Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-18
Better Than the Curfew.

Some of the surrounding cities are
thinking seriously of adopting a curfew
ordinance, which means that when the
curfew bell is rung at s o'clock p. m.,
all children under certain age must
not be allowed on the streets This
appears to be getting back to the old
'blue law The better way is for the
parents to use shingle or slipper on
the children who persist in staying out
| late at night. And also it would be
good idea for parents TO make home
so attractive for the children that they
will not care to CAD the streets. A
great deal of blame should be placed
on the parents, who permit the children
to grow up on the streets because they
are such bother at home. .'-Elwood
Call Leader.
This may be, in the opinion of the
Call Leader, getting back to the "blue
law" but if SO We are heartily in favor
of it. This law is not for the children of
those parents who make home pleasant
so the youngsters will not desire to
roam the street, nor, we might say Is
it for the boy whose parents utilize
the rough side of a shingle or the hard
ened portions of a slipper. A curfew
ordinance is for those boys whose par
ents seem to have no control over them,
who, through some uneXplaiEable rea-
son to great many, have taken the
bits between their teeth and do Just
about as they please.
| 1t is also for the boy whose parents
are so wrapped up in their own self
conceit, or ignorance, that they do not
take the proper precautlon to keep their
boys at home after night fall, and who
let them run at their own sweet will.
Plymouth has large number of that
kind of boys and it is the duty of our
city fathers to see that they are Oft of
the streets at unseemly hours. And it
is fact that Plymouth will have cur
few law. If such laws are reproduction
of the "blue laws" for the sake of the
rising generation and the home, let us
have more of them.
| And while we are along this line, we
might speak about a cigarette ordl-
nance. DO you voters in Plymouth
know that you are just as much TO
blame for the great crowd of young
boys in our city who are slowly killing
themselves smoking cigarettes, as those
who are placed in authority TO make
your laws? Well, you are.
The temperance people hold up their
hands in holy horror, when contem-
plating the disasters brought upon the
American people through strong drink.
Sermon after sermon is preached, and
the curse of the liquor habit is pro-
claimed from nearly every rostrum.
Yet when it comes to the damning in
fluence of the subtle poison, they make
a weak protest. The churches, the w.
G. Il. u. and all other kindred organiza-
tions, even to the Methodist confer
ences, are adopting resolutions con-
demning men who use the filthy weed,
known as tobacco; yet at the same time
while they are doing this, their boys,
perhaps only twelve or fourteen years
of their associates, behind barn, TAX
ing extreme delight in the 'stolen
sweets" of the cigarette.
These are solemn truths. Ply
mouth is in that condition today; and
we know of scores of small boys who
are acquiring this habit, and in some
cases, the parents of those boys are in
terested in the welfare of the rising
generation and are using evry endeav
or to bring about such reformation.
1t is time that those journals that
profess great love for mankind. should
break the political shell that surrounds
them, and raise their voice in behalf Of
the boys of our country, and less twad-
die about the fitness of some favored
politician for office. Instruct your city
council to pass such an ordinance, and
we will guarantee that it will be done.
This is part of your fight, mothers, and
even if you cannot go to the polls and
cast ballot, you can use that sweet
womanly influence that so nobly adorns
the watcher over the home, that will
do more actual good than your ballot.
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