The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-06-29
THEY'LL PAY FoR THIS

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innate of their schooling, many of
our boys are missing their destiny.
"All work and no play makes Jack
dull boy" is an old saying, and the
army of Jacks of modern times have
it well in their memory chests. But
all play and no work makes Jack a
sorry boy. The pity of it all is the
sorry boys make sorry men far too
often.
| They tell us now that we have the
prospect OF four boys for the gradual.
ing class in the high school next year
out Of a community from which there
are fully four thousand souls to draw
boy students That is ebtteHthan the
days of the closing exercises promised
But will the new automobile, the
young missile and the good time for
the Jack who must not work too
much, stall that graduating class on
the way? Four boys! 1t ought to be
| forty and not citizen Of this com
munity is excusabe for the fact thai
it isn't forty. The boys, the young
men, the citizens Of the next decade,
in this community and out on life'a
highways win have TO pay for this.
And what an awful price!
The mules and the acres and the
fine automobiles and the easy time
scheduled TO follow dads departure
will mock the old fellow in his grave
! That legacy is small indeed, though
il carry millions and lack the culture,
breadth of mind, refinement. deve-
| lopment of soul, unfolding OF noble
aim and redblooded purpose, it will
! fail. Thrift and business success, ad
vancement wherever one may be
| thrown, all depends on The unfolding
that comes from mental training and
soul enlargement. There is no sue
cess without education Success, as
the unlearned measures it, reaches
across narrowed horizon. For the
trained mind it reaches far into the
unexplored regions of higher aim.
Think OF the two perspectives!
Our boys are average boys,-think
and demean themselves much like
other boys. Four of them,-may be
will go on the right way when school
opens next fall Only four of them!
Again must we ask, have we come
to the end of the way? Whose heart is
laden with the Importance of setting
! this right? Who is here to remind "A
parent that the boy will rise to curse
his legacy of ingnorance? Who have
we left among us with the heart burn
ing to tell these boys their future is
! sand,bound? Whose layalty is strong
enough to remind the parent that to-
morrow is too late?
! Now,-now is he time! Tomorrow
that boy who missing his training,
is gone on forever down to the river
were two worlds meet. His des-
tiny is sealed. That boy has the spark
of gunius in his soul. He is throbbing
from head to foot with red-blooded
vigor and emery running riot In the
school the process of unfolding and
developing will make him take hold
and tie those energies to the things
that build into greatness.
1t is not worth while to strive to
give him a good school? Shams con
not win his respect. He knows the real
thing. If you find him in the harness,
working, honestly toiling away with
, courage and hope, then you may know
he is finding in the school the bright
scintillating spark that will light the
fires of high purpose. Low aim is
crime No aim at all is te modern
motto. And for that motto the boys
OF today must pay an awful price as
! they become the men of tomorrow
"WHOoPER" WASN'T WRONG
We quite agree with the Dublin
| Courier-Herald that Hooper Alex
ander was in bad way when he
dug way in the filth and brought
up the Frank case in speech de-