The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-11-28

boss, was praised AMI spoiled until
there was but one person living in his
world and that himself. There was no
question about his ability and sterling
qualities but he need not have been
made the open heir to the clan head
| ship as his dress indicated. He was
taught to disparage his brothers until
he even dreamed it asleep as well as
awake. 1t was fine that dad was his
confidante but that should not have
made him tale bearer of his brothers
sins, the stirred-up or discords within
the home. He lorded the place like an
autocrat and it is not surprising that
his brothers, older and doing the bulk
of the work resented the authority that
was Haunted by an inexperienced boy.
Jacob should have known better but do
we do more. Are there no spoiled boys
and girls also in our homes? | reckon
we had better not discuss the matter
too far or some one may say, You're
getting personal"
SURPRISING THE Boy.
A thousand blessings upon those who
haYe knocked sense into papa's pet;
may their tribe increase for they are
still needed. But too often they also
go to the extreme in their self-imposed
task and may do damage before they
have ended the job. But while brothers
are cruel and playmates more than can
did the only hope of a mamma boy is in
the wholesome ministry that subdues
his bumptIousness and forces him to
recognize the rights of others. These
big brothers went to the task with en-
thusiasm but spoiled their work by the
spirit in which they did it. They would
suppress the boy without releasing the
possible man. Not construction but de-
struction was their plan. When they
saw him out in the open with no Jacob
within call their opportunity came.
Reuben attempted to save him by a
trick instead of coming out into the
open where his fight would have made
the whole thing impossible. Judah
proposed a heartless compromise that
may have held within it some hope of
his making his escape but was deadly
cruel in any light. And to sit eating the
very good things which he had brought
sound of his cries from the pit without
sharing anything with the hungry car
rier reveals heartlessness that makes
the whole crew set of Huns. Their
bloody lie and crocodile tears of SYM
patty for jacob mark them as murder
srs instead of teachers who would
merely be helpers of the boy, Small
wonder that Joseph was the favorite in
such crew.
DESTROYING THE Boy.
They slew the boy that day but under
God a man emerged. 1t was not their
intent but it was the result and the
boyishness priggishness remained in the
pit in which they placed him. All the
fine qualities were carried out beyond
the disaster and Jacobs wisdom far ex-
ceeded that of the destroyers. But the
boys are not all dead yet and parents
sometimes join hands with the fingers
into pits. What else is II when tiny
folks who love the open are sent into
the factory for long hours that a few
dollars may be drawn from their toll and
they are sold to the Ishmaelitish de-
stroyers OF childhood. The Supreme
Court cast out the protection of the
last legislation so that some new meas
ure must be sought but when cannerles
and factories exploit childhood for gain
until hands are fingerless and bodies
stunted and all the boy or girl destroy
ed in the pit of our modern industrialism
we do we'll to be silent in our condem-
nation of those other men of an earlier
day who without our light threw their
brother into the pit and destroyed the
boy for silver. Four times as many
children 90 to the Grammar School as
enter High School; three have been
tossed into some pit. in the wilderness
of work only no Joseph energies from
it, it is a Trotsky or a Lenine that
comes forth in these days.