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Show THE INTERMOUNTAIN PRESS. Business men may have a few loose habits themselves, but they aro looking for boys that aro as near gentlemen In every sense of the word as they can find, and they arc able to give the character of evorylwdy In the city. They are not looking for rowdies. When a boy applies for one of these places and Is refused, they may not tell him tho reason why they do not want hlrn, but tho boy may depend upon It that he's been rated according ac-cording to his behavior. Boys cannot afford af-ford to adopt.tho habits and conversation of loafers and rowdies If they want to be called to responslblo positions. Richfield Reaper. e Thoro has been quite a falling off In attendance at-tendance at the colleges slnco spring has .come, students being called home to work on farms. In somo cases this Is probably unavoidable, but ovary effort should bo mado to permit tho students to remain the full terms. The breaking away from school before tho end of tho terms Is generally gen-erally accompanied by discouragement on tho part of tho students, and Is a great loss to them. If parents can bequeath to tholr children a good education, It will provo of greater worth than wealth, It cannot be quandpred. Of tho two, property prop-erty or c'ducatlon, tho lattor Is preferable. For the Rake of a few days' work on the farm In the spring, the student's anticipations anticipa-tions for an education are ofton blighted. Paronts having sons and daughters approaching ap-proaching their majority should consider well the fuluro before calling them from colleges and other schools Logan Republican. Repub-lican. There Is promise of an Interesting baseball base-ball season in, Boise, slnco the homo team hua mado such un auspicious start pen-nantward. pen-nantward. That local enthusiasm will bo kept up Is sincerely to be hoped, since arnuscmont and recreation of some kind lsi as essential as work and business. It relieves tho dally routine and grind of life and makes one brighter and more cheerful for It. Than baseball there Is no moro clean, healthful, scientific athletic sport, which accounts for Its ever-grow-Ing popularity with the real American manhood. Bolso Capital News. It Is certainly a fact that far too many minors are permitted to purchase Intoxicating Intoxi-cating llquorsJ In and to remain In th promises of saloons Tho ordlnanco Is rnthor difficult of strict enforcement, but on that account greater rather than lesa vigilance should bo exercised to reduce tho evil to a minimum. The officers should be held responsible. Logan Journal. Jour-nal. It is amazing that there an parents so unmindful of the welfare of their children as to permit them to grow up In Ignorance and Illiteracy, with freo schools and free text books provided by tho State. Tho future fu-ture holds no promise to such children, for tho uneducated of the next generation will stand no moro show for advancement than will the beast of burden. It Is qullo right that such parents bo prosecuted. It would be qullo right Xor the Stato to take their children away from thorn, annul their marriages and terminate tholr parental status. It la a crime against society so-ciety to bring children into tho world and rear them In all tho Ignorance of tho savage. It Is no less a crlmo to cripple a child's mind than It would bo to cripple tho child's body. Mllford Times. |
