Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-04
CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
HOME, SWEET HOME

~ ROM time to time the spoiled or
neglected son of rich and in
fipential or of a poor and unln-
fuential family occupies bad emil
nence as a cynosure of public atten-
ton. It is Almost invariably fact
that the outcast or the rich profigate
accused of crime was once somebody
boy. some fond mothers wee laddie.
The child who is brought mp by
hand" ~ an orphan asylum is seldom
developed into a criminal or irrespon-
sible member of society, His self-es-
aeem has never been nourished, ana
this defect keeps him from being ego
tisticalry aggressive. Excessive self
esteem. the result of the faithful but
faithless batteries of doting parents,
sends Il boy forth into the world pre-
pared to exaegerate grievances, to
overest:mate sights, to overcrlticlse
the conduct of others to him, to make
him careless OF his conduct to others.
Indeed. IN what passes for the train
ing" of the spoiled boy the teaching of
the Golden Rule is reversed, and pres
emily there is inflicted upon society
Young man who wishes others to do
unto him nothing but what is pleasant
and agreeable who, indeed, expects
society to follow the parental prece-
dent and to keep on spelling hip,
while he for his part does unto others
whatever he pleases, whatsoever seems
rood in his own eyes. If young man
is in that unhappily handicapped con-
dition known colloquially as well
fixed" the odds are all against him.
When domestic associations no longer
supply Gattery the long purse buys it.
Unless the overburdened youth should
be a paragon 90 all the virtues, or NOR
ally as strons as st. Anthony, how
can we expect him to resist the de-
grading eorrupting, demoralizing in
fuences that are attracted to him by
his money? Pity the sorrows of the
poor if you will, and there are thou
sands of deserving people in the Unit
I'd States who need both pity and help.
10 spite of Bible-Class Rockefeller and
his petty platitudes about poverty,
subject or which he is, if possible,
more ignorant than on any other upon
which lie is biz ndly oracular. But pity
with far more fervor the perils of the
rich, the woes that await many of the
young nlillioraires who unlike Boy
Rockefsller-a well-meaning lad, after
all--have been deprived of the advice
and training of a good, whole-hearted,
undemoralized. unaffected Christian
mother
The Rev. Lewis Gouverneur Morris
Of this city, our local representative of
the "blaest" and "noblest" blood in
America, "scn of the Revolution, in
Decd in whom is no guile and whose
manhood has never been affected by
pride of family or conceit of birth, in
is Sunday morning sermon stated
.Eat many American fathers and
mothers arc not doing anything to pre-
pare their children for the ordeal of
temptation. Deliberately united,
rather than fitted, for the grimmest
battle of life, out go the unprotected
weaklings into Vanity Fair.
Parental responsibility and the re-
sponsihiIity of citizenship in the United
States are both treated, in many in
stances as If they were negligible
quantities IL the equation of society.
Vet "Hcme Sweet Home" was writ
ten by an Americanl Ministers who
breach writer's who write, mothers
who make the home, and fathers who
cherish it. work for return to the first
principles of Americanism, work for
return 10 the sweetness and light OF
the insriring motive of this republic,
work for home, sweet home!