The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-10-22

part OF the company, one reels C0llcu
upon to take himself to task for hav-
ing been even the most unimportant
factor in bringing carnival to u
peaceful town of home lovers.
One Girls Fate.
one incident occurred while the
people were here which ought to APP
peal to every man and woman in TIL
den, a girl in her teens, overcome
by the glamour and tinsel of the brass
band, the crowds, the tawdry setting
of the shows, left her home in neigh
boring town and embarked on n life
that she hoped would be one long
round of mnalloyed pleasure. After
spending few days with the COM
pany, her grief stricken parents
learned of her situation and fastened
to take her back to their hearts and
home But what Of that thoughtless
girls future? The old saying that you
cannot touch pitch without being de-
filed by it, prevails, and that girls
reputation is and always will ha
smirched by her contact for period
of less than week, with persons who
have no character to lose
Streets Cluttered Up.
From a sanitary view carnival held
to be cluttered up with hay and straw
that made them look like q feed yard,
is lawless. The streets of a town are
dedicated to the public and unless
public necessity demands, Instructions
to free traffic on the highways ought
not to be tolerated either by the mu-
nicipal authorities, the business men
of the town or the farmers whose
right to drive on any thoroughfare is
unquestioned.
Firm a sanitary view carnival held
on the streets of town Is an abom-
nation. Besides the risk OF contt-
gious disease which the exposure of
the carnival peoples life invites, is
the danger of the accumulated filth
left behind them. That an epidemic
of typhoid fever or some other equally
dangerous disease did not follow in
the wake of the Tilden carnival is as
great piece of good luck as ever te-
fell community.
Another thing to be considered Is
the expenditure of money that, in
many instances, should have been used
for necessities. If the paid shows
were elevating, instructive or whole
somely amusing, this article would
: never have been printed. But even
this much cannot be said for them
They are all of the "catchpenny" or
der, and possess scarcely feature to
recommend them to either old or
| tvn, 81, ~, til
| ing receptacle for innumerable dimes
that had far better be thrown into the
Elkhorn river.
Danger to Boys and Girls.
, The tendency to Righteousness
which prevails at a carnival is enough
in itself to condemn it, and should set
} all right thinking men to bordering
, over the advisability of holding an.
other. The danger to boys and girls
is incalculable, and surely none can
! condone the utter disregard Of the
! convenience of the public on such
: occasions.
, The question of money which may
} possibly be allowed to enter the con
sideration is too trivial to be used as
! argument. Better by far that this OIL
: that civic organization surrender its
charter than that it should be the
means, however remote, or robbing q
: home of beloved daughter, or oil
starting an unsophisticated son on the
? road to ruin. The riffraff, of which
= most carnival companies is composed
were not long ago innocent young
l boys and pure young girls, such as
gladden. most of the happy homes II
g Tilden; and who will say that, In the
Y absence of carnival companies, they
/ would not have grown up to be re
spected and useful men and women
e each fitted for an honorable career il
= the republic? If this line of reasonin,
!. is logical, as most Citizen readers will
:. conCede, isn't it bordering on the dan
gerous edge of criminality to encour
i age the continued existence of vic,
c and vulgarity in such form?
{ If the subject should be written III
: AS it deserves. the article would b,
r both too coarse and too delicate TO
e publication in newspaper which de
sires to print nothing that cannot b,
read with propriety in refined societ,
and by the most tenderly nurture,
II children. But the Citizen hopes tina
e the expression of the mild criticism
l. here printed will result in the abar
l. donment of carnivals in Tilden for al
S time. The word carnival means fare
l. well to meat, so the dictionary tell
r us; and, in the early days of the chris
g tan church, was a sort of jollficatio
s Immediately before Lent. But tn
n world at that time was only slightly r,
moved from savagery, and the carniva
r is a survival of barbarism.
n Favors Clean Annual Festival.
n While strongly opposed to holdin
IS another carnival, the paper is a
strongly in favor of having an annut
y celebration of some kind which will b
g the means of bringing the town an
h, surrounding country together for ful
re amusement and recreation. BY a
re means have three days or a week d.
Ig voted to baseball, horse racing and a
" kinds of sports. Hire a brass ban,