The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1904-09-29

trolled boys and girls. Every father and
mother, and every head Of our homes,
feels and recognizes this terrible fact
Where there are good children, where
there is genuine. godlike home govern
ment this terrible fact is felt by the in
fuence of the disobedient boys and girls
of neghbors. And the godlike govern
ment of homes is diminishing contin-
ually by both inside and outside influences
OF disobedience. Boys and girls are walk
ing according to the prince of the power
in the children OF disobedience"
| The father and the mother who is try
ing to educate boys and girls feel and see
this in the continual calls of their chill
dren for money to crafty their uncOn-
| trolable desire for dress and extrava-
gance which the parents haven't the
= manhood and the wOmanhOOd, the
/ fatherhood and the motherhood, to re-
| buke and repress in their own children,
because others permit it with their chill
dren. And thus those who would have
governed Alright their own children are
made the victims. with their children, OF
the evil spirits in other homes; and ALL
! together, are wrecked i'll the want OF
true happiness in their homes for the
sake OF following the fashions and fOllies
| III OllltiS. DcCtbuSC LhCy my IVY
and girl must keep up with the Others" "
And thus the sinful nome sets the pace
for what would be the gOdly home, and
all go down in ruin together because
parents are afraid of their own children.
and will not exercise the authority and
responsibility to govern that the laws OF
God and the State places upon them.
You well say:
This lack of control if allowed to go
on is destined to undermine our social,
industrial and governmental institutions.
Uncontrolled children grow into uncon-
trolled and uncomfortable men, and un-
controlled men produce disregard of law,
and disregard OF law means anarchy.
No better paragraph for the welfare OF
the homes in North Carolina has come
from the press or pulpit in % years than
that of yours just quoted. The father
and mother OF the fiend who shot Mr.
Mckinley made him what he was. and
the mother. by actual action. more than
the father made that anarchist And the
same thing is, as you say, going On all
over North Carolina.
1T is time to call halt And my
old college mate and friend, DIR. George
r. Winston, deserves high praise and q
| decoration of honor from every home in
this State for the laundering tone in
which he called the halt at the 4. NJ.
| College recently The truth is that no
| boy or girl ought to be allowed to go
] out from the institutions where they 90
for education Friday night or any other
time, without permission and FOR good
=, cause, of which cause the faculty should
be the sole Judge. And then the boys
and girls would learn to love law, sys
tenn and order and learn to pray, in
>. =, s.Nhxy will ha Innn or,
earth, as it is in Heaven No man, wO
man or child ever made, or can make
that PRAYER Alright who doesn't love and
o live absolute obedience in his own home
And the pity is that every father and
= mother who reads your editorial or to
whom it is read will say: "ThOse are my
, sentiments" and then nine out OF every
ten of these parents will fail to live thel1
own sentiments, out of sheer cOwardlce
from fear of their own children.
Your editorial is simply superb, and
ask YOU to republsh it in next Sunday
Post in type the size of it's headline. Yo,
can't estimate, and no one else can estl
mate the blessing to North Carolina il
that editorial, if fathers and mothers will
} read it and live it.
Very truly yours,
PAUL B. MEANS.
We thank Col. Means for the ai(
he has given in the foregoing in i'm
pressing the need Of intelligent exer
e. else of authority in home and schOo
government, also for his very kin'
and complimentary reference to ou
editorial of Friday. and at his reques
reproduce it as follows:
The recent events at the \. 4 Nj. ColleG
! in this city serve to emphasize one OF til
greatest evils of modern life-the lack {
restraint of children. The world ha
9 never seen a time when children were s
y little controlled as today.
is, This lack of control if allowed to 6
III on. is destined to undermine our socia
,ae industrial and alinstitution
'ss as Uncontrolled children grow into uncol
ais trolled and uncomfortable men, and III
'S controlled men produce disregard OF Law
g. and disregard OF law means anarchy.
1t is time to call halt. What has lu.
al taken place at the \. K Nj, College is tai
Til ing place in some shape or other
II greater or less degree every week, almo
iii every day. in the homes, schools and L
iii dusfriai establishments throughout Il
II land. The daily press dispatches tell
ii family rows. of local rows, church row
Of strikes and mobs These disturbanc
are confined to no section OF the cOu
III try. They are not even confined to u
male sex.
The trouble is that the homes and Il
schools of the land are not all doing the
| duty. Authority is overridden and whe
| maintained at all it is with too loo
| rein and too lax hand; discipline is n
| enforced with firmness and decision; al
the foolish whims and caprices OF ch
| dren grow into the dangerous and uni
strained passions of men.
1t is time for reform in the home al
reform in the school. 1t is not too la
The home and the school must coop
ate. as they have just done in the case
the A. < NJ College students. Parer
should teach their children obedien
school and college authorities should
force obedience, and maintain proI
II supervision and oversight over the in'
. perienced youth entrusted to tn
charge.
D BOYS OF immature age going aw
from home should not he left to tn