Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-15

carries the same threat of wholesale
destruction of game birds. Its use
can be forbidden just as logically as
the use of prohibited devices for kill
ing of the fish.
1t is probable the sportsmen's or
CARNATIONS will bring this matter %
the attention of the legislatures this
winter. If the proposed legislation
is presented in the proper light there
should be no question about its en-
actment in all states where game birds
are sufficiently numerous to warrant
protective legislation. The argument
that the point in question is now COW
cred by laws restricting the size OF
the bag should not be allowed to pre-
vent action. All sportsmen know well
enough that the size of the bag de-
ponds mainly upon the hunters sense
of decency. it being impossible to
provide game wardens enoueR to keep
tab on individual kills during the
shooting season.
WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH OUR
BOYS?
Manson Journal.l
The above question was asked OF
the writer the other day. he is the
parent of bright boys. There are
perhaps forty such boys in Manson,
ranging from thirteen to twenty
years of age. They have a little
work to dc at home and most of them
are boys that earn something. enough
for spending money, more than they
should have. and ten times what their
fathers had at their age. 1T has
been a mystery where the money all
went until lately, by the confession
of some of the boys 1t was discovered
that most of it has gone into the
hands of the fellow Who held the best
cards or was more expert in cheating
his companions. The seeds of gam
bling have peer so thoroughly sown
in Manson tina it is the hope of every
%youngster that will be a success
full gambler and build brick blocks
with his money and have nothing to
do later in life but to collect the
rent. 1t is this example that is max
ing gamblers of practically half the
young men in Manson. You often
wonder, dear parent. where is my
wandering boy tonight? when he does
not get home until ten or eleven
o'clock. Well, we can tell you; he Is
shufning the paste boards and betting
his none just like the men, only In
smaller doses, but the seed is being
sown when he will not only bet all the
money he has got but will bet his
employers money and all he a bor-
row. He is sowing the seeds OF a
wasted life and ruined homes. He is
creating a passion for gambling that
is worse than the liquor habit and
him a dishonest man. Everything Is
claimed to be honest in the mind OF a
gambler and when a man deliberately
cheats his companion at cards he has
led the way to cheat in my other
ann that he can win one
Gambling is the curse of Manson to-
day, as it is of most small towns In
the community and every means
should be used to crush it out.
Parents should look after the boys
just as much as they do after their
girls. They have no more business
out late at night than girls. You
guard with jealous care your daugh-
ter and allow your son to go n come
as he pleases. You do not know what
habits he is forming. You only think
of one thing, and that he cannot be
morally ruined. That is a grlevous
mistake. IL boys were not moral
ruins then girls would be as safe on
the streets as anywhere else. 1t is
because your son is low, mean and
contemplate that girls are ruined.