The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-10-02
DON'T YIELD TO TEMPTATION

the boys and the giiIs OF the high
school and the higher grades.
Hundreds OF young men are beins
taken from the city and community
for the war, men who held places in
the business world, that must be filled.
The temptation is for the boys under
military age, and in young school
years, to try and secure these places
for themselves.
1t is hard temptation for a young
boy bright and energetic, with sense
enough TO hold down any OF these
places, not TO throw aside his books
and enlist in the army of workers
when the salary attached is so pleas
ing TO him.
1t is necessary, in some instances.
for the boy to take up the work
thrown asidd by an older brother
when he went to the Call; but few
are the cases where this is so.
Leaving school at the time OF life
that these young boys would, few OF
them would return 10 their books after
peace conditions are restored. They
viii have gotten into the running. so
to speak, OF the working world. and
out Of the lists of those vino fight
ignorance through the classic and lit
erary weapon. OF course. education
is fitting one for the duties Of life.
and this fitting may be either in the
shops or in the factories or the fields
or the colleges; but the statistical re-
turns from all sources show that the
boy with the high school education is
far more successful soldier in the
war for independence and freedom
from poverty.
The boy, or the s;rl who quits
books for dollars at an early age. be-
fore the lessons OF experience as
taught by books can be learned, is
forever hampered in his or her course, |
whatever it may be The thinker is
the man or the woman VINO IS sue
cessful; the one who can concentrate
and who can discern by reasoning
power the difference between the 49, !
carat pure and the pinchbeck allure
ment OF the world
Thousands Of men and women after
the war Of the Sixties went forth tc |
battle in life without education and
without chance to learn. The draft |
was for boys Of much younger age
than those likely to be called in this
instance. These boys Of sixteen with |
out schooling after several years Of |
hardship and fighting, came home
without any knowledge save that of |
cold, hard experience in military lines. |
For several generations the south !
was behind in the race for world !
wealth because there were few OPP |
portuniues in battlc-scarred, war
ruined land, for riches, and because |
there were few men of the education |
and actual training needed to take
hold and make success Of possible
opportunities.
When the youth Of the country the |
next and the succeeding generation !
began to take their place in the bust
ness Offices ana the factories u the I
south, then began an era of advance
ment and prosperity that was unbe-
licFable, and ii was because Of. the
fitness Of these younger men Tor the |
work deyolying upon them. There !
VIII be no need to sacrifice educati0r :
md vocational training in the thee
retical stages for country, this time;
at least, there is no demand for that
immolatiOn yet. The demand is that
our boys and girls who are not affect |
ed directly by the call so on in the
regular channels OF school and col
lege, and training course; fitting
themselves to take the place hereaft-
er Of those who answer the last great
roll call; or the places that will nat
urally come to them in the genera
ton in which they will be supreme.
We trust the high schools of Geor-
gia will this session be filled to the
capacity with boys and girls patriotic
enough to forego the dollar now for
the education that they will need
hereafter.
The places that are being vacated
by the young men who respond to the
call today, can in nearly every in
stance be flied by men who have re
tired" either through choice or be
cause they are considered old" They
are not old SO as to impair their use
fulness; and the duty should be 9
pleasing one to them that of doing
their bit at home while their sons and
grandsons are making the greatest
sacrifice that man is ever called on
| to make