The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-11-10
TELLS WHY so MANY
YOUTHS "STRIkE OUT"
PRINCIPAL OF COLORED PUB
Lie SCHOOLS PUTS BLAME
ON INDIFFERENT PARENTS.

Editor Dawson News: Can you i'm
agine the embarrassment, Indignation
regret and, in some instances, an
lgush Of team and its boosters when
some one goes to the bat and strikes
out at the very time when hit would
be worth everything.
AS our boys and girls pass through
life we are very much reminded OF
the same situation Thy either hit or
strike out. Far too Wany strike out,
to the painful regret OF their parents
and friends Us well as to their own
disgust. You have never seen a fellow
strike out, lay his bat down and walk
off, but what you could see that he
felt his failure keenly. This is true
in spite OF his effort to conceal it.
We were watching the State Nor
NAL school play Tuskegee a game OF
baseball. One fellow made three fair
strikes with a man on every base.
How the blood rushed in the. faces
OF his team and its crowd. How hes
itatingly and embarrassingly he lay
down his bat!
Ii a ball game can cause such in
tense interest, how much more inter
est should there be placed upon the
game our boys and girls play in the
great battle OF life How much more
anguish and disappointment will their
striking out cause?
People once thought malaria was
caused by bad air, but later it was
found to be traceable to the bill OF
certain specie OF mosquito after Bit
81 1or
! There are those OF us who blame the
children and other agencies for the
large percentage OF strke-outs; but
the thinking people have come to the
conclusion that we, the parents, are
the cause. Yes, we are largely the
blame
President Coolidge said few days
ago in addressing the convention OF
the Y. NJ. c. A. that parents are
Sinking their duty and that society
is menaced as result Of this. The
committe on home and family life of
the Episcopal convention at New Or
leans said in reading its report: AL
lowing for notable and beautiful eX-
ceptions, it is generally true that home
life has ceased to function" The re-
port sets forth some OF the factors
which are weakening home life,
among which are women in industry,
divorces and crowding into cities.
The very fact that these statements
come from the sources which they do
is sufficient to provoke sober thought
and reflection along this line. AS long
as children are allowed to remain at
home and not go to church. Sunday
school and day school; as long as our
eyes are so curiously made that we
see other peoples children all bad and
ours all good; as long as we allow
ourselves to be actuated by prejudices
and petty jealousies; as long as igno-
rance, vice, crime and superstition are
allowed to have full sway; as long as
;; we build every kind OF buildings eX-
cept good school houses, just so long
will our boys and girls strike out.
| have just read a cartoon in Path
finder which has a picture OF tree
in one corner with many roots. This
tree is called Crime, and the various
: roots are the causes and their names
are Disregard for Law, Parental Lax
ity, Loose Morals High Lii, etc. In
the other corner of the cartoon Is the
picture of a father teaching his little
boy respect for law. | understand the
American Bar Association is using
this cartoon to the end that higher
,, and deeper respect for law and con-
stituted authority may be developed
while the mind is in the youthful age.
We do not have to go miles away
; to see youth striking out and many
who have struck out. Have you not
stopped to think OF the alarming num-
Der who fall in this category? VIII
you still rest satihed with ignorance
crushing our youth as an elephant IN
china shop? In the name of God
, who gave us the children, will we not
make any and every sacrifice that they
may at least have a chance to know
the way. The community needs them.
The race needs them. The nation
needs them. God wants them.
There surely is no one better pre-
|, pared to bring about a change along
these lines than real consecrated
,, mother. | am reminded Of saying
by some one: "Oh, woman thou art
queen; thy throne is the home, thy
: crown is motherhood and thy sceptre
is pure and unselhsh love. Another
writer says: 1T is not the throned and
sceptred king; it is not the statesman
with his midnight lamp; it is not the
! warrior grimed smoke and stained
Z with blood-it is the queen OF the
} home who, under God, rules the des-
! TIMES of this world. | say unto you
: the sweetest wisdom of this world is
; a woman's counsel and the purest al
tar from which human prayers ever
/ went up to heaven is mothers knee. "
! A noted preached said on one oc-
e casion: Woman may rival her hus-
I band in the avenues of trade, in intel
i lectual pursuits, but she finds supre-
), macy only in the home as its queen.
I Respectfully, J. H. KING.