Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-31
Get Acquainted With Your Own Boy

Get Acqau1nGeu Win xour OWu ooJ
When you come across something
expected-without any prepare
ton or premonition, you are often
struck with it's peculiar force and
fitness, and it remains with you.
Just by chance, in casual CONVEX
saton on general topics, with one
of Georgia's finest business men
where we we're in a manner deplor-
ing the tendency of youth, In these
modern times, to disobey and act
counter to the counsels OF age ana
soberness-he drew from his pocket
purse, which was handy for every
DAVIS expenses and small change, a
newspaper Clipping, and asked me If
| I had ever seen this little poem be-
| fore. I had not, and he said. u
have the printed original and also
| typewriter copy. Which may
give your" I am passing it on NJ 70
! the beloved readers of The Tri,
| Weekly Journal, because 1t Will
| touch every spatriots inmost heart'
and it should awaken tender recoilec-
tions in the minds of those whose
own parents have gone away into
| the Great Beyond.
JUST A BOY
Got to understand the lad
He's not eager to be bad,
If the right he always knew,
He would be as old as you,
Were he now exceeding wise,
He'd be faust about your size;
When he Soes things that annoy,
Don't forget he's just boy.
Could we know and understand,
He would need no guiding hand.
But he's young and hasn't learned
How life's corners must be turned,
Doesn't know from day to day
There is more in life than play,
More to face than selfish joy
l1n' II
Being just boy he'll do
Much YOU will not want him to;
He'll be careless of his ways,
Have his disobedient days.
Willful, wild and headstrong, too
Just as, when a boy, were you;
Things of value he'll destroy,
But reflect, he's just a boy.
lust a boy who needs friend.
Patiently, kindly to the end;
Needs a father who will show
Him the things he wants to know
Take him with you when you walk,
Listen when he wants to talk
His companionship enjoy.
Don't forget he's Just q boy!
EDGAR A. GUEST.
Manv parents are mistaken in try
ing to frame a condition or press a
child into a profession which appeals
to their Imagination which appeals
best thing in sight. and the child.
generally the boy. resents the dlcta-
ton and ends by being what his
elders call a disobedient boy
Our hindsights are verv must pet
ter than our foresights. The boy
has some migrated ideas or predl-
lections that appeal to his mind and
his imma ture experience. His men,
tai and spiritual part reverts to these
rreconceived opinions. Nothing will
satisfy but a test of these things,
which he cling5 to. no matter how
little his parents understand the
outh's inner feelings.
Then, there are hereditary IN
fluences that are powerful, which
will come to the front-no matter
how sternly repressed by the elders.
We carry along in our minds very
many things that we cannot place as
to their origin or acquaintance, that
have been 'in the family" for var
ious generations. They crop out in
misunderstood crises, and the boy
may be known as a "black sheep"
when he could have been a success
in another line of progress more to
his liking.
OF course, there are degenerates
who defy both grace and gospel
and they run the pace in spite of
prayers and entreaties. David had