The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1912-06-28
! WHAT ABOUT BOYS?
Parcels Post Bill Would Bar
Them From an Education.
MOTHERS SHOULD ORGANIZE
Auburn llkened to Your Town-What
tho Mail Order and Parcels Post
Mean to You and Yours and Why
You Should Get Together and
Fight.

Fight.
Agrlppa gave the endeavor OF hel
lie TO see her son. Nero, on the throne
OF the Roman world. Agrippa was nc
whit nobler than you. mother. YOU
dream for your boy may not be &c
ambitlous-but it 10 In your breast
II was born with the babe, and as
your heart throbbed with the ecstasy
OF motherhood there came to abide
with you great hope-a hope that
mas been and is your dreami 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 Savlors cross. Mothers
have suffered and died for sons
throughout the worlds history-and
you are a motherl
In lie you are for everything that
helps the boy. against everything that
hinders him. And above all, no mat
ter how poor you are. you want your
boy to have an education. You pray
that be 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 vague sort of way,
what the struggle Is among men, and
you would press your heart against
MIS- armor and buckle on his sword
with clinging fingers of love
Monster Stalks the Land.
Mother, there stalks through the
land today growing power to defeat
your dream, a 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-like 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 a law, strikes
at your hopes for the boy
Tho 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. Robblng you OF the
nigh school means that your boy will
fall of an education unless you have
money to send him to colegei
And the sad part of it is, you-and
there are thousands of you over this
land-have not the money to send the
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 a
bit Let's you and sit down here in
the cool shade of the veranda and talk
like human beings who are trying
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 hourishing
now as we talk Auburn has four
dozen stores, 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
territory. Auburn is not a
large town, but its residents are rea-
sonably prosperous. There are the
proyident and the improvident, the
enterprising and the plodders. the
town drunkard and the town gossip
but nobody is really in want. Occa-
sionally some unlucky person gets
struck by the tail of the financial kite |
and is temporarily in distress, but the |
good people of the community rush in (
and care for that mans family and |
get him on his foot again.
What Happens to Auburn.
And into this ideal country town |
one day there stalks the destroyerI |
The parcels post bill has passed (God |
grant that 1t never shall) and the mail |
order houses are at the throat OF Au-
burn. From the mail car OF the one |
train day there is thVown a wagon
load of catalogs. The curious people |
Of Auburn take them home and that /.
night in Auburn every unthinking in
habitant is engrossed in the pictures
and prices. They are gratitied and
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Great Piece of Luck.
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