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Club Women Working For The
Nations Disruption - Compul-
sorry Education One of The !
Means-Gov. Blease's Condem-
notion of it.
To The Editor:
All over the land discussions are
going on regarding the alarming in
crease of juvenile crime and the
passing of the farm and the home
The club women of the country, ex-
tending to even those of your own
county, are largely responsible for
these three ills. There are, in all
the country, 100000 of them, and
they have vowed to make compul-
sorry education their strong work.
all along the line. The president
of the Maryland Clubwomen, Mrs.
Benjamin w. Corkran, Jr., of Ro-
land Park, has ever emphasized it
and is melting the club women of
the State to work along the line.
Many writer's are confessing that
our educational system in general
is responsible for Juvenile crime and
for the passing of the farm and the
home, while compulsory education
is held to be still more responsible
by some. Men in politics are not
prone to discuss the subject gener-
ally; but Gov. Coleman L. Blease,
of Montgomery, S. c., has done so
from the first and owes his election
to his stand ON the subject. Let
the club women hear him, in part:
ct am absolutely opposed to COM
pulsory education. Compulsory ed
ucation in the hands of the State
means the disruption of the home,
for it dethrones the authority of
the parents and places paid agents
of the State in control of the chill
dren, thereby destroying family gov
eminent. Those agents stand be-
tween the child and the parents
they represent the State-they are
not responsible to the parents. They
impress upon the minds of the chill
dren the view of the State and viz
tually say: We have taken you
out of bondage and made you free;
we are giving you what your I'M
natural parents would not give you
mo child on earth can be SUBJ
| ject to such influences and teach
ings and escape imbibing the spirit
of rebellion against parental au-
thority, and consequent disrespect
and ingratitude. Children are too
easily infected with the idea that
their parents owe them everything
while they owe them nothing in re-
turn, and with the design and
law of God set at defiance, who
can compass, by the widest stretche:
of the most gigantic mind, the con-
dition that will follow? We de-
:, sire to see the standard of educa-
want every boy and girl in the
State to have every possible op.
portunity to gain for themselves
the very best and highest degree
of equipment for life; but we dc
not want it at the cost of parental
authority and the peace of the
home.
r: Fsz n so7s! hnsent htls1t
responsibility antedate all others,
and it is possible for wild, extrava-
CANT and madly enthusiastic men,
who see theory and theory only,to
destroy family government, ALLEVIATE
children from their parents, and
force the home into a scene of
strife, rebellion and wretchedness.
| The Bible says a great deal about
obedience to parents, and, believ-
ing in that Book and it's teachings
as strongly as I do, and for
the sake of our children, and for
the future, 1 believe in letting. the
parents keep within their own con-
troll the rearing and education of
their children"
There we have it! Great is Gov.
Blease, of S. c. After some 40
years he is the first Governor to
join one in full force against the
compulsory education which is de-
vastating our homes, our farms and
our country generally. But Cover
nors Mann and Sanders also oppose
it. Who next?