The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-04-04
REVIEW HIGH POINT CAROLINA april 4. 1918
BE SLOW TO CRfTICISE--
THINK FIRST
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ed but as he ought to be treated
Don't wait for the stranger to shake
hands, 60 to him and offer your:
first, but don't criticise his speech
or action. IF you say anything al
all let it be the good you find in
him, and remember the unkind
word unspoken will never be re-
eretted." Keep on the sunny side,
for we cannot get sunshine enough
into our lives to Offset the misery
the fellow who Criticises forces us
to endure. AS criticism and ignor
ance are so closely related it is not
to be expected that we look for any
advanced thought from the man
who critisises. (
People who do not read make a
very serious mistake. How can they
know anything to criticise and this
is the class of people who doit and
make lot of trouble for themselves
and others: In these times. Of chang
ing events it is a great handicap to
neglect reading the current events
of the day from a good paper. We
are UNDERGOING a revolution and to
keep pace with the times we must
read more, but read intelligently ::
don't read trashy books nor sensa-
tional literature A good, clean
home paper is what you ned. the
family needs it. we all need i and
It member it is not an easy matter
to pick up reliable Information. We
are living too fast for the picking up
process, because there is LOT of in
form alton you can't get that way,
it m st corae from reading besides
impa ting the knowledge. The pa
Per will do more, it will force mind |
development. and after you try it
awhile you will be SO we'll pleased
with what you have gained you will
feel proud of YOUR accomplishment,
but it is a lamentabIe fact that
large number of our people cannot
read at ,all. This makes ignorance
and you cannot expect mucl from
this source, but we can watch the
rising generation and see to it that
they get at least common school
educt ton. Can you wonder at il.
norahce when you see little children
that should be playing with their
dolls and balls after school hours,
little fellows in knee pants, smoking
cigarettes and using profane Ian
guaee ? Can you wonder at ienor
ance and criticism when such con
ditlons exist? The mill owners do
not sanction any violation of the
morai or civil law, they cannot con-
troll the action or conduct of EN-
p'oyees after working hours; they
get IN by misrepresenting conditions
that will justify thoir employment,
Parents are chiefly to blame for it,
and large per cent of them cannot
read nor write and they do not real
re the importance of it all. Their
of the value of education
8 like the little boy who though ,
'nly six years old told his father be
wanted to get married. who will
you marry, nv SOM" asked the I
father. Grandma" the I
boy promptly replied. His father
said: DO you think l
Would let you marry my mother?"
Why not?" replied the child, why,
'ou married my mother"
The man who criticises ard the
enorant man are so |owdown in the
Gale of modern requirements that
hey are really menace aud need
Watching. They are not necessarily
wicked, neither are they dishonest,
lst simply ignorant dependents who
must be looked after and will crit.
ise more ard create more disturb
nee than any other class of people.
A comparison of thought and ideas
Or better understanding is not
riticism. To cordemn wrong actl
r to check a growing evil by areu.
0ent is not criticism. That is inter
st; but the fellow who makes COM
1ent on the well-meaning efforts of
he editor, the doctor, lawyer or
reacher's remarks that are detri-
rental TO their best interests, when
s matter of fact he knows moth
1g of either profession and it is
oubtful if he can write his own
anne and I have come in contact
18th just such felIows-that's crit,
ism: and if he is wise enough to /
eep his criticism within the limit of /
is personal or business acquire
tents he may keep out of trouble, /
Ut just as soon as his criticisms II
axe in the affairs OF the nation and Il
as any reference to any official act 4
e gets into trouble at once and his
'norance viii not save him, for IT,
ORANGE of TIE lave both God and
Ian excuses no one While YOUR H