The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-12-23
THE CURSE OF MAUDLIN
SENTIMEN NTALfSTS.

II there IL bar Of Justice before which men
must eventually Jlssd then the maudlin senti-
rnentalieta ot our time have n heavy indictment
to face. Not once have they touched human
affairs 10 bettcr them; always have they cor
roded and brought greater evils the world
aud on humanity Take them by and large
from end to the other, the feminlsts with
their absurd claim for equal rights, political and
social, down TO tho advocates ~ impractical
child labor inws--elwayA they cause mischief.
Tho following from tho Literary Digest draws
forth these anamsdversione:
Sparng tho rod has resulted in the spoil
Ing of many children, and the latest stats
tics or children who have committed suicide
Yields the Staggering number. told
OF 707. All these child suicides were under
16 years Of age, m item AZ appalling aa the
number who died by their own hands. Only
the other day, says the New World, Cath
Ole paper published In Chicago. there
was an epidemic or eloping children In
neghborlng state. Closer 10 the Worlds
home "a swain scarcely out OF knckerbock-
crs carried OF q mature lady OF 49," Re
Gently, IL IL reported q compact TO commit
suicide signed by five girls all less than
~, and the agreement carried out
Notes left behind by sofno OF these unfor-
tunates Indicate blase attitude that sug-
costs mature and disappointed man or
woman" Children arc taking on the habits
and vices Of their elders who. in spite of re-
peated warnings. seem obiivious OF the peril
The fact that the condition OF affairs which
leads little children TO take tn cir lives IL not
confined to any portion OF America. but Is
country wide is taken to Indicate that
there must he a reason common to all. why
in period OF life which is usually tho hap
piest and the most cere-fres should despair
be so heavy as to prompt sulcdc2 The
World replies;
Tho first source of this new poison 4.
tho parents Theirs is the responsibility
before God and man Imagine supposedly
sensible people supplying boy OF is with
an automobile! How father and
mother be properly characterized in seeing
that the Juvenile OF IA has a dress suit If
the courts we're to take little more coznl-
zance OF the laxity of parents and punish
them for the delinquency OF their children
a healthier condition would soon prevail
protracted far into the night keeping no
check on, but actually provoking by lavish
generosity. indscri inmate thentergoing;
these are among some OF the natural rea-
sons why childhood surfeited with pleasure
and stepped In Information that ahould be
deferred to maturity seeks an outlet In sui
eide, And to counteract the promDtings to
vice, and TO correct the newly discovered
enemy that has been lurking during child
mood, what remedy !. offered? II, mos:
cases none In many the poor subterfuge
or desultory sunday school attendance
Meanwhile tho parents oxemplifyine In.
their own lives an ill-disgulsed paganism.
Banish God II you will. but be prepared for
the consequences IL such things arc hap
pening IN the green wood, what 1. TO be
hoped for in tho dry7"
Strict, unyielding. but not necessarily Pur,-
tanical, discipline In tho home, s the one great
need or our common country. God must not be
banished from the home. He needs must bs an
ehrined there. not In creeds, not In foolish man
made formulas, but as the one great lodestone
which holds men TO common purposel