The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-30

nlut. As IS our childhood SO viii be
our State. The angulshins Soul of
Carolina's childhood cries aloud for
better schools. better equipment TO
fight Hfe's battles, it bees Of vou
educational bread shall you give + =
stone, it pleads for fish, can you ten
der a serpent?
Health OF Childhood.
"A sound mir in a sound body
made the glory OF Greece and the
grandure of Rome and had they adj
ded 10 this sound moral and spiritual
training they would TODAY shine as
they shone 1000 years ago. Are we
forgetting thai maxim? The man
who brings diseased swine, blighted
trees or infected cattle into your com
inunlty Is not your neighhor, because
ne has endangered the mix, the meat
or the fruit of your neighborhood. He.
by MS omissions, has lowered he
standard OF these valuable farm prod
uct3 Tor years to come. He IS an
enemy to society, and an outcast
among progressive citizens. \ yio-
iator OF the fundamental principles
that maxi a community and a State.
ostfasize him, convict him. imprison
him, and destroy his h%abitation.
how about the man who under the
distorted conception Of personal lib
erty, allows his child TO live in foul
air, TO Dear burdens too heavy to be
born, to be neglected till infected
with physical and mental disease and
death. lie Y his own mitebox at
the sacrifice OF his child's and his
neighbours child might be. For his
scltishnesS he throttles the hopes and
aspirations Of u boy, and robs the
future Of q man.
He goes unnolested Of man, but
worse than prison airs and convict
stripes he shall live to wall like Jol
in his old age 10, the children OF my
very land despise me"
Why, modern society viii not toll
crate the il-treatment Of your dog
your OK, Your ass or even your wife
Yet 1t elngs TO the barbaric idea tina
ones child Is his own to make OF L
mar, 70 Kill or to make alive.
Physicians tell US tina CT the thou.
sand children Who die yearly in thi.
state four out Of every five Gle from
D~reventable diseases. Since we hay.
been here today children have passeC
into the great beyond because hi
generation allows it to be so.
The child is not made for death
1t IS made for growth, for life. an,
when he dies Of ONE p~reyentable dis
ease we may not have slain him Wit
our hand, bat our sin of omission j
close kin to the sin of commission.
It's 4 habith in North Carolina t
tread lightly when one mentions IL
Dor laws. ! think this is due NOR
10 the lack of a clear understandin
Of the condition than a desire of any
one to grind the.seed corn that tn
present still may be full.
Legends tell us of a cruel kin
whose dream was to possess the gOlde
fleece maddened from disappointment
he commanded that a helmet owe
be made whose threads should be re
With royal blood, to make sure Of n.
command he had the threads ru
through the heart of a captive prime
and the heart beats Of royalty wer
Q " into nis wicked crown.
: Thousands are the garments v
yearly wear whose threads are stair
| ed with the life-blood of somebody
child. Not my child nor your chill
! nor a child Of an earthly king. b.
he is a child OF the State and til
, Kingdom of God. one of those lit
, ones who holds the heart of III
! Prince of Peace.
am convinced that a State ear
. not surviv and lift up its head amor
; the nations of the earth, if it 2Ol
/. tinues for the sake Of commercials
the stunning of childhood PHYSICAL
mentally, or morally.
= Business nswer their labors al
light and their wage are neressal
for the support Of helpless widow
StateSmanShip answers that the Sta
had better. yes ten thousand tim
better. pension these widows than
cripple the childhood and eyentua
~ care fer the increasing Weakllng
criminal, fer Who can estimate tt
cost of bliChted childhood.