From The Watauga Democrat, Thursday, March 12, 1914, R.C.
Rivers, Proprietor
Mr. Herman Crump, a fine young man from Caldwell County, but
now residing in Wisconsin where at Racine he is studying to be a machinist, is
at home with his father and mother Mr. and Mrs. Millard Crump of Rocky Knob.
Tis worthy couple of the good old timey sort, whose home is every ready to
receive the way faring man, the front door never barred, the back door
unlatched. It is pleasing to meet our mountain boys who following the advice of
Horace Greely to “go west,” return to the old home, having “made good.”
It thrills the heart to shake hands with such boys, but how
one’s heart aches to think of how some of our boys, for lack of proper parental
training go wrong and every man’s hand against them, pitching headlong into the
outside world are caught in the whirlwind of disregard for public opinion and
consequent loss of self-respect, and, like Cain, become “wanderers” upon the
face of the earth, haunted by an ever present fear of detection, arrest and
subsequent incarceration, all because one parent, maybe both, failed to delay
the boy gratification of a foolish whim or the furtherance of a selfish aim.
A school for teaching parents how to train their children
would not be amiss in this day of utter disregard for the right of the child to
be taught his duty toward the parents and toward the government under which he
was born.
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