Show STATE SHOUlD SHOW EH BE DAD TO FATHERLESS CHIlD Dr Di Short Maintains It Ought to Protect Defenceless y Youngsters It is the duty of the state to exercise exercise cx- cx ex ex- a a. fatherly rI caro care and consideration for tor th the tho fatherless child declared the theRe Re Rev F. F B. B Short in the thc course of ot his sermon at nt the First Methodist church last night I L 1 base that statement on the tho as assumption as- as S- S that the state continued he hc guarantees protection to tho the need needy Thero are aro none nono so need needy as ns the father father- fatherloss loss children It seems that tho the st state te owes this I protection for tor another anther reason When the malo male child reaches his 1113 majority tho the nation or tho the state may compel him to render service If It the tho state can cnn compel com corn pel service I maintain it is its duty t to stand sponsor for tor its children In the days of ot their minority Although arguing that tho the state should assume the dut duty of ot protecting the fatherless child Dr Short urged that the family unit be maintained The motherly Influence of or the mother In the home h he maintained gave children chil chil- children dren d development for useful citizenship citizenship citizen citizen- citizenship ship Impossible in the institution So long as the mother Is compelled to earn a livelihood ll for Cor herself herselt and children he argued she Rhe Is prevented from giving the utmost of that motherly mother mother- ly 1 direction that mal makes ell for better clU- clU For this reason he maintained that It is the duty of ot the state to tahe the Iho place phi of or the tho father tather where here fatherless children ren aro are concerned |