The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1912-05-24

Agrippa gave the endeavor OF her
lifo 20 see her son, Nero, on the throne
of the Roman world Agrippa was no
whit nobler than you, mother. Your
dream for your boy may not be so
ambitious-but 1t is in your breast
It was born with the babe, and as
your heart throbbed with the ecstasy
of motherhood there came to abide
with you a great hope-a hope that
has been and Is your dream! And
the dream is that the boy shall be
noble and upright and true and sue
cessful. No matter what individual
things you may hope for in the boy,
your dream Is that he shall be all that
| have enumerated above. And to
help him be what you want him to be,
you will show Spartan's courage.
withstand a Savior,s cross. Mothers
have suffered and died for sons
throughout the worlds history-and
you are a motherl
In life you are for everything that
helps the boy, against everything that
binders him. And above all, no mat
ter how poor you are. you want your
boy to have an education. You pray
that he may have Just a little better
chance in life than his father had.
You want him equipped with the train
Ing so necessary in the game OF life.
You realize. in a vague sort OF way,
what the struggle is among men, and
you would press your heart against
his armor and buckle on his sword
with clinging fingers of love.
Monster Stalks the Land.
Mother, there stalks through the
land today a growing power to defeat
your dream, power which If given
rein will take from your boy the
chance you have prayed and hoped
and petitioned for-the chance of an
education. That power. mother, is
THE PARCELS POST The name
should be forever hated by you. 1t is
the tool of greed, the means by which
the Midas.ike mail-order houses may
gather into their Golfers more gold at
the expense of you and yours.
Let me tell you why the parcels
post. now proposed as law, strikes
at your hopes for the boy.
The parcels post is being backed
by the mail-order houses. Building up
the mail-order houses means tearing
down the home town. Tearing down
the home town means taking away
the high school. RobbIng you of the
high school means that your boy will
fail of an education unless you have
money to send him to college!
And the sad part OF it is, you-and
there are thousands of you over this
boy away to school!
Samuel Eels says the hope of the
nation lies in the boys and the high
schools. What about the nations hope
when the high school is taken away
from the country town because the
people of that town have made 1t pos
sible for the mail-order houses to rob
the children OF an education?
Suppose We Study the Situation.
Mother, let's look into this thing
bit. Let's you and | sit down here in
the cool shade of the veranda and talk
like human beings who are trying
earnestly to get at the truth of things.
Let's be honest with each other Let's
get the kernel of truth from the shell
of ignorance.
For the time being you and | live
in Auburn-once the fairest village
OF the plain. And 1t is tiourishing
now as we talk. Auburn has four
dozen stores. a blacksmith shop, livery
stable, real estate office and all the
other places of business common to a
typical country town In fact. Auburn
has about all the stores it can sup
port.
And at the time we begin this talk,
Auburn enjoys the trade OF all its peo-
pie and the farmers from the sur
rounding territory. Auburn is not a
largo town, but its residents are rea-
sonabiy prosperous. There are the
provident and the improvident, the
enterprising and the plodders, the
town drurEard and the town gossip
but nobody IS really in want. Occa-
sionalIy some unlucky person gets
struck by the tail of the financial kite
ard is temporarily in distress, but the
good people of the community rush in
and care for that mans family and
get him on his feet again.
Whist Happens to Auburn.
And into this ideal country town
one day there stalks the destroyer
The parcels post bill has passed God
grant that it never shalD and the mail
order houses are at the throat OF Au-
l.rn. From the mail car OF the one
trein a day there IS thrown a wagon
lead of catGlogs. The curious people
OF Auburn take them home and that
night in Auburn every unthinking in
habitant is engaossed in the pictures
and prices. They are gratihed and
outraged TO learn that a certain bar
of soap can re bought for a half cent
cake less at BIngbang & Co.'S, Chi
cago. than from Brown. their home
grocer. There are few other prices