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Show The Plight of Mothers and Children (Marion Bellamy Earnshaw in Epic News.) Mothers throughout the world place the same value upon their children, yet most of them, victims of the maladjustments maladjust-ments of a vicious system they did not create, are forced to bear and rear these jewels of theirs in conditions, which render impotent the high ideals all mothers entertain for the future welfare and happiness of their children. What mother does not dream of fame for her son and daughter and a fairer and more complete life than she has had? At tlsame time she realizes wi h a catch at the heart that she cannot give her dear ones enough milk or food or fresh air or enough of the simple things which mean good health and good morals in children. It is stili true that one-third of our people are ill-fed, ill-housed ill-housed and ill clothed. For every one that is able to buck suh an adverse environment and rise to a position of security and prestige, ten thousand fall into the pits' of crime,-disease, and discouragement that beset their paths The crowding of our prisons today bears grim testimony to the odds against children from this underprivileged group. i What right havewe to call ourselves an enlightened, Christian Christ-ian nation, the champions of the oppressed, when we allow the childhood of our future citizens to be poisoned at it very source by the lack of the essentials of life which are necessary to their proper growth and development? Are we asleep? Do we not realize that no country can be better than its people ' .... - |
