Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-01-02

q stove or stone cold and must
drive or walk on dusty or muddy
roads; while his brother in town
attends a comfortable, well APP
pointed Church and goes on nice
slde3 wa kssH In town there afg
shows, social or church opportu}i-
ties atttactions of one kindIor
another hearlylevery night. Te
country boys life is monotonous.
He says he comes in at night,
puts away his team in the dark,
eats supperbY 4 dim kerosene
lamp, goes to bed in cold, dark
room, gets up before daylight;
feeds and scurries his horses,
east breakfast and goes back to
work by himself all day. | He
has, no SCHOOL, opportunities
while the boys in the towns
have good high schools.
This sounds dismal and the,
facts, no doubt. are told correct
ly. Yet, history and experience
prove atothis. boy has a better
chance to make a success in life
than the town born oc town liv-
ing boy. By success we do not
mean necessarily the acquire
ment Of great fortune or big
place, but the glorious privilege
of being independent; the living
of a sober, righteous, godly and
wholesome life. peace and happi-
ness, the raising of a family of
decent people and such measure
of prosperity as will secure
against fear Of restitution or
dependence in old age. The
Clinch Valley News boy does
not know the fact that after a
year or two shows, lectures and
entertainments become as drery
and imonotonous as currying and
feeding horses; and that work
in an office or behind a counter
is Just as sickening to a man
whose heart is not i'm it as driv-
ing a team or ploughing, and far
less developing to mind and
body. He forgets about the dull
times that come when his friends
in the city are laid off or quak-
ing in fear at they will be,
and too many of them, in debt
for board and clothes and toss
ing awake many a night while
he is sleeping soundly and
sweetly. That is worse than
getting up at daylight.
The Newport News Press, at
the opposite end of the State
from the Clinch Valley News
and published in coast city,
takes another view. 1t says:
THE fact is that the whole
people are pleasure mad, and
the men are as much infected as
the women. Every body is seek
ing after amusement, and if he
can not get the best, he will take
the next thing that come his
way. Base ball, foot ball, the
picture show, the rag time
dance, the play of strong flavor,
the horse racial sorts of
amusement are drawing such
crowds as never before in the
history of the nation"
The Clinch Valley News, lectur-
ing on the boy it pictures, says
the curing of much of his cause
of complaint is with his father
and the other farm owners and
farmers-that if they will tax
themselves as the city people do
they. too, can have good and
comfortable roads, good schools
and attractive churches and en-
courage the social life their
children crave and need as in
stinctively and naturally as they
need food. In which observation
there is much truth. Yet the
News might have extended its
lecture to the boy also. If he
TIA kes no more interest in his
work in the city than he seems
to do in his work on his fathers
farm, and if he continues to look
on The ugly side of his life and
toldig out of it all possible dis
satisfaction, his name will be
mud, wherever he goes and how
ever good job he may get to