Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-03-11

that afternoon when President Roosevelt delivered AN ad-
dress in which he declared that he placed the society
ahead OF the civil veterans because he said. in the
hnal analysis, the mother only who is better citizen
than the soldier who fights for his country.
The president said in par i receive many societies
mere in the White House, many organizations of good
men and good striving tc do all that in them lies
for the betterent OF social and civic conditions but
there other society which am quite SO glad to re-
ceve this This is body that put even ahead Of
the q The civil because when all said III
the mother and the mother only who is better citizen
than he soldier who 6ghts for his country The sc4
cessf mother the mother who does her part in rearing
and tral1a arlght the boys and girls who be the
men and OF the generate: OF greater use To- the
communiy and occupies if she only would realize it, an
more honorable well a me- important position than
any successful man in it
No life Of sefindulgence, Of gi,re vapid pleasure cam
possibly the point easlre ITSELF yield too
ample reward the Goher at the cost of self
denial OF effort OF suffering in childbirth Of the long slow
patient trying work Of bringing Up the children Alright
No scheme Of education soca attitude can be right
unless is based fundamentally upon the recognition Of
seeing that the girl is trained understand the supreme
dignity, the supreme usefulness OF motherhood.
Unless the average is good vile, unless she
bears sufficient number Of children, SO that the
race shall increase and not decrease, unless she brings
up these children sound in soul and mind and bodyun
esss this is true OF the average woman no briancy of
genius material prosperity triumphs Of science and
INDUSTRY VIII avail 70 save the race from and DEATH
The man is poor creature who does not realize the
in6ny Of the womans task. who does not realize what
done BY her who bears and reares the children she who
cannot be until he children are we'll grown that
any night will come when she have entirely to her
self to sleep in.
But the woman who shifks her duty as vile and moh-
er is just as heartily to be condemned
Before close want to ask your assistance for mat
ers that Immediately connected with the ile ID the
family ITSELF but that OF vital consequence to the chil
dren In the FIRST place. the schools that the school
work is made as practical as possible.
"AsreCards public schools, especially ! want to
ut in special word in behalf Of the right kind Of play
grounds It's the gravest kind Of wrong not only 70 the
children but to the whole community. turn out the boys
and girls especially in the congesed part Of the city with
no place to play but in the streets.
You cannot have good citizens. good men and women
Of the generation il the boys and girls worked IN
factories to the stnnting OE their moral mental and ps
cal growth Wherever the national government ueach
should do away with the evils Of child labor. BIT much
must Be done by the action Of the several state
and do each Of you, your several states all t Won
can 70 secure the enactment and then the enforcement oE
laws that shall put stop the employment u children o
tender ace II doing what only people should do