The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-05-03
.LECTURED TO
FIFTH WARD
PARENTS
CHIEF BROWNING DELIVERED IN
TERESTING TALK YESTERDAY.
Many Are Unaware Of Many Practices
InduIued In by Their Children
Good Advice Given.

Chief OF Police Thomas E. Browning
seliyercd a very interesting lecture to
the parents of the Fifth ward of the
city Yesterday on the question oil
What to do with the boys and girls.
The meeting house was we'll filled with
6arents and the lecture was pro-
bounced BY those in attendance AS one
OF the best the chief has yet given on
the subject. Mr. Browning Is being
{mportuncd to give these lectures In
tho various wards of the city for the
instruction and help Of the parents re-
varding the training and care OF the
youth. Much good is coming through
them. The officer calls the attention
OF the parents to many things that arc
being indulged in by their children oil
which they are unaware.
Chief Browning said in part:
Ladies' and Gentlemen.-lt gives
me great pleasure to address you this
morning. and ! do not know of any
subject that would interest you more
than little advice that l might offer
10 you parents present regarding your
children.
The good, virtuous and temperate
people of today owe the favorable
Condition they find themselves in to
their self-will and association with
good, rather than evil, and their home
trnining has led them TO seek that
which would tend 10 uplift and bene-
Ht them In all the walks of life. III
y boys and girls, 1t matters not under
what circumstances they arc brought
into this world. are not kept
under proper influence and control,
they can by becoming associated with
persons that have nothing but that
which is evil and degrading to offer
them, soon fall from the path of vir-
tue and become like their associates,
debased and unfit to associate with
respectable people, and they soon be-
come so degraded that they are
Stunned by people that have regard
for their own standing. And this con-
t1itlon falls on them before they rea-
iize 1t and they find themselves in a
most deplorable condition.
we are told that mankind Is promo
to evil continually This being the fact
st Is still more necessary for US 10
watch our boys and girls and see if
the fault is ours. Ask yourselves the
question: Have we done all III our
power to make the home happy and
desirable place for our children The
poor people, as a rule, have a better
chance than the rich to keep in touch
with their children, because they have
not the means to let them 20 where
they please and indulge in the luXu-
lries and fashions Of the world. l
can see in every walk In life the rapid
pace that people are going, and 1t is
high time that we should wake up TO
the situation. Temptation besets our
children on every hand, some have
greater strength than others to resist
evil. some natures have a hatred Of
falsehood, they would consider the
telling Of lie crime, others con-
slider stealing most degrading, others
have a horror of the drunkard, some
consider the seducer equal 20 the muir
aerer, and would not hestitate in de-
nouncing the man that would steal the
virtue Of one of our sisters as worthy
of death. Yet some of these men
that abhor these evils may be guilty
bf other weaknesses and would pluck
out the mote from his brothers eye
I and forget the bean that is in his own.
Strong argument against crime and
evil Of all kind, yet if any member
I Jof his family should make a mis-step,
in his wrath he opens the door, for
getting the teachings of the meek and
1owly Master. He drives the erring
one away from that place that ne
should regard as sacred, the Home,
the one place above all others that
should offer him shelter. even though
he be sinner. He may be sorry for
his rash act and would recall his way
ward child, but II is too late. Out in
The cold goes the boy or girl and, as
d rule. from bad to worse. Parents,
whom shall We blame? Have you ever
given this thought? This man re-
minds me of the Pharasee that stood
4 On the street corner and with eyes up
fifted thanked the good Lord that
fhe was not like other men Parents.
cultivate patience, love and kindness,
seek to win your boys and girls, get
their confidence and trust them and
they will soon learn to place conf
dence in you and Will listen to your
advice.
There is another class Of men that
must refer to, and that class makes
"a practice of destroying the home cir
.cle. of leading the wife from the af
! fection that she should have for heI
y husband. destroying the happiness OF
the home and family. and this to sat
lisfy filthy desires. Such meI
should find no place in our home
( Moro deadly are they than the ser
tpent that we would crush the life out
of without hesitation, Let us pro
vide good literature and keep the mint