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Show I NCLE TED'S BED-TIME STORIES "The law is nothing else but reason." rea-son." The storm had passed over leaving in its path a great scattered line of boats of all descriptions piled one after the other high on the sand banks. Ruth, Jack and Uncle Ted were on a little week end auto trip to the beach, the beach being the border of a beautiful little lake, calm and gentle gen-tle in good weather, like most bodies of water, but just as strong and mean as any big body of water when the wind and rain take It upon themselves them-selves to act up. It had been a wonderful won-derful Saturday but on Sunday Uncle Ted and his chums had almost finished finish-ed packing away their camp equipment equip-ment when the storm broke. They rushed for cover, putting all the odds and ends possible into the car first, but a bolt of lightning tore down the big tree not far from where they had been camped for the night. "That surely was a big storm." remarked Uncle Ted, as they again went at the task of preparing to leave. "I think we were mighty lucky. Uncle Ted." said Jack. "I'll say we were," he replied. "Look at that beach. It doesn't seem possible that wind could do that much damage in So short a time. Everything Ev-erything seems so wet and since the sun is out again I believe it would be better to spread these things out to dry. We can easily make it home tonight to-night if we don't leave before six o'clock. Then we will be dry. We can have our supper before we leave and instead of waiting for that story 1 promised you tonight, we can have it this afternoon. Afternoon isn't quite the time for a bed-time story but you will have to go right to bed when you get home. What I want to try to do in this story is to impress upon you as much as possible the necessity that you both grow up to have respect for our laws. I don't believe there ever was a time in the history of this great country of ours when the growing generation needed so much to have impressed upon them genuine respect res-pect for law and order. There seem to be many reasons why growing disrespect dis-respect for law exists today. Our way of living for one thing, makes us rush to keep up with the pace of business bus-iness and profession. That is all right I mean, it is fine to be ambitious and work hard to be some one and make a place for yourself in the world. But. our minds must be kept strong during dur-ing this period of rapid living and working else we are apt to want play the same way, thereby creatir an atmosphere of unnatural recreation recrea-tion about us. "You know when you get sick, kiddies, kid-dies, and your mother puts you to bed and sometimes the doctor comes? Well, your minds can get sick too unless you train them to think in the right way. One of the best ways to train your minds as they should be trained is to play games and exercise as I told you last week. "To have respect for law doesn't just mean that you won't go out and steal or break into some one's house or any number of things that are done by that class of people known as criminals. By respect for law I mean more altitude ' toward our Government and what it stands for. There is too much of a spirit of making mak-ing fun of those who are responsible for the laws and their enforcement. In the little things the younger generation gen-eration has a tendency to delight in breaking minor laws nnd rules, if you fan call any law minor. ( "When it conies to law and order. j no one is any better than another. We are all. rich and poor, black nnd , white, strong and weak, responsible i in the same way when we break the law. either by word or action. Some day. Jack, you will be old enough to drive an automobile. When that time comes you must remember that the law tells you that yon can drive onl . -o fast in certain places. Don't think j 'hat it is cute to break that law.i True, you might race along fori months without being caught. That! .isn't the idea. Y'ou might break that ! speed law forever without being caught. But how about your mind?" "I guess I wouldn't feel just right, would I?" was Jack's answer. "That is just it. Jack. Y u would simply be giving yourself a sick mind. Then if you lot it get too sick j you might try bre :li::g some other , law. "The way to avoid this mental illness ill-ness is always to remember that it : is a privilege to live in this great i country of ours and that one of the greatest privileges is the opportunity to observe an duphold the laws that j have been passed to make our coun-! coun-! try the finest to live in of any in the world. Just think of the great structure struc-ture of Government organization and then you will see that it is all built upon a system of law. Everyone of ua is subject to those laws, from the President of the United States- down. Congress makes the laws for the Nation. Na-tion. The laws are put into effect and kept in force by the Government departments. de-partments. Then each state makes laws, and besides there are regulations regula-tions to be enforced by the local police. po-lice. In brief, that gives you my thought that without law, our Nation Na-tion would not exist. Therefore is it asking too much of us as good American Amer-ican citizens to keep those laws and , help others to keep them? I don't be-! be-! lieve it is. i |