Show I 0 J Things Old Things Old an and New NewBY r rBY BY FRANCIS CIS BURGETTE SHOUT SHORT P PARENTS ARENTS cannot exercise too much c care care rc in selecting the books and the stories which their children read lend The young mind is easily impressed and the imagination is quick to grasp the thoughts winch which ch assume the form of pictures pichu es in t the he child nature These pictures are retained and talked about and thought over until they become fibrous in child life and aud activity Children are arc actuated d more morely by what they see than hy by what they hear Their ey eyes s are ever eyer alert but the they see sec with other than their e eves eyes es Their soul sees bees th their ir imagination is inte intense though it may he be e imperfect and the tho pictures that are f formed in th their ir imagination and s soul JUl greatly effect their whole life Therefore I repeat that parents cannot ex exercise too great care in selecting b the books and the stories which their children read The rhe necessity of proper reading rending for our children is patent to every ever h teacher and pen person oti interested in the welfare of childhood Indeed it is is r recognized cognize b by every cry faithful officer of r th the law A among the youth youth in iii our institutions of correction as well as the information that every ery well- well informed official possesses will result in the discovery that vicious stories which excited the tic entire nature and stirred it to take lake some villains villain's part was the he direct cause of the youths youth's undoing Jesse Pomeroy more than twenty five years ago committed a horrible crime crime He was tried and sentenced to de death th but was commuted to life to-life life im im- The Tho warden o of the prison said that Jesse JeSso told him that he was led to commit the rime crime crime through re reading ng a yellow-covered yellow type of literature litera litera- ture ture A boy threw the swit switch h and anti wrecked a train and after being arrested said he lie r had ad been peer reading rending a novel about train wreckers These se illustrations lions could be duplicated b by the hundreds and an all additional sad Had ad fact about about I the whole hole matter is is- that older folks are arc likewise greatly influenced by the startling tl things s g-s which they tb read Should the reader care to look further into this matter it may may be interestingly interesting 1 terest l though sadly ally done by securing b Arthur MacDonald's i s work on Criminology Surely there should be e some way to discontinue the I publication ou of the cheap yellow n novel nel el th there thele r should be some way to prevent pre its being read there should he be sonic some tay ay to preserve el e the young nt nd from such baleful influence nc The writer l has bas s no IO theory to offer b by br which youthful minds shall be saved sa to themselves themselves' and to the community But Bat they should be he saved I H How w do elp you ou think th that lt it jt could be done 1 |