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Show 1 ' , A . THE DESERET NEWS, SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1940 ' : 1 , , . . ,. ..., . , . , , -- . Ilinionlmilimilli , Church Department , I n . . . - here also the cure applied is in some respects worse than the disease. 1'6r passing by the threatened Ill of the potential religious, moral, and political infectuous, character of such con-centration camps, which may not be ignored, such Camps have this added ill; they take the youth at Ms most impressionable age, and accustimn him to the idea that the government is tci give him both a living and amuse- ment, which idea soon ripens into the belief that the iovernment owes him both. Nothing can be more destructive of loyal citizenship as we have pictured it, than'a government-ownecitizenry, which makes a mockery of the free ballot, and digs the grave of liberty. Surely here is Scouting's opportunity not only, but DA task, its problem, and its responsibility also. Scouting must reach after some way of so mobilizing its effort aria forces as measurably to take the place of these concentration Camps. nice if Is to walk upright,she breaks a bone when we fall; nor does she tell us to avoid the fire, merely by urging the loveliness- - of an unscorched skin she maims and disfigures us with stove; scars when we touch the red-ho- t nor, does she instruct that humans cannot water, just by telling how cool and refreshing is the morn-t- o ing air,she drowns us when we only. such powers as the people stow upon them and no more, all the residuum of power remaining and 're- ' I misunderstood. to be not I wish siding in the people. We believe in a stand equal be- am not a Pacifist, a all where government man. I know there are worse things fore the law, with no legally recog- than war.' I know that freedom of nized class or group or special inter- ionscience is worth more than 41i le, est. We believe in a government with that slavery Is worse than death; and no legalli exercised official favoritism or oppres'sion of any man or group that human liberty is ivorth all it bas has its and always or price interesta government by laws and breathe water into the lungs. So on tvercpst, - - been sorrow, suffering, and death. not by men. We believe in a govern- - occasion we may well tell what will When these are at stake, every citizen, ment where certain great, fundament- - happen if the law is broken, as well must stand ready to give his all, even' al human rights are, by most solemn as what will come if the law is kept to life itself,..dthis shall be required; compact, placed beyond the 'reach of This is the point of ,view .1 will give ' "give it willingly as his gift to his government, rights that government- tonight ' can reach only by dictatorial usurpaIDLENESS country and to humanity. ' But I an not a purveyor of hate, tion. We believe in a government that , Of the partichlar evils I have In I love youth declares and makes men freefree to mind I will name first the curse of I am not a live and would speak, write, and act as they wish, idleness. An idle citizenry begets a would let it so much I den help to lead it so to live that it subject always to the exercise of like corrupt nation. By the old saw, by others, free to acquire, hold, T- ness is the devil's workshop," a would, gain eternal life. and dispose of property, free tO shop that is open LET WAR MONGERS FIGHT THE day and night, and exercise the "inalienable rights of life, that pays double time and great boWAR liberty, and the pursuit of happiness;" nuses for overtime; Youth must be I on Ihis. supOne finalbthought and above and beyond all, free, each, taught that work is the norm of this pose I ought not to feel this'way, but to ALCOHOLISM worship God according to the dic- - life, so decreed in the beginning, sometimes it does come into my heart tates I come now to the third of the of We his believe in when God commanded Adam, "In the not our real , to wish that if a ,war, evils I would name to a of free men. no is free There society sweat of thy face shalt thou eat youI mean Ooncerr shall come to us, we might and especially, because in our whethIntemperance, for place slaves, society bread." . (Gen. 3:19) see those who urge and vote vs into it, li kis most commonualcoholism-- 1 shall bigotry,--town sons and their er be brought not it mu,st standing witfi-theFurthermore, aliin forto or attempt to draw a picture .of the to fanaticism; dogmas, own grandsons beside them, &it in th6 home to youth, that honest toil on the his home, his family. The drunkard, and ambitions. eign designs front ranks to meet the first onrush farm, in the mines, and in the shop, is pen and brush of masters have done Loyal citizenship demands alle- as honorable, as useful to mankind, of the enemy, thus enheartening by this for too comis It the generations. to each of and these prin- and on the over-al- l every their honesty of pufpose, their loyal giance of average as re mon actual scene in our cities and vilNo one of them ciples government. their sacrifice, those of us who munerative as work in the stores or in lages. Too often our youth seem prefrom .one consideration or another Is unimportant; all must be included. the professions. Society cannot main-destined to be the unenvironment by Such come can 6nly from allegiance tam n itself on white collar Jobs alone. lless and other than a desire for war) knowing, of this victims unguarded, devoted Someone must plant and reap, if we would follow in behind. If this plan sturdy, upright, which evil, in its consuming brings the of characcitizenry very highest to march. are to eat; others must mine, if we are wake could be, we should be slow and crime, dishonorable disease, and -- - to be warn; and others must build, if prob1ty Years ago when I was in Mexico, ter, industry death to the drunkard, and shame and ' we are to have shelter. scouTING98 OPPORTUNITY with Ambassador Morrow, a man disgrace to the innocent family. We came to the Embassy claiming Mexico Out of the wisdom of the ages Moreover, work is a habit that all admit these., things when exhibited ( had despoiled him of his property, and comes the dictum: 'Train up a child should come early to youth. The boy In their hideous nakedness;. but when Insistently declaring that, Mexico re- in the way hesbould go: and when - who does not work until he is grown they come in their nakedness, it Is to make him whole, it was the he is old, he will not depart from it." will too often be an idler all his life. ' fusing usually too late either for reform or an to send our Government of duty (Piov. 22.6). Thus, Scouting's oppor- Idle citizens are the cdntaminated foci for preventhin. Yet stop this 7 plague army Into Mexico to restore his goods tunity flows so wide, its responsibill- - from which spread infection to the we must. Govern; to him. 'Argument that our ty delves so deep, that it must build whole people. Idle citizens are the I trust, Brethren in a common ment could not and did not guarantee into the mind and heart of the youth germ carriers of all the sapping social, will pardon a few - its citizens' investments either at-- - of America every one of the great economic, and political diseases that cause, that you from me, of observations More blunt home or abroad, left him unmoved. principles of government we have now threaten America. Will a kind that stamp me probably can all I I said him: to "Well, homed. These fundamentals should Finally CHILD LABOR either as a fanatic or an impractical say is, I hope that when our army. be worked into your Scout instruction, Again I wish not to be misunderdreamer, or both, or perhaps an old crosses the international bridge to be given large place in your manuals; dood: I am wholly against what is fogy. But so be it , come down here to restore your propperhaps have a more promihent place usually called which I I recur to what I have already said by will sons in be and your erty, you in your forms and rituals. Do not, I in sweat shops regarding the power of our example, the first rank that crosses the border, earnestly ask you, slight this because mean placing children work- dwarfs and factories. This for, I repeat again, we who hold a in rank will that remain and that you some, misguided or' and spirit; it makes hu- fiduciary relation to youth, must till your property is reached, so you Oliens or treason :teaching citizens body, mind, man wrecks; it degrades citizenship; actually live the lives 'we would call can be right on the spot and be cer- - - shall cry out that these principles are - It is inhuman. Looking at the whole tam n to get it." youth to live. We shalfnof meet our He- replied with an debatable. as be it great may nearly body politic, duty if we do not, for youth will not oath: "I don't want my sons fighting So will come loyal citizenship, o idleness. as a curse hearken to a sinning man crying reIn Mexico on any account.". To which every fundamental precept of our But we are not forced to this al- pentance. On that principle I am I answered: ''Then we need talk no government, so insuring its preservaternative, for families and communiobliged to say we cannot be moderate more about bringing my son down, tion; loyal to our achievements in the ties can find proper work for children drinkers, we cannot take our cocktails, and other men's- sons down, to fight arts and sciences, so our to do, if there be a will to do so, work nor our dinner wines, nor our beer, perpetuating wealth." for your culture and civilization; loyal to our which will strengthen the body, build if we shall expect youth to live by LOYAL CITIZENSHIP ideals, so making secure-ocDaracter, give growth to the mind, our precepts: I do not deny that Coming back to the temple of loyal standards of life and living: loyal. to the spirit. many men may drink moderately and citizenship, I should like to name and our concept of the 'rights of min, so GOVERNMENT SUPERVISION OF stop; I do no deny that other men say something about a few of the guaranteeing that liberty shall continmay have liquor in their homes and YOUTH things that undermine the whole ue her abode amongst us; loyal to our still have their children keep their But we must be on guard against structure, otherwise build it how you country as a whole, that'll may live liquor appetites under. control. B:ut unlawful make will it upon the earth to the blessing of all Any plan which I do deny that we leaders of youth for children to work under proper When one speaks of loyal citizen- humanity.. : can tamper with liquor, either hi puband that would place in the ship, one of necessity frames in his these devoutly to be conditions,the Federal Government the lic or private, and still preserve the But reaching mind the kind 'bf nation to which the wished ends will not come by their hands of of our Influence and exercise the directive loyal citizen belongs. 'Laying aside mere 'statement. Opportunity is not task and the right to take care control that we have gratuitously what other peoples in other lands may so easily embraced, nor retonsibility children's leisure time. Our govern - taken on and 'are supposed to have, instituand free ment with its liberty think or desire, we here believe in and so. easily ',discharged. There are na tions will not long survive a govern- - over the youth of America. Ab ' wish for a Republic, administered by tionwide our of out evils to be swept stinence is not for you onlypot for elected representatives of the people, lives, before we shall finally achieve:- ment trained and supervised youth. - the other fellow is for me modernonlyit and of ancient deriving their just powers, from the Each evil I shall mention Is under The experience 111 I and little also. can with grace this. Such a consent of the governed. We believe Scoutirik's.lAn. them merely. nations amply prOves of likelihood ask the other it, getting Iiepeat in a Federal State, sovereign in its for youth can be a revolutionary machine. man to a restraint that I am emphasis. - practice we and most of the the component perfect precision, with each-o- f , not willing to impose upon myself. ILLS VERSUS BLESSINGS are already started along the way: states sovereign in its sphere. We trustee-suct. DRUGS, ' lieve In a Constitutional form of govi';', 'Mut I shall say on the matters Some who premote arid still 'further, If I our trespass I might It mind in schemes govhave that will be open to the criticism that ernment that recognizes three branch-- -I would in all I again not survive. ernment shall that execuon sayand the side, negativees of government, legislative, speak n of the , inday is not Of a kind with this scheme is that feelingthat tive, and judicial, each completely in-- point out the ills of wrong living It distant when far Fed-rec9gnized our into of takes Youth great tight Hyingdependent of the others in its own stead of the blessing Sitne-Th- u thatthese principles al I the !ding ! for concentratiOncArritAeral a, her,e,,AvIlich grant, la point, SPhere, ancLeach Carrying3Dutitsown-Lsmust- be applied faille use of all habit functions without encroachment or in- But née in a while it is well to look leged purpose. pf giving Them work on the plea that this Is better than idle- - forming drugs, no matter what they ' at the ills as well as the blessings. timidation from any other.. We Nature does nOt teach the law of ness. Work Is better than idleness; are, or in what dilution they Are used. in a government where the gov(05nt1lued on Page Six) erning group, Federal and State, has gravity solely by pointing out how all human experience proves this. tut - I , Q pportunity .. , , , ---- sc , . 4 . - be-- (Continued from Page One.) NOT A PACIFIST peace-at-any-pric- e bi-eat- , - d ,, - war-monge- r. 4 "Idle-righ- ts work-enjo- y, -- - - I - e. cons-Cienc- - - slaves-to-passion- o i-to- - - d ty,-an- a self-relian- t, - - tt- , 1 -- , -- - child-labo- r; - treason-sowin- , g - , by-alt- , 4 , nr lop and-deve- . - - - -- ' HABIT-FORMIN- h' - - -- - - - be--lle- - |
