The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1921-09-08
Something to
Think Ab0ut
MOTHERS MAKE MEN.
By f. II. WALKER

{, AMUEL MATTHEW'S VAUGHAN,
- head of the, Baldwin Locomotive
Works in Philadelphia, has had wide
experience in the selection as well as
the handling Of men.
He admits that he has a method, q
secret, in making his selections.
HE FINDS OUT WHAT KIND OF
A MOTHER A BOY HAS, and pays
no attention to the father. In the
course of long business life he has
made few exceptions to this rule.
This theory Of Mr.. Vauclain has
negative as we'll as positive side.
1t explains not only why so many
undistinguished fathers have distin-
guished sons, but also why so many
fathers who are failures have sons
who are successful.
There are two sides to the question.
For one thing there is a tendency on
the part of boy to derive his pre-
dominant traits from his mother.
For another, the mother is obvious
ly more instrumental than the father
in creating the environment which
plays large part in the development
Of the sons.
In the average home the problem
of providing minimum Of income.
which is the duty Of the father-is
much less complicated than the prob
lem of making both ends meet-which
is the problem Of the mother.
Long before statesmen ever dreamed
Of budget system, that method was
familiar to the women. In one gen.
GRAFTON after another they have had
to pay their way with resources that
did not increase in proportion as the
families grew.
- The carefulness, prudence and fore
sight that woman displays in run
ming her house naturally show them
selves in the bringing up of her men
children. If she is incompetent and
shiftless in one direction, she will be
the same In the other.
AAC A1OlACA, 40 l1Oul
the father, has played leading part
in the formative period Of men Of con-
spicuous genius who have lifted them
selves "by their bootstraps' into places
Of great eminence.
The mothers of Abraham Lincoln
and Napoleon Bonaparte supply the
only available explanations Of the rise
to leadership Of two men who are
types of success, under the most diff
fcult circumstances.
In each case powerful, dominant
character made possible the passage
from log cabin to the White House
and from Corsica to the leading place
in Europe and an imperial throne.
In our own time the supreme quail
tiles of Marshal Foch are traceable
to the powerful individuality Of his
mother.
From the dawn of history to the
present day, in sacred and secular
affairs, the influence Of the mother
has always been the greatest factor
Ill SAO uOFOAOkJAuC1L VI oUA1ALy VI &c
MUS. She has been the source Of in.
spiration as she was the source OF
! being.
| Sometimes she has pulled the chill
! dren, handicapped by the fathers
characteristics up to her own level.
Sometimes she has pushed them
above both herself and the father by
an indomitable determination that
neither poverty nor ill fortune Of any
kind should interfere with her am
billions.
Mr.. Vauclain's plan Of selection will
serve it's purpose in the great majority
Of instances. He is safe in conclud
ing that if the boy had the right kline
of mother he can count on his beinl
the right kind Of a boy.
(Copyright.)