Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-06

positions far inferior to those God
gave them brains to fill
How are we going to Impress on
Johnny that the cigarette will have
such a baneful effect on him If 1t is
good thing for papa, whom he patterns
after in everything
What right has any woman to object
to the tobacco habit in her husband II
she condoned it in her lover, the future
father Of her children?
We must create sentiment. 1t would
be a wonderful safeguard against both
the alcohol and the tobacco habit II
parents would cultivate in their boys
an ambition for a sound mind in a.
sound body, and carefully administer
the knowledge that these habits are
among the deadliest foes to its realiza-
ton, This knowledge must be carefully
administered, for of all things a boy
hates most to be preached at. Be
sides, formal instruction along such
lines carries with it a hint that you
think him open to such temptations
thing which should never be suggested.
A family discussion Of such topics
which the child is not supposed to no.
tice, reading aloud in the family circle
pertinent items such as the attitude OF
large corporations in regard to intern
perate employees, what the army and
navy examinations have revealed about
the cigarette habit, etc, are excellent
ways.
Talk with the children themselves if
they open the subject but be chary of
personal warnings, and when you have
made a point stop. Don't rub 1t in
Young girls can do much in this
work with tact and firmness, for lovers
as a rule are the most tractable beings
on earth if properly handled, and
young man will do almost anything for
the girl he loves, and If he does not
love her enough to give up tobacco fer
her he does not love her enough to
entrust her future happiness in his
keeping.
Smoking Sets and Cigars
But our young girls are not apt to
feel strongly on this subject If father
smokes daily in the home and II mother
expresses her approval of the habit
by buying him a box of cigars as
birthday gift or a smoking set as a
Christmas present.
The reason many men smoke is be-
cause women don't care In car re-
Gently l sat directly behind two young
men, each with a woman. The men
smoked constantly and the women did
not seem to mind being fumigated.
One young man remarked that he al
ways bought that particular brand of
cigar because mother was saving the
little gilt tags attached. He said, 81
brought her home a whole fistful of
them last night" 1 presume he treated
all his friends that mother might have
the tags.
I do not know what she wanted
them for. Maybe to draw some cheap
premium or to ornament some tawdry
bric-a-brac.
1t was Ruskin who said: 1T is the
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armor Is never well set to the heart
unless a woman's hand has braced 1t,
and it is only when she braces it loosely
that the honor of manhood fails"
If women would stand together on
this tobacco question it might be reme-
died in little more than a generation.
/ shall speak of but one thing
patriotism is a will to serve ones
country and a desire to make that
country worth serving.
| The Fourth of July might be made
to count in a hundred beautiful ways
both in our homes and in communities,
but as it IS now it is simply nerve
raclxing, meaningless pow-wow, fol-
lowed all too often by desolate homes
and anxious hearts.
In this enlightened age surely It is
not necessary that we should kill, and
blind and MAIN hundreds of children
every year in recognition of the fact
that in 1776 a group Of men acting for
a people resolved to be free and pledged
their lives, their fortunes and their
sacred honor to maintain their indie
pendence.
About Patriotism
Is the goddess of Liberty like some
heather goddess, to be propitiated only
by death and suffering? We buy fire.
crackers for them from the time chill
dren are mere babies, but do we try
to teach them that the day has a
deeper meaning and that patriotism is
vastly more than an outburst of en-
thusiasm for the national colors? Do
we impress them that it has permanent
claims upon them, so that they may be
patriots from conviction as well as
from impulse?
| Do we follow out the principle of
patriotism and help them see how it
condemns the holding of public office
for private gain and that it is indis-
solubly bound up with obedience to all
law?
Do we help them to understand its
relation to the ballot box and to the
schoolhouse?
went recently to some patriotic ex-
ercises in our schools and heard so
much about Betsy Ross and flag and
liberty, flag and liberty and Betsey
Ross that I almost had patriotic indi-
gestion.
While it was all enthusiastic and
very beautiful, I came away with the
impression that those children were not
getting the right impression of patriot
ism in it's highest sense.
That they We're getting the inn
preston that patriotism is in action,
not in sentiment. That we can show
our patriotism as we'll by the way we
handle a hoe as by the way we handle
a musket.
than with dying.
That it wouldn't be worth while
giving a live for our country unless
that life is a white life. When the
sacrifice for the redemption of the
world was necessary, God sent not a
fallen angel but his own dear Son.
That the man who keeps his own
little corner of his own little town
clean and endeavors to elevate senti-
ment. whether it is by the substituting
of a clean ball game or the removing
Of an unsightly billboard, is Infinitely
more of a patriot than the politician
who pirates of flag and liberty and then
robs the public Golfers.
True patriotism is open-eyed. 1t is
not blind to the faults and dangers of
the country, but is loyal enough and
brave enough to acknowledge and to
try to remedy them. Blind zeal is not
patriotism.
Personal Responsibility
What is the use of our prating of
liberty. as if there were nothing to
combat when we are enslaved by the
charms of the liquor traffic which our
government sanctions? Liberty? When
we have been trying for two years TO