Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1913 — SHOULDN'T BE GIVEN A SAINT'S NAME [ARTICLE]

SHOULDN'T BE GIVEN A SAINT'S NAME

Adhm Croaker writes to the Holton Recorder: “Reading a news item the other day about John Wesley Smith being found incorrigible and sent to the reform school, reminded me of the risk parents take In giving their male progeny the names of the sainted good men of a past age. I once knew a boy who was loaded down with the name of John Calvin, who persisted in going to the bad and finally landed in

the penitentiary. ( Another boy named Matthew Simpson grew up such a reprobate that neither his parents nor teachers could do anything with him and be finally ran off and became a tramp of the worst hobo brand. I had a schoolmate once named Alexander Campbell Jones, who was an all around scalawag, and who, when grown to manhood, became a scoffer at all kinds of re-

ligiqus sentiment and put in most of his time abusing and opposing Christianity.' The safest way is to name your boy Bill or Tom or Jake ojr Jeff or something that don’t mean much.” —Kansas City Star.