The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-04-28

Inat she dld not know youth. What
ever example you set, good or bad,
youth is always likely to follow to ex,
cess. What is worth doing at all, espe
cially if it &C attributes to ones pleas
ure, the young person argues, is worth
doing as well and thoroughly as you
can. If you teach boy at home to
drink, trust him at some time or other
to do it to the limit.
GOlinken called on me last Saturday
He had Il son in college, nineteen years
old, l think he is, and he looks as
strong and healthy as well-fed OK.
His Scholastic record so far does not
show any indication of overwork on his
part. 1t is, in fact, some fifty points
below the average of college. Mr..
Golinken's purpose in calling on me
is to get permission for his sons use
of a motor-car in his passage to and
fro mhis lodging place.
You see" the father explains, my
son lives five blocks from the campus
and sometimes when he gets up lit
tie late in the mornings it is rather
hard for him to make his nine clock
class. a car would save time for him.
l could see that it might.
You see, he has fiat feet-not bad
but annoying-and walking is not
pleasant"
l explained that nothing is betrer
for fiat feet than walking moderate
distances and that open-air exercices
are helpfully stimulating to the BRAIN
but he could not see it.
Now Golinken had a very hard time
when he was a boy. He had no oppor-
tunity to go to school. He worked as
an apprentice for years to learn Il
trade with not enough remuneration to
pay for his meals. He rose in the
world from sheer force of will aud
through hard work. He is a success
full business man now but he cannot
Seee that he got where he is through
meeting difficulties and overcoming
them, through sacrifice and doing with
out things to accomplish his purpose.
He has given his son the easiest life
possible-fur coats and motor cars and
plenty of spending money. He has not
taught him to deny himself anything.
Whatever he wants he has only to ask
for it. And the boy is loafer, sleep
ing late in the morning, too lazy to
walk five blocks by nine o'clock in the
morning and satisfied to do work far
below the average and the father is
satisfied to have him do this sort of
work.
Il did enough hard work when l was
to buy Goblinken explains to me, for
the whole family, and made enough
sacrifice. l want my boy to have an
education want him to have an easy
time; l don't want him to go through
what l went through
Many parents feel as he does. They
are unwilling that their children
should get anything of the training
they are, and so they pamper and in
that has made the older people what
dulge their children and humor them
and make them soft and selfish
My answer to the question that is
found in my title is that there is
nothing the matter with our young
people. Where they have had the dis
cipline of home and have been taught
to work and rely upon themselves,
where they have been grounded in the
prinpicles of love and sacrifice as many
of them still have, they are the most
wonderful young people in the world
and they are going to do great things
far beyond what we have been able
to do.
The trouble, where there is trouble,
is largely with the parents who coddle
their children and make their life too
soft and easy. There are too many
coonskin coats and fashy-loOking run
abouts. There are too many eXtrav
agant allowances and too many formal
parties when the young people who go
to them should be playing children's
games or at home in bed. Too many
young people are taught not to work
or to do their best at whatever they
undertake. Parents are quite satisfied
when their children accomplish the
commonplace.
Our young people as a whole are
judged, too. quite commonly by the
escapades and the derelictions of the
few. In general 1 have found that
from eighty to ninety per cent of the
young people with yhom 1 have to do
are conscientious and hard working and
anxious to do well. 1t is the minority
of ten per cent who have stirred up
comment and made themselves nOtOri-
GUS by their irregularities, and for
these things foolish, indulgent parents
are most largely responsible.
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