Show Prevailing Opinions Opinions' I- I Comment of the iho American Press J n The Tho American Home Heme The plea pica for tor or greater l home lome ome solidarity made by Dr Josephine L. L pierce Pierce in a Womans Woman's Department Department Depart Depart- ment club address is characteristic tic tlc of many now being heard She like many others giving attention to tho the problem is ia concerned and perhaps somewhat alarmed about what is being done to disrupt tho the home She is of at the group that believes that the family should be preserved as a unit and that the home Is the natural and perhaps inevitable product of family solidarity But outside interests are at work to pull FUU the family apart and the effect of these sundering sundering sundering sun sun- dering forces force is to divest dives the home of some of the affection and loyalty necessary to its well being Tho The current tendency of government government gov gov- is to destroy the home It is b not an avowed and deliberately deliberately deliberately directed movement but its effect could hardly be more moro pronounced pronounced pronounced pro pro- if It It were carried out as os asa asa a fixed policy In most cities the child soon feels tho the pull of forces force outside tho the home Its health is a matter of ot government attention almost from the hour of at its birth It is hardly out of the the toddling age before it Is attracted to public public pub pub- lic lie playgrounds by public em em- making a vocation of di directing directing directing di- di the play of children Tho The school soon Boon claims it and after it itis itis itis is a few years older the school plan of working all day ay and getting lessons in the evening not only tends to break down tho ef efforts efforts efforts ef- ef forts of parents to preserve the solid solidarity rity of the home but forces them to enlist on its side In order that tho the educational nal experience ex ex- ex- ex perie co ma may be enriched In rec recent nt years tho the federal and state governments have made mado in inroads inroads inroads in- in roads on parental authority and andr r responsibility At the same time Improvements in transportation and communication have brought into common use devic devi devices s that lure Jure youth from the home The federal feder l. l government now seeks to assume through its childrens children's bureau and its ar drive ve for adoption of the tho amendment empowering it to reg reg- ulato or prohibit the employment of all aU children under 18 years of age to take tako more control of the tho young At the same time n numerous u m o 0 r 0 u 5 organizations feel called upon to assume that they can do more than parents can do doto doto doto to help their children to a n. moro more usef useful l life All these diversions of interest from the homo home lack tho the element of affection and de devotion devotion devotion de- de necessary to the best home life and a union of church and family seems to be the be best it protection protection protection pro pro- against them Indianapolis lis us News Stanley B Baldwins Baldwin's W Warning The speech Premier Premi r Stanle Stanley Baldwin delivered d last Jast last week end was addressed directly to local conservatives in his own con constituency ox ri but it concerns the entire en- en tire tiro elv civilized world Not often does the responsible head of a great power speak moro more plainly or directly about war in advance of the event than Mr B Baldwin did when he said manifestly manifestly mani mani- with the methods of ot the Italians in Ethiopia in mind If It that horror ever breaks upon this world again if there is another nother great war there will be beno beno beno no limited liability about it for foran an any party that goes into it It will vill be bo every man woman and child in Jn the country That mat would be more than ever certain if the nations of Europe went back on their word and signature and arid used poison gases gases' In In Europe I r believe that that- if it such a thing were done w when en that war was ended th the raging p of or ore e every ery countr country torn lorn with with- passion suffering and horror would wipe out ever every government in Europe and you would have a state anarchy anarchy anarchy an an- archy from end to end of or it as asman's asman's asman's mans man's protest against wickedness in high places Although Mr Baldwin used the conditional mood in speaking it is clear ho he was visualizing something some some- thing he considers much more than a mere possibility He was speaking of ot a catastrophe catastrophe phe he believes all but inevitable once the war trumpets are sounded and ho he bases his belief on an Intimate knowledge of ot the character temper and plans of the governments of at Europe For Stanley Baldwin is la neither a sensationalist nor an alarmist and it is inconceivable that ho he would have spoken as he lie did on any small provocation Recollecting this the premiers premier's declaration that Chancellor Hitler Hitler Hit Hit- ler has it in his power at this moment to lift the sha shadow ow of fear from Europe more than any other ther therman man be becomes omes doubly a challenge challenge chal chal- lenge to the ruler in Be Berlin lIn It is an assertion that the future future future fu fu- fu- fu ture of f modern civilization Is within tho the control of at Hitler HiUer It Is Isan Isan Isan an appeal to him in the name of ot that civilization and it i is b backed by bl a pledge that Great Britain will support him in any effort for lor peace he hI makes The Tho League of Nations has gone by the board But that these two countries Great Britain and Germany Germany Ger Ger- many can maintain the peace and save the modern world from wreck it if they will stand together is almost certain Detroit Free Press |