Show i I t I 11 I Ii SCHOOL MORALS ELDERKIN TOPIC if j I Pastor Condemns City for Con Contributing Coni I i to Immoral Ten Tendencies Tendencies Tendencies of the Young 11 I IS If S S The Morals of ot Our Cur High School WM wu wasS S S the subject of ot pulpit editorial read reed at atthe j the thi th Congregational COD church last Jut evening by byj byI I j Rev Bev Noble Strong The edt edi editorial I tonal to 18 i one that has h been bei looked for forward forI I f J ward to by Dr the students and faculty of oC S 4 the high school as well as the th citizens j of oC Oad sIns n Mr lr stated tell last I r I 1 Sunday evening that he would treat on onI OnI I V i I the morals moral of ot th the school in hili h next ser set sermon setS iI I 1 mono mon S 1 r The editorial Is as follows j Most of or the young people peo e In our high school are ar doing the Impossible They I i are holding to lofty loft ideals and aDd high prin prinS principles S 1 el in the face of ot the moat mast 1 5 ing circumstances For the city which whick f encourages them to tl t gain pin a higher educe education t tion also encourages every Institution 1 i which seeks seek to undo the work of th tM the iI f t I high school Chool I That Wg big strong men with whiskers should hang around pool rooms room and aDd sa su saloons loons boss and gambling ambling houses houles and the scar scarlet scarlet scarlet let precincts Is a matter of ot wander vonder and andt I t regret r But that drunkenness and gamb gambling gambling f ling and worse vices should prevail to toS tol r l S i even een the th smallest extent among the pick l of the potential citizenship to Is i a aJ J t 1 matter of ot vital yUal concern You may not J say eay 86 wild oats and let It go fo These Thee I young men are to reap the whirlwind to tobe tobe be sure But Rut so 80 too will the city And 5 A the city which hopes tp build an enduring i f fabric upon the tile product of the tb saloon and aud audi i I gambling house needs needa a new vision vi Ion of S t social permanence 1 f I do not condemn these the young oung men who think the institution which the city r i protects and encourages are fit nt places pieces 1 i l for tor them when out of ot school I 1 pity it 4 i them The They arc aT ar the th logical victims of ofa i I t I a hideous us environment The wonder Is isI I 1 not that they have succumbed The I z t r r i ir i ii t I t 11 free wonder from Is that pollution any of ot our young oung life lIf is III isI 5 p i I do not condemn the teachers teacher of or our ourI I I f high school It possible po to gather i n ni t f together a group of men mM and women with 1 I A higher moral ideals And they the are bend bending 2 i i II ing every effort to give moral help to toI j I these tho under their influence I i I wish It were easier to condemn the thel theS I S f j parents But I know some whose boys boy boyI l I I are In the wild oat business bu lne s and I know It 1 what hat they wish for or their th Ir children Thet r fa j i makes make It hard to condemn condeR n here It I Is Isto to I the door of the parents that Chief Brown 4 III 1 I Ing marches marchIs in commendable boldness f i I and pauses to tell the blind and I l S ing among them their that th if they threw about h I their boys bos and girls a more wholesome influence the problem of ot human waste wast i 1 i It would vanish h That is III all eli tremendously S t p i 1 i true But here the chief lingers I in insist Int t 11 Blat upon on one further step slap slapS S Ii J I Once upon a time I had a garden That t 1 was before I found an easier Job I 1 dont what grew but it must S f t I have been carrots I found that when t j I I left the weeds weMs grow I have ban a t I 1 promising crop of carrots carrot But Idis I 1 dis it I covered this also sJ o that when I gave the 11 P carrots a show by pulling the we weeds wede da I I i away awty from their throats they flourished S tI Now the interpretation of my S l I tural experience is here A bay it I worth I t more than a carrot But He De too needs S j a decant environment You Yo can ens produce I r a shabby crop of carrots by providing a av v i n i shabby environment nt And you ean pro prof a I f duce due a shabby crop of ot by setting Betting i them in a shabby environment t I I do then condemn the city which SI t throws around amund its boys boa who would much I r 1 I rather be good rood than bad an in environment I which damns them tb m to impotence And I II j I j do condemn you of ot that city 4 1 who have never raised rallied a protesting p voice vote Upon you OU the bIam rests |