The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-22

from the saWdust trail
| have no faith in a woman who
talks of heaven and makes a hell
out Of her home. None at all, If T
was going to investigate your piety
l would ask your cook l would not
ask your preacher. He sees you on
dress parade one day in seven. This
talk about a clean heart is discount
ed when your kids look as though it
was raining dirt. And you can read
a mothers care, my friends, in the
hieroglyphics we call the garments,
the uncombed hair, the rippedness.
the stockings hanging down like
] the skin on the back Of a merino
sheep, dirty nose that does not mean
the wisdom of a prophet, mothers
down in the club perhaps.
Home Example Makes
Nation Powerful.
l have travelled up and down this
land and | have met every beast
1 upon the arena and l am convinced
now that neither law or gospel can
make a nation great without home
authority and home example Pa
rental neglect is one of the princi-
I pal causes for the failure of boys.
Judicious control and moral train
ing are absolutely indispensable;
neglect is not less fatal
I That fool doting parent who can
, not bear to correct that boy. may
be compelled to see him corrected
in the reformatory and by the SOW
ereignty of the power of the state.
| know good many people go around
and sheer at the boy and say, 20, he
is tied to his mothers apron strings"
But that is an ancient term of re-
proach and it is designed to separate
youth from the last vestige of self
restraint and from self respect, and
that sneering use of that phrase will
|. convert fairly decent boy into a
loud-mouthed, swearing tough with
the vocabulary of a Bowery bum and
all the refined tastes of wharf rat
and the symptoms are:
Ability to absorb more fine-cut
: than two-story cuspidor can hold !;
lie on his tongue that would make
, old Ananias look like a chrome of
| truth crushed to earth, and when a
, boy begins to hang his hat over one
2 car and hit the cigarettes and the
{ booze and calls his father, "the old
: man" and puts in a good share OF
the night chasing with some chicken
, down the White Way, and trying
to win jackpot on two tours, and
| lays up against quart of Red Eye
: in some soda parlor, and crawls into
: the hay from the last dance with a
, three-step headache, it's dollars to
! doughnuts that some cheap skate OF
| sport has called upon him to assert
, his independence of that string
: dangling from his mothers waist line
, known as her apron string.
| Fool Parents Help
: Ruin Their Children.
But, say the young fellow who
5 allows himself to be laughed into
l a cheap imitation of a three-cara
: sport, is a weak sister, take it from
= me and the difference of some foo
: parents helps the game along.
l The father who crawls under the
: blankets at s o'clock and allows the
1 son to give the cops a merry chase
t until the cocks crow will need a
four-section fire ladder to get look
t into heaven.
5 Some parents are so darned afraid
3, that their boy will be called a milk
> sop, that there is nothing to sto[
him in his mad wild rush to hell
But / have noticed this: that the
!, boy who is tied to his mothers apron
: strings, who can't tell four aces from
a load of alfalfa-when there are AZ
i applicants for the job he goes home
Il with the blue ribbon and tagged No
t lin other words he comes home witt
: the bacon. He is the fellow, yes
h not, oh, the sporty guy, with a greer
n vest, and spats, silk lid, puffy, eye
/ lids, he looks as good to a hard-head
/ ed business man as a counterfeit dol
l. lar You bet your life.
D / would rather be a hundred time:
. over. and l would rather have m.
boy, and l know you would yours tiet
to his mothers apron strings thai
n hooked up to a appetite for moon
: shine and consuming desire to stea
: the next jackpot.
We let the moral training go Il
our school teachers. l have neve
z aspired to hold but one office; tina
= is to be member of the school boart
= and the first thing l would do woult
: be to raise the salary of the teacher
: and pay them IL months year
. Preachers And Teachers
= Are Underpaid.
81 1t is a disgrace the salary w,
pay our preachers and public schoo
r. teachers in America, the two indis
,r pensable people on earth. The averag
Il wage is less than $500 a year. It /
n SO day for the teaching year and |
n is $160 a day for the calendar yea
Il on the average. There are IL state
q where the salary Is less than $500
y year. Why? When our teachers g
4 in in the fall their cheeks look lik
roses; when they come out, my friend
they look like lilies and they ar
anaemics, they are bending over tina
@ miserable nonentity that bears, you
n name trying to poke something int
n his empty head.
Is We have taken from our schoc
ID teachers the right to lick our kid
k and they don't get licked at home
st No wonder they boss you before the
ID have sprouted long pants!
h | never got licking at school tina
$, | did not deserve, but | have a goo
a many, my friends, that are coming t
is me yet, that | got away withou
Id When | was kid and went to schoc
n. | always wore three pairs of pant:
TO My children are imitators.
sri Young men and women must hav
e. fun, and if they can't have it at hom
1T they will hunt out the haunts of vice
~ where a great line of God-forsaker
Ii good-for-nothing cormorants congrt
,e gate to lead them from Jesus Chris