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PAG E 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.