Evening star., 1925-04-25
SARGENT BESPEAKS
. AID FROM WOMEN
Tells D. A. R. Disregard of
i Law in Upper Circles
Leads to Anarchy.

Allegiance to the Constitution with
out mental reservation and eXertion
of vomen's influence to make some
Of those of wealth and refinement
realize that in willfully disregarding
the law they are leading the Nation
to anarchy was urged by Attorney
General Sargent last night in his first
public address since he entered the
cabinet.
Addressing the Daughters of the
American Revolution. the new chief
law officer of the Government laid
down in emphatic language the double
duty of women who participate in
world affairs and told the descendants
of those who fought to establish this
country that they should not rest
content solely because their forbears
were great.
Mr.. Sargent asserted there was an
evident laXity of thought with re-
gard to law on the part of a section
Of the wealthy classes which the de-
scendants of the founders of the
country $50 years ago could correct
in the coming generations by spread
ing the lesson to mothers not TO for
get, while participating in politics.
their duties at home and to their chill
dren.
Rests With Women.
THE women of America can and
will make or break the Nation by
what they teach their children before
the age of TO-" he declared.
We read and hear a great deal of
talk about woman'S part in politics:
about the purifying and ennobling
influence of her participation in the
affairs of Government. To all this
subscribe and for its continuance and
extension | am willing to work, if it
is undertaken and carried on in ad-
ditlon TO the work. the duties which
nature has imposed upon her and
which cannot he discarded or neglect
ed without injury, without ruin, to
the very body polite in the councils
OF which she aSpireS to sit in a front
seat
In this country, under our system
the Government in the last ANALYSIS
Is the whole people he continued
or what avail can it be to undertake
10 administer the laws. however
wholesome and beneficial they NAV be
IN their theory. in their language:
10 carry on a public government of
r people composed of adults who in
childhood and youth have lived utterly
without restraint and have been
taught, or at least allowed to think,
that rules of conduct are made to
nut each can and will do as he
pleaSeS?
No Substitute for Mother.
THE responsibility for curing. for
preventing, this state of mind in the
child is primarily upon that child s
mother; If ! may repeat, no nurse,
no teacher, no professor, no chaplain,
no legislator, governor or judge-no-
hndE-R0T1 n
responsibility for her
This state of mind. once allowed
TO become a part of the character of
the child, persists in the youth, in
the grown-up, and is almost impos.
sible of eradication from the man and
woman. 1t is the source, the root of
the nation so prevalent just now that
II law is enacted which interferes
with ones desires, with what he
pleases to call his personal liberty, be-
cause this is the land of liberty, he
Is morally entitled to disregard it, and
is morally justified in winking at its
violation by others
Ours is indeed a land of liberty. a
Government of liberty, but of liberty
under law.
To swear to support the Consti.
tuition does not signify, if that oath be
taken with the menetal reservation
except when my pleasure or my con-
Venlence run contrary
Must Obey Law.
Allegience to country means obedi-
ence to its laws-whole-he hearted LOYALTY
in the market place and in the
home, where the next generation will
see and learn it daily and hourly until
1t becomes part of their very selves.
Il make this appeal to you now.
aIrr fl1f.- "a
subject in this bald way. because as
I go about among people of refine
ment, of wealth and of power, |, from
time to time hear things said which