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COARSE ENTERTAINMENT.
Virginia Sargent.
I went to the circus for the first
time the other day. I broke one of my
scruples about going to such things,
but I wanted to be able to say to
those indifferent to animal suffering
that I had witnessed some of the
cruelties described' in humane jour
nals. The examples I saw in this, sup
posed to be one of the richest and
best circuses, fully convinced me
that the journals were not over sen
timental. /
Of course the wild animal acts
distressed me most. Being at one end
of the tent I could not see the whole
display, but I saw fair .samples. The
girl with th? leopards and the man
with the "wonderful" troupe of lions
seemed to be hugely enjoyed by the
unthinking and uncaring crowd.
Driven from their wagon cages to
that of the arena, they were con
stantly subjected to the crack and
lash of the whip. For the lions there
were also the iron fork and blank
cartridges. One poor lion was infu
riated (whether purposely or not, I
can't say) and he roared, struck at
the pronged fork, and at last, by the
.bravery (?) of the trainer was cow
ered by -a mere box! Thereupon^
coarse cheer rose from the throng.
I caught glimpses of bears riding
bicycles and rolling on balls. The
Mg elephants looked thin to me. They
performed several lumbering tricks.
The horses and dogs, while appearing
in good condition, were put through
acts, a great many, of which entailed
* ' their maintaining uncomfortable and
precarious positions for a number
of minutes. One dog, I recall; had
to stand balanced cn a slender rope
with a ball on his nose; a white char
iot rolling by had four dogs keeping
their footing inside the broad rims of
the turning wheels, and two wolf
hounds were compelled to follow this
turnout walking on their hind legs,
and at intervals touching with front
paws the wheels, in order to keep
their balance. A wild west round up
was scheduled as a side show, but as
I had my heart's scald of that in a
government movie, I saw one time,I
did-not stay.
Space prevents any more than
just these few remarks, though much
might be said.
* Besides the brutality to the dumb
beasts in performing, in close con
finement, and.in ceaseless traveling,
there was evident the moral empti
ness, or, to put it very mildly, a
lack in certain morals, of being en
" tertained with the stunts of bespang
led, slightly clad acrobats and mirth
provoking acts of clowns. I thought
of the lack in so many young lives
of these latter, and of the many of
them , who, if started in life with the
. ideal' of something worth while,
might render real service to the
world.
I came away heart-sick and disgus
ted more than ever with the mass of,
my fellow kind. Oh, for the day when
human beings will be too busy carry
ing out noble aims to demand amuse
ment in ridiculous and ^hazardous
stunts of their fellows, human and
dumb, when the minds of the rising
generation will have fit food for de
velopment. But there i* an army of
human beings, though at times it may
.seem small in comparison with the
. great need, who have noble aims, and
part of it, through the Jack London
> club is striving to impress upon the
public the wrong of trained animal
.acts, and how it is the duty of e^ery
theater goer at least, to help abolish
these by leaving a place where such;
.are held, or better still, by refusing
tb buy tickets for performances inj
which they are included. The man-j
.agement cannot escape being affect
ed, by such refusals and must even
tually see what the trouble is. But
everyone must do his part. Let us
not delay longer for the sake of
those whose wordless pleas should
smite upon every heart.-Dumb An
imals.
PROHIBITION MAKING AMERICA
SAFE FOR MOTHERHOOD AND
f-?-- CHILDHOOD.
"Dry America is the greatest coun
try in the world in whichvto produce
and re?r children. - Prohibition is ma
king America safe for mother-hood
and childhood. The Anglo-Saxon
race on this side of the Atlantic and
including dry Canada, bids fair to
leave the race on the other side far
-behind as, regards sound, healthy
well developed childhood. The eco
nomic effects of this inheritance
of sound health will be seen in the
near future. If Great Brittain does
not follow the lead of the United
States and Canada in banishing- the
racial poison, alcohol, it will face in
evitable decadence.
A drugged Hon cannot compete
with a sober Eagle."-Dr. C. W. Sa
.leeby of London,
WHY BOYS AND GIRLS GO
"~WRONG.
By Judge Ben D. Lindsay.
Of course boys and men
largely responsible for the troul
of girls. And in spite of the t
home training, you find boys i
girls going wrong; but do not for
that that is always the exceptio
case; and where one boy or girl fr
a good home goes wrong, there
more than a hundred) who do not
f
wrong.
In fact, the great majority of b
and girls in this country are wh<
some, pure and honest; and gr
majority of homes are good Amerh
homes producing the noblest citiz
ship the world ever saw.
I am an optimist, and believe t
ter things are better; but you ca
keep them better unless you k<
up the eternal fight that the ri|
must wage against the evil; and wh
crime is increasing; it must be
membered at the same time tl
good citizenship is increasing. M
boys, like most men, are hone
but I do say that there is a fear
amount of depravity among 1
children of the cities of this count]
and I don't blame the children at a
I blame the parents, the men a
women of the city officials. The
aie many who are not to blame, I
there are many who are. ,*
Of course I will not.be misundi
stood. The average boy and girl w
goes wrong deserves to be firn
dealt with and I have 3ent many
the older ones to jail and many
them to reformatories; and do ii
hesitate to. do so in proper casi
They must suffer for wrong doii
and they must be able to know th
after all, they are themselves i
sponsible for what they do.
The point I make is that they
least deserve a square deal; for o
pfortunity, environment, example, ai
everything in the life of an indivi
ual, and the boy or girl who do
right may have been even worse thi
the boy or girl who does wrong,
these conditions had been revised
their lives; and while character ci
sometimes lift the individual abo1
environment, we cannot judge thei
children with charity and justice ui
less we take all these things into coi
sideration.
Onej. of the chief cause-? of di
honesly among boys and immoralil
among girls is the fact that the new
papers teem with such stories,
do not mean by this to blame ti
newspapers, as some people do. Th
newspapers publish what the peop!
do and what the people want 1
know, and the fault, if there be
fault, mustie charged up to the pee
pie themselves/ to the public sent
ment of the times, which mus
change if other things change.
Boys and girls read about th
graft and dishonesty among peopl
in the supposedly higher walks o
life and the example is a powerfv
thing for evil in their lives. Childre
become calloused more or less to vice
and get really false notions, becaus
what they read in the papers is afte
all the exceptional or special condi
tion.
I believe that the messenger ser
vice is one of the greatest corrupt
ers of boys.
There are many pure, hon' st girli
in the department stores, and w<
dislike to speak of the dangers en
"countered here, because we have
such a high respect for the manj
good, pure girls who courageouslj
lead a noble life under all kinds cd
trials and temptations; but no one
knows better than these very girls
the temptations they endure, and
how m?ny of their sisters fall.
There are certain young scoun
drels in every community who go
about seeking whom they may devour
and who lead many girls astray; and
young rascals of this kind should be
hunted down and shown no ' mercy.
They have, no respect for virtue or
womanhood. .r .
. Anoth?r (prolific cause of the
downfall of young girls is their going
to theaters and public dances with
out chaperones or, in fact, going at
all at a tender age to some of these
places; visiting girl friends of ques
tionable character, especially in
rooming houses or outside the fam
ily circle.
After all the lack of companion
ship between mother and daughter
and the lack of training a girl in that
maidenly modesty which is her chief
protection from scoundrels, are also
causes for the downfall of thousands
upon thousands of girls in the cities
of this country. If the number were
reaHy known, I am sure it would be
startling.
The truth is that the public, like
many parents and teachers, do not
-really know the fact, and from one
standpoint it may be just as well
they do not know, but from another
standpoint it is very important that
the facts should be known, for there
is nothing to be gained by permit
ting sores, ^to fester under cover
However disagreeable it is to deal
with filth and garbage, the whole
city would suffer in the end if it is
neglected. But it can only be re
moved and cared for in the proper
way. y
No girl's trouble or any troubles
affecting the morals of the youth of
the city should be aired and written
about m the newspapers any more
than the garbage wagon, which is
absolutely necessary to the health of
the community, should perform its
functions in the open streets at times
when they are most needed.
Perhaps an occasional jolt to the
community is necessary to let them
know that evil is getting in its work,
and they must be up and doing, to
overcome evil with good.
NOTICE !
Concordia Lodge
No. 50, A! F. M. will j
hereafter hold its
tegular communica
tion on the SECOND
MONDAY night of each month in
stead of Friday night as heretofore.
All members are kindly requested
to observe the change and be pres
ent accordingly.
J. H. CANTELOU, W. M.
Edgefield, S. C., August 1, 1921.
Eyes scientifically examined and
I glasses properly fitted. ;
GEO. F. MIMS,
Optometrist-Optician,
Edgefield, S. C.
NOTICE.
We having organized the Edge?eid
National Farm Loan Association in
I connection with the Federal Land
Bank, I shall be glad to file your ap
plication for a loan.
J. H. CANTELOU,
Secretary-Treasurer.
Edgefield, S. C.
J. S. BYRD
* Dental Surgeon
Office Over Store of
Quarles & Timmerman
Office Phone No. 3
Residence Phone 87
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To All Whom These Presents May
Concern:
Whereas, J. H. Allen has made ap
plication unto this Court for Final Dis
charge as Executor in re the Estate of
Clara Penn, deceased, on thia the 23
day of Augusta, 1921.
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