The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-06-25
MRS. DUBOIS
wins PRAISE

The child Is the nations greatest
asset, declares Mrs. Fred T. Dubois
president of tile Big Brother and SIS
ter movement. Every great accom-
plishment the world has seen ha,
come from the idealism of youth,
/. The nation must conserve its child.
ren and bring the home back to it.
fcrner prestige In shaping then
lives.
Such is the keynote of an article
appearing In the Washington Times
from the pen ..of Mrs. Dubois, whose
"a life has been devoted to the interests
Of the child.
A charter member OF the National
II Congress of Mothers and Parent.
Teachers Association, and a member
OF its executive board, long president
Of the Children of the American Rev.
oluLion, and associated with the Ma
tiOnal Civic Federation, Mrs. Dubois
has been nj public life for eighteen
4 years. She was a member of the
A committee which selected a judge Of
"A the juvenile court, and recently has
headed the committee aiding the
needed work following the closing of
Wsshington's segregated district.
Ia full sympathy with the work OF
reconstruction organized under the
notable leadership Of Kate Waller
Barrett. Mrs. Dubois feels keenly the
need Of urgent measures OF preven-
tion In this series, the first OF
which the Times gives its readers to-
day, Mrs. Dubois points TO the seri-
Gus question of the invasion of the
home by the social center. She calls
upon parents to realize their RESPONSE
bilities and to live up to their divine
right to shape the lives of their
children.
Last night, my darling, as you slept,
l thought heard you sigh
And to your little crib creIt
And watched a space thereby.
And then l knelt and kissed your
brow,
For, oh, | love you So.
You are too young to know it now,
But sometime you will know.
Mrs. Fred T. Dubois.
10 Eugene Field was given not
only to feel but to paint the glories
Of parenthood and his beautifully
wrought word pictures have kept
many a parent in the fairyland Of
childhood long after Father Time
has hidden them make way for the
younger generation.
He was a child and spoke as a
child. He never left the children s
world. l love to think OF him play
ing With Little Boy Blue and then
loving the little toys hose very pres
ence was to him symbolicaI Of the
little man who was wandering in far
away cllmes, but whose presence was
90 near that he soon placed his hand
in his and passed on, leaving US the
thought that "The child is the hope
Of the race.
So frequently do we hear this that
/ oftentimes wonder IL we really COM
prehend the thought. No nation can
Is the source of this nationr Is It
DOT It's cbildrenI In the past few
years there is 4 widespread awaken
ing 10 the fact that the nation is not
conserving its greatest asset, the
children.
Millions OF dollars are being spent
to eradicate aud prevent the ravages
Of the boil weevil, hog cholera and
elm moth, but has this government
spent any Of its golden treasure to
protect the American Home from the
rSvAges OF = far worse disease that
may eat out the very core OF its life
and anally cause its downfall rs came
the fall Of Romey
There Is a man out 10 Illinois who
Is running for congress on an anti
suffrage platform who said the other
day: Its more mateIBalism, not
paternalism, this country needs He
comes pretty near hitting the nail IN
the head. II this country insists OF
regulating many more Of life's iunc-
tions through laws, there will he no
more need OF a personal conscience
and nation without conscience
would be a vSpid thing.
Can you make humans good
through law or, ought ~e 10 develop
right through reasOny Is the old
fashioned home disApp, aTing" !
tremble al the thought. kut whsn
We sa,ch the crowds upon the street,
day and night, the crowded cafes,
and restaurants, tie ID c. halls,
moving picture shoss and thsasres,
this thought Is uppermO,I TO what
are We treDdlngy
Do you remember the Gear ID
home, where, when the evening m' al
Vas over and the supper dishes done,
fatnsr, mother and the children
gathered Arouud the library table H.
read OF ~ sew Then the converse