The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-12-10
Neglect of Parental Duty.

ton is the neglect of parental discipline so plarino
Ky evident in the manners and habits of our voune
people
1t has reached the point where il is the greatest
danger confronting our land and the future Of the
world DlSreSpect for elders and for all law and
order on the part of ninetenhs of our young people
VIII surely bring country to early and certain
ruin. That the failure of duty is first with the mar
ent is beyond argument
every day we see incidents that cause us serious
thought They trivial incidents at first but they
grow and increase in their magnitude and enormitv
until they stagger the mind of thoughtful men and
women.
One morning last week we saw seven year old
boy walking through puddles in muddy street
kicking in front of him an empty ten pound can with
a raggedly cut top. At almost every kick this rag
ged top made its mark the boy S wet shoes When
we very politely suggested that the sport was ruin
ing his shoes he made continued and most vigorous
attack on the empty can, which would have added
to the reputation of Joe Guyon or any other star of
the football world This was to advise us that it
was of our businessmen could his mother have
stopped him
Along the same line of thought we clip the follow
ing from the Vienna News this week under the head
of 'Derelict Parents
Birmingham in speaking before an assemblage
IN this state recently struck the keynote of the
much discussed social problems of the present
time, when he fixed the responsibility for it
largely upon the heads of the homes That
the seeds of anarchy sown by indulgent par
ents rather than some of the other agencies to
which this destructive action is credited is the
opinion held by DR.. Stuart He saws:
Children who do not obey their parents
Will not bow to any authority. On the other
hand, children who properly trained will
not give their parents, the state or the nation
any throuble.
God delegated man as the head of the home
IL Is ms duty to command his children; not to
caJoie them, 1t is all rot about you can t con-
troll children. They given to you when they
can t move, when they unable to think or
taik-of course they can be properly directed
Even puppies can be taught right from wrong
And from the Conyers Times of the current week
we find the following able presentation of this ever
increasing evii-parental neglect and the incidents
rected are not peculiar to Conyers alone they are
daily occurrences in every city although it is headed
Sad Situation in Conyers'':
One day recently an old gentleman who was
quietly driving thru one of the streets of Con
yers in buggy accosted by a bunch of
boys who hooted and jeered at the @ old timer
laughing at his buggy and calling it an auto
mobile"
u On another occasion man with his wife and
children, evidently moving, were passing along
one OF the Conyer's streets in one-horse spring
wagon, interfering with one, going calmly
on their way attending to their legitimate bust
4 ness when group of GIRLS who were PLAYING
near began to laugh at their 'automobe' and
.hUa derSive questions and epithpts after Them!
And yet we claim to be civilized people and
to live i'll free country We are given to
holding ourselves aloof and considering the
peoples of other countries away behind us
civilization, if not half-civilized or savage,
These boys and girls belong to some of the
best families in the city and vet they were
guilty of the groSseSt breach of good breeding!
Indeed their actions such as one might ex-
pect from children in the lowest tenement dis.
trict the East Side of New York where no
one would understand the English language if
it were spoken; or from the most ignorant fac
tory town in the most benighted region of our
country 1--WE mean the old time proverbia fac
tory town. not the modern mill town which is
usually model place inhabited by decent peo-
pe)-and they have not the excuse of environ
ment.
These children have good homes they have
living parents, they have every educational ad-
vantage. Where then, did they acquire such
manners Cor lack of manners)