The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-10-24
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Opposes State Control Of
Young, Declares in Adj
dress to Y. NJ. C. As
By GEORGE r. HOLMES

By GEORGE Il. HOLMES
What the youth of the country
need is not more public control
through Governmental action. but
more home control through parental
action'
This sage piece of advice was
LANDED out to American parents to-
Jay by Calvin Coolidge, President
and father. in the course of an al
ciress to the international conven-
ton of the Y. NJ. C. As of the
tr1ited S. and Canada at the
Willard Hotel.
While ~ Mentioning by name
either jazz or the myriad other
evils that are supposed to be
affecting the youth of today, the
President made it emphatic that
he clings to the old-fashioned belief
that the home. and not the State.
is responsible for the upbringing
of the child. Parents, he said, can
not slough their responsibility to
thu State.
Cites Neglect of Children
There are too many indications
that the functions of parenthood
are breaking down." observed the
President.
TOO many people are neglecting
the real welI-beinG OF their chill
dren, shifting the responsibility for
their actions and turning over SUI
pervision of, their discipline and
conduct to the juvenile courts.
1T is stated on high authority
49, H. inn f1F
outcasts and criminals come from
the ranks of those who lost the adj
vantage of normal parental control
in their youth They are the
refugees from broken homes who
were denied the necessary benefits
Of parental love aud direction.
"The home is the corner stone OF
the nation and any effective better.
homes movement must begin with
the training of the youth for those
responsibilities or we shall see the
disposition to attempt in some way
10 turn over to the Government the
responsibilities for the rearing OF
children constantly increased.
Need More Home Control
What the youth of the county
need is not more public control
through governmental action, but
more home control through pa
rental action"
The President praised the Y. M.
c. A. as one of the agencies thai
seeks 4 to keep ppresent-day youth
with its feet on the ground.
'This movement" he said. mas
brought into existence and organ
lied one of the greatest lay forces
the world has ever seen. One Of
the chief characteristics of Chris
tianity is that it is a militant and
crusading faith.
Those who have become par
takers of it's inspirations and it's
consultations. since it first began
it's early march over the hostile
territory OF tho Roman empire,
have been constantly spreading its
truths among all their associates. II
that faith is to maintain it's vitality
that work must go on.
1T is not enough that there
should be action in the pulpits-
there must be reaction IN the pews.
1t will not be sufficient to have
exalted preaching by the clergy
unless there is exalted living by
the laitN. Your Christian associa.
tions represent a practical effort to
organize and augment in every
field the lay forces and to trans
late the truths of religion into the
life of the people"
Lauds World Movement
The international aspect OF the
association movement came in for
particular commentator from the
President.
perhaps one of the most sig
nificant results that is flowing
from all these movements,
he said, lis the unlfying influ-
ence they are producing. We do
not need to be alike, but 1t is usu.
ally more helpful and certainly
more comfortable to put the most
on those characteristics
which we have in common, rather
than dwell too much on diver
gences and dissimiIarities.
zone leads to friendship and CO.
operation, while the other is likely
to develop contention and ami
mostly.
Amid all the divergent influ-
ences that have been manifesting
themselves among the different
peoples of the earth in recent
times. it is exceedingly reassuring
to realize there is a quiet and con-
effort on the part of a
worldwide brotherhood of Christian
youth for coordination and har-
mony.
when the people of different
countries are finding so much on
which they can agree, it is more
and more unlikely that their gov
ernments will disagree
This peaceful penetrating influ,