The Forrest City times., 1911-08-11
HER MOTHERS tAULT."

AAi Aiit atlhat Naot " NAtANlA ie now drawing the limelight to Virginia there is one point that should be les. son to every parent in the country.
 The wayward affinity, infatuation for whom, it is charged, led to the killing, by her husband, of the young wife, puts the blame on her mother. She never controlled me, and she never taught me to control myself Had l been reared differ ently l would have seen things in a different light. My mothers easy indulgence set ny feet on the down ward read.
 Here is an arraignment that makes the blood run cold. The mother who jeopardlzed her fife to bring this girl into the world, the mother who pro- bably has sacrificed her time, her wishes, her comfort and her hopes in  order to smooth the way for her child is held responsible by that child for her own miserable fall.
 It is picture full of pathoS and fraught with prophetic warning.
 The world is full of Bertha Bin lords; her type is by no means rare ono prafty daap,ad tpn nrattvt tO ba held down to domestic drudgery, head strong, pleasure-loYing, she was spoil. ed by the very mother who would have given her very life to save her from evil. Humored and petted, she had no home duties imperatiyely i'm. posed upon her to fill her time and her thoughts. No sacrifices were re- quired of her-the poor mother made all of these-and no obedience was exacted. Thus she grew up without single equipment to meet the storm and stress of life. Is it any wonder that the tempter found her an easy prey?
 Through over-indulgence her hands were not roughened with homely duties, but her unprotected soul was stained with the worlds sin.
 And now when it is too late for rescue, when the shadows of shame are closing about her, she out of their blackness: Ut was my mothers fault; she never controlled me, she never taught me to control myself,9
 1t is not to the tribunal of public opinion alone that this excuse i, pleaded. It will go on to the supre nest of all supreme courts. whose judge is the maker of men. There, il the awful silence of eternity, the startled mother will hear the same dread accusation.
 And who shall say what share of the guilt the all-wise judge will lay upor her.
 In all the years crime register there is no figure more pathetic than this indUlgent mother accused by the spoil ed daughter. The world turns il, head away siekened with the sight.
 And vet the whole world reads th, lesson of the spectacle, sees the aWfu warning in it's every line.
 No woman has right to bring children into the world and not teacl them the great lessons of obedience Of self-eontrol of an honest apprecia tion between right and wrong. Tn, mother-loye that is toe weak and tol indulgent 10 hold the child,s Norst nature in check is the lowest form o the highest passion with which Geo lowered human beings.
 Out of the mouth of prostitute has come the trumpet-lke warning t( every oyerindulgent mother in the land. She who needs il becomes the true mother, the civic uplifter, whose children shall rise up and call her blessed. She who turns deaf ear te refusing 10 see the pitfalls into which she is letting her daughter step, will catch, either here or hereafter, an echo Of the Binford girls accusation:
 It was my mothers fault. Com mercial Appeal.