Evening star., 1923-06-30
Defza0n of Labor Prevented BY g. O. P Says President

to give the children so far as possible
| the privileges of a home atmosphere
| which will supplement the advan-
tages of mere education and tradn-
Ing 1t must be made possible for
! the mothers to familiarize them
| selves with the problems of the
| people, the school superintendents.
sanitation officials. In short. the
mothers must be placed in such po-
| sition that despite their obligations
outside the home they shall not have
sibility. Rather, means must be
found to enable them. through the
varied instrumentalittes which society
affords, to equip themselves for the
| better discharge of their RESPONSE
bility toward the children of the
land.
VIII Better Conditions.
Through such effort as this there
| Will be opportunity for a great serv-
Ice. Those mothers who have the
advantage of the best material and
! intellectual opportunities WILL If they
| make the most of these advantages.
help greatly to improve the condi-
tions Of children that come from
families and homes less fortunately
situated. They will be able to help
tunate children TO higher level.
| The mother who tirelessly seeks
rightly to train her own children, to
| fnstill into them that fndefinable es-
sence which we know as good breed
ing. will be performing this service
not alone for her own children. but
In only less measure for the children
who come from homes less blessed
| with the finer things of life. Herein
| is the supreme advantage of the pub
| lie school system. / have never been
I able to find much satisfaction in The
good fortune of families who. when
they are able to do 1T. prefer to take
schools and give them the doubtful
advantage of more exclusive educa-
tional methods. j think we should
cling to the democracy of the public
| schools.
| The teacher. and the authorities
back of her. must be equally ready to
cooperate with the home and the
mother. In the home must still be
performed the duty of instilling into
| of religion and of faith which are es-
sential to rightly shaping the char
acter Of citizens, and therefore OF the
nation. 1t would be an irreparable
! mistake II, In surrendering to So
ciety a larger responsibility for the
child's intellectual and physical we'll
| being, we should forget the necessity
for proper religious training. That
duty must be performed in the home; /;
H. will always be peculiarly the duty
of a mother.
Mankind never has stood more in
need than it does now Of the consola-
from a firm religious faith. We are
living in time of many uncertainties,
of weakened faith In the efficiency Of
institutions. of Industrial systems, OF
economic hypotheses, of dictum and
dogma in whatever sphere. Yet we all
know that there are certain fundamental
truths Of life and duty and destiny
which will stand eternal. through the
evolution and the revolution of systems
and societies founded by mankind. There
must be no mistake whereby we shall
confuse the things which are of eternity
with those which are of time. We must
not let our enGrossment with the things
of matter and mind distract us from a
proper concern for those which are of
the spirit and the soul.
1t must be kept ever in mind that the
higher and finer attributes of humanity
will rarely be developed from a human
Seeding planted In a soil adapted chiefly
to the production of that which is selfish
and sordid, In which it will be forced
by special circumstances to struggle
unduly for the bare continuance Of
existence. We will not grow strong
minds in unsound bodies nor may we
hope that illuminated souls will often
seek habitation in human frames weak
ened and tortured by disease and mall
nutrition. To an astounding and alarm
ing certainty 1t has been demonstrated
that large proportion of school chill
dren, and even of adults, suffer from
undernourishment. l may congratulate
YOU that there is little Of it in the west
Perhaps It Is true that as to most of
4 the adults the fault is of the individual
4 rather than society. Whether that be
true or not, we can at least agree that
the children are not to be blamed for
their share in such misfortunes. If
society has permitted the development
Of a system under which the citizens of
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day, then the obligation is surely upon
society to right the wrong and to insure
Justice to the children who are not re-
sponsible for being here.
DO Not See Evils.
But We cannot expect to bring full
justice, full equality of circumstances
and opportunity to the children. un-
less we shall make it possible for
the parents. We are all too much
given. l suspect. to a rather unthink-
ing admiration for our highly
mechanized social system under which
we have SO abundantly produced
fort and culture. We have not thought
enough about the evils attendant
upon the great inequities which mark
product: But we are, coming into a
time when more and more we are
giving thought to these things: Our
satisfaction in the material achieve
ing qualified as it never was be-
fore by our questioning along these
lines. We are thinking of the weak
er links in the social chain. We be-
must be attended by a fitness to en-
brace II.
War Broadening.
Here, again, the war was respon-
sible for a great broadening of our
social vision. 1t made it's demand
upon the highest and the lowest, the
proudest and the humblest. 1t de-
| manded a sacrifice that was just as
great in the case of the poor man
as the rich man. What was more,
| it brought realization of the fact
that men and women were or reai
portion as they were capable of pro-
! ducing the things that were needed.
So the workers. the builders. the
producers attained new sense OF
their dignity and Importance.
Contemplating its supreme crisis,
the community was willing to render
to those who were capable OF serv-
ing it effectively in this juncture, a
greater share Of their product than
they had formerly been accustomed
to receive. Wages, the world over.
went to new high levels, salaries and
fixed incomes shrank to lower levels
of actual exchange value. There was
| a leyeling up from the lower strata
and downward from the higher. On
the whole, despite many instances OF
Injustice and Of maladjustment in
this process, it's results marked a
long advance on the road to equity
and justice as among all elements OF
the community. A few years of civil
destiny brought to the working
masses of the world an aggregate
betterment of conditions, a general
improvement of circumstances and