The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1921-09-06
FAMILY AFFAIRS.

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Rome Tribune-Herald is timely an,
to the point. Our Rome contempor
airy, we believe, has sensed one of tn.
great evils from which all humanity
lis suffering. It's straying far. afielt
from the old and time honored Gus
toms that used to prevail and tina
sought to make men and women bet
ter and more serviceable sitizens.
Here is what it says on the sub
ject: Ewt
THE foundation of good citizenship
begins at home. The method of es
tablishing respect for law and or
der, is to inculcate in the children al
the home the underlying principles
of good morals, a respect for law and
love of the home.
I'm it's presentments, recently made
to Judge John d. HUMPHREYS OF the
superior court of Fulton county, the
grand jury urged the re-establisa-
ment of family affairs to check moral
looseness. Says the grand jury in
its recommendations to the Atlanta
judge: The morals of the coming
generation can only be improved by a
return to old-fashioned conditions in
the home, by the establishment of
family prayers and the exercise of
strict parental control An alarming
10 -seness of morals is charged beyond
the powers of the courts to rectify.'
Furthermore, mothers are urged
to insist that their daughters dress
within the bounds of modesty and
common decency when they appear in
public. This matter of dress has ceas-
ed to be a joke. Advocates of short
skirts insist that the new style is IN
the interest of health. Candidly, We
don't believe it. And If it is true it
Is not necessary for grown woman
to wear skirts up to her knees, in or
der to accomplish that purpose.
1T is our opinion that all necessary
health conditions could be secured by
a skirt not more than six inches
from the ground, anything more Is
due to the mental condition
Of the wearer. There is no necessi-
ty for anything more, either on the
ground of health or convenience.
"As we see 1t now, the family altar
as 1t was formerly known has disap-
peared. There is no such thing. in
too many instances the parents pay
too little attention to the training Of
their children. Their idea is to get
them along with as little trouble as
possible. II the children are too
young to take out or TO go out alone
at night they are tucked away in bed.
while the father and mother go to the
movies or to some other class of en-
Iertainment. When they return home
Il is too late for family prayers. and
hey are too tired to do anything but
go to bed.
Modern life is too swift a thing
for family prayers, too garish for
lamily affairs. The first has been for
gotten and the latter have long since
been consigned to the, Junk hear. If
there ever we're any family affairs
around the modern household they
will now be found upstairs in the at
tic communing with the bats and
owls.
In truth, II Is time to return to a
few oldfashioned things. and we hon.
astly believe that life could be made
more attractive and pleasant thereby
Il certainly would be far more de-
,ent and self-respecting. How many
leople able to walk stay Mt home at
night? How many sit around these
lays in family circle? This Is now
considered childish and silly by many
people. How many stay at home and
cad? This is considered foolish by |
he know-it-alls of the present day
The reason. why there are SO many
now is not hard to under
stand, The iails are full of them and
he court dockets are over.crowded
There is little sentiment In present
lay life. Most people are after. all |
hey can get in shape of wealth or
Measure and are nat at all careful n
o how they get 1t.
But why moralixe? II won't do
my good unless the leaders of socie.
Y set the pace. Undoubtedly the re
establishment of family affairs. and |
he reconstruction OF home life wohld |
q much 70 better socisl conditions In
his country. In order TO secure per-
nanent reform we must begin at the
oundation of things. and the home Is
he place to begin"
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