Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-05-27
WHO'S TO BLAME?

a VERY Well-knoWn Baptist minister was
~ interviewed during the sessions OF the
late Southern Baptist convention, in
Atlanta, and he uttered some very stringent
remarks on the culpablity Of modern moth
erhood.
He admitted that the youth OF the land
were going pel-mell into frivolity, nude ap
parel and entirely too much reading of i'm
pure literature, general letdoWn in the
home And he thus indicted the mothers
and laid on the ecclesiastical lash unsparing
ly. Their example was bad, with Zip sticks
and rouged faces. They ran around" them
selves, entirely too much Home was a
place to shelter under, but not to enjoy. The
enjoyment lay the outside with the
thoughtless. This is enough to furnish a
text for my own humble remarks on this oc
casion.
Is it true that the women of these United
States have abandoned the profession of
mOtherh God and landed in the jazz ranks?
Have they ceased to look after the man
ners of their own children? Not to mention
morals?
Is it a matter of sex, in the main? What
about the fathers? Do the fathers give due
attention to their sons?
Allowing for the sake of argument, that
the fathers are blameless in this matter,
why have they abandoned family discipline
and let the home go-rip!! 1t is a common
remark when man is caught and indicted
for bad morals, "Cherchez la femme"
Translated it means, There Is a woman at
the bottom of the misbehavior. Go find her"
Nevertheless, safely say whenever
you find a misguided female you can trace
her to the male affinity. He is somewhere,
maybe in hiding (always hid out), until he
is priced out of the hiding place. man (if
he has money! can be immoral as possible
and yet be welcomed into some pretentiOus
homes and introduced to some manageable
daughters. Fathers should protect these
daughters. woman who has been accused
of sex misconduct will be stunned by
women, and the Gin the transgression)
is winked at and permitted to mans hospi-
tality too often.
SO far, women are exceedingly culpabe
in their hard-boiled antipathy to erring wom-
en- in their readiness to ostracze the woman
and to overlook the male sinner, if he has
money.
Feed both the sinners from the same
spoon. Let both of them get what is coming
to such transgressors. Deal fair, which
should be said also to courts of justice. AS
rule men stand by their erring brothers,
and as a rule women fling stones at their
erring sisters, and while l may be mistaken
in this general statement, men are too often
willing to make the female sinner bear all
the blame, because she is the convicted one
by such common consent of men and women.
She bears the offspring and suffers the ostra-
cism.
By all signs and symptoms men should be
made accountable for proper family disci
pine. They hold legal ownership of these
children, and it is a mans duty to his fam
lily and himself to put a stop to too much
intimacy between loye-sick young boys and
girls. They should know something about
what are called "joy rides without proper
chaperonage. If they find their young daugh-
ters pictured with naked limbs and wearing
slight drapery their bodies in mixed COM
panes, they should clay the law down. in
commanding modest apparel as we'll mod
est conduct for their behavior and appear
ance in public.
To wind up my few remarks with a proper
understanding that [ do not claim the right
or the privilege to censor anybody's homes,
or the appearance of other peoples children,
beg to say that the Lord gave advice to
Abraham and made him the manager of
Abraham's household, and it will be we'll to
accept the Lords direction to Abraham as
divine injunction to all our households, an
Client and modern.
A mother has heavy burdens to bear. She
needs the support, the advice and sympathy
Of the father of her offspring. Wake up, ye
fathers, and make your youngsters under
stand that it is righteousness that exalteth
nation, and virtue and modesty are the
browning jewels Of upright family dis
cipine.