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Show FAMILY PRAYER IS ADVOCATED More Church Going Would Strengthen Home Life, Says Mrs. Sippel. By MABEL DUKE If family prayers, church-going and grace before meals could be made a part of modern family life, the greatest possible step would be taken toward bringing the American Amer-ican home back to the firm foundation founda-tion of unity and happiness which it formerly held. This is the opinion of Mrs. John F. Sippel, Baltimore, Md., president of the General Federation of Women's Wom-en's clubs, the largest organization of women in the world. "The acknowledgment and stressing stress-ing of the importance of religion in daily life is the thing which America lacks and needs today, declared Mrs. Sippel. "Now we have1 no family prayers, no church-going no teaching the children of Bible stories. Is there any wonder that we have' so many divorces and so little respect for the sacredness of home life? Have we the right to deny our children the uplifting influences in-fluences we had in our youth?" She's Grandmother Mrs. Sippel, a motherly-looking woman, is both a mother and a grandmother. She has one daughter daugh-ter who is also interested in club-work, club-work, and a 4-year-old grandson, who, she admits, is undisputed king of their home. The goal of Mrs. Sippel's administration admin-istration is the enrichment of community com-munity life through spiritual and cultural avenues and, as she pointed point-ed out, the life of. the community starts in the individual home. "America would do well to recognize recog-nize the big contribution which foreigners for-eigners bring to this country. Aliens posse'ss a reverence for their elders and an appreciation of good music and art which Americans would do well to emulate." |