Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-07-01
Wrong ideals Of Deeadsnt leaninss.

Speaking before the American Insti-
tute of Homeopathics at Chicago
Tuesday, DR.. Albert A. Ogle OF In
dianarolis, said
Wrong ideals instilled by mothers
are more potent factors in promoting
u immortality than is commerclallzeo
Ldce. It is opportune for a recasting
Z IL our ideas regarding immortality. The
popular theory that low wages to wo-
mepuNAuse immortality Is vanishing In
to ttKs air. In reality, the underworld
stathroughout society. At the very
beginning Of married life the foundu-
ton of the home and all future happi-
nees are seriously menaced by the per-
nicious education Of young wives who
refuse to assume their responsibilities.
"Jn the universal franchise that Is
soon to be theirs, women must realize
that there Is a deeper. truer patriotism
than waving a bit OF white during the
playing of the national anthem. Their
patriotism must be expressed in the
intelligence and integrity Of their
children"
& On a vague and insecure grasp of
this wisdom has q great element OF
the anti-womnn suffrage movement
been based. Assuming. without d
broad and clear analysis Of Its mean
Ing, that the salvation of the home de
ponds upon womanhood, they attempt
to convince that woman must not
broaden her view by entering into the
feld Of politics and its direct effect
upon the home.
We believe this assumption wholly
wrong and have SO long maintained
that position that we believe our read
ers are generally familiar with our
grounds and arguments. We believe
: that woman's first duty in these days
Of adva1iced thinking and solution of
human problems. is to inform herself
of conditions, good and bad, and to
deal with them accordingly, as her in
telligence and moral principles dictate.
Too many mothers are devoting them
politics" Of society" to bother with
the bearing Of their lives upon their
children. Girls Of today are inheriting,
living in and absorbing an atmosphere
Of competition for social triumphs.
They make poor or at best, Indifferent
housekeepers and home makers; their
aim is supremacy in their immediate
social circle. Their duties are brush
ed aside, their daily life irregular and
nerve-shattering, their dispositions
wrecked or impaired. They have lit
tie patience with their own children
and none whatever with those Of 9TH
er people. Their judgment and sense
Of justice become warped, and their
seifishness abnormal.
Such women are poor companions
for husbands and we cannot wonder
that divorces are frequent. Can we
wonder. either, that such women are
unable to help their husbands in bust
ness or advise with them as to the best
political course to take. or the princi-
pies and men for which to vote?
Society" with it's traditions Of law
ish outlay, its constant and increas-
ing demands on time, earnings and
health; its entertaining, dancing, drink
ing, spooning. and worse follies, rob
the girls and boys Of a rising genera
ton of the ideals which mothers
should instill.
One of the greatest problems of the
age, we believe, is that of arousing
mothers to their duties and RESPONSE
bilities. Men are hopeless case, per-
haps. but feminine instinct and inf1u-
cnce for the right can save them.