Arizona republican., 1920-12-16

to train her own children right will be performing this service not only for her own children, but for those from other homes not so richly blessed with the finer things of life. I confess to no great satisfaction in the good for tune of those families, which, when they become sufficiently well to do, like to take their children away from the public schools and give them the doubtful advantage of more exclusive educational processes. I like the dem- ocracy of the community school. and, indeed, I would like to see greater measure of it enforced in the public schools by the elimination of those evil dences of extravagance in dress and social indulgence which make for the development of something like caste within our democracy.
 "On the side of the teacher and the responsible authorities back of her, there must be the same ready dispo- sftion to cooperate with the home and the mother Our public school system leaves to the home and its in fluence the great duty of insulting into the child those fundamental concepts of religion which are so essential in shaping the character of individual citizens and, therefore. of the nation. That duty remains to be performed at the hearthside and will always be pe- culiarly prerogatiVe of the mother. l could wish, indeed, that our nation might have revival of religious spirit along these lines. There never was a time when the world stood in more need than 1t does now. of the consola- tions and reasSurances which only firm religious faith can have. It is a time of uncertainty, of weakened F.1k l. AL t0fa fva-f e of industrial systems, of economic hypothesis, of dictum and dogma. Whatever our realm. let not our en- grossment with those things which are concerned merely with matter and mind district us from proper attention to those which are of the spirit and the soul.
 Many Undernourished
 Tt has been demonstrated to as- tonishing and alarming certainty that a large proportion of school children and even of adults suffer from under nourishment. Perhaps in the case of most adults the fault is of the indi- vidual rather than society. With chill dren, however, it is otherwise. If so- ciety has permitted the development of a system under which the citizens of tomorrow suffer real privation to- day, then the obligation is upon so ciety to right that wrong, to insure some measure of justice to the chil- dren, who are not responsible for be- ing here.
 T am not of those who believe leg islation can find panaceas for all ills. but on the other hand I am not of those who fear to undertake through legislation the formulation of new programs.
 "I firmly believe that our country, along with others that claim to share in the worlds leadership, has lately achieved one victory in behalf of a better understanding and more intel ligent grasp of these problems. I re- fer to the bestowal upon woman of full participation in the privileges and obligations of citizenship. With her large part wider in influence in the world of affairs, think we shall see woman and her finer spiritual in- stincts at length leading mankind to higher planes of religion, of humanism and of ennobling spirituality.
 'Healthful mothers amid fit condi- tions for maternity, healthful, abund- antly nourished children. amid fit con- ditions for development mentaify and physically-all made certain by the generation of today in it's concern for tomorrow-will guarantee a citizen ship fro mthe soil of America which will be the guarantee of American se- curity and the American fulfillment"