The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-11-29
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The public play grounds, the public
schools, are but auxiliaries to the home.
If parents depend more on the pub
lie institutions than to home training,
the children will not be congenial to
their parents and will drift further and
further away from their homes.
At the present time there is little dis
tinction made between children at home
or abroad, so fully are the people under
the sway of public opinion and public
methods. All children are subjected to
the same organized public methods, al
though their parents are not in the same
class. Those forming the higher class
have become so imbued with the zeal
for lifting up the lower classes that they
dole out the same talk, and thus give
their own children an impetus down.
ward. Because the children of the poor
must work to help their parents to exc
out an existence, the rich push their
children forward into making money
when there is no necessity for their par
ents are more than able to procure them
food, shelter and clothing, and do So
The money that the misguided children
make and term theirs is spent in folly
or in worse manner. So it is that the
children of the well-to-do who work I'M
der the pressure of imagination are
more injured than the children of the
poor who work from necessity. For the
people who fool themselves are worse
off than those who are fooled.
There is a broad line between necessity
and imagination. The children of the
poor are under the lever of necessity
and must work, and that necessity pre-
vents the children from misunderstood
ing the value of labor, and the value of
tmoney.
When the rich and well-to-do victims
of their imagination vainly think that it
is the working for money that bears the
poor boy cheerfully through his task.
So he puts his child to what he terms
work-that is, money getting-for which
there is no necessity. First, the rich par
ent boasts that he got his child job
during school vacation to learn him how
to work. In another year he boasts that
he could not make his child go to school,
he wanted to make money and was do
ing it. In another year the child has no
use for his hon1e-no respect for his
parents, and is degenerate from his
class. Every spark of buoyancy has gone
from the youth, and hard hearted misery
is written on his face. The deluded child
Ihad lived in his imagination. There was
nothing real in life for him except he
hated his home and despised his parents
for not protecting him in childhood. The
thigh go down the victims of their imag-
nation. The poor come up, the products
of necessity.
The civilization of the world has pro-
crossed during the time of peace which
/ enabled the people to think, to thrive,
and to become more individually par
Iticular in their ways of living and sur
roundings, to give vent to the higher
faculties of the mind. There was no rude
interruption to the tenure of the mind,
and the innate qualities of truth, hon
esty, love and mercy become prominent
in men and the people become physically
Istrong.
But in the time of war, or days OF
contention, there is no space for thought
for pleasure, or for hope, and the hui
man race is ground down below the
level of nature.
During the French Revolutlon-when
Iinfdelity was termed reason-the prob
lem of the child was solved by destroy
ing forty thousand infants and placing
those allowed to survive in founding
institutions to be homeless and nameless.
| People are Of the general opinion that
1.-THE French Revolution was caused by
the nobility, but it was due to the per
Iverted nature of the people, high and
HOW, WIZ 1OIISs liz SA3AAieh4A AAeAo
been regulated beyond human feeling
and man was but the prey of man.
| The idea of the equality of all men
did not and will not stand the ordeal OF
experience. As it has been in the be,
ginning, it now and ever shall be. There
will always be contending forces, and
There will always exist great heredity,
which is strengthened by environment
To insure the future generation, the
child must be protected.
| Protection does not mean use. Pro-
lection does not mean perversion. Pro.
lection does not to keep from injury
God gives the child mentally and physi-
cally equoipped with temperament
strong or weak--which will guide il
through life; if it receives the propel
lcare and consideration from its parents
and educators, without enforcement OF
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