Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

THF p THE FUTURE CITIZEN page 3 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 j good