Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-03-16
TEXAS GIVES A LESSON
TO THE ENTIRE NATION
PUBLISHED IN OUR SUNDAY
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PUBLISHED IN OUR SUNDAY
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WHEREAS, the Legislature of the
State of Texas has been called In ex-
traordinary session by the Governor
for consideration of actions necessary
to the conservation OF the resources
of the State of Texas; and
WHEREAS. the most important OF
all concerns, even above material
values, is the life of the people It
self; and
WHEREAS, the unprecedented wave
of crime sweeping over America.
crowding our jails and penitentiaries
and increasing the prison population
of our State of Texas to more than
five thousand prisoners, fifty per cent
of them under rs years of age, which
is an alarming degree of delinquency.
and the increase of divorces, In our
state, to one-tenth of the total ma
tional number of divorces, which, to-
gether, are signs of the disintegration
of family life; and
WHEREAS, in the opinion of socio-
logists, this alarming condition is due
to the emphasis which in recent years
has been placed upon material values
and the small concern paid to spirit
ual values in home, school and So
ciety; and
WHEREAS, the multiplicity of bills
of the concern felt, as we'll as the
difficulty of enacting into laws pro-
visions for producing the ends sought;
and
| WHEREAS, Washington stated in
his farewell address, mo nation can
exist without religion" for the
strength and efficiency of any repub-
ponds upon the best development of
those people, and which experience
the history of our nation-has demon
strated that the strength of our re-
public has been in the character of
its citizens according to the moral
character and intelligence of it's peo-
} pie; and
WHEREAS, it uniformly is conceded
that the remedy for prevailing condi-
lions must be effected through the
inculcation of morality, spirituality
and conscience in the young by par
ents, pastors and teachers; and
WHEREAS, craftsmanship m
concern itself for the perpetuation OF
the state by building future citizen
ship in the strength of morality;
THEREFORE,, be it resolved by the
Senate, the House of Representatives
concurring, that the people of the
State of Texas be enjoined to address
themselves to renewed effort to re-
build the idea and ideals of the fam
lily, to overcome the tendency of the
present juvenile delinquency so pre-.
valent and initiating against the flu
ture security of the state, restoring
the balance between the spiritual and
the material by the precept and ex.
ample of parents, that their children
: may be reared in inculcation of the
principles of fundamental righteous.
ness;
That parents be adjured to exert
every effort to restore the old-time
influence of the home for the devel
that family worship be restored, and
. that in self-sacrificing love the lit
, tie ones be trained in the virtues o.
truthfulness, honesty and respect fol
the rights of others;
, That the churches and Sabbath
5 schools be urged and constrained tt
, intensity their spiritual efforts to ex
ruif
respective spheres of influence ant
, responsibility;
That the schools promptly reform
their methods so that the rudimen
, tary studies, as well as the sciences
X be taught only as subordinate tt
Righteousness, that the emphasis b.
o placed upon morality, good con
+ science, respect for parents, reverence
for age and experience, and the sub
n ordination to authority, and that al
! learning is but the hand-maiden o
eternal goodness;
O That it is the suggestion of tn
Legislature of the State of Texas tina
II only upon the lines herein suggested
y for the reintrenching of the ideal
: of family life can the true balance
be restored, social confusion be cor
4 rected, the appalling crime wav
h checked, and the future of the stat
be assured by the conservation of tn
y citizenship represented in our youth
, and civilization itself be preserved
Thus far the resolution. To wha
4 extent will it be effective in correct
IS ing the abuses which it deplores
f That remains to be seen. We endors
n the sentiments of the editor that
is "a resolution worth reading nc
d once, but a dozen times; worth learn
ing by heart, worth engraving in lei
= ters of brass to adorn the fronts &
Is public buildings and the walls {
y churches and schools"