Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1906-02-22

ilSSo OSlOlS SAASy S0C CiAlouSll
that foolish, degrading practice
called hazing. Boys and even
girls are allowed in these col
|eges to carry on performances
that are a disgrace to civiliza-
ton, if newspaper reports are
true. If the people of China
should practice such things you
would be collecting money to
send missionaries among them.
| will relate one incident that
you may all remember, for it
h opened last November and
the account was in many pa
pers. At Kenyon, Ohio, is
located Gambler college. At
tending that college was a
young man by the name Of
Stuart l.. Pierson. A college
fraternity known as the Delta
Kappa Epsilon is one of the
fraternal institutions of that
college. When young Pierson
came to college the first thing
to be attended to was to initiate
him into the mysteries of this
order. First he was made to
crawl through the town on his
hands and knees while his COM
panions beat him with sticks
and stones. Deep abcesses
formed on his limbs until he
could not walk for some time,
but as soon as he could walk
they must finish the initiation
ceremony, so they took him to
a railroad bridge and tied him
to the track and went away in
tending to return and release
him before the regular train
was due, but when they went
to release him an extra train
had been scheduled for that
fateful night and he was al
ready cut into shreds. But no
one could be punished tor that
dreadful deed for not one of all
the thousands of this fraternity
would dare to betray the facts
of this terrible tragedy. A
college education counts for
little unless mixed with plenty
of common sense.
1t was a boy born in a log
cabin and without schooling or
books who won the admiration
of mankind by his plain, prac-
tical wisdom while president
|during our civil war and who
emancipated four million slaves.
There is success for every boy
under our flag who has energy
and ability to sieze his oppor-
tunities. 1t matters not wheth-
err he is born in a cabin or a
mansion, if he only learns that
character is success and there
lis no other, for believe to
have a good moral character is
) the highest success a young
man can attain and the work
of making it the noblest work
on earth. At the time of the
|Chicago fire many men lost
every dollar they possessed, but
were soon into business again,
because the commercial agen-
cies said they were honest,
they were Industrious. This
record was as good as a bank
account. Character was the
coin which enabled penniless
men to buy thousands of dol
lars worth Of goods. Their
characters did not burn up
with their stores. The best
part of them was beyond the
reach of fire. Capacity has
much to do with young mems
possibilities, one will succeed
where another will fail. One
is born with good business abil-
tiles and a resolute will power
that will say 81 will find a way
or make one" while the other
} simply drifts along. | believe
there is much in environments
before birth, and if people only
understood how this generation
has the destinies of the next
generation in their hands they
would improve the next gener-
alton much more than they will.
Men will spend any amount of
} money and time trying to inn
prove their stock by caring for
the dams in the Lest manner
possible. But who ever hears
of one that tries to improve the
immortal souls trusted to his
: care by making everything as
J pleasant as he can for the pros
J, pective mother of his children,
and the reason that he does not
} is because he does not know the
| effect upon his children. l am
!, glad that our grand and glor-
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