The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-26
OBSERVATIONS ON OUR TIMES.


figures which show tn. traditional homs III. Of
America Is fading into the distance that the
family eiros 10 rapidly becoming extinct
through lack OF children with which 10 compose
II. But they tail to remind us that instead of
these delightful old institutions which produced
men and women OF moral and political stamina,
we ara now producing idealist. theorists. TAD
dst~ political economists and what not, all
sslf-sppolnted saviors OF a troubled world al
q rate which pr ssages a social and political
revolution.
There wss a tins and It is not so distant but
that many OF recall II with Joy whom
our sntirs population foregathered about the
various family flresides OF ths republic in the
evening, there to share the Joys and the trials
OF the day. there 10 build hope for tho morrow
there to discuss not the distempers of other
tolks or Of an Industrial world but the hopes
and ambitions OF those foregathered. The re-
suit a clan in tho best sense OF the term
q clan OF family blood, and that clan devoted
TO the institutions OF its own land and thorough
ly imbued with the doctrine that NE Il an IN
dividual problem aided only by the blood rels-
tionship OF family.
ona has described = conservative az he who
ospts unoompiainingiy tho conditions imposed
upon the world by the radicals Of yesterday.
There is truth in such a conception. But dare
we take It too rtsrallyr
Now the family life hAs all but disappeared.
II there are children at all. they are running
wld--eomewhere In the vicinity: while parents
arc absent either discussing the economic and
political problems in some club or psrlor. de-
vlSing ways and means for doing sither to or for
other folks, or else are attending a card party
or drinking bee--possibly both--at some near
by castle OF wealth where the conversation, 81
It attains seriousness at all, runs along the came
channels as Ia the olubs, the societies and
soviets.
The state is gradually pre-emptyins tho home
precisely as the federal structure has been and
is prs-smptytng the state. The encroachnent
Ia not opposed but on the contrary 10 Welcomed
IN both Instances We are becoming ella cksrs II
not oowarda We refuse to function primarily
as animals whose chief purpose on earth Is the
reproduction OF their kind, whose duty IL first
Of all to such reproduction, And sa we dodge
these serious. manly and womanIy functions,
we begin 10 make life hideousy unpleasant for
ourselves and our feliows through puny at
tempts to better the work OF the Great Causst
which 10 ipdelibly written in our nature. What
folly 10 believe that mon and women who re-
fuse natures summons 20 parenthood and n-
responsEbilites--its ennobling and purtyns
aacritices for the young-can advise correctly
concerning the serious problems Of lite or d.
vert 60 higher plane the activities of q race
thus stultined and sottened and degeneratedi
We are going in the wrong direction We
sre seeking 10 take the mote from the eyes OF
.r,ht
proportions in own eyes We are attempt
ing 10 do for ths mass what every man must
needs do for himself~-whleh once dono com.
plstely cures the distempers of the mass. The
can TO universal recognition OF a universal
brotherhood was TO all men. not merely to some
ad!s-pstsd rstormer and sociologie dsturbsI
here and there. Ths first, sweet whispering,
urging parsnthood and the delights OF home
which yet reach every Adolescsnt youth
End low-syed maiden, ~ responded to- Is fol.
lowed by the certain instructions OF nature al
20 the care Of both offspring and home. II Il
mistake TO think that such instruction Il
either duty OF the state a privilege OF some
fat-bressted, barren old maid whose quest fol
career has taken her into tho impossible slu
tude= Q; sishsr education where sacrifice a
made OF every natural instinct,
Indubitably the road 10 happiness, tranquilit.
ana peace Ia marked with sing-boards whiei
ought not to be disregarded. We lsnguish II
pain and uncertainty and envy and JEALOUSY
and distress. while the meadows Of surcease ar,
hard by, attsinabls at viii. PinninE our tsitl
10 the doctrine that wealth is happiness W,
struggle on. worried because all men and womeI
cannot attain the false standard have set
IN ignorance OF the truth such ambition II real
ized would be intoerable.
when people pay more attention 10 thel
primary mission earth, they will pay les
attention TO the various so-called problems the
themselves have created through false liyln
and false teaching: when they raise larger tsmi
hss and rAise them better they will raise lee
heu--foT themselves and for othsrsi