Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-31
POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT.
Sane Government and Sound Business"
Jacob Mker Boyd Thea Omaha Nb Friday Evening

him, II you have to kill him to do It. Put
him 10 jail to make him good. Send him to
the penitentiary to convert him into n saint.
That is your theory. / salt Il applies
at home. I am not talking about Omaha.
But did you ever go into 4 home any
where, where everything that occurred was
now, did you do that sit down: go up and
wash your face; shut up; II catch you do
ing that again will break your back; don't
stay out after o'clock, I will be hunting
you.
Every second of every childs life in that
home was government.
What happened7 One of two things: The
boys in that home either grew up up be
milksops or anarchists. One Of the two.
The surest way to get boy to learn to
be an expert at cards is to tell him II you
catch him at it you will break his back.
UaughterD And the surest way to get a
girl to marry the fellow you hate Is to
tell her II you ever catch her out with
him. she can't come home again.
Why is 1t that in the prisons and the
penitentiaries, when you take q religious
census. you find that a large per cent of
the inmates were Sunday school boys' And
in these blue law homes.
Isn't that delightful home in which to
visitf Don't you always love to go where
somebody is swinging the big stick every
minute1 tLaughter)
Everything Is perfectly correct and in its
place; not thing out Of order; and II any
little urchin should chance to be found
looking crosswise at book he knows he
would be skinned in minute.
Oh, the painfulness Of such life The un-
happiness In such a homel
And you have gone into other homes
where they did not seem to have any par
ticular rules.
Children sat down and talked II over with
the father; they sat up to the table and
ate; they had fun while they were doing
l thnv gould yxIa h. Nko~.
sometimes tear out the whole side Of shirt
the father and mother might laugh at that !;
and. oh, what a home it was !; and some way
or other those boys grew up to be good.
stalwart fellows, who could 20 out and take
care Of themselves anywhere in the game.
and the girls were jolly and attractive; they
were social favorites, and everybody was
happy. -.
1t was the difference in the amount Of
erned to death, and the other home was
controlled by reason and affection.
You good folks here tonight go around
church once in while and sing that old
song: Where Is my wandering boy to-
your heart strings are pulled as you wonder
where he Is. But when you have finished
the song you go on home and never take
time to look him up. You Just put your
wondering in the tune and the boy can
wander.
Now you wonder why you cannot keep
your boy at home. Did you eyer 60 and
look at the place where you try to keep
him7
=, You know boy is Just an animal. He
likes to fight and scuffle and run. He
detests soap and water; they are against his
nature. ~
Did you ever look around the boys room ;
oh. you good mother: God bless you. You
want to fix up everything inst nice for that
hnu A,l ,k,& 10 4 IL.
up to suit your feminine mind. You turn
that animal in there and expect him to stay.
(Laughter.D
Lace curtains on the windows, pretty lit
tie white bed, little spindle legged stand.
q. chiffonier and dolly on the table. a lit
tie pink cherry blossom wall paper.
dolly In boys room.
And you dress him up in white and curl
his hair and say. Now. Honey. don't you
go out and play with those boys next door,"
WILLIE" and Willie comes back again. And
you wonder why that boy goes away from
you and your heart breaks, and you sob out
"oh. why, Is it that could not keep him"
You could II you had stopped to under
You say, II loved him to death" Yes,
but YOU did not understand him. / would
rather have a boy understand five minutes
than to have him loved all day.
Now. why didn't you let the boy fix IT
"ho Nv hihi huNc ~ VII OWL pan ana
say. Now. my son, how would you like. to
have this room" And the first thing that
would come down would be the curtains
and the next thing that would come up
would<be the dolly. Give that to sister, He
takes that little spindle legged chair and he
shoots II off as far as he can.
Cleans everything out of there; rips of
the wall paper with the pink violets and ex-
changes 1t for some with hunting scenes,
hills and mountains; puts leather curtain
hA rrtofa H he flnA~ Skuo.
out the chiffonier. mad put in an old bu-
reau that makes good fort, and he gets
some good. square. stout-legged tables and
chairs that can be used for sliding down
bill, pitched battle or anything else. and
he paints the floor and puts in rug, just
big enough to keep his feet warm while he
dresser in the morning, and he has some
bows and arrows and some wild west pic
lures and some country magazine and some
war story books and ball bat and a catch
er's mitt and some boxing gloves and dumb
bells and three or four rusty old guns and
leather spread for the bed and IL you will
let him alone he will take care Of It and
everything will be always right in its place,
right ~ smack mac dow. down in the center Of the aoor
=, Oh, God bless you: you could not drive
that boy. away from there with a club.
That Is his den; that is the place where
the animal likes to live and every other
kid In the neighborhod will be In there with
him. unless you lock the front door. And
every boy that has not that kind Of place
says, oh how wish had real mother"
II will spoil the furniture 4 little. II
will spoil some Of your feminine tastes; but
1t will save your boy.
He will be Bill. And when you come to that
place in your life where husband Is gone and
you must lean on some strong support where
you would have a Willie boy. with weakly
lungs. Bill will take care Of mother. and the
only one that will ever take him away from
you-it will not be any dance hall, nor any
pool hall, nor any club. nor any saloon, nor
any card game.l nor anything else of that
nature--the only power that will ever take
Bill out from there will be some bright-eyed,
rosy-cheeked. brown haired loving girl, that
has got head full Of sense. When he takes
her along he says, "All right, mother; I am
going to start a little nest Of my own, but
there will always be corner for you"
Sayi II we could only beat that doc
trine into the head of the average hysteri-
cal woman in America, the boy problem
would be solved.
God bless you: you have got yourselves
all excited and worked up that something
outside has got your boy, and you had IF
teen years start Of everybody.
Now 1t is Just as true in community life
as In home life. Exactly the same
l want to ask you tonight--the strange
boy who comes into the city Of Omaha, the
city Of Omaha. how many Of you people
ever open the door Of your home to that
boyi
Where would he go tonight II he were
stranger in this city to have compan-
ionshipf
Think It over.
The churches are all closed. Somebody
has talked about starting pool hall or
club hall there. and they say, "Oh, this Is
for the worship of God; you open up about
three hours a week, and what do you do
thenf Stick him down in a pew and a
fellow goes up in the pulpit and makes him
a prohibition speech.
II he can come into Omaha and find him
self room and submerge himself socially
and struggle through for while, some
body will begin to think there is something
In him.
You didn't think of that, did your
Where does that boy go when he Is hun
gryf To the parsonage or to the back end
Of bart Who feeds himf The church or
the saloonf
What right have you got to renounce a
man who is doing every day what you won't