Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-28
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Dor as myself" and ever since then
the same principle has been taught to
end all strife. The best in life is
found, not by those who prey upon
EACH other but by those who serve
each other. ~
l., Miss Annie L. Marston chose for her
subject loan of Arc" The part was
| historical sketch of this heroine's
life. giving some of her creditable
! cha raeterfstics. She had scarcely any
education, yet what grander ideals,
| What purer motives, what more useful
| devotion can be imagined than were
developed in the mind of the simple
/ shepherd girl? s.
| Her military career forms a chapter
in the worlds history. Ii tells how
she inspired The king to make her
i com1aander-in chief of the armies of
France: how after that she gained
! numerous victories. She dealt Eng
| land blow from which she for cen
turtles could not recover: she turned
a page in the history of France.
But after her triumphs We're over;
then came her trial Alone and home
1 sick, for weeks the girl defied her
base prosecutors, but at last she fell
| sick; she was ready to give up her
| struggle. On the, Wednesday, after
u Trinity Sunday she underwent her
| maftyrGom. With a simple cross
! bearing the inscription Hereto,
Apostate. Idolater,'' upon her head. in
the sight of thousands she was led
to the funeral pile where she was
! burned. Nearly five centuries have
| passed and she is now idolized for her
bravery. The characterization is sum-
med up in the words of the papal de-
cree, she was pure. as the angels,
strong as lion in trials and battles,
simple as a child and always devoted
to the service of God" Ivy. sa
Waldo Andrews subject was Res
cue Work Among Boys"
We, here in America, either work
to death or make degenerates an army
| of American boys every year greater
than the army of soldiers that either
/ Russia or Japan poured into Man
/ churia Boys are shipped like cattle
i or nogs from one state to another.
This is tremendous loss TO the
| state for they will or would be citi-
/! zens voters, and lawmakers. All the
i dangers to the public that we can i'm
/
| terror
! Such slaughter of the innocents is
| caused by our industrial situation anu
f, and greed and avarice of capitalists.
The home conditions of many boys
are awful while the street, the cheap
show the dance hall, the saloon ana
| the downtown dives are attractive
1t is little wonder that boys choose
| the latter and are lead to vice ana
| crime, are thrown into Jail among old
hardened criminals and come out IN
| reality, the children of Hell. These
/ are the conditions in which we place
nearly million of our boys every
lyear and then pour them into the body
| of our citizenship, the careers of men
| and boys are determined by heredlty,
| by environment, and by Will. Boys
/ cannot control their heredity and they
have no wills. The problem then, is
| to improve their environments.
} Miss Elsie Hayes whose subject
was THE Public Library as a Social
Force" said that when our fore
| fathers came tos this continent nearly
| three@centuries ago, they brought With
them two institutions. the church and
! the public school. '.fhe increased com
plexity of American social conditions
| have created Few problems which the
| old Institutions can not entirely meet.
! To thwart the spirit of commercial
| ISM neglect of the intellectual and
| the spiritual the public library has
| taken it's place as the firm ally of the
| school and the church.
The public library is doing its great
| est work for the child. 1t is work
which the home and the school does
! not provide. 1t is implanting dis
| eliminating love for good literature
| which is the sure road to culture.
| great responsibility rests upon the Ii
brarian, that of reviving the appetite
for literature. The travelling library
also does its welcome work.
| AS yet it is too early to say what
may be the ultimate result of this new
| movement of library expansion. The
problem of the rescue of the child, the
| alien and even the more favored
classes of society from the sordidness
of Recommendation is long one
and the end is vet long way off.
But we may be sure that the library
which aims to lift men into the type
of civic virtue will be an important
| factor in creating the essence of true
| American manhood.
Ralph Pennel Dow gave strong
deep. treatise on Sin He gave
history of sin ever since the creation.
Miltcn's paradise Lost" furnished the
first thought in the Grafton. From
this down to the present day sin has
been in every decade, a living. breath
ing factor. The conclusion he drew
/ II nr
this world. 1t is here and may never
be removed 1t can be justified. only
on one ground. That its presence
nerves men to do their best and TO
strive to keep pure IN heart