Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 246, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1915 — Ralston Tells Girls and Boys On Farm to Avoid “Bright Lights.” [ARTICLE]

Ralston Tells Girls and Boys On Farm to Avoid “Bright Lights.”

Winchester, Ind., Sept. 15.—Appealing to the farm boy and girl to remain at the old homestead and criticising the people for not giving more consideration to present day problems, Governor Ralston this afternoon addressed a crowd of 7,000 persons who were here to celebrate home coming day for Winchester and Randolph county. Mrs. Ralston accompanied the governor. G. E. president of the home coming association, introduced the speaker. The governor declared that the prosperity of our state and nation was due to farm life. He concluded his address with a discussion of the state penal institutions, their management and the parole problem.