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Show FUTURE OF THE NATION DEPENDS UPON EDUCATION OF ITS YOUTH. , Carbon county's public schools open the second week in September tho 10th and to our boys nnd girls this will mean the end of a summer spent in a combination of idleness nnd work. There is nothing like n youngster around the house for odd chores, nnd the doing of them to mnny is the only drawback in summer. On the whole, however, childhood has its playtime must have It to develop properly and that pleasant pleas-ant time of the summer months is about done. With the beginning of the school term some serious questions come to the front. The war has had an evil influence upon child life in mnny lands, nnd nn undeniable attempt has been made in this country to follow suit. Before the war was five weeks old four states Connecticut, Minnesota, New Hampshire and Vermont had given some official or commission power to suspend the Inbor laws during tho war. A few weeks later Massachusetts passed a similar simi-lar law, but more carefully safeguarded, and only the governor's veto snved the labor laws of New York state. In New York, however, a law was passed exempting from school attendance April 1st to November 1st children who cngnged in agricultural work, and in California the school boards were given the power to shorten terms. The ttlca that the nation is forced to ignore the child laws "on account of war" is pernicious, nnd lends to serious consequences. England thought so for about n year but does not think so now. She is putting her educational system back on its old basis, after a deluge of juvenile crime. Farmers in the Western States have stated through their organizations that the work of small boys on the farm is of little value. And their work in factories, It has long been" recognized, has a stunting effect on their livos. The best place for boys, then, is in the schools, nnd tho youth of Carbon county including the girls will for the most part bo found in their accustomed places behind their desks, where they belong to the good of the nation. Julia Ia-throp, Ia-throp, chief of the United States Children's bureau, bu-reau, has uttered a striking word of wnrniug against letting tho war interfere with education, and In this department she is the mouthpiece of the government. It should bo understood that the lxy&' working reserve, which is being formed throughout the country, is a different proposition altogether, referring re-ferring to lHys at the ages of 18 years and up. What wo object to is having boys of 12 to M years and lower than 12 years taken from the school to no good purpose. Tho future of the nation, now ns ever, depends uK)ii our youth. Carbon county parents will act fair in their behalf, wc have no doubt. |