Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1916 — Your Boy. [ARTICLE]

Your Boy.

This is a good time to think of your boy. ]f you do not look after him in the right way. some one will do it in the wrong way. Begin now. Teach your boy to follow in the footsteps of his father, to .espect the law, to obey his parents, to regard the rights of all men, to honor virtue, to respect womanhood, and to depend upon no one but himself for his advancement. Teach him that the Golden Rule O.f life will be found in the ten commandments. They are short. They have survived the ages. They stand today unchanged and* unchallenged. They comprise the first great written law given by God to man. Before these few commandments all men-made laws fade into significance. Teach them to your boy. There is danger ahead if you do not. The universal drift of mankind is.

toward decadence. Heredity pays its premium and also exacts its discount. The son of a good father and an affectionate mother, brought up in an atmosphere of parental regard, never will disgrace the family. The boys of today are to be the men of tomorrow. The destinies of the American people are to be in the hands of their sons. If the boys are taught respect for the law, both hu-! man and divine, obedience to authority, manly independence and the fear of God, this great nation will be a noble monument to man’s capacity for self-government and self-control at a time when all the w r orld is a seething cauldron of unrest, unreason and disbelief. Teach your boy to rule, but firs* to rule himself. —Leslie’s.