The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-03-18

he Says the Mother Is the One Su
. preme Asset of the Nation, anC
r That He Abhors the Man Who
Mistreats Women, Most Especial'
ly the Women of His Own House.
: hold.
The White House was the scene
Tuesday Of the formal opening of
the first International congress on the
welfare Of the child, which is being
: held under the auspices of the Ma
tional Mothers congress. The 200
delegates representing all the States
and territories and dozen or more
of the leading countries of the world
were received at the WhiGe House at
$50 o'clock that Afternoon when
President Roosevelt delivered an ad-
dress to them in which he declared
that he placed the society ahead of
liiV Viva W e<1 sSNSles4IS, UOSe~ AC
said in the final analysis, it is the
mother only who is a better citizen
than the soldier who fights for his
country.
The president said in part:
The successful mother, the moth
er vino does her part in rearing and
training Alright the boys and girls
who are be the men and women of
the next generation, is of greater use
to the community and occupies, did
she only realize il, more honorable
as well as more important position
than any successful man in it.
Nothing in life that is really
worth having comes save at the cost
of effort. No life Of self-indulgence
of mere vapid pleasure can possibly,
even in one point of pleasure itself,
yield so ample reward as comes to
the mother at the cost Of self-denial,
Of effort, Of suffering childbirth, OF
the long, slow, patient, trying work
of bringing up the c,lldr.n arght.
No system Of education. * e:stem Of
moral training can be ri,lt unless
it is based fundamentsNy upon the
recognition Of seeing yi!at the girl is
trained to understand the supreme
dignity, the supreme usefulness OF
motherhood. Unless the average
woman is good moth r, unless she
bears a sufficient number of children
so that the race shall increase and
not decrease. unless she brings up
these children in soul and mind and
body-unless this is true OF the aver
age woman, no brilliancy of
genius, no material prosperity,
no triumphs of science and
industry, will avail to save the
race from ruin and death. The
mother is the one supreme asset OF
national life; she is more important
by far than the successful statesman
or business man, artist or scientist.
Il abhor and condemn the man
who is brutal, thoughtless. careless,
selfish with women. and especially
with the women of his own house
hold. The birth pangs make all men
the debtors of all women. abhor
and condemn the man who fails to
recognize all his obligations to the
woman who does her duty. But the
woman who shirks her duty as wife
and mother is just as heartily TO
be condemned. We despise her as
we despise and condemn the soldier
who finches in battle.
because We so admire the good
woman, the unselfsh woman, the
;arsighted woman. we have scant pa
thence with her unworthy sister who
fears to do her duty: exactly as, TOT
the very reason that, we respect a
man who does his duty honestly and
fairly. All honor to the man or "o-
man who does duty. who renders SER
vice. and we can only honor him or
her if the weight of our condenlna-
ton is felt, by those who finch from
their duty
II want to ask your assistance Tor
two or three matters that are not
Immediately connected with the life
| in the family itself. but that are OF
vital consequence to the children. IN
fine first place, in the school, that the
school work be made practlca! as
oossible. For the boys want to see
/ training provided that shall train
Them toward. and not away from,
rbeir life work: that will train them
toward the farm or the shop, not
away from il. With the girl, see that
il is not made a matter of mlrth that
the girl who goes to college comes
Eou, unpreuared 10 do any OF the or
binary duties Of womanhood.
AS regards our public school, es-
,ec;allv want TO put in SPECIAL
word in behalf Of the right kind OF
,,1ay grounds. No school is sood
school ii it has not good play
ground. Help the children to play
and remember that you can often
helm them most by leaving them en-
lirely alone.
You can not have good citizens
, GOOD men and good women OF the
oay1 generation if the boys and girls
; are worked in factories TO the stunt
: ing Of their moral. mental and pnE-
I sical growth. Wherever the nation
n government can reach, 1t shouio
do away with the evils OF child
tabor, and trust this will be done;
hut much must be done by the ac'
tions of the several State legislatures
and do. each OF you, in your seVera
States, all that you can to secure the
eAae,-,ac-t. and then the enforce
q meat, Of laws. that shall put stoI
s 70 the employment Of children o
d tender age in doing what only grown
n reonle should do.