The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-05-31
WHAT ABOUT BOYS?
Parcels Post Bill Would Bar
Them From an Education.
MOTHERS SHOULD ORGANIZE
Auburn Lfkened to Your Town--What
the Mall Order and Parcels Post
Mean to You and Yours and Why
You Should Get Together and
Fight.

Fight.
Agrippa gave the endeaVor OF her
life to 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 it 10 In your breast.
1t 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
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 a Spartan's courage,
withstand a savior's cross. Mothers
nave suffered and died for sons
throughout the worlds history-and
you are a motherI
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 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, a power which If given
rein will take from your boy the
chance you have prayed and hoped
and petitioned for-t1e 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 maiI-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.
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
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 it pos
! sible for the mail-order houses to rot
| the children of an education?
Suppose We Study the Situation.
| Mother, let's look into this thing q
bit. Let's you and l sit down here il
| the cool shade of the yeranda and tall
/ 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 l live
| in Auburn-once the fairest village
of the plain. And it is fiourishing
now as we talk. Auburn has foul
dozen stores, blacksmith shop, liver!
stable, real estate office and all tbs
| other places of business common to &
| 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 PEG
! pie and the farmers from the sur
| rounding territory. Auburn is not {
| large town. but its residents are rea
| sonably prosperous. There are the
| provident and the improvident, the
| enterprising and the plodders, tbs
town drunkard and the town gossip
but nobody is really in want. Occa
/ 54NAd1a SS11C uL4uGhS HCt SUI SSAs
struck by the tail of the financial kite
and is temporarily in distress, but tht
good people of the community rush il
and care for that mans family anC
get him on his feet again
What Happens to Auburn.
And into this ideal country towr
one day there stalks the destroyer!
The parcels post bill has passed (GoC
| grant that 1t never shaIl) and the mail
| order houses are at the throat of Au
burn. From the mail car of the one
train day there is thrown wagon
load of eatalogs. The curious people
| of Auburn take them home and tina
night in Auburn every unthinking in
habitant is engrossed in the picture:
and prices. They are gratitied ant
| outraged to learn that a certain bal
| Of soap can be bought for q half cen
a cake less at Bingbang C Co.'S, Chi
cago, than from Brown, their home
| grocer. There are few other price:
that appeal to them, some of them, Il