The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-02-12
HOPE IN HOME,
NOT IN LAWS
Health Officer Would Revive An.
cient Trade of Mothering

Lansing, Feb. 12.-Not in segrega-
,ion or eugencs lies the hope of the
roce but in a revival of the good old
trade of mothering. So holds Daniel
y Mcclure, assistant secretary of the
state board of health.
The most Illuminating point of the
whole controversy. however. is that
the human race has advanced by the
road that leads directly through the
home and not by law" said Mr.. Nc
Cure. Where the home ideal is good
and strong the question of race bet
terqnent is answered. The home and
the ideal make good citizens, not the
legislature and the law.
at the two extremes of society we
find The foes OF home and race better
ment. one foe is the lifting. migra-
tory rich, living here while, there
n while, but mostly i'm home or for
cign hotels the other, foe, the con-
ccsted tenement house where modesty
is destroyed, where the world home H.
a tavesty. and we find monstrous lux
ury az one extreme, monstrous squalor
at the other Between the two eX-
trcmes of society you find the true
home and mother is reigning queen
Let MS hang up a picture of home
here for it is the fountain from whc,
must flow the conserving ideas and
ideals Of race betterment.
Besides the dangers of home point
ed out in the two extremes of our AM
,rican life, there are others, Econom-
ic and social environments i'm modern
life menace the home. Economic con-
iitonc compact and longest laborers
in cramped. insanitary quarters of tho
modern city, where evil environments
reign In such conditions, better
housing better water. better light,
better literature is more needed than
law or cugenics.
Bankruptcy on Babies"
The social status is more to blame
for decadence of children i'm the homes
Of wellto-do than any other cause.
The deyotees of the fashionable world
do not want babies. They keep them
out of the paths of social life. Th"
BABY Is i'm the way i'm the fashionable
social world. 1t is "a nuisance. The
wcll-to-do who can better support and
educate children. have gone into bank
rptcy on the baby.
statistics prove that there has been
adecline of babies i'm the homes of the
better-offs i'm the United States within
he past half century of 25 per cent
and a 30 per cent decline in England
The fashionable social women cannot
stay 1t home 10 mother children. They
have social duties to perform that rel.
egate Eaby-care to those who must
stay at home since they are not in tho
social swim.
Thou again. we have too many |
mothcr-away homes. In the less a.
rancially fortunate homes, mother is |
away helping earn the keep of her |
'IllNlNIl. III the ldSnlOlldDlP, Social |
home. mother is away on pleasure
bent.
"Mothering Lost Art"
We do not need law or eugenics in
these homes, but lettering of home
conditions i'm the former and a return
to common sense in the latter. There
are So many things To distract mother
from her home and children that the
mothcring of children has become 4
lost art
Home and affection, teacher and
mother are four of the worlds great
es words when inbred in the life of 4
people. Eliminate them and chaos
has come. The weaving of mother
from her home and children is the
most mcnacing shadow resting upon
our American life. We cannot sub
Stitut" law for home and mother. II
may be an old-fashioncd idea, but the
home spells race degen-
cracy."