Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1922-10-26

little ideas as to the Importance Of
the design on the piano scarf or the
thrilling adventure of an afternoon
with cards fade into insignificance
when we are appointed the guardians
of human soul.
Now nothing is more common than
poetic and eloquent appeals to chill
dren to remember gratefully their
parents and to repay the care and
kindness which those rendered in in
fancy and youth. But this should be
labor of love and not duty. If obi
CATION is on either side, that of the
parent is certainly paramount, for
the parent created the relation and
brought the child into the RESPONSE
bilities and cares Of life, with no OPP
portunity for choice on the child's
part.
The protector Of the young has al
ways been the mother, both in human
and animal life. The father wolf still
has the unsporting habit, when the
mother VOLTS back is turned of de-
liberately numbering their young. Of
course the mission OF the mother wolf
is not to abolish him, but to restrain
him and direct him.
Along this line of thought I can
not refrain from emphasizing the M
portance of not neglecting the priv
ilege of suffrage. We all know that
the greatest good may be accom-
plished through legislation-its pow
er is infinite.
The Parent-Teachers' Association,
as the name implies, indissolubly
links together the home and the
school and is interested in the child
from the cradle through college, so
it naturally follows that we must be-
stir ourselves to have the nation re-
gard the protection of maternity and
infancy as a principle of government.
Last year our government spent for
ty-seven million dollars to protect
farmers from avoidable losses of
hogs, cattle and corn, and not a
penny to protect mothers and babies.
1t seems that mother hogs and moth
er COWS have a higher rating, COM
mercially, than the mothers of men.
This is a serious indictment against
a Christian country, but one that the
Parent-Teachers' Association must
realize exists and work as a unit to
overcome.
Countless pages and volumes have
been written relating to the achieve
ments of women, and yet through all
the ages motherhood has been held
as woman's greatest and noblest
attainment. Tablets will be placed
and monuments erected to women
who have achieved fame in the many
pursuits once followed exclusively
by man. History will continue to re-
cord the names of woman leaders
in the social and political world, but
no artist will ever paint and no sculp-
tor will ever carve a figure that will
portray all the goodness, the love,
the tenderness and the kindness that
each and every one of US have seen
in the one whom we call Mother.
There are many contrasting figures
to confront US as we look back over
the years gone by. We turn from
the history of Cleopatra and find our
selves loving and unqualifiedly re-
speeding Queen Victoria, the great
mother ruler of England. The story
Of Joan of Arc thrills US with its
sterling heroism, but when we read
the life of Nancy Hanks, who gave
US Abraham Lincoln, or think of the
mother of Washington, who with her
boy kneeling at her side laid the
foundation of that nobility of soul
and character which was to bless the
world, we cannot avoid thinking that
Motherhood is the most wonderful