The Cordova daily times., 1921-10-29
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1921
ONLY A LITTLE BURG

"Oh, | want to get out this little burg where folks talk about you every tme you turn around. 1 want to go to a pIac" bl& enough ,D that | can do what please when please and not hay" al! th" nclghborS Say'nG that | am going to he'll or pcrdltlon. | want to go where there k life and something doing all the time m tired of being stuck away in this hole where there's nothing doing and a fellow Ina, no chance to be anything. l guess I'm big cuou@h aud oId enough, and know enough to care for myself. l II say ~o, any way"
 These are almost the exact words of lad of this city in his early teens, that adoIcsccnt age when many boys and girls @" the ida that they have reached that period in life when par cuta rcstraut should be swept aside, when they should suddenly blossom forth to fuII- grown manhood and womamhood, sally forth |" dazzIc all a,toni~hcd world with tine irresistible force of their gcnujs and bring fame io the little hnrg which once was their home but from whose narrow confines they fled that they might fulfill the destiny which they felt that they were destined to fulfill. Why should another flower "bush unseen and vast" its sweetness on the tlcScr air''
 Most all of us have heard some young~tor
 
 smiIcd-lf the youngstrr was someone rlsr's- and thought of the awakening to come within few years.
 Perhaps they are oId enough and big enough and know enough to care for themselves, but il usually is the ease that those who brag about being able to care for themselves are th" ones who need the most restraining.
 ,,.l,, |, ,tt Stt.1it tt :: little burg and at the whms of "old-fashon- ed" parents those who are not finding fault because they can't indulge in some pleasure every night, are not necessarily entirely de- void of ambition and pep. That kind of dis position may be found to be the more solid foundation upon which to build castles in the air. Certain i k that parents are not going to worry much about boys and girls with that kind of a dcsposition.
 Among Us who have now reached that time cf life when we like to feel that we are comp ctont to instruct and guidc the vom~, arc many who in their own younger years talked like some of the young folks of today talk who wanted to get out into the big world and sec and do things. who didn't want to be- stuck away in d little burg where there WIS nothing going on and nowhere to go
 While tho~" who have gone through the OK rcrcncc can svmpathizc with those who char' at the confines and restrictions of a "littlc bnr@," yet they can assure the young people of today that they have in that "IitIc burg" nearly all the things and nearly all the op- portnitics which the younger folks of a couple decades ago thought they had to go to the big city to get Young folks of today have pleasure and opportunities many fold greater those which were presented to the young folks of yesterday In the "littIc burg" today are all the things that would have made contcntod the young folks of yesterday.
 The girl or boy of today who hasn't an auto mobile in the family feels that Providence has been very nkind to him. Tn days not so long ago the two-horse rig that could be driv- en with one hand was thought quite sufficient for Sunday afternoons pleasure. We didn't