Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1918-03-28
YOUTHFUL CONSIDERATIONS
c. c. Justus, Sturgis, Ky.

DIGESTION to good deeds--deeds full of
energy, charity and purity--that later
in life they are wont to say, Return,
o happy Days of Youth" Alas, they
cannot return, so we may correct the
inequalities of life. In the Bible we
find mary lessons illustrating the ex-
cellence of conservation of youth. The
child Samuel, ministered unto the
Lord before Eli. The Lord called Sam
uel and he answered, Here am u; He
called second and third time and re-
ceived the same answer.
The caA of a great nation is now
most imperative on every citizen. In
every walk, in every home, is big
demand for conservation of every
fierce and agency. No politics should
enter into the equation should
feel like an American citizen with
vast opportunities for service. The
youth developss the best military life,
for IN those early days ehivalry is nat
ural duty and obedience to officers
are regarded more scored. Hannibal,
Pompey, Caesar, Alexandra, Napol-
con and oW own Washington gather
ed the characteristics for the glory
that awaited them by soldiery that
began in their boyhood. Those who
are reading the crimes of the "un-
speakable Hun" in the useless butch
cry, rape and ruin inflicted on fields
that have occupied Europe, knowing
they will do the same to our great
country If not crushed, will have a
new devotion to homes in this hour.
The great actors on the stage be-
gan early dedication to their work.
Not only is true in the military and
the physical but none the less so in
the realm of mind; the world-famed
Grecian orator began his youth with
efficient voice and in poverty, but
his conservation in the use of pebble
between his teeth, and thousands of
efforts at composition, worked out
for him enduring fame. Every age,
every vacinity holds such possibilities
that need be fostered by the high
school. The high school is the forum
for intensive groth---woe to the COM
munity that is too stingy to so invest.
1t may not be said of the rank and file
of the high school boys that "the
throne of Phillip trembled when Dem
ostfsenes spoke, but the vices of ig-
nsrance and low ideals fled from their
homes. Riches in youth without con-
secration of heart must lead to pow
erty in life's great ends; but poverty
in youth with a coSecrated, duty
performing effort leads to riches in
character, and home not made with
hands. Let your steps in early years
be properly directed and on your
troubled ocean of life win come the
assurance: "Peace, be STILL" The 10th
chapter of Matthew, / think. tells Of
q young man who said, lord, what
good thing can l do that l may in.
herH eternal life? He had honorec
his father and mother; had not sworr
deceitfully; he had kept them all as
to the common virtues; but was asked
to sell what he had and give the poor
Conservation to-day costs life and for
tunes but it is the price of freedom
the boys will have an early to-mor
row of grave duties when the war i:
over. The times then will be severe
on the ignorant and i'll trained. Sta
ton, wealth, fame. each is trancient
To-day, you have; tomorrow, 20,
have not; tomorrow they may cru
city, but truth and right, honesty
and charity in early life will builo
"a house whose foundations cannot b.
moved.
Let us review the year which il
now history and find many element:
of failure in QUA fullness of conse
Grafton to finding out the demand.
at our hands and answering then
with sacrifice that shall at once in
dictate that we are worthy to be call
cd the children of Columbia.
flour weeks later | shall devot,
column to "reminiscences of thu
Granger County Court"