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

TRICT attention to business, namely,
consideration of the child and his
~ welfare, characterized the two
days session of the Woman's Parlia-
ment which closed yesterday, but
among the items considered were two
which are of immediate interest to
children of an older growth, and con-
corning which the club offered reso-
First. it was resolved that steps be
taken toward a petition to the city
council asking that an ordinance be
passed prohibiting the use of cigars
cigarettes, pipes or the burning OIL To-
bacco in any form on the street cars.
The second resolution dealt with the
need of reform methods in the cele-
bration of the Fourth of July.
Besides reports of delegates, speclal
renorts were heard from representa-
tives of the following interests: Legs
latiye committee, National Federation
Womens clubs, state W. c. I. u, Ju-
venile Improvement association, SOUTH
ern district Federation Women's clubs,
playground commission, Y. w. G. A.,
George Junior Republic association,
Political Equality league, Civic assoc
citation, charity conference committee
Y. M G. A., Mothers congress, Wo-
mans alliance maternity, Cottage as
SOcldllOH anu MSINiiASy AA
Addresses, one by Mrs. H. S. Stell-
wagon of San Bernardino, on The Re-
lation of Woman Suffrage to Social
Economics" and one by Mrs. Martina
S. Gielow, Washington, d. c., who
smoke in the interest of the Southern
Industrial Educational association,
completed the morning program.
Faulty Methods
The interest of the afternoon was
divided between a paper on Parent
hood and Citizenship" written ana
read by Mrs. Jessie Chave of Los An
geles. and an address by Rev. Matt S.
Hughes, d. D., of Pasadena, who spoke
on 1.-THE Highest Education of Child
hood"
..When think what a child is up
Ia eainst when it comes into the world,
said Mr. Hughes, II wonder any OF
them ever amount to anything.
what is the greatest obstacle in
the path of the twentieth century
child? Frankly and briefly, it is the
present day adult.
First of all, we saddle the young
ster with all sorts OF pre- natal bur-
dens Second, he finds bad company
when he comes into the world, meeting
it in the home. in the school, in the
church, the community and the state
Third, we deal with the young soul by
imperfect and faulty methods.
'What is the highest education for
a child? To know?
"The goal of education is to produce
character, the function of education is
to fit for complete living. Education
means the development of the complete
man.
what is the supreme thing in char
acter? Not knowing, but feeling
not knowledge, but emotion. A mans
character is not determined by his
knowledge, but by his feeling toward
an object or person and the action
which grows out of such feeling.
1.-THE fundamental thing in all char
acter building is, what is your feeling
toward right or wrong, not what do
YOU know We educate for power, not
for knowledge, and a man acquires
power and influence not by what he
knows, but by what he feels. 1t is
not ideas that rule the world, but the
loves and hates of the individual. Mar
tin Luther did an enormous business
on a retail amount of brains and a
wholesale quantity of heart.
IF feelings are the greatest factor
in the higher education, methods must
be adapted to this great fundamental
fact Respect the child's feelngs-his
individuality. Give him an atmosphere
of cheerfulness, an exhibition of truth
and right relations in the home. 1t is
not always wise to bring disputed
question squarely to an issue try de-