Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-03-30
LECTURE ON CHILD
WELFARE WORK
Miss Charlotte White, Ma
tional Organizer Addresses
Newly Organized League
at Parlors of Methodist
Church.

Miss Charlotte e. White, national
lecturer and organizer Of the Child
Conservation league of America, de-
livered an address on child conser-
walton at the Methodist church
Tuesday afternoon to small crowd
There has been a local branch OF the
league organized in Mountain Home
by Mrs. Mary e. Drake and Mrs.
Bailey, who have been here for the
past two weeks. The organization
will be completed by the election OF
officers during the week.
A part of Miss Whites address was
as follows:
AN old proverb says, save the pen
MES and the dollars will take care
of themselves like to paraphrase
this-'save the children and the
problems of the nation will take care
OF themselves The greatest asset
of any nation is not in Its purely
material resources, but in the child in
its midst, and the conservation of
that child should be the nations
greatest duty and privilege. But
while the child should be the great
est asset Of the home and community,
the truth is he Is sometimes its
greatst liability The problem of
every parent is, how may ! so train
my children, that they may prove
assets instead Of liabilities.
One OF the most essential phases
of this training, | wish to speak
about this afternoon. 1t is the de-
finite training for sex purity. Every
great civilization that has been sub
merged has found its nemesis in
sicial impurity sapping Its strength
and vigor When the virility of
nation fails, its doom Is sealed.
Statistics are plenty in our country
and they are alarming to the safety
of our nation and the purity OF
the human race. But 1t is hard
matter to change the thought and
habit OF the adult. Ii we would
have a healthy human race, then
purity must be carefully taught to
the youth of our nation.
1.-THE greatest weapons of evil are
secrecy and deceit; the most power
full armament of good, truth and
open dealing. The first impure sug
gestion is whispered secretly In the
ear of innocent childhood There is
something very alluring about
secret. Be sure, mothers, you get
your information in first, for the
child mind is hungry to know, and
one subject is the same as another to
him. The problem you mothers must
solve early liz. how can | so unite
innocence with knowledge that my
child may pass through the fires of
early temptation unscathed.
At the adolescent period, too,
knowledge given by the parents, in
time of the dangers and temptations
peculiar to the period, is the way Of
safety.
Healthy sport is natures greatest
help at this period When your boy
or girl are away from you at school
or college, 1t Is far better for them
to risk broken arm or leg In some
athletic game than to idly waste
recreation periods. Fresh air and
proper food are also factors for pur-
ity. President Hall of Clark Uni
versity, says: Rich, heavily special
food, stimulants of any kind, tea or
coffee, should be debarred." Our
spiritual and moral natures are so
dependent upon our physical, 1t be-
hooves us all to look well to our
diet, but the need of healthy diges-
tion is never so necessary as at this
period of transition"
Look well to the songs your young
people are singing and hearing; to
the picture reels they are seeing; be
sure their amusements are of the
right character. Don't put the
blame of the kind put on by mana
gers. Remember they give what the
public demands. So demand the
best"