Life — November 26, 1903 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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505 Religion in Public Schools. A CORRESPONDENT wants to know whether Lire wants to have religion taught in the public schools. Yes, when the parents of the children who go to the public schools want it taught. No, when the parents don’t want it taught. When the parents cannot agree as to the religion that is to be taught, we see no way out of it but to teach none. In many public schools the Bible is still read, because no one objects. In many other schools it is no longer read, bevause there is ob- jection. The Roman Catholics have been the chief objectors. In many States they have their own system of parochial schools, where they teach their own religion all they like. They want a share of the school funds of the States for the support of their schools. We don't think they ought to have it, but where there are Catholics who want to send their children to the public schools, we would have no religious teaching in such schools that they can object to. The great trouble is that a vast variety of religious preferences prevail in this country. Everybody has a preference in religious matters, except the State. The State is expected to have none. It does not profess to be even Christian. The State runs the schools at the cost of the taxpayers. It is its business to educate, aud to teach morals, but it is not its business to teach religion. The most it can do is to permit some religious teaching when there is no objection. A MAN may be won by flattery; he can be retained only by cookery. LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE. Tourist : WMAT 18 THE OBJECT OF ALL THESE GREAT STANDPIPES! “THEY WERE ERECTED BY THE ATMOSPHERE TRUST TO SUPPLY PURE AIR To THE PEOPLE WHO ARE OBLIGED TO LIVE NEAR THE EARTH my libraries in the air, so that now, when they are real, Ican have my name put on them and still live within my income, although some one else has to pay the taxes. Always live within your income, little boys and girls, even if it is only twenty millions a year. This is the secret of success, I wish I could say more to you of what is in my heart, but perhaps if I tell you never to give away a cent unless your name is stamped on it in indelible ink —to be sure your principal is intact, then go ahead, and to save up when you are young as much of other peo- ple’s money as you can get hold of, is perhaps the best xpression I can give to my own life-work. om a i Tom Masson. Gobblers’ OLD the moon is, cold and drear In November, With a cloud upon her face ‘That it chills our hearts with fear To remember. And —oh, gubble, gobble, gubble! Life's a bubble, full 0’ trouble For the hunted turkey race, For the victims plump and savory Of the human gobblers’ knavery And the greed that’s their dis- Chorus. We have heard our fathers tell, Since our childhood, Of Tuaxxsaivina in the town, And the dire things that befell In the wildwood. And—oh, gubble, gobble, gubble! Life's a bubble, full o’ trouble. We must wear the martyr's crown ; We must die to feed the pleasure Of the fiends who dine at leisure— May they choke as we go down ! J. HL. comicbooks.com