New Ulm review., 1913-01-22

oOy "0A0 AaOA9 AOs ssSo PoSSso "
my aud your so.cslled property
rights. The boy knows nothing
about them. Hunger is perhaps his
only law. he follows bic instincts for
his own self. .preserv alton. We all do
this. Is the boy who doesn't even
know his father and who sees his
mother but seldom, 10 . boy of that
kind responsible? How dare society
hold it 9 ''wrorg" against the boy and
punish him for IL when society has let
him grow up in ignorauee and want!
Il is the environment OF the boy that
makes him what he 10. he will very
likely travel about tho usual way of
other folks With whom be lives.
"a boy in order 70 grow into ripe
manhood has certain rights that are
absolutely essential 70. bis proper
development. nnsntsi and physical. I
vish they might be. unalienabls. With.
out these rights boy is likely to fall
BY tho wsyside aud tail 70 keep the
social compact. The boy has the
right 70 have the love Of pure minded
man and woman, who shall STAND by
him - father and mother. By
father do not mean somebody TO-
stand around the house occasionally
and give vent 70 certain words,
calculated to impress The boy With The
idea that he 10 very much In the way.
How long ago was 1t that you held Q
conversation With . boy in your
house? How many sentences have
you sent into your boys heart the
past month for the boys great
comfort? Home in many of our
American lives has come to be q place
where We spend 40 many evenings q
week. This should not be. When a
boy comes home with story Of some
thing that happened in school or else
where, his father is apt to tell him to
keep quiet. A father should lay aside
his paper and listen because that story
should be more interesting than any
newspaper or magazine but in the
average home the boy il made to feel
that be 10 . pest and nuisance and
10 deprived Of bic right to wise and
loving parental care. y
"The boy has a right to have Q
place to play the games he likes.
Rough games are the kinds he is
likely to want to play. This 10 .
rough old world. The high places in
life are oil taken and he who gets .
high place nowadays gets it BY
knocking someone else out Of bis
place or by making new place for
himself. That 10 rough work. The
play ground 10 the training. school of
tho worlds work. The captain Of tho
game Is likely to become the captain
OF Industry.
.'Boys love danger. That's what
made you walk the beam In your
fathers barn when you just knew you
we're going to fall and be killed;
walked it over and walked it back and
oil the while you we're scared to death.
Because you loved danger and because
there were q lot of grinning little
fellows down on the ground watching
you with bsted breath and you wsnted
TO show them you could do it and
that you weren't scared. And at
college the same crowd of grinning
little fellows sat on the side lines of
the foot ball field and watched the
smashing lines come together and the
tsngle of legs and arms that belonged
to the boys who were the beam-walkers
Of earlier days. Same boys in the
mixup: same fellows on the side lines;
and if you have ever amounted to
anything, ever done anything in this
world you've done it while you we're
scared to death of the conseq uences
but wouldn't let the grinning little
fellows on the side lines know it.. Oh,
yes, the games are likely to be rough.
The broken legs OF boyhood games
give place to the broken hearts of the
prown-up game and maybe learning
to bear the pain of broken leg helps
one later to bear the pain of broken
heart. AT any rate you can mend
broken legs. So let the boy play his
rough games. He isn't . nice little
Girl, you don't want him TO be one.