The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-01-27
Eat Peanuts While
They Await the
Coming of the Big
Iron Horse to
Spread It's De-
StructiOn
YOUTHFUL WOULD-BE
TRAIN EVRECKEEeS
ARRESTED HERE

Got 3neIT INSPIRATION EfOf1
Moving Pictures-A Pitiful
Sight.
Sitting on a lumber pile along
side the Asheboro railroad track,
near the Continental Furniture
Company, engaged in eating
peanuts, while awaiting the COM
ing OF the big steam engine pull
ing it's human freight which
would run ovor the rocks OF
coal placed on the big steel rails
anG SO crashing into the ditch,
followed by the cries OF the
wounded and dying, while the
splintered coaches would catch
fire and make a terrible specta-
Gle, was no doubt the scene stag
cd in the youthful minds Of two
High Point boys Monday.
And moving pictures furnish
ed the insn5Tation-the kind
that makes The one-tine dime
novel look lie d prayer book in
comparison 0"o<s4ae the boys
said so. They nhe the dare devil
kind-the pictures that taught
cruelty, mur9er, train wrecking,
vice, inmoraiitty and what not
and the seeds Of unhappiness
thrown upon lbs canvas- Of vice
e.. ao10un- -. ...5 particular
:p-.1.uaLeS ss.~,.~-,. .Ccz< TOot, grew
:up and spro : is poison blades
all around .szcu -i.@ao boys were
c0ntanlinatsl
And yet We allow such un-
wholesome. - ten stuff to
be pictured - I'll SIS miserable
details to c,rr boys and girls and
then wondar why their way
swardness.. The dime novel was
s.ell5,1 ssssa i szzaaaa his
Was The CAS- no.. 50 impressive
as g moving picture that por-
trayed life and ~ ior every sec
Oh = riCht before vne's eyes.
This is not saying that all pic
t1-a5 are a1l..-r, - his is not the
case, bacau2o til ere are many
good ones tlat teach a fine les
son, but Iet' eliminate the rot
ten stuff, the Kind Of pictures
that degrade OF boys and girls.
IF we met }-oach ? moral les
son through :-,2r79rality, better
not teach it at aIl-Che average
youth will be worse off than If
he had not seen the picture.
Il we must show up the bad
men to keep our boys scared Of
them and deter them from fol-
lowing their example the chance
is that our boys will take on
more Of the bad than OF the
good, in the picture.
Here's where the community
pictures come in good, showing
only the best kind and we should
encourage such pictures and
send our boys and girls there.
It's a hard job to regulate the
showing Of pictures IN the regu.
lar picture houses. Boards OF
censors have been tried out IN
many towns and cities and the
sentiment seems to be against 1t.
One man sees them different
from the other but one point we
all can agree upon and should IS Is
that the 'blood and thunder"
sort Of pictures at least do not
do our boys and girls any good.
But to return to our story.
The two yOuths-TOm Under.
wood, only seven years old, and
Gray, IL years Of age-Were-
arrested by a detective for the
Southern Railway and we found
one Of the youngsters behind the
steel bars in the city jail. He
was CRYING as if his little heart
would breaksand Che big iron
bars and cell seemed to cry out
AGAINST such an outrage against
q kid just out Of his mothers
arms. His daddy took very little
interest in him but this only
added to the outrage. The boy
Was given no chance in life
the environments which sur
rounded him were not eleVatlng
at least. : !
81 didn't do it, sobbed the
boy, the same old story Of youth
ful prevarication as when the
kid at home stole his first bait, OF
jam or piece Of pie and told a
lie to escape parental punish
ment.