Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-18
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER

the tasks, ngnt ana nara, OF
great industrial nation such as
ours is, then some substitute
must be found for the home.
A WOMAN cannot keep the
"A home together minding and
teaching the children. IL she and
her husband both go swinging
of 70 work together in the
morning and she puts in a full
day in the factory.
BY night she is as tired as he
Is and not able TO catch up on
the responsibilities of mother
hood. and. moreover. by that
time il is too late.
The children have been into
all kinds of mischief and are
running wild.
As long as the husband and
wife continue to live together in y
the married state. this would
not he called broken home. but
practically il would be a broken
home. and criminologists are al
ways telling us that high per-
centage of those who get into
trouble with the law are the
victims OF the disruption Of the
home.
ssum ng that men and
women are equal in numbers
and equally employed. there
would be no American home.
TNHE substitute in Russia has
Il been state institutions. park
ing lots or checkrooms. in which
the young ones are left by the
day.
Lacking relishle, detailed In
formation. we may assume that
the Russian government does
undertake to keep them out OF
mischief and probably with fair
success and that they are put
through courses OF education.
In Russia, however. religion
would not be one of the sub
jects taught. and. on the con-
trary. atheism and contempt for
religion would be.
In our country great trouble
would arise over this subject Of
religious teaching in these pub
lie institutions.
Having no established state
religion. and the establishment
OF such being forbidden, we
would have no agreement on the
religion TO be taught IL we were
TO permit such teaching at all.
And there would be some who
would insist that no public insti-
tuition Of ours had any right to
concern itself at all with reli-
gious instruction.
IT is not merely sentimentax
l. TO insist that there is no
state substitute for the influence
OF the mother and her children.
The state institutions would be
not necessarily harsh or cold,
and they might. indeed, be
warmer. brighter and more in
teresting than the homes Of
many Of their individual little
clients, but they would be imper-
sonal in their atmosphere.
These would be institution
children. ignorant OF the infiu-
ence Of motherhood, knowing
nothing about home.
Why is II necessary. anyway,
that this nation. with its ma.
chinery and marvellous produc-
tive ability, produce twice as
much Of everything by doubling
the manpower by using all or
all but a few women for such
work in the great world of the
future?
Aren't there men enough to do
II. or aren't there men enough,
the whole lot OF American men.
to produce what il takes to
run the industries and homes
Of the country. without closing
the homes and calling on the
women?
And what are we going TO do
with the surplus. remembering.
incidentally. that Mr.. Wallace
himself found that our trouble
once was not too little but too
much?
THERE are those in Washing
L ton-and in positions of in
f1uence. too-who appear TO
think Of the whole state. the ma
ton, the American people, as
one great ever-loving family to-
gether.
But others believe this is too
large group for good family
purposes and hold out for the
home and the family as they
have always been before.
Democracy has come TO have
unfamiliar and alarming mean
ings.
Americans came to love the
word As meaning personal free
dom and justice in the other
war. but some of the advocates
OF the newer and, by most OF