From the Ipswich Tribune

May 3, 1929 edition

EVERY BOY NEEDS A DOG

Every boy should grow up with a dog, for the association thereby will make of the boy a fairer, kinder, truer man, some day, when he becomes a man. He will learn to love fairness, justice and mercy, just as he will come to hate meanness, cruelty and cowardice, through daily contact with his big-eyed, shaggy-coated, understanding friend. If the boy unhappily is vicious, intemperate, or destructive, he will find in his voiceless associate a wordless rebuke for the sins of his commission.

It is the inevitable way of a dog with a boy, and the dog knows, moreover, because through him the infinite forces of the universe are functioning as freely as the wind through winter trees- David Arnold Balch in the New Age Illustrated.