The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-27

U. S. Grunt, were deprayed characters,
because they fought and then kept on
lighting.
II Buffalo Bill once upon a tins
rode out ncrOss the plains and came
upon n band Of Indians attacking
settlers cabin and went dashing up
with his scouts and killed n few red
skins, Is there any boy In the world
who would go back on Buffalo BIZ
and pick out some quiet. elderly real
estate dealer ms substitute herOf
It's too foolish to talk about.
Suppose we say 1t is not wrong to
fight. Then we remove all blame from
the Indians that Buffalo Bill killed
and we find ourselves so mixed UP
that probably we had better back up
and take new start.
| In answer to the question, as 1t
wrong to fight" there can he but one
sensible reply, as follows: "It all dee
pends."
Suppose boy of fourteen walking
along the street with his sister and the
neighborhOOd bully swaggers around
the corner and pushes the boy up
against fence and cuffs him along
side the head and then tries some in'
sultlng familinrities on the sister, and
suppose the boy who is thus humlli'
atcd and whose sister is In tears, sud-
denly remembers that he has been told
to keep out Of fights"
What shall he do?
Retreat to an alley. or stand up Ia
defense of his own self-respcCt and try
to protect his sister?
Suppose he says to the bully, X
believe in peace and no matter what
you do to me- l won't strike hack"
Then he would get few more cuffs
for good measure, and his sister would
be ashamed of him and the little
rowdy who attacked him would call
himself cock of the walk and be q
greater nuisance than ever before.
The United States of America is I'm
vOlved in hdeOus war because Presl'
dent Wilson and congress and all per
sons who are warmed by red blood In
stead of being chilled by sarsaparilla
DOp had to make the same decision
that every boy Is called upon to make
when he Is jumped upon by tough
customer.
If you (this Is for both boys and
girls) went out into the woods for a
picnic with another "bunCh" of young
people you knew and liked, and If your
crowd had basket of things to eat
and the other crowd had basket and
some tOughies came along and stole
y the basket belonging to the other
crowd, would you give them some
thing to eat out of your basket, or LET
!" them sit over by themselves, hungry
and miserable, and watch you stuff
yourselves?
You'd play fair, Of course, even II
you had to 90 a little hungry.
e Mr.. Hoover is now asking every hoy
,e AnG girl in America to play fair and
~ divide up with the hungry youngsters
E, of France and Belgium and Great
H. Britain.
il, How can boy or girl under high
school age really help to win the warl
Id First join the Junior Red Cross.
II Then keep on saying, 81 know Uncle
Sam is right and l will pull for him
D. until he wins"
81 Believe what you say.
NJ Root for the U. S. A. rs you wOult
II root for your baseball nine or YOU
Va basketball five.
= Stand out on the edge Of the side
1a walk and cheer the soldiers us the!
swing by.
n Probably the children to whom W.
III are now talking are better posted re
cd garding United States history thar
nj. are some of the people who tall
oil about it.
Al They know that our boys now in tn
m training camps or on their way t
'ce France are getting ready to tiSh
he against the expressions of cruel des
Dot. Just as some other American boy
IN once fought at Bunker Hill.
~ By the way, If you can find Il ma
f. or woman who does not understan
ar how the rights of democracy are
&C. be preserved when kings go on tn
plI rampage, you might loan this ignOrar
person your school history.
ap See If you can find any favorabl
.ha v,option of tha nopifiStS Of 177Hi