The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-06

not because saloons are many, but
because he never decided that he
would be a sober man. That is why
sir. Dishonest men are behind pris-
on bars simply because they never
decided that they would be honest
and settle that whole thing in the
world, and heaven has no help for
the fellow who leaves everything to
be settled by the opinion of the street
mob on the corner.
Not to make start for heaven Is
to more than half decide that you
will go to hell. l hope you will nor
lose out.
Dog Showed
Good Sense.
A dog was coming along the
banks of the Nile and he grew thirs-
ty, and fearing to drink lest he would
be seized by the monsters that in
habited the river, he would not stop,
but Tapped as he ran, and a huge
crocodile thrust his head up out of
the sluggish water and said, why
in such hurry? l have long desired
to make your acquaintance. Stop and
let's talk the matter over
And the dog replied, at is to avoid
such companions as you that l am
in such hurry"
So look out. We want you to win.
And young men, | think, are often
tempted because of the loneliness of
boarding house life. The room is
small. They rarely ever 90 there ex-
cept to sleep or change their clothes.
In the winter 1t is cold and in the
summer it is hot, and they have been
on strain all day and they feel they
must have little recreation.
So he takes a walk; thinks he will
come back pretty soon and write a
letter home to mother dear old
mother, how he would like to see her
face.
He meets congenial companions
and they overcome his conscientious
scruples. He goes to a billiard hall,
to gambling room, to saloon. He
will go down to the house of her
whose door swings into hell. Oh, he
is with the crowd and he has got to
keep up with the crowd he is with.
Hamlin Garland, in his Life of
Gen. Grant" tells that Gen. Grant,
when he was young lieutenant out
on the Pacific coast, was going the
pace that kills, and one day General
Grant sat down and had a good heart
to-heart talk with himself He said,
$50 long as this habit commands me,
am not fit to command men," and
right then and there he signed his de-
claration of independence. He fought
his revolutionary war and celebrated
his victory
Bad Companions
Lead To Ruin.
Oh. if he had not, then, sir, Robert
E. Lee would never have given him
his word at Appomattox. If he had
not he wouldn't be sleeping yonder
on the banks of the Hudson If he
had not, he never would have gone to
the White House as president of the
United States.
And the man, say, who continues
to go with bad company without re-
gard to consequences, sooner or later
will find himself losing out Be sure
the semaphore shows a clear track
before you rush into the block ahead
of you. A sound apple in barrel
of rotten ones will soon be fit for the
slop like the rest of them. You go
with a bad crowd and it won't be
long until you will be as good for
nothing as the crowd you are with
So l appeal to the high ideal OF
young men and young women to
stand for God.
| think, folks there are very few
epithets so stignatizing and heart
rendering to me as to say of young
fellow, "Oh, he has gone like all
young men CO." which means that he
has gone to the devil, so far as that
applies to him.
For anybody to live so as to gain
such a reputation as that, l think
that is tragedy. Each young man
and woman was made for something
good. Each generation of young PEG
pie, they are pioneers of a new age
AS go the young men of America, sc
/ goes America, and so, no one this
/ side of heaven can tell where youl
personal influence will lead to.
Each Has To Face
/ Judgment Bar.
| You are standing at the head
of a procession reaching from hero
I to the Judgment. l will stand here
! will influence this man. l will die
He will influence that man and he
will die and that man will influence
another man; and sir, l have start
/ ed a chain of influence that will reach
! from where | am to the Judgment
whether it be good or whether it be
evil.
You are standing at the head of {
procession, every one of you, and
want you to be ready for the right
thing and be ready for the emer
/ gency.
81 didn't think" is an expression
unworthy of a wise young man. THAI
was only intended for fools.
It is said that when France de
clared war against Germany in tho
Franco-Prussian war, they rushed t.
/ the home of Won Moltke, who was
then head of the Prussian army, and
| they raped on his door and said
| General, France has declared war"
He said, You go to my office, il
the upper right-hand corner in tho
pigeonhole, and you will find des
patches and orders, written ant
signed. Send them and call me il
the morning at seven o'clock"
And Won Moltke lay down and wen
to sleep, and in the morning at sever
o'clock, two hundred thousand sea
soned German troops had started fo1
the French frontier. No wonder The
French were not able to compete
with them.
Be Ready To Face