The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-01
BY MARGARET E. sANGsrER.

A SSUMING that you and bring con-
- seientious motives to bear upon the
raising Of our boys. there are two
diverse theories on which We may pro-
ono is from infancy to shield the boy
from temptation. to guard him from
every evil association, and protect hlm
from hearing, seeing, and touching any
thing that may lower his ideals and cor
rUpt his nature. Granting that a boy can
be thus brought up from chllohOod TO
manhood, he would reasonably De eX-
peeted 20 confront the issues or lie Win
a certain fine strength Of character and
a wholesome purity, provided that ne
possessed an unusually firm Will. The
human being who arrives at his majority
with an unimpaired capital of physical
health, because he has never had mumps,
measles or scarlet fever ought not to
need "A physician until old age arrives,
yet. il he IS seized by any fell disease, by
hard with him as II he had run the
gauntlet Of every childish maIady under
the sun
ningle freely with theft fellows, pitching
them out into the arena of the street
and the public school. allowing them full
libcrtv to near and see and know what
ever is wrong, yet carefully teaching
them 10 avoid error, and to tight against
who advance this method are convinced
In their own minds that they may safely
send the adolescent youth Iorth 10 col
lege or to business, ard that he VIII not
stumble into pitfalls SO readily as il not
accustomed to skirt them throughout tho
earlier years.
1 advocate neither theory-aow. 1 merely
state both. But our boys are not TO be
treated as a mass: they are to be edu-
Gated one by one. as individuals For
some lads. the home shielding, the bright
arGor OF complete innocence. may be the
wiser to let them test their strength and
insure their purity of morals and gentle
ness OF manners BY contact With the
world as Il is
rNo observant person can deny that an
avalanche Of profanity has fallen upon
our common speech in the twent tsth CEN
fury. On the street cars we hear motor
men and conductors 1amillarly dropping
oathS INTO thGII lAIh- VIII IN SIoli-s )" nOAA
they pass, or into their oOjurgatiOns OF a
drunken man. obstinately 1ntrenCheC IN a
corner OF the car Boys at play use
language that is blOod-curdling in its
profane emphasis Men swear EeCauSe
their collars do not fit. because they lose
a train. because a dog out and
they utter impTecatiOns and call on high
heaven or the deepest he'll with equal
and impartial emphasis The boys who
are men in miniature hear them and
glibIy repeat the flaming words, SC that
red-hot profanity sometimes slips trip
The reason for the widespread pro-
family of the boy is, superficially, that
we have suffered from "A greater influx
OF foreigners than NE can quickly as
simulate. and that foreign modes OF
speech permit apostrephes to the supreme
and freedom shocking when translated
into English.
FIindamentaIIy, the reason Is that
faith has been so largely eclipsed by
doubt. and that so many men and women
at the present time have no vital and
abiding faith in God and the future life.
This prevalent living by negatiou instead
of by affirmation has lowered the whole
tone Of society, made integrity less in
RiStant in II : claims on US. and introduced
into the daily commerce Of our people
wa%s Of speech and resorts 20 rude and
vehement inEective once unknown. IL
heaven ana he'll arc alike fantastic
chimeras 20 men who have no real belief
in either God or Satan, why should they
not invoke what name they please, cal
on God 10 damn their enemies and boldly
send the man who disDieases them
straight to the devil2 Brought 10 task
they will explain that they mean nothing;
that loose speech and profanity are their
Safety valves against sudden gusts OF
temper and that everyone who knows
them understands that their swearing is
merely a fashion of speech. I have heard
p mule driver swear at his mules till the
air was blue and the driver Black in the
face away back IN the days of the Civil
war. He averred with entire sincerity