Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-03-26
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We live in progressive country
III progressive age. The demands
of our higher civ tfizatiun arn' uetom
ing more exacting over body and
mind. A higher status of EDUCATION
i'll our first class colleges and univer
sites is taxing the strength of the
rising generation to it's fullest extent.
II there be not n conservation of
physical vigor among our youth, de-
terioration will be tho inevitable re
suit, aud n consequent failure to
make the most and best of life. Our
fore fathers moreover have bequeath.
ed to past generations rich legacies
i'll noble examples of SELF denial; use
full lessons of prudence and thrift;
lives of nprightness, truth and right
eousuess. 1t is the duty and pr::vi.
lege Of fathers and heads of families
today to perpetuate to the rising
generation, lessons CLEANED from
books, from observation, from expe
rience. LET us again note some of
the changes being wrought among
our people in hubits and customs
during the past few years.
In many households were to he
found few books of high moral and
literary merit; the trend today we
fear in too many homes is the sub
stitution of cheaper books. of doubt
full tone, regarding patriotism, NOR
ality, religion. The clay pipe, and
cigar both injurious to some extent,
have been superseded by the cigar
cite pronounced exceedingly ipju
rious in the opinion of professional
mer, both medical and scientific.
Strong drink, in large quantities is
being surreptitiously introduced;
the precursor of strife, poverty and
crime. Now what are and what will
continue to be the result of the
ebove mentioned changes in habits
and customs of our people? A sure
deterioration of the race, physically
mentally, morally. Wrong standards
of virtue and morality, imbibed by
the immature book reading youth =
misleading views of the tenets of
Christianity Leading to skeptlcism
and inidelity-parental control
wholly disregarded We live like
wise in communities bound together
by business interests, by social ties.
by church relationship. If good ex
lists IL given community, the good
will leaven that community; il evil
EXISTS. the evil will leaven that com
munity. II respect for parental au
thority; if respect for religion; if q
growing disregard for rules pertain
ing to health and strength of body
and mind be wanting, that commnii
ty is surely to be pitied. We know
that many fathers and mothers are
solicitous about the highest welfare
of their children shielding them un
der the parental roof from that which
is harmful and COMMUNICATING. But
look at the object lessons presented
the children out of doors. At fes
tive seasons, during political cam
paigus witness the existence Of
strong drink in our midst, witness
the ruinous effect to body and mind
of the deadly cigarette, witness the
growing self will of yonpg boys and
girls. How much distress and sor
row has been and is being brought
into the homes and hearts of some
of our best citizens through indul
genee of the above mentioned vices
A few suggestions will conclude this
article.
First. Let orr influential citizens
create sentiment against pernicious
literature. against the introductie n
OF intoxicating liquors, against the
pernicions indulgence in cigarettes,
Secondly Let onr merchants