Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-02-28
Outside Point of View

Has it occurred to the reader that
what Editor Roosevelt says has mich
less weight than what President Roose-
Welt said during his term of office. We
are accustomed in our way of thinking
pure democracy as we claim to be
to give the person occupying high Of
flee, almost wisdom that apparently
goes with the office. The German
emperor utters a commonplace SEN
tence. The world listens with awe
and even seeks hidden meanings. Some
socialist can say exactly the same
words and it is hardly deemed worth
printing. Grover Cleveland, sheriff in
New York state, used big and long
sleeves President Cleveland re-
marked, "a condition rather than a
theory confronts u.s." and it is a
classic. And il is Very much of a
question if many Of the immortal
words OF Lincoln" had been used by
''rail-splitter Lincoln whether they
would be mentioned, repeated or known
Of by the school boy today. Many a
man swore by the eternal"-and it
! was plain profanity-long before Presi-
dent Jackson eliminated the profanity
and made the words elcquence.
. Stories relating the exploits of des
peradoes. pirates and detectives are
not so bad for the school boy as some
! critics have supposed, according to the
assertion Of Professor Herbert Bates
Of the manual training high school.
] BROOKLYN. in an article on The School
I and Current Fiction" in the January
number of the English Journal. The
educator declares that the youthful
reader may benefit b" the gaod quail
ties displayed by even hardened crini
nails in fiction.
! Professor Bates bars Diamond Dick
/ and Nick Carter from the list Of de-
sirable acquaintance. but insists that
boys need tales of adventure and ac-
4 ton.
These stories, however limited their
MESA ge, seldom fail to teach and even
TO inspire he declares. The young
hero is one who bears pain calmly, who
/ faces danger with resolution. who
dares death unAinchingly. who helps
the weak and puts down the oppressor.
The moral qualities of even the sensa-
tional juvenile story-tho they may be
only the moral qualities of the red
Indian-are still moral qualities"
Accepting this view, and there is
ccnsidera Bile in it, why not all the play.
the drama, the blood and thunder
thriller SO frequently seen on the
modern stage? Nine times out Of ten
the play given to the Sunday night
theater crowd contains all that is
mentioned in the last para graph of the
above. II is admitted that impressions
! gained in youth in Sunday school, from
Sunday school lessons and teaching.
are lasting and influence the whole
after life of the Sunday school scholar.
The argument is equally good in favor
Of juvenile stories and the cheap thea
ter putting on moral plays.
A recent issue of the New York
/ Sun SAYS:
The Rev. Madison c. Peters, who is
selling provisions at cost. said yester-
dat. that the store which he has been
running on small scale at the Home
for Homeless Boys. AS East 123d
street, had been so successful that a.
nancial backing had been secured %
omen three more on next Saturday.
They will be at 23s East 116th street,
on East Seventv-third street near Sec
ond avenue and at 2o3 East Sixty third
street.
Mrs Max Hart DR.. Peters said, had
arranged for the expense Of opening
the East Seventy-third street store.
the republican club for the store on
East Sixty third street and HenrE
Kennel for that on l16th street. Next
"Wednesday a sale will be conducted in
the place on 123d street.
Yesterday all the provisions were
sold within an hour after DR.. Peters
store had opened, and his assistants
| had trouble keeping the purchasers in
line
| If we admit the paternal thing in
governmental or religious affairs, this
work of DR.. Peters and others in the
same line, Is the greatest need of the
Gay. both in the work Of church and
state. Internationally our laws are
made to protect the rich and the poor.
Practically the moneyed power gets
nine-tenths Of the protection. SO that
the salvation army in it's practical be-
nevolence gains the good will Of the
masses. while anarchy and the worst
form Of socialism gains equally. When
Professionalism and Catholicism the
world over can have applied to them.
truly and practically, the words. "by
their deeds ye shall know Them" the
millennium is close at hand.