The Detroit times., 1916-09-15

drunken sot OF a boy. every frivo
lous and flirting girl Was once a.
pure as the morning dew II wal
up 10 the home to keep him so, bu
the home failed. The logical way
10 get rid OF drunkenness and sir
Is to put into he'll the institution
that makes sin and drunkenness
Ny sympathies are with the drunk
ards and not the sinking whisky
gang that makes them. The mex
worst thing Is the dance and IT
skin that from hell 20 breakfast be
fore am through.
Our national life will never rise
above the home life, said Billy
and the home life will never rise
higher than the purity that is in II
Much depends upon the father
and the mother in the home have
no faith whatever in q woman who
talks OF heaven and makes a he'll
OF her home. and that is what many
are doing. say pity that home
when the youngsters want 10 leave
Il. The home should be made SO
attractive that the children should
not want 10 seek their pleasures out
side OF H. Let the children laugh
in the house. Shut the noise and
laughter on the outside and you are
barring heaven from your threshold
Live your Christian life in your
home.
There are many mothers who. II
they had 20 20 70 heaven on the
testimony OF their hired girls, would
never ger there. The capitol al
Washington f. not the real home Of
the nation--ths real home OF the
nation is the palace or the dusout
where Christian fathers and moth
ers pray.
When a father crawls under the
blankets az night without knowing
where his son Is. he Is a lost father
and he will need toursection fire
ladder to get look In al heaven.
while the parents should be al.
ways watchful and considerste OF
their children they should not walt
on them too much nor expect the
children 20 wait upon them too
much Some children need licking
at times. but not all the time. Don't
lick your KIDS before company. II
causes them 20 lose their seli.re-
spect. Wait until the company goes,
then take them out to the wood
shed and dust them on both hem
ispheres II they need II
We have taken the right away
rom the school teachers 10 lick the
Kids and We don't lick them az
,ome. There are times when a kid
,ught TO be licked by his teacher
When was a kid had TO wear
our pair OF pants when I went 10
school. We should give the teach
rs more power and more pay. It's
/ shame the salaries we pay them.
1 shoe-shiner makes more than a
eacher. We pay more for polish
ne shoes than for polishing brains.
would like To, be a member OF
school board so could vote 20
-aise the pay OF the teachers I
think also I should like
o run for president on the Prohibl-
ion ticket VIII you vote for me.
IT'S the mother than can make
he home. II Wsshington's mother
Iad been a Happy Hooligan sort OF
woman, George would have been
Happy Hooligan with a tin can
n HIS head"
Perhaps the most dramatic Incl
ent ~ the series OF meetings 70
ate came Al the close OF the ser.
ice. and II disclosed Billy Sunday
n new form OF oratory-the quiet
ind
Away back in the last century
n American went 10 Africa and
led there he began. His bones
rere placed in a grave IN AT isolat-
d spot Many years later another
american discovered the grave In
ss+ the few remaining bones were
placed In a metallic caSket
nd put upon the deck OF an Amert
an warship, drsped with the Stars
md Stripes and brought across the
ga 20 America when the vsrship
uttered New York harbor with her
lag az half-mast every ship saluted
her. the big guns ~ the forts fred
he national salute and the pier was
iraped In mourning. A. the pier
rain with steam up was waiting 20
take that casket 70 Washington All
along the lire -@ouie stopped with
uncovered heads 20 watch the train
go by In Washington. congress.
men, senators judges ~ the su-
preme cour' and even the president
stood With uncovered heads
as the body wa borne along penn.
Who was this man. Did he win
a great naval victory? 10. D1d
he defeat the enemy on the land ,
No Did he build a city No. Was
be great painter. sculptor. an art
isi. a capitalist 4 statesman? No
He wrote a little song that the NIT
lionsire and the beggar sing alike
II ripples from the lips ot the prince
as well as the psuper II IL known
In every home In every civilized
land on earth and every child learns
II before he can properly speak the
words The song is"