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Per Copy 5 Cts. .hr r ryv^* uO S COLLECnW The Future Citizen P.-r Yrar $1.00 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.,,