The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-12-05
Uncle DQUe's Letter

What about the boy? What are YOU
gong to do Tor the boy who is fast
growing into a man?
| l am going to get all the work out
OF him L can until he Is of age. then
I'm going ID turn him loose to hustle
tor himself as l had to do.
| This is what hundreds of farmers
all over the land are saying in Ameri-
ca to the above question. It is all a
mistake. The boy who takes aItar ni
father wants to have a profit for his
labor. IL he sees no reward but some
thing to eat and wear and a place Ia
sleep, he is very likely to turn his
steps toward the city before he is OF
age. He will think job in the city
worth more to ma, than q mere living
! on the farm. There arc many BOYS
that leave the farm early in life, not
because they do not like the farm, nor
their folks, but for the simple reason
that they have no interest in stock
or crops or anything on the farm. Now
O boy doesn't want to work hard day
after day and see no returns for his
| lal0r. and parents are unwise who
make slaves out of their boys. Tire
boys will turn away from them and
the farm in disgust long before they
have reached the years Of manhood.
Where 1t is possible the farm boy
should be given a chance to do some-
thing for himself. The boy, like the
man, revolts at the idea of being
wholly q slave to another, even though
that person be kind father. The boy
should have something to start with,
and he should be allowed to make 1t
before he is grown. Put twenty thou
sand dollars in his hands when he Is
grown, and IL he has had nothing 10
do with the making Of 1t for himself,
he will not appreciate it-for the rca-
SOIL ne will not have judgment enough
to handle it.
Giving a boy an interest in stock
or crops, inspires him with the spirit
of independence and enables him to
knock up against the world with SON
fidence that he CAP take care of him
self. a.
Every father should thoroughly I'm
derstand that his sOn has aspirations
long before he Is grown. and that he
Will at times almost cry out for u
chance to do something for himself.
The parent ought to nee to 1t that this
desire is satisfied by giving him a
chance To work along the line he
wishes.
The boy who Is yanked out OF bed
by the hair; kicked out to milk and
cufGed in to breakfast, as a preltrn n
ary to being popped through ii the
sumed by his love for the glhries OF
agriculture. Give the boy 3 fair show
and he'll stay with you till the COWS
come home. II you are SO harsh he
can { stay at home. Don't you go TO
your neighbors with q hyaocritical
snuffie and tell about your boy in
gratitude after you have raised him.
Never say mean things Of your
neighbor. 1t Is the forerunner OF do
ing mean things. M
Some farmers claim to have q great
deal Of bad luck. They say that fate
is against them, and when some calam-
ity befallss their stock or they fail to
raise a good crop they say 1t was all
the result of their tibad luck" say
in the majority of instances 1t 3is the
consequence Of bad management.
He who kills time by lettering on
the. streets laiils his better nature
Just as surely. And what injures the
moral part OF man Ia also harmful
to the physical part. 30 not 10 haste
to leave the farm ano c'7ve TO town
to, live in ialeness- Y Is. absolute
ly necessary to US =, not onts to
preserve health. but TO preserve In,
tegrity.
Men may fool .he worii by living
lie, but they VIII never fool God.
Most banqueters are not so much
Interested In Eve have with as to-
might" es they are In Eve have with-
Nevertheless, no rnatt,r how hap
PLY q .waman il married, sine alwa,u
hopes that he daughter viii grab q
much better one. 3 ), I. :l.sS q.
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