The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-11-02
A SUGGESTION TO THE BOYS
FOR NEXT ALL HALLOWEEN

Saturday night late and Sunday
morning early, we watched bunch
of Ocala boys as they pulled off their
Halloween stunts.
We had but little time for fun
when we were a boy, but what little
we had felt mighty good, SO we never
criticise bunch of young fellows hay-
ing a good time, so long as they stop
short of felony.
At the same time we couldn't help
noticing that some of the most active
in mischief were boys and young men
who on ordinary occasions are SO
languid that it seems to give them
pain to exert themselves. They sell
dom have paid occupation, and
when they do they never stay with it
more than a month or two. They
have the lilies of the field beat to a
FRAGILE, for they toll not, neither do
they spin, yet Solomon in all his glory
had nothing on them, or rather on
him, in socks and neckties.
We do not criticise these youths
any more than we do the hard-work-
ing boys who were in the bunch. Boys
will be boys, so a boy who depends or
his relatives for support 365 days in
the year has more surplus energy te
work off on Halloween than either
the schoolboy or the boy with a job
But we would like to offer them all
the Industrious and the idlea sug.
gestion for next Halloween. It should
attract their attention, for it is orig.
inal-a at least, we have never seer
nor heard of it before.
It is this: That next Halloween
they all get together and put in the
same amount of energy that they
displayed last Saturday night in i'm.
proving the town instead of adding
to its disorder.
We have noticed, and they have
noticed more than we-for what boy
doesn't see isn't worth seeing
premises in Ocala that by lack OF
civic pride on the part of the owners
have come to look like the last rose
of summer with its head mashed in
IL couple of hundred boys would
concentrate on one such a place with
the vim that they displayed in rush.
ing wagons around town Saturday
night, they could soon have it looking
as slick as a peeled onion.
Take for instance the melancholy
stretch of territory from the bach
doors of the Merchants block to Fort
King avenue. Had the SATURDAY.
night crowd turned its attention t
that Saraha in an oasis, they wou1e
have had it empty and swept, if mo-
garnished, in thirty minutes, ane
would have had all the balance q
their time to make the area from
North Main street west to the Florida
Abstract building, just in front of the
postofice, look ike a public parl
ought to look
And still we think they would hav,
had time and energy to move on t,
another place or two. 1t is true, en-
tirely too true, that it is easier t.
tear down than build up. But thar
Young America nothing can accom-
plish more when it tries.
We would not advise the bows O
Ocaal to pull off this Halloween
stunt more than once. Il they mad
a practice of it, the people of tn,
town, with the usual consistent incon
sistency of human nature, would sool
leave all the cleaning up for them t.
do. But if they would do it jus
once. they might shame some of tn
lolder people into not leaving so mucl
Of it to be done by Halloween o
1917.
No doubt our critics will say W
are foolish to suggest such an enter
prise almost twelve months ahead o
time. We have, however, two goo,
and sufficient reasons for making tn
suggestion 1858 days before it can b
carried ont.
One is that if it is taken seriousl,
the boys viii find that it will take al
most a year to make plans for effec
tive work.
Another is that by next Halloween
we may be in Abraham's bosom. an,
no one else may think of a sugges
ton that is so extremely unlikely t,
be carried out.