The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1902-11-07
Halloween.

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It was pleasant to note the normal
condition of things generally in this
neck of woods on the morning of the
initial day of November this year, as
compared TO similar dates of past years.
This was due either TO change OF
heart on the part of the thoughtless,
frolicsome members of the rising gen.
Grafton, or the fact that the weather
bureau favored us with the most dis
NAL, disagreeable night thus far exper-
fenced this season.
OF all the senseless, anarchical pro-
ceedings that are INDUCED in and con-
doned by our people, that Of the dam
age to and destruction of property of
Others by the incorrigible youth and
shallow-minded older people on Hal
lowe'en seems to be the worst. 1t
were not so bad ifit went no further
than innocent jokes; but when the
spirit of lawlessness and disregard for
the lives and property of Others are in
the ascendancy, it is time for the civil
authorities to take an active part in
the operations. So the people of Port
land seem to think after last years ex-
perience, and they doubled their po-
lice force, and many of their property
owners turned policemen on their own
account in order to protect their hold
ings from wanton destruction. No
one could have the slightest objection
to the young people having lark and
playing pranks, would they but elm
mate from their operations the element
of danger to life, limb and property of
their neighbors, which is so universally
in evidence on this occasion; and there
is certainly no more valid excuse on
this night, for smashing a mans fence,
gate or vehicle, or tripping HIM by
means of wire or rope across his path,
thereby placrng his file or limb in
jeopardy, than there Is for committing
these same acts of vandalism on any
other night or day of the year, and 1t
ought to be met with the same rigor-
GUS treatment in the one case as In the
other. Our citizens congratulated
themselves, therefore at their escape
from the deviltries ordinarily practiced
on Halloween and our boys have con-
sequently risen big notch in their
esteem. 1t is up to our young folks to
maintain this desirable position by rele-
eating this relic of barbarsm to the
shades of oblivion.
There is another phase Of the case
which Is equally applicable to other oc-
casians as well as to Halloween. Those
children who have been rightly brought
up do not resort to lawlessness and
although full of life and vivacity, and
bent on getting all the enjoyment out
of life they may; their sense of Justice
and their regard for the rights of 9TH
ers naturally restrain them from en-
gaging in malicious, lawless acts
1t does seem that there can be no more
heartrending experience, or one more
franght with the keenest anguish and
misery than for parent to hear from
the lips of son or daughter, from be-
hind prison bars or the shadow of the
gallows, the reproachful, despairing
words: "0h father mother, if you had
corrected me in my childhood and
curbed my willfulness, would not
have come to this"
Many people say it is cruel to whipor
scold child. 1t Is even so, when other
means will do, but if it comes to be
necessary to tho proper training of
the child, it is the bitterest of selfish
cruelty to spare yourself the pain of
properly Furnishing your child and en-
forcing due respect for the rights of
Others and regard for your commands
and instruction. There is too much of
this laxity of discipline here in Oregon
the same as elsewhere, and the parents
of those children who are habitually
disobedient, disrespectful to their
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to strangers, who disregard the rights
of their fellows, are heaping upa load
of misery to themselves and sorrow to
their children. Let us look to our
children. The hope of our nation lies
in them. If our nation Is to be perpet-
uated and prosperous it must be
through them. lfit comes to anarchy
and ruin, it will be through their
hands. Choose, therefore, that which
is desirable, a glorious country, full of
joy, peace and happiness, and let us so
train and educate our children that
when the reins of government shall
fall into their hands, it will be as nat
ural for them to be Just, kind and true
as 1t is for the waters of our own Hood
river to be bright, pure aud sparkling
We begin the training of our child
rem in our homes. At the age of six
We divide that training with the teach
ers in our public schools. The teacher,
then, Is entitled to our sincerest SYM
pathy, our most hearty support and
encouragement If capable and faithful,
and If not so, should be as promptly
removed from the supervision of our
little ones. Our Hood River teachers
are deserving of the highest praise for the
active interest they have manifested
in their work and the success of the
pupils in their CHARGE. They have
teachers association which meets
twice each month, and to these meet
ings they have invited "every parent
who has the welfare of his child at
heart, and who wishes to come into
close sympathy and conference with
his instructors; and any one who has
been, or intends to be n teacher, and
who can add, either by suggestion or
presence to the interest of the meet
ings." Do you meet with them? Do
you speak word of encouragement to
them? Do you ever visit the school or
in any other way display the slightest
interest in the success of the teacher or
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If not, and either one proves failure,
you will at least be guilty of cOntribu-
tory negligence, and are thus barred
from any just cause of complaint.
1t must be gratifying to parents to
note the wonderful improvement in
the attendance and punciuality in the
the schools reporting in last weeks
issue of the Glacier, and the school at
Cascade Locks may justly be proud Of
their record, prouder of that, than of
the banner which it captured.
It rests with US, the parents and
guardians Of the young, TO at least
manifest as deep aud abiding interest
in the intellectual and moral develop
ment of our children as do those friends
we employ TO direct and further that
development. Let Us encourage a spir-
IL In our children of research and study
of perseverance and punctuality, of
honesty and Justice toward their teach
er and their fellows. Let us attend
the meetings Of the association, aud
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