South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-07-09
CHILD WELFARE.
WORK DISCUSSED
Mrs. {. A. RiggIe of Goshen
Delivers Timely Warning
on Subject.

Al a confelenc Of women inter
ested in child welfare work. held i'm
the First Methodist church Monday
afternoon, the principal address
was given by Mrs Edward a.
Riggle of Goshen Ind
AIRS Riggle, who was for several
years a teacher in the public schools
and is prominent in club and sunday
school work OF the state is a force
ful speaker and impressed upon
her hearers many startling truths.
She said i'm part.
II YOU have gone into this var TO
save civilization and are successful
in the enterprise. TO keep il safe we
will need men and women of broad
er mentality, higher intelligence.
better schooled men and women.
more men and women with practi-
cal, organized. consecrated common
sense than we have ever had i'm the
history o. the nation, and we get
them by training boys and girls.
"1n the work of reconstruction
shat lies before the American people
there will be no place for naught
size men and women.
Children Prefer Right.
Most children prefer To do
right il given half chance. Only
an extraordinarily few children are
naturally vicious. They become so
through neglect, and when I hear
that a child has been committed TO
a state reformatory, il proves TO me
conclusively that heredity has dealt
him such serious blow that en-
vironment can DO nothing for him,
or some adult has failed to supply
him with the proper environment.
In other words. some parent has
been too small for the Job
of ever YOU have used the word
Tlegitmate' rs applied 10 children,
erase it from your vocabulary.
There are no illegitimare children.
but there are many illegitimate par
ents.
The Great Need Today.
1T seems TO me that the best
service YOU and ] can render our
ration is 10 train the children in our
keeping that they may be worthy of
the great sacrifice being made for
them by our boys who are going
overseas. 10 50 train them that they
may be worthy 10 accept their in
heritance.
Home Training Best.
"Th state. through her public
schools. the church with the assist
ance Of her Sunday school, and the
home. working together for the
children. is the ideal plan. and they
all need TO realize that the hope of
the nation is in the training of her
future citizens, the children, and
the home needs 70 be brought 10
realization of the fact that there is
a training that the home and no
other institution can give.
Il would ike 10 take some of the
responsibility for the religious edu-
cation OF children and thrust il back
onto the home, where it belongs.
Some people train horses.
others break them, and there are
still a few foolish parents trying 10
break their children. and il can't
be done and produce the best type
of citizen Train a child in the way
he should go and when ne is old
enough he Will not need TO be
broken
Il have in my mind one child, a
boy 10 years old. We are trying to
teach him three things. First, rev
erence for God: second, respect for
law and authority. and third, broth
erly kindness, for the Scriptures
were right in saying that one can
not love God whom he hath never
seen. unless he first learn 10 love his
brother whom ne hath seen. If
we succeed in teaching him these
three things we shall not need 70
pray that temptation be kept afar
from him. We shall have made him
strong 10 so out and face tempta-
tion and tranIple il beneath his
feet"