The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-03-27

These laws forbid misconduct and pre-
scribe penalties to cover its various
degrees and phases, but the state
does nothing to deter its youth from
mourning the penalties which it has
prescribed
Church Only Agency.
The only agency that can possibly
warn and train is the church and the
with the expressed direction and in
struction of it's people to its school
boards, will make it obligatory for its
boys and girls to receive religious, or
at least ethical training 1t is within
the province of the church to teach
the fourth r." religion, and it would
be the part of wisdom if the state
would cooperate with the church in
this direction.
The state exempts the property OF
the church from taxation for pur-
pose thereby confessing that it rec
ognizes the church as moral force
and an antidote to social viciousness.
The late Mayor Gaynor of New York
said, when it was proposed to tax the
churches: Il will veto that measure.
One minister, priest, or rabbi is worth
Is policemen"
All the church asks is that it be Civ
en- a chance to redeem the childhood
of the land, but it cannot do so with
out the consent and cooperation OF
the home and the state.
Duties of School
"Why does not the school do some
thing about this?" some one may ask.
The school was not established to
al
the three IRIS" it will do all that NOR
tai intelligence can do. 1t can teach
morality insofar as the conduct of the
individual child interferes with or
impinges upon the rights and liberties
of other children.
But, the school touches the child
about six hours out of the "a and dur
ing that time the child is occupied
with routine and drill which preoccupy
his thoughts There are whisperings
about things that happen during
school hours, but it is not to be won
dered at that habits learned out OF
school will be INDUCED in wherever
the child happens to be. A pain in
the shoulder may be caused by an
infected tooth or tonsil so immortality
exposed in school may have been
learned in the home or elsewhere.
The momentum of habit carries
everything before it and indecency
will creep out anywhere because i'm
morality is no respecter of places.
| Parent-Teachers' associations would
| do well to make the conduct of chill
| dren the order of their programs, not
merely to listen to some expert detail
| the principles of child psychology but
! to get down to brass tacks in individ-
! ual cases.
Cooperation Required
! The Next Step League is fine in the
! DRY but it will require the cooperation
| of every member of every family to
| make it effective. 1t is folly to expect
| the habits of child to rise above the
/ customs of the home.
The Y Nj. C. A. and the Y w C. A.
are, after all, only clearinghouse for
a certain kind of youth in the city.
| These institutions will attract mostly
| those boys and girls who have been
given a push in their direction by the
home.
The "Y's" cannot and will not furn.
/ ish the spice that is found in the pool
room or the dance hall or the unchap
eroned function of any sort. The
"Y's" will and do furnish a proper so
cial outlet for those boys and girls
whose souls have been fed on high
ideals and purposes.
The young people who sneer al
things and places that are "slow" in
their eyes will never be attracted by
| the "Y's" for either sex.
The home cannot dodge It's respon
sibility, it cannot shift its burden onto
the shoulders of church, school. OF
social agency entirely. These will
help the home TO bear it's burden, but
that is all they can do, and that is a
great deal.
Homes in Danger.
In a country where divorce has be
come so common that judges on the