The Devils Lake world., 1922-01-18

courage Cne breaking OF Che law Oy
another man by his furnishing the
motive and the cause for the break
ing of the law. In other words when
you, who pride yourselves upon being
among the best people drink Boot
leg whiskey" as you are doing at the
present time at your dinners" and
parties" you are morally an acces-
sory to the crime committed by that
bootlegger who sells you your booze
Some Of you think that that is going
pretty far. Please tell me the differ
ence between the man who encour-
ages breaking the law by bootlegging
and by stealing? Where is it? Only
in one case the law recognizes the
man who illegally receives stolen
goods and does not as yet take cogniz
ance Of the. man who receives and
serves to his wife and friends illegal
ly made whiskey.
Duty of Officers.
"Also, no officer of the law has a
right to set the law at naught. From
the highest to the lowest, the officers
of the law are bound to obey and en-
force the law. There is no greater
menace today than that constituted
by publci officials and enforcement Of
ficers disregarding the laws they have
sworn to uphold and enforce.
"Why is it so hard for some to see
that disregard for one law breeds
contempt for all laws? Why cannot
some men and women in this city
realize that their open contempt and
disregard for law that they do not
like is doing more to undermine this
community than any long haired and
bewhiskered Bolshevist lecturing on
the street corner could ever do? Why
is it that fathers and mothers cannot
comprehend that the real reason that
they are having so much trouble with
their sons and daughters is that they
have shown those sons and daughters
that they do not obey any law that
they do not want to.
"Let me cite an example. A few
weeks ago family very prominent
in one of the Protestant churches of
this city gave dance Sunday even-
ing in their home for the youngsters.
Now those children knew that that
was absolutely against the teaching
Of the church of which they are men,
bers. They knew too that those peo-
pie knew it too and they learned a
lesson that night that it will take
much to blot cut. They were taught
by their elders and parents to disre-
gard the law. Just another example;
To show you how these things work
out. One of the leaders of this COM
munity has daughter in high school.
At gathering of young people re-
Gently she asked the hostess, another
high school girl, eff she could not
rustic a little something to drink that
had little kick to it, That grille
isn't very far along in her teens.
tell you that the time will come when
some of you will repent in sack cloth
and ashes the indifference that your
lives show to the enforcement of the
laws of God and your community.
But as you value your hope of eter-
nal happiness when that boy or that
girl of yours does Ego wrong" don't
you dare cast that child out as knew
one unnatural father and mother to
do, for primarily you will be respon-
;ible for your own child's downfall.
"Do you think it is Smart or
'cute" or "manly" or "wopanly" to
make joke of the law? Let me say
to you that the present fragrant dis
regard for law on the part of the
leaders of this and other communities
is undermining not only the charac-
ters of the adults but even more the
characters of the rising generation
who in their impressionable years are
being moulded by an atmosphere of
contempt for the laws of God as we'll
as the laws Of man. Come on, "take
stock" now. Are we, from the stand
point of character building going
ahead or slipping back. There is no
possibility of our standing still. In
all this great creation, there is no
standing still. There is none in man,
in nature, in character in social sys-
tenn, in community life or in the
state. We are growing better or
We are lapsing worse Which is it?
A little girl in one of the best fam
lilies in this town-and good kiddie
too,-the other day when chie!ed by
one Of her companions for talking
with some of the boys about the cut
of one of the teachers "bloomeret-
tes" said "Why that is nothing, if
you want to be popular with the boys
nowadays you have to talk about any,
thing with them" Parents!! Is that
any advance along the lines of modes
ty from the days of your youth? Or
is modesty something that is CT no
value any more? Perhaps that is it.
I see in one of the recent papers that
Denver judges have decided on what
constituts the 100 percent girl. The
following is standard set up by the
Denver post of the American Legior
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