The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-10-20


annoying.
The way you have seen fiji
to start "Hallowe'ening" weeks
ahead of time just doesn't make
sense. Admittedly, not all of you
are responsible for the damage
that has been done, but the van
dalism of a few gives all of you
a bad name.
After all, your victims don't
know who is responsible; they
! just blame those no-account
kids" and so the esteem with
which your generation is re-
! garded drops another notch.
After all, destruction of prop
erty and even making mere nui-
sances of yourselves is a pretty
poor way to thank the COM
munity for all it has done for
you.
And it has done plenty, even
though you may not have stop
ped to think about it. Just to re-
fresh your memories, look at this
list:
l. Your public schools, a sys-
tenn as good as any in the state,
and far better than most, Next
month, the people of this COM
munity are going to renew a tax
levy TO help maintain those
schools for you.
2. Your Memorial Athl ic
Field. Until three years ago-as
many of you will recall-you had
to go out of town TO see your
football teams play. The people
of your community want you
to. have athletic facilities as good
as other towns, and they raised
the money TO provide you with
one, So you show your apprecia-
tion with thoughtless acts which
cost your benefactors unneces-
sary time and money.
3. Your Municipal Swimming
Pool and Legion Park. That's
something you take for granted,
now, isn't it? But until 1886 the
closest safe swimming spot was
20 miles away. The good people
of your community wanted you
to be able to play and swim at
home in the summer time so
Legion Park was first set up,
then, a few years later, the
swimming pool. Yet you show
your appreciation of these gifts
by damaging the automobiles of
the very men who made it all
possible, members of the Legion
who were meeting in the Park
Tuesday night.
4. Your Memorial Youth Cen
ter. Contributions of adults who
want you to have fun and a
decent place to spend your eve
ningS in the summer made this
possible.
B. The Municipal Playground,
where so many of the small
fry"-yes, and some of you old
er kids, too-spend many pleasant
hours at supervised play every
summer.
These and many other contri-
buttons the people of Marysville
have made possible, just for you.
Think, kids; just stop and
think a moment.
Are you playing fair with those
people when you deliberately
damage their property? Even the
harmless" soaping that you
have been doing for nearly two
weeks, now, costs business men
and housewives alike in the time
it takes to remove.
If you would wait until Halo
we'en, have your fun and get iii
over with, no one would care.
At least not as long as there
was no actual destruction Of
property; that is not justified at
any time.
After all, every adult in Ma
rysville was once kid, Just
like you. The writer, not too
many years ago, probably helped
tip over as many out-houses as
any OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
kid in town. We were probably
cussed plenty for it, but as least,
we limited our forays to Hallow-
cen, and our parents saw to it
that that was all.
We never even heard of Beg
gar's night; that's comparitiv-
ely, recent innovation here -abouts.
How differently you boys and
girls of l949 carry. on! It seems
to make no difference to you
whom you bother, or how, or
who is watching you. You non
chalantly smear soap all over a
plate-glass store front, or an auto
mobile windshield with any num-
ber of persons looking on.
Let's calm down a bit, kids.
Take it easy a while.
If you don't have any respect
for your older friends in town,
or any appreciation for the things
they have done for you, can't
you at least show some respect
for your own regulations?
Some of the things being said
about you right now aren't very
nice