The Washington herald., 1913-02-23
John BARLEYCORN SOUGHT AS
PANACEA FOR ALL HUMAN ILLS
Fundamental Cause Of Drunkenness and How to Prevent
Efforts to Escape Misery Often Causes Most Of Unhappi
ness-Material Of Immaterial Stimuli Then Needed

, ship, to acquire self-respect and self
control that he becomes suflcient with
in himself without the aid Of habit
forming stimulants.
Emotional May he Educated.
| So the emotionally unstable may be
educated in childhood to equilibrium
and saving strength and the emotion
ally stable. on the other hand. may be
literally spoiled by faulty training,
plundered In other words, the drunk
ard is made by his father or his grand
father who may or may not have been
given to drink, not consciously made.
Of course. but carelessly. criminally,
and certainly, none the less. And sober
men are made by right education In
their childhood and youth.
may be permitted to say in this con-
nection that there is no more devouring
sin In the land than this: That men and
women mate and marry and beget chill
dren. seIfi,shly contenting themselves
with the pleasures Of matrimony while
they neglect their parental obligations to
their offspring and to society through
them. When parents neglect the training
OF their children. their children come up
not murh better than illegitimate waits.
and such marriage is little better than
fornication by consent Of the law. -
THE real solution of the liquor prob
lem is seen to rest finally In the moral
equipment of the individual These.
therefore. who proclaim prohibition as
the remedy for the liquor habit have
need to broaden their propaganda To
include not only the abolition OF the
saloon. but the realization Of the divine
necessity Of wise family government and
the training and the making of strong,
happy. sober men. For the inalienatle
duty incumbent upon parenthocd is the
rearing Of children 10 happy living and
good citizenship.
II legislation may do something by way
of removing certain form Of temptation.
vastly more may be done by the wise
regulation of the child's physical and
psychic life by the teaching = hygtenic
living for the making of strong bodies
and self-respect for the making of strong
souls.
Let US instin into the child courage
and resolution. hardihood and high pur-
pose self-restraint and high ideals; teach
these saving qualities into our children
in their play (which is childhood's work.
and in their work and their play. when
they are grown older. And. above all.
teach them till they know II. that there Is
nothing dishonorable about honest help
full work, but the failure to find IL and TO
do it.
Acting in accordance with these
thoughts Is increasingly imperative in
face Of the increasing stress of life In
the boy industralism OF to-day and to-
morrow
should Begin with Child.
In what other way can We prevent that
state Of feeling. the sort of insanity.
hereditary or acquired. which impels to
the liquor habit. and not less to other
ruinous addictions and defective mental
states?
Let US begin with the child and his
environments as the great underlying
factors Of the liquor habit. The King
dom Of Heaven. says Bouck White, Is
the kingdom Of self-respect; and the king
dom must ever he within the man.
AT the risk OF wounding adult suscepti-
hilities, I must repeat that not much can
be done for this generation in the way
Of changing the moral bent of grown-up
persons. The fate of the world is de-