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A Paper With a Purpose, Printed by the Reformatory Boys Doing the Best They Can.
Volume III. Milledgeville, Ga., Saturday, August 26, 1916.
Number 20
LOOKING RT THE SUNNY SIDE OF LIFE
What home Is
YOUR SUCCESS LIES IN USEFULNESS
Do Not Receive Your Losess In
This Life With a Frown, But
Smile And Think Of The
Many Better Days
The conspiracy of evil is to con
vince man that he has little or
nothing to be grateful for, and it
proceeds to make good its argu
ments by presenting a human
history all distorted by self sympa
thy, vain desires, vice and a long
li-t of woe, then urge*, us to accept
this fable as being our own his
torv. If we grumble about our
hard lot, it is because we are ready
to believe the fable and carry a
burden of wrong thoughts.
We can never be ha-ppy, because
we are never satisfied, and until
we are contented, we will never
know real joy. When we know
how to make the best of what we
have and put away the grumbling
for something which we are unable
to have, we then may hope for
bette* - things. Do not brood or
grieve w hen you think you have
been unjustly dealt with. The
majority of cases will show the
wrong a i.ancied one and not of
any importance, other than your
own meutal action makes it If
you do, you are only storing up a
large pile of self sympathy and
if you are not careful it will snow
you under. Try and look on the
sunny side of everything You will
not be of much use t-o yourself or
anyone, if you see only the dark
side. Dj not fool yourself into
believing that you are the under
dog and have not received a “square
deal ” The man who believes in
the saying, usually receives it in
just such a place as this.
Cheerfulness is a moral tonic
and it is a pleasure to meet a fellow
who is always ready with a smile.
If lie receives something that is
not pleasing, he does not sit down 1
and growl, but smiles and thinks)
of better davs and better results. 1
A London paper recently offered
a prize for the best definition of
home. Here are some ot the an
swers sent in :
The only spot on eanh where
the faults and failings of fallen
humanity are hidden under the
mantle of charity.
A little hollow scooped out of
the windy hili of the world, where
we can be shielded from its cares
and annoyances.
A hive in which, like the
dustrious bee, youth garners
sweets and memories of life
age to meditate and feed up n.
Home is the coziest, kindness,
sweetest place in all the world, the
c cetie of our purest earthly joys and
deepest sorrows.
A popular but paradoxical in
stitution in which women work in
the absence of men and men rest in
the presence of women.
An amor which shades when the
sunshine of prosperity becomes to
A Sane Man May Do A Crime but
If He Repeats The Offense He
Is Criminally Insane.
So Let Us Repent
t ti
the
for
There are just two kinds of
people in this world. These are the
useful and the useless.
Everybody occasionally makes mis
takes. Hut the difference between
the sane man and the insane i-
that the sane man profits hv his
errors, while the insane person
never learns, hut does the '-■tine
wrong thing over ami over. 'There
is no such thing.as a criminal cla--.
but granting for argument - sake
that it exists, then we all belong
to it..
Prison and punishments have
existed since the dawn of history.
The fear of punishment does not
deter; prisons never reform; and
penitentai ies do not mike men
dazzling; a harbor where the num j penitent. The men who come on*
an bark finds shelter in the time of I oi prison are. as a rule, more in
adversity.
Home is the persons estate with
out injustice, kepi without dis
quietude; a place where time is
spent without repentance and
which is ruled by justice, mercy
and love.
—Presbyterian Banner.
Some of ns will not admit being
happy where the occasion calls for
gladness. Nothing lias retarded
the acceptance of truth or pi ogress
in it more than a settled reluctance
to be happy unless we have our
physical senses satisfied
Take what you have, and receive,
make (lie best of it, and you will
soon realize that what you have
will answer just as well, as though
it were what you had hoped for.
If you ever iosc on a play in ttie
competent than when thev went
in. The parole system has lound
favor wherever it has been tried.
In future, parole will take the
place of punishment, and the
insane asylum will take the place
of t he prison.
The test will be: Is ihe man use
ful or useless? Does hi* liberty
add to the health, happiness, and
well being of the community, or is
he a menace, a danger, and one
unfit for freedom?
Neither science nor experience
has shown us the line of cleav !g e
between the mentally defective
and the criminal. The insane turn
does the wrong thing, and so doe-
the criminal and both suffer
Common sense reveals to us
that health, happiness, and pros
petit) lie in useful work. Success
lies in human service. To cause tin-
gamble of life, take your loss with . .
,,, „ , . i happiness tor another is to summon
a smile, you will hud that you are I
the winner in the end. —Ex. (Continued on page 8 column > }
HAVE YOU A LITTLE FUTURE " iTtZEN Y^UR HOME?—WELL. YOU SHOio.,,
