The Mena weekly star., 1911-03-23
HIGH SCHOOL TREAT
!, H. A. Bowling Made an Address
IN which Words We're Not Wasted
Full Of Good Points.


Dr H. A. Bowling. general secre.
~ Of the Arkansas Sunday School
association, spent two days in Mena
.ss;stina in a county convention.
Wbile here he visited the High school
I'D dave talk that was so greatly
cemmended that We give below some
Il the points he made.
He said that there were four words
M two pictures he desired to give
hem
Muscle. Every boy has an in
herent right to a good strong body.
M can have a strong body if be has
he right kind of food. properly pre-
oared and assimilated. His exercise
must be sufficient but not too violent.
Modern athletics have proven great
benefit to the physical develo )ment
II the body. The body must be kept
clean; every boy should own a tooth
Arush. a hair brush, clothes brush
and shoe brush. Here he called
Intention to the professors shoes as
an example. He also called atten-
hon to the fact that thousands of
4ouna men were rejected from the
Spanish-American war on account of
being cigarette fiends and having
weak minds.
mind. Think one good thought
and know it to be their own, is worth
j thousand cleaned by others sown ;"
Here he urged original thinking for
HE sake of discipline. Students
should learn to think and not be par
rots Just imitators. The difference
Between the price of wage earners
"a the difference arising between leav-
ine school and remaining in school
Ind being prepared for the many open
doors of opportunities. There is al
WAYS room at the top for the worthily
prepared.
Il 3-Manners. Here he encouraged
boys ond girls to form habits of good
manners by being as mannerly at
home as in the best of society. Chill
dren should eat with fork and be
polite and courteous to parents and
feachers. You will do the same
thines when you are old as you do
when you are young.
4.-Morals. No life is stronger
Than the moral character. When one
BIZ General Grants subordinates said,
II believe there are no ladies present;
] want to tell a story" General Grant
Replied. There are gentlemen pres
ent The vulgar story was not told
Boys have no right to tell story in
the presence of boys that they would
hot tell in the presence of mothers,
listers OF sweethearts. Every word
spoken becomes a part of ones self,
4or we become part Of everything
We see. There is but one thing that
belongs to us, and that is character
All else belongs to God.
AT this point Mr.. Bowling gave two
pictures. one of a girl who refused to
Undergo discipline at home and at
school, and result was a worthless
Iady of twenty-six years that had
never learned to make herself useful
.at home. The second picture was
chat of an officer in the navy who
when he was child, went to bed at
seven o'clock and was never allowed
10 play on the streets at night. For
nine years he was never tardy at
school or missed a day. He is great
naval officer who does not smoke,
drink or swear. but still maintains his
christian integrity and virtue. and
has been greatly honored, and now,
at 20 years OF age. holds a position Of
trust and honor. Harry L. Pence is
making great record for himself and
is great honor to his parents and to
the community where he was raised
at hillsboro. Ohio, where his parents
still live and are great friends of the
speaker. Learn to think of the pure,
the good and the beautiful. for "as
man thinketh in his head, so is he. "