Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-11-02
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their good work.
q Or. Hill came right down to th
mothers and fathers Of Webster, Cit
when he asked the questions he dit
Whero Is our public gymnasium
Where are the recreation rooms 1
which boy with red blood may en-
10y himself in q sane and health
manner? Churches have not provid
led them. Schools have not provide
them. Some one mentions the pub
lie library. DR.. Hill scoffed at tn
public library as place of recrea
tion. One may study about art, an
cient history, or find out what h
does not know, but If boy shoult
smile or laugh out loud in public
library, everyone knows the conse
quences. The library cannot be con
sidered as a place for play. Ther
where are the places? Echo answers
Where are they?"
The responsibility Of parenthoot
was expatiated upon. Welcome re
lsponsibility though it ts-it Is the
most tremendous on earth. Nothing
compares with it. His humorous sa.
tire along this line Of thought was
|entirely in keeping with the purport
lof his topic, and he said the only
persons who knew how to bring w
a child, are the ones who have none.
The speaker Of last evening drew
two vivid pictures Of the examples
which may be set in community
and of the, far reaching effects of
personal influence. He told of q pu-
gilist Of forty OF. fifty years ago and
of two young boys who aspired to be
like him. With unframed savage
fists they met for practice in an old
barn and pummeled each other,
when one in his igorance dealt the
other a blow which broke his neck.
He paid with his life upon the gal
lows the price for his ignorance.
Upon the other hand, he drew a
beautiful word picture Of the moth
er OF Garfield, poor in material
things, but rich in love for her son
and high ambitions. How she card
ed the wool with her patient fingers,
and spun it into cloth; how she coll
ored it, staining her hands with the
dye; how she blocked out suit of
for her son, and. cut
and sewed it with patient back
stitch, in the days when the sewing
machine was an unknown thing;
how the mother started her son to
the old log school house, where
books were as precious as gold, and
fearful and wonderful
thing; how the lad grew to manhood
and triumphantly climbed the thorny.
road through his military life on up
to the White House where his name
James A. Garfield has been writ
ten indelibly, and every youth in
America may emulate his worthy ex-
ample.
The address was closed with al
tribute to Frances A. VIII
lard. the founder Of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union, and
with plea for the single standard
Tor man and woman alike. He spoke
IN clear cut terms of the modern
manner Of opening the door to the
prodigal son but Of closing It to the
prodigal daughter. There is no dif-
ference; there must be . clean life
.or both and when the prodigal
laughter turns about and desires the
.lean life, she must be aided in her
.fforts, as we never fail to aid the
,rodigal son.
The evenings address was so true
ind so stirring that DR.. Hill will be
greeted with a packed house should
,e ever be invited to speak in Web
ter City again.
Rev. e. G. Hay. Of the English |
lutheran church, dismissed the aud
ence with the benediction.