Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 276, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1913 — Learn Wisdom From the Savages. [ARTICLE]

Learn Wisdom From the Savages.

A lay sermon by ■William Allen White: “A young cub, who has fifty thousand a year. Is In trouble in New York —young lady trouble. Which is natural enough. Any youth who has fifty thousand a year to spend is going to get Into trouble spending It. Work is the thing that keeps youth straight; work is the one medicine that cures youth of its vast and stupendous folly. If a young man has fifty thousand a year to spend, he has no more chance of being decent than a monkey. In South Africa, In the interior, the native custom provides that all the young negroes shall go to bed at dusk in tree houses reached by ladders, and the smart old men come and take the ladders down. But give a young man $50,000 to spend, let him sit up nights, and give him access to the ladder at all hours of the night, and he will go to the Bad Place sure. Can It be that the African savages know more of life than we do?*’ \