The Belding banner-news., 1920-01-21

children with holes in their stockings
and shoes on their feet that you would
not think you could put your feet in
to and yet we wonder why so many
grown up children cripple along with
their corns and bunions.
Some of the clothing would most
stand alone with the dirt and the odor
from the unbathed bodies is appalling.
Can we wonder If teacher shows
favor to the few clean ones there?
Surely none of us need take any Of
these signs of filth and desease to our
selves but there Is kind of dirt we
should all look out for in our children
and that is the contamination caused
from the mouths of low minded people
and l wonder just how some of us
handle the child who comes to us with
dirty tale? Do we hold up our
hands in holy borrow and command
that such things must not be repeated
to US or any one else or do we stop
sometime and think of the beautiful
white water lily that lifts its head out
of the blacklist and slimiest of water
to Gods Blessed Sunshine?
believe that every time a child
tells an older person dirty or nasty
thing that child is trying to make
a confident of that person and many a
beautiful lesson can be given if we
will but use our heads and keep the
confidence from the ages of five to
ten-how can you expect to gain their
confidence from thirteen to eighteen,
when they are changing from boys
and girls into young manhood and
womanhood, and / believe that any
child who attends a public school
hears more that was not meant for
his ears before he is ten years old
than he does ever after. AS you pre-
pare their minds for the reception of
nature in all its wondrous beauty so
they will come out into Gods Sun
shine like the water lily and thus be
prepared to care for the wonderful
bodies God has given them.
1t was my privilege last Spring to
be the guest of major of the Canad-
ian army who has spent three years
along the front lines in France and
because of duty well done the fourth
year he was advanced from Captain
to major and given charge of what
is known as the London Erea. Like
all our boys he could not be persuaded
to tell us his experiences on Flanders
Field but during his last year in SER
vice there he told me a great deal
and there are just a few things /
would like to pass on to you:
Every Canadian soldier entering
London either from Canada or France
was oblidged to pass through his Office
and before he was allowed on the
streets of London he was oblidged to
hear a lecture from this same major
telling them how they must take
care of themselves and warning them
of the snares they might fall into for
London is indeed wicked city and out
of the thousands who passed through
that office hundreds came back and
some sat a half day or more of their
furlough time just to take the hand
of the man who had instructed them
and express their thanks to him.
If you will pardon me would like
to tell you of one innocent victim of
a veneral disease that same to his
notice. One day a splendid young
lieutenant (as they call them)
came in with a small sore on his lip
and upon examination Major Ander-
son found symptoms of a venereal
desease (for Major Anderson is DR..
in private life) and asking the lieut.
enant how he became contaminated
he said that he had cut his lip few
days before and shortly had been as
signed to examine some gas masks
that the soldiers had used at practice
and so unconsciously he had become
victim of disease.
The lieutenant with tears stream
ing down his cheeks invited the maj
or to the window and called his aten-
tion to beautiful curly haired baby