Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-11-18
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FOR BOYS

Everyone remembers the idyuc pictures me used to see If tn entire
family around the evening lamp. There vas Father reading the newspaper
Mother. dear hOusewtfey soul. was knitting a pair of socks. The eat purred
by the hreside. The boys and girls read their Oliver Optic o played jack
straws.
In those days, a family that after 7 p H. could n t call the Ill and
have Ill the children answer present, was considered loose in family gov
eminent But where are the boys now?
AS the winter evenings come. the Boy.scout, knights of King Arthur
and many other organizations open up their doors. Many old fashioned
people see with alarm the boys being drawn from their safe, quiet and
peaceful homes They may nominaly be headed TO the Boy Scout meeting
but actually for some undesirable hangout Some of the boys have more
private secretary to keep their dates Strengthened out
For better or worse, the picture of the entire family gathered around
HI crossroads dance may not tempt the young folks to walk the several
intervening miles. But wherever people gather in towns, the boy becomes
more and lore a little society man.
Wise parents do well to insist o n a good amount offs sleep, yet they can
lot check these tendencies of. the age entirely. A boy needs the expert
mt of associadng with his W kind. He must be trusted to take his
under competent une ed nr b he ne on JOIN some 1oeng 0oa boys ors@nizatsOn
reliance and selfgovernment that his father ever had.
Chancellor of the Exchequer LloydGeorge made a speech to the AS.
sembly of Free Churchmen in London ne night last week denying Brit
ans T EespO nsho for the war, In which he sad;
with Germany. We are in this war ron motives of the purest chvaHy to
Speaking of Belgium lie said THE Germans robbed the BeIgians of
heir GOD to maintain their armies. They are o sending to America, say
1--WE are assaned by another national exponent OF the higher culture
Turkey, We did our best to avoid the quarrel. No could have shown
more patience in the face of insolencec than did Great Britain in the face
of the treatment accorded Ito her by this miserable, wretched, conotemptible
empire o tn Bosphorus. 1 am glad the Turk is to be called to a final
account.
rades' The Turk of the east and the Turk Of the west are both ruthless
military empires with only one god, and that god is violence"
President Wilson, speaking last week at the unwilling of a statue to
e Phihp Kearney At Arlington national cemetery, near Washington, de,
cared that there Is nothing noble or admirable in war itself, but there is
omethang very noble admirable, occasionally, IN the causes FOR which
a is undertaken and in som of the characters which AR develops "us
n nan character can g through the FIRE and cone mi resphndent !" ,oid
the president, then you know that 1t is of the true quality of te bost
human stuff" .. d..
MI. Wilson said Gen. Kearney typined the best kind Of leader nroducod
by the United States, adding that there has been nan another man VII
stood ALONGSIDE of him with the same qualities and the same distinction of
service. The government of a great people" he added, can always count
upon great services, and the beauty Of nj government the pride that e
Ill feel in it, is that It is a government OF a great people. prodieaII in tbo,r
gift of. service, always ready to provide those thfnbs which constitute tho
stuff II herosm and elevate a nation in the annals of mankind" :
Speaking of the habit of Ger. Kearneys soldiers of a6ecnonstav co,
Ing him Phil" the president said he had always been sorv be IA not
have a front name which admitted Of shortening"
Every resident should feel proud Of Elko IL is N beat. town in tbo
state. We have never had a boom, but have enjoyed a quiet bealtbfp1
prosperous growth and there has been M reaction. ' .'. -
An English woman, Just returned from Berlin. whereas e bs boor H.
ing since the outbreak of the war, says 1T Is absolutely trus tbs, the p.t.aya
hair las turned white since the wr began
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