San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-28
BODY NEEDS CARE AS WELL
AS SOUL PHYSICIANS TELL
CONGREGATIONS HERE SUNDAY
Prominent Doctors From Over State Here for Con-
vention Fill Pulpits Sunday-Discuss Relation.
Between Profession and the Clergy-Large
Audiences Hear Addresses.

| Tic savage protected BY instinct does
not oyerwork, nor neglect play. moi
the contests that teach him 10 over
como obstacles: he does not turn nigh,
into day. nor drink whiskey, nor poi
son his mind with sex problems. He
is guided by common sense rather thar
by fear and consequently is more com
Portable in his physical being. is les;
nervous, has a better body and a hap
pier mind. His chief interest centers
in his own physical welfare and tbs
great natural urge to reproduce and
rear his own kind. His simple home
is the center of his life. Civilized man
because of his lowered intelligence and
defective education, suffers from false
conceptions as to Nhat really con-
stitutes happiness. He therefore en-
cages in a wild and reckless search
for happiness in the wrong direction
and. too often finds himself on the
road TO ruin and establishment. He
violates many of natures laws. which
primitive man and animals do not vio-
late. He iniures his digestive tract
and destroys the proper functionlns
of his body and Of his mind. He makes
illeness his ambition Notwithstanding
the plain fac. that idlenes3 means
rottins instead o. growth Everyone
knows that when we fail 10 use an
eye it becomes blind, or. when VIC
bandage an arm it becomes paralyzed
and. that wher the mind ceases to
contemplate wholesome and healthy
things il becomes perverted and dis.
eased. yet he makes idleaess the ideal
state for himself and his children. He
develops an ambition to get away
from the home and the rearing of the
young and puts aside his responsible
tiles as a father and the head Of the
family. In other words, he become;
degenerate, effeminate and unmanly
Must Have Right Home Life. .
He loses his love for the simple and
beautiful things Of life. Women are t.
him no longer divine and beautiful a:
the mothers OF men. They become thu
playthings Of his idle and sensuou;
moments. Children are no longer th'
greatest blessing that nature can be
stow. They become burden and 9
care that interferes with his moment:
of idlness and ease and rotting. Won
en- following his example cease to b,
modest and retiring and concerned
chiefly with the idea of reproducing
the future men and women of the race
They imagine that they see some high
er and nobler calling ahead than tn,
mere drudgery of the home and tn,
duties OF protecting and rearing the
young.
To explain and to apologize for tn,
degenerate state of society resultins
in the abandonment of the home, mod
ern poets. novelists and. playwrite.
devote themselves to writing croft,
poetry, triangle problem stories, and
degenerate plays. Fortunately. as /;
weak effort to substitute somethin;
for the destroyed home life, effeninaf
men and masculine women follow tn
leadership of the thin line Of reall,
intelligent and properly educated nor
4 NAL men and women who apprehend
ing the danger of the situation organ
ize and support such uplift movement
as the Boy Scouts. Girl Scouts, Cam
4 Fire Girls, domestic science trainin
in schools teaching of the right liz
ing in the churches, the good healt
campaigns of the medical professio
and the rest. All of these are valuabl
and necessary under the circumstance
but none of them can take the plac
of home influences. There can be n
good health nor good morals in an
community where home life is degrad
ed and men and women cease to hol
as their chief ambition in life tn
ideals OF the home. The mother VIII
seeks to fulfill her duties TO societ
by organizing clubs and vet fails I
teach her daughter that the reward
of the world are for service and tina
the punishments are for idlness an
selfishness is preparing that daughte
for the road to ruin and disillusior
ment. including bad health and ba
morals. The father who fails to funC
3. ton as head and protector and direc:
or of the home and accepts instead th
position of weak partner of a restles
/. and misguided mate must. Of cours
! bear the chief part Of the blame. Fror
$ such parents come the restless casui
Z workers given 20 excesses. weak
2 avoiding responsibilities. holding III
$ nome and the rearing OF children
: contempt, while depending upon
false philosophy to explain their ow
: failures. They lead the young of ii
5 nation along the road TO ruin.
! churches Teach Too Much Repressio
!, Many Of the men Of brains an
: character must be drafted from u
narrow circle of the individual hon
r to be the leaders and fathers of II
{ groups o! homes which We call con
4 munities and states and nations. Ii :
: OF course, necessary that such me
: accept leadership Of the herd, but Il
= price paid is high because these lea
y ers cannot be real fathers in the
:. own homes. The best stock thus is co,
J. iines.
r The physician is often too much
/ a materialist and cynic. He does II
n accept leadership nor prepare himsc
l. to lead, and. the teachers OF rcligiC
concern themselves too much wi
creeds ard differences as to doen
= and take the position that they a
& commissioned TO teach repression al
e to deal in threats instead of to poi
a out that the whole philosophy
Z Christs teachings is contained in q
! statement II come that ye mny ha
L life, and have 1t more abundantly
= They fail to make II plain that Chri