
to Make Blind Tigers Out of
Postal Officials
The wholesale whiskey house? are
attempting to make blind tigers out
of the postal authorities. For sever
al years they have offered R. F. D.
carriers ten per cent commission on
all orders for whiskey. In many
instances such officials have accept
ed the proposition and become the
agents of the whiskey dealers. In
the eves of the law any carrier who
acts in such capacity and receives
such a commission is guilty of sel
ling liquor.
The latest effort to make blind
tigers out of postal officials is a pro
position mailed to postmasters by a
liquor house offering fifty dollars in
gold to the postmaster svho sends
the largest amount of money in pos
tal orders to that whiskey house
during the new year. Such a letter
was received by a postmaster in
Meriwether and doubtless every
such officer in the county got such
a letter.
Is-the postal service to be turned
over to the liquor gang.
We ask the federal government
to investigate this latest effort of
the liquor interest to debauch gov
ernment officials. Such a proposi
tion as made to the postmasters is
an insult to their integrity and the
man that made it ought to be behind'
the bars.—Meriwether Vindicator.
BOYS WILL BE MEN
WHO VOTE WELL
H VE of the features which
attracted attention in the
parade at the inaXigura
tion of President Wilson
was the Hoys’ Club of the
Town of Winston-Salem, North
Carolina.
This Bays’ Club is not as other
Boys’ Clubs.
It is not for amusement, nor for
prancing around with toy guns and
playing soldier.
It is a club with a CIVIC IDE
AL, and as such deserves to be not
ed by ever\ city in the country, and
followed.
It works in co-operation with
the Board of trade, which institu
tion, in Winston-Salem, seems to
have some realization of its civic
responsibilities.
The boys hold mock elections in
school, familiarizing themselves
with the art of American govern
ment, they organize as a legislature
a city council and as a United Stat
es congress. They hear interesting
lectures upon practical self-govern
ment. They are learning DEM
OCRACY, which is a whole heap
belter than Latin archaeology.
They, under the guidance of the
Board of Trade, have collected
statistics of the industries of the
town, which is a town of consider
able importance, empoying $16,
000,000 capitol and 12,000 people
in its various manufactures.
In other words, the men of the
Board of Trade are helping the boys
learn (1) citizenship and (2) the
scope and significance of American
business.
What is done here ought to be
dune in every city and village of
United States.
There is no conceivable thing so
vital to teach in our public schools
as the art of democratis self govern
ment, or how citizens can get their
rights and how feel and discharge
their duties.
These boys subscribe to the
“Athenian Oath,” which ought to
he open to subscription in every
school-room. It is as follows;
We will never bring disgrace to
this our city by any act of dishon
esty or cowardice, nor ever desert
our suffering comrades in the ranks.
VVe will fight for the ideals and
sacred things of the city, both alone
and with many. We will revere
and obey the city’s laws and do our
NEWS FROM HOME
When the evening shade is failin’ at
the closing of the day,
An’ a feller rests from labor, smokin’
at his pipe of clay,
There’s nothing does him so much
good, be fortune up or down,
As the little country paper from his Old
Home Town.
It ain’t a thing of beauty and its print’s
not always clean,
But it straightens out his temper when
a feller’s feelin’ mean;
It takes the wrinkles off his face an’
brushes off the frown,
That little country paper from his Old
Home Town.
It tells of all the parties and the balls
of Pumkin Row,
’Bout who spent Sunday with who’s
girl, and now the crops’ll grow,
An’ now it keeps a feller posted* who’s
up and who is down,
That little country paper from his Old
Home Town.
Now I like to read the dailies and the
story papers, too,
And at times the yaller novels and
some other trash - don't you?
But when I want some other readin’
that’ll brush away a frown,
I want that little paper from my
Old Home Town.
—Denver Post.
“De odder night a few d.ijs ago,
I vos hear me a noise in der mittles
of my front back yard vot didn’t
used to pe, vel I shutnped der bed
up and run mit der door oudt un
der vos my pig gra mare, be vos
tied loose and running mit der stable
avay, whoever brings him pack
shall pa me five dollars reward, now
ain’t it. Vot?”
best to incite a like respect and
reverence in those above us who
are prone to annul or to set them at
naught. We will strive unceasing
ly to quicken the public sense of
civic duty. Thus, in all these ways,
we will transmit this city not less,
but greater, better, and more beaut
iful than it was transmiteed to us.
School teachers, have your pupils
commit it to memory and repeat it
every morning in concert, as they
repeat the creed in churches.
For democracy is not a scheme
nor any kind of device; it is a
religion. So said Muzzini. So let
us all say.—Hearst s Magazine.
Resolved, that every day is a new beginning, and a new opportunity
for me to make
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