Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-09

the other hand increasingly large
numbers of young people seemed to
deem themselves freed from every
species of moral restraint and
plunged into the stream of pleasure.
eager to slake their thirst. regardless
of consequence. They laughed at
authority. they scoTed at laws. they
ignored or def1ed God, and today the
streets OF our cities are shambles.
where robbers and gunner ply their
trade. and the criminal courts and
divorce courts are overcrowded.
Thoughtful observers of the trend
OF things today are appalled, at what
they see and are asking themselves
Why they have been blind so long to
the vital defect In our educational
system. Earnest and right minded
men of all faiths, and of none. now
! see that. the only hope for restora
ton of sanity and balance to mad
| dened. tottering world il the insist.
ence upon the religious training OF
the young.
Spirituality Needed.
This found expression in the visor.
Gus statement OF Charles n. futile.
holding high position in the New York
Federation OF Churches, when he said
But 1t is equally essential TO the
continued existence and development
/ OF democracy that every individual in
the state should have not merely
secular but moral and religious train
ing. A nations destiny is not in it's
learning, or in its scientific attain.
| menfs. 1t is In it's character The
| heart OF culture Is the culture of the
| heart. Our Nation cannot survive
materially unless it is preserved spr-
1 {ptA
| never sustain our form of govern
ment uness it is accompanied by a
moral growth, and there is no source
or moral power compared to that spir-
| ltuai Interpretation of life which is
religious in its essence--religion pure
and undefiied.
| The curse of the hour upon our
| civilization Is the destruction of rev.
erence and respect for authority, di.
| vine or human due to the lack of any
training which would implant those
! chafacteristics in the hearts and
minds of the young
Proper Guidance Vital.
What is needed to reeenerate
society Is the intoxicating of sound
| principles OF morality and religion,
| winch will give to the next genera
/
situations. regard for its laws and de.
votion to it's traditions. obedience to
authority and respect for the rights
OF others all taught in early life as
matter OF solemn religious duty, and
not left to become matter of mere
| expediency.
| linus only can we have an. end of
the spectacle of young men and
women who have just enough Of a
smattering of education to feel that
| they are too clever to earn their live
lihood honestly, as their parents did,
and who, considering themselves
superior to those parents because
they have had more education. reject
their authority. despise their tradi
lions and defantly purpose to live in
| ease and comfort without labor. re-
| CARELESS of what laws of God or man
they break in the enterprise.
| Obstacles to Program.
Upon this pathway to higher and
| nobler ideals for the young men and
women there are many obstacles still
| to be surmounted. There are those
| who, from widely differing motives.
| are opposed to single step being
taken in this direction. Some of
| them are honestly fearful that some
religious sect may gain the advan,
| tage of new order Of things because
j of their superior organization or
| greater experience. But l fear that
| many are hostile because they have
no desire to see American institutions
perpetuated, and realize that their
| best chance to destroy them lies in a