Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1914-12-04

iuS WI III tHiS SO-CuiIcu Suiistiuh
country that would put to shame the
slave traffckers of the Congo in the
dark ages; $1,000 girls sold to lives
Of sin and shame like sheep in the
shambles, in New York City last year.
are the twin sins that have already
bred the germs of decay and down
fall in our civil and Christian institu.
tons, the hand Of death on the throat
of posterity.
"The shameful, startling situation
today throughout the entire world
with America the cheapest mart for
corruption and crime in Christen-
dom, is due directly because the
professedly pious have thought and
taught Christianity was only for an
gels, and cloak on Sunday, instenl
of what the Lord intended it, for ev-
cry day life, from the humble home
in the country to the time honored
White House at the capital. For
home and heaven, pulpit and pew,
forum and field, mart and mill, wage
workers and wealth winners; all cf
His acts were cosmopolitan, never
churchy or clannish.
"Warning! Unless the American
people at once adopt the simple scrip
tural manner of living and method Of
loving and laboring together, true
neighbors. as did the disciples n. and
after Pentecost in their holy humble
homes, the swift. swollen stream of
wayward wicked men and women
flowing from the fountain called
childhood, cosmopolitan, CONNER
cial complcxity Of classes aud
churches hitherto unknown or I'M
heard of in any age, tribe or tongue
will soon overlap the danger line and
sweep away every landmark of pub
lie and private virtue. a
"Now the one and only solution of
the juvenile delinquency problem, ac-
knowledged by public and private Of
ficers Of the law-and this is the age
of laws, and yet the most lawless age
in history--the most perpleying be-
cause an issue in comparison will
which all other interests combined
are but broken bubbles, is the juv.
emile court law, father to the father
less, industrial school-love to thu
motherless-simply substitute fol-
we old-time home that never FAILED
to fashion its children to good citi'
zenship.
eyes, It's true that through thu
press which has never failed to pub
iish meetings the juvenile court i
now a fact in every state in TIN
union except New Mexico and NAM
states have established the industrial
school, where the dependent boy o
girl is sent instead Of going the oil
criminal route from the city or coun
ty iail to a reformatory, where tn
bow graduated for the penitentiary
and the girl drifting down to the re'
light district.
"The boy skilled in handicraf'
self supporting Christian citizen; AM
every girl skilled in domestic scienc
TO become what God intended woma
should be--a housekeeper, home
maker, and -maker-for it
mothers that make our men. The
they will be beauty and blessing
rather than blight and burden I
society.
'Tf the good people Of the grea
state Of New Mexico do not prote'
the boys and girls Of today, il will ne
only cost you four times more to pa
, extra police to protect Your persc
and property tomorrow, but it wou'
not do any good to growl or grnn
scold or swear at the rapid prgre'
: Of stealing and suicides, mobs an
1 murders; for when you could he
= the most helpless yet the most hop