Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-23

operation OK why Bile 10 ever d1tcI
childless. Thus does the scorn shown
the fallen woman take revenge on the
society that scorns her. Compare the
treat ment given her by christian peo-
pie with the teachings Of the Master
and his attitude toward and method Of
dealing with the fallen woman. What
fools we mortals be!
Why do we write this in farm
paper? Because farmers daughters
often come to the city, ignorant of
what they ought to know about them
selves and about the temptations they
will meet; knowing nothing OF its pitt
falls and snares. If they fall, they
afraid. knowing they will not be re
ceived with kindness, or realizing the
grief and shame they will cause IN
the home. They ought to know, and
farmers and their wives ought to know
the temptations to which those they
love will be exposed, that they may
keep their daughters on the farm I'M
less there Is excellent reason or abso-
city. and that they may see that they
do not come alone and unprotected.
What fools we mortals be in our
grow boys in the cities with nothing
to do but have good time, and give
them an education that has no con-
nection with the life that four-fifths
OF them must follow. Often parents
do not know where they are from dark
to midnight. They allow them to plas
baseball or football on the Sabbath.
or attend ball games on that day. They
allow them to go to any sort of show
or entertainment They allow them
to read dime novels or any sort OF
book or magazine, and to gamble in a
small way. Soon they begin to as
soc.ate with giddy and dissolute wom-
en-. They want money and do not
dare ask for it. and can not or will not
earn IL. They commit some petty
crime. undertake to hold up some one
On a dark street. are arrested and
sentenced to Jail for thirty days.
! They are then under the control OF
the state. What does the state do
with these boys whose home training
| has been all wrong or neglected, and
| whose educa ton has not been such as
! to be OF any practical use? 1t has
sentenced the offender to Jail for thIr-
| ty days. Where does it put him? In
| a dirty. filthy room, where he must
ningle with buns and vags, old hard
ened criminals. whose mouths are open
sepulchers. In short, we send this
| boy who has committed some petty
| crime to high school Of crime for
| thirty days. and he comes out a Jail
| bird" avoided by decent people, but
| welcomed by the male and female un.
| derworld. In desperation he commits
| some more serious crime. Now he Is
sent to the penitentiary, and supported
in idieness at public expense. as he
was in Jail; while those related to him
! for support suffer from poverty or dis
grace.
Few men or women begin a career
| OF crime after they are 20 or even -.
The average age, including the old,
hardened criminals. u about q. Most
criminals begin their careers AZ boys
of 10 to 20. Our jails and penitentiaries
punish the boy, degrading and render
ing more defiant the unfortunate
young man who had no home training
They thus become high schools for the
education OF criminals What fools
we mortals bel
4 What fool a farmer would be who
did not know where his livestock are
at night. What a fool man is who
does not know where his children are
after dark. What fool q state is e
put young offenders in filthy jails, te
herd with old and hardened criminals
What q fool 1t Is to allow any crimina
! to be idle. Work, honest work, evef
tho 1t be mental, Will keep q boy oui
OF jail. Work while In prison will q
. far toward taking the meanness GU
|. Of him. All jails and penttentiarisl