Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1908-03-19
MOTHERS HERO|Sm
EXCEEDS SOLDIERS
President Pays Eloquent Tribute
to Woman's Part in
Country's Welfare.

Washington. March 13.-The White
opening OF the first International cor
gress on The welfare of the child which
is being held under h auspices of this
National! Mothers congress. The 2O(
delegates representing all The states
n territories were received at thu
White House at 2:30 o'clock in the aft.
ernoon. when President Roosevelt de.
livered an address to them.
81 receive many societies here in the
White House," said the president
many organizations Of good men and
good women. striving to do all that in
them lies for the betterment of our So
cial and civic conditions, but there is no
other society which 1 am quite as glad
TO receive as this. This is the one body
n l put even ahead of the veterans
of the civil war, because when all is
said it is the mother, and the mother
only. who is Il better citizen even thar
h soldier who fights for his country.
The successful mother, the mother who
does her part in rearing and training
Alright the boys and girls who are to
be the men and women OF the genera
ton. is of greater use to the community
:tnd occupies. if she only would realize
it. a more honorable as we'll as a more
important position han any successful
man IN it.
Reward Is Ample.
Nothing in this life that is really
worth having comes save at the cost
OF effort. No life of self indulgence or
or point of pleasure itself. yield so
ample a reward as comes to the mother
ut the cost of self denial. of effort, of
suffering i'm childbirth. of the long, try
ing work of bringing up the children
alright.
mo scheme of education. no social
attitude. can be right unless it is based
fundamentally upon the recognition of
seeing that the girl is trained to UNI
derstand the supreme dignity, the SUI
preme usefulness of motherhood. I'm
less the average WOman Is a good wife
and a good mother. unless she bears a
sufficient number OF children, so that
the race shall increase and not de-
crease. unless h brings up those chill
dren sound in soul and in mind and
~body-unless this is true of the average
woman no brilliancy of genius, no ma
terial prosperity, no triumphS of sci
enc and industry. will avail to save
the race from. ruin and death. The
mother is the n supreme asset of
national life; h is more important by
far thar the successful statesman. o.
business man. or scientist.
II abhor and condemn the man who
Is brutal, thoughtless, careless or self
fsh with women. and especially with
the women Of his own household. The
birth pangs make all men the debtor
of all women. The man is a poor
creature who does not realize the in
finite difficulty of the woman's task,
who does not realize what is lone by
her who bears and rears the children:
she who cannot even be sure until the
children are we'll grown that any night
will come when she can have it entirely
to herself to sleep in.
II abhor n condemn the man who
fails to recognize all his obligations to
h om VINO 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 de-
spise and condemn the soldier who
flinches in battle.
Training of Children.
II want to ask o u assistance for
two or three matters that are not i'm
h family itself. but that are of vital
consequence to the children. In the
first place, in the schools see that the
school work is made as practical as
possible. Flo the boys l want to see
training provided that shall turn them
toward and not away from Their life
work.: that will turn them to the farm,
to h shop, not away from it. With
the girl see that it is not made a mat
ter of mirth so that the girl who goes
to college comes out unprepared to do
any of the ordinary duties Of woman
hood: see, in other words, that with the
higher education which she should have
for she should have a right to lust
as much education. to just as high an
education as my that with
that goes the education that fits her.
to do her fundamental work in the
world.
"As regards our public schools espe-
cially l want to put in a special word
In behalf of the right kind of play
grounds. No school is a good school
If it has not a good playground. Help
the children to play, and remember
that you car often help them most by
leaving them entirely alone. Wherever
the national government can reach it
should do away with the evils of child
labor, and I trust this will be DONE,
but much must be done by the actions
of the several state legislatures. and
a of you in your several states
should do all you can to secure the
enforcement of the laws that shall put
a stop to the employment of children
of tender age in doing what only
grownup people should do"
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