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THE. FUTURE CITIZEN.
The Future Citizen if
■A PAPER WITH A PURPOSE.
Printed by Th* f •formatory Boy*
Ooln§ th« Beit Thiy Can.
Published Promptly •• Often •• Possible
An K ho of the State 8 effort to
every boy a chance In life.
give
Published Every Saturday Afternoon.
'GEORGIA STATE REFORMATORY
JOSEPH E. LOVVORN
Superintendent.
Entered at the Mllledgeville, Georgia,
Poet Office as Mall Matter
of the Second Class.
tUBtCRIPTION: $1.00 IN ADVANCE
HERBERT Q. O’STEEN—Compositor
CECIL A. DUTTON Compositor
THETIS F. FISHER Apprentice
Saturday, July 22,1916
QUESTIONS FOR NEXT WEEK.
(i) What is a hill as used
constitution, and by how
processes may a bill become a
Give the several steps.
in the
in a ny
law?
that
(j)Is it true as often said
bats are totally blind ; if so how
do they manage to fly among trees,
wires etc. without striking them.
(3) Please explain latitude and
longitude, and tell why it is a
place can have twice as much
longitude as latitude.
What is luck? One paper says,
“a large portion of what the world
calls good luck is composed of
ninety nine parts of ambitions and
one part of talent.” Think that
over and see if you don’t come to
about the same conclusion. Every
one is talented in some way or
other and with ambition they will
be “lucky.” Ex.
§> WHAT ONE MAN SAID %
Dear Future Citizens: 1 Three pretty nara years, us
You ask me to write an article thought then, and as I look back
for your special editior^by the boys , over them now, I know they were
who have gone out and made good, j hard indeed. But 1 wa
We have not room to print even j myself, and so I don’t
all llie boy’s letters without en
larging the paper, and every news
paper man in the country knows
the high cost of print paper will
not allow us to do that. We must
give the preference first to those
letters written by boys who have
been out long enough to show what
they will do. Of course, every one
goes out with good intentions and
with more or less determination to
work and accomplish something, j stood and really wanted to
But only sifter he has had time to [ me. but would risk only what
is a hard nut
think I got
.any more than was coming to mt.
> “1 had many interesting exper-
1 riences thtre. But the richest ones
have been since I came out. I have
done pretty well in a business way ;
though not what the world calls
a brilliant success. But what I have
accomplished has been largely by
the help of 1 fie few good men who
knew all about my course at Nash-
vi lie. These men knew and under
help
they
test his **sticliability” can we judge
whether he is really making good.
A steady job is the main thing.
You know there has never been a
boy sent back to us who went out
and got a job and stuck to it. And,
more than that, we never had a
boy sent to us in the first place
who had a regular job and made
steady time.
A boy may work pretty hard,
but shift about from one job to
another so often that he does not
have time to learn anything well :
and besides a steady employment
•it any one thing has a tendency to
steady a boy in all his habits, while
shifting about tends to cultivate
the roving disposition and first
thing he knows he is off on a lark
looking for a better place, and he
looks in the inirrow some bright
.r.orning and sees a hobo.
1 think 1 ought to tell you of a
conversation J had with a business
man in a Georgia city more than a
year ago. After meeting this man
and stating my business 1 was
invited into his private office, lie
stated that as j had some time, lie
wanted to talk shop just a little
thinking it might interest mt and
also be worth some time in our
work.
1 his is about the way he began :
“Since I have learned something
of the work of the Georgia State
Reformatory, I will tell you what
1 do not take the trouble to tell
every stianger I meet. It is neither
a secret nor a boast ili.u I spent
three years as a boy -.ii the Tenn
essee Reformatory at Nashville.
felt sure would be sate for them
and safe for me. I was just as an
xious to make good on their account
as or. my own ; so, every little debt
that I made (and 1 made very few,
but was compelled to make some)
1 regarded as an asset rather than a
liability, because it gave me a
chance to prove to these friends
that they could depend upon my
cautious judgement and industry
as well as my good intentions. I
believe the Business world judges
ability and caution just as highly
as good intentions. Every beginner
in business is given credit lor
honest intentions, and the main
question is, whether he lias the
business judgment to bold down
his obligations to what he can
meet, i was awfully scary in
assuming an obligation, but when
oiice assumed 1 regaided it as
sacred, and as 1 said before, a new
opportunity jlo piove myself. These
men who knew 7 me furnished the
favorable wind lor my little bus
iness craft, and 1 had to set the
sails and furnish the ballast, and
1 was stronger on ballast than on
shifting sails. But 1 got on pretty^
well, as the bulk of the public 1
dealt with neither knew nor cured
ahum my earlier struggles; they
simply expected me to deliver the
goods and give them a square deal—
it 1 did that to their satisfaction
they stuck to me, and if I didn't
they quit me, and that's all thete
was to it. 1 wanted 10 build up a
good business by square dealing
and 1 soon found that to be the
(Continued on page 7. column 2.)
W- U The Ti"'« ?or AH Men to Com. to The Aid of The Fnhi'e C »«s-A Hist. Kta.