Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-05-17
THE COUNTRY HOME
7. H. FELTON,

tnexation to Canada She aims to get there
first, if we are so unwise and so unpatrlotlc'
as to- join the League Of Nations, the YER
sailles variety, which is the hope of warning
and harassed European nations, to secure
money and troops to carry their continual
warfare. The propagandists are busy. 1t
will be much cheaper to provide cash Tor
these people, who will work anywhere, gold
being the coin which passes anywhere at par
value (and British gold was seen and felt in
Tory circles when American patriots were
endeavoring to throw off the British yoke),
than to pay thirteen billions of the loan.
We have one outlet for protection and
safety, as patriots, namely, keep away from
foreign entanging alliances.
"WHEREWITHAL SHALL A YOUNG MAN
CLEANSE HIS WAY"
" HIS Bible quotation is not as clear as
we might wish it to be. Nevertheless,
"a we understand the emphasis lies in the
necessity for cleansing of the young mans
way. Youth is filled with hope for pleasure.
Old age is filled with desire for rest and con-
tentment More than two-thirds of the hui
man family fail to realize satisfying pleas
ures, or rest and peaceful contentment.
vanity all is vanity, is the reverberating
echo that attends the failure to find, after
the seeking.
The young man who realizes the necessity
for clean life to obtain successful results,
has started out in the right direction. This
ideal must always be kept aloft. 1t Is pos
sible that this Bible quotation means the
young man who fails to experience the cleans
ing will be handicapped throughout life's
journey, and his burden will grow heavier
until it falls from his own lfeless hands
unfinished because he was less able to carry
it with the infirmities OF old age, which
caused the slump and surrender.
II somebody should call me to the witness
stand to say what is the most valuable asset
Cuyin bn is with
good home, with opportunities for education
in books and travel, and good associates of
his own age, good health and good reading
matter I should say his own self-respect.
His inclinations, and I may say his. tempta-
tons, will often cross his path, and it is
human to err and easy to make mistakes
with very good intentions, but if he can re-
sist evil after the struggle, and find himself
in close affinity with truth and honesty of
purpose, he stand erect and believe in
himself and be safe.
There are some rich young men who will
not allow themselves to be handicapped by
great fortune, but the great majority will not
feel the need for self-denial and the dsci-
pine of poverty to urge them on
Those who know nothing about striving to
accumulate competency, who can waste
money because there is more to waste in the
bank, are unfortunate, because they never
know the value of the dollar until they are
forced to earn it, to advance In life.
But the young man who is sane and sem
sible, and who would do his best as a man in
all his public and private relations, will de-
serve and also maintain clean life in man.
ners and morals.
1t is as necessary to physical manhood as
to his morality and clear vision of all his
duties, political and social.
His self-respect is his greatest asset. The
poorest man in the universe is he<hat is I'M
worthy-in his Utmost thought and purpose!