Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1906-12-19
WHY BOYS SHOULD BE INTER
EsTED IN WORLD AFFAIRS.
Work and Games Of Youthful Hours
All Preparation for Lies Stern
err Dutles-study the Great
Game Of Politics Now.
BY MARGARET E. sANesrER.

q WAhGAHGl e. SAIN9Ol En-
You are very busy to-day, young
man. You have plenty of work in the
schoolroom and any number of press
ing engagements on the playground.
In work and in games you are having
very good time, but the use of 1t all
is to prepare you for future citizen
ship. One of these days, 1t may be,
that you shall be judge, governor,
COMMUNICATIVE or the president
of the United States. Certainly fu-
ture president future judge of the
supreme court, future commander
in-chief, future admiral of the navy
is to be seen to-day on the campus or
in the classroom, and he is getting
ready for his work.
Whether or not you are the boy on
whom great honors and responsible
tiles of some proud position will cen
ter, who can tell? In our country,
however, the man who votes is as inn
portant as the man who is elected,
and il there were no good men and
true to drop the white ballots into
the boxes on election days, who
hhONo NhaL WOhlu bCNOlht VI Vic ot1NO
and the nation? Each has a positive
duty to all the rest, and IL single
one is untrustworthy, he weakens the
effect OF the whole and helps to pull
down the country and the flag that
he loves
/ speak to you as future citizen.
hope you will be an ardent politi-
clan. No game that you play to-day
is one half SO interesting as the great
game of politics The word itself as
you fellows in the Latin class know,
is derived from the word city, and il is
the city with its vast mingling Of in
terests and it's crowding population
that focuses the life of the nation at
strategic points.
The politician does not have to live
in the city to give his thought and
care to the common good of his native
land. In every country town, in every
valley where farmhouses send their
blue smoke curling up to the sky,
honorable politicians may live and do
their work for the welfare of our
great people. Mark the fact. that
Wull0 IntIO dIG anu uioliOllOl-
able politicians, they are in the mi
nority, and there always comes a time.
when they are defeated and their best
laid plans are held up to contempt
while the cause of right triumphs. In
the game of politics, we need to re-
member this stanza; -
For right is right, since God is God,
And right the day must win;
To doubt would be disloyalty,
To falter would be sin"
If you intend to be a politician Of
the right kind, you must begin to pre-
pare yourself now by reading the
newspapers. No future citizen will
ever amount to much who pores over
dime novels and sensational stories,
and let's newspapers pass him by.
The daily press gives us the story of
the great world in which we live. A
good newspaper is worth as much in
the education you are getting as your
lexicon, your algebra or your Latin
text book. The world Is closely knit
together, and the politics and finance
of one part of the globe have great
deal to do with what may be going on
thousands of miles away in another
part of the globe
Unless you are contented to be ig-
norant and narrow and prejudiced, you
will listen to the talk that goes on
about you, and you will sometimes go
with your father or uncle to polit-
teal meeting.
The future citizen should, on the
whole, be a party man, for the reason.
that parties stand for principles. In
country like ours, there are always