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Show THE TREND TOWARDS PATERNALISM For a full half century the states have been surrendering their rights to the federal government. In turn cities, towns and township town-ship have been yielding their powers to the states and to Washington. Washing-ton. In turn the home also has adbicated its duties and responsibilities responsibili-ties to units of government. Government, as well as the responsibility for good government has been getting farther and farther away from the home, the family and the individual. Parents have shifted their obligations to schools, church, juvenile courts and the machinery of bureaucracy. The home, the community and the state have' all been losing much of (heir ancient "self-reliance and slf-respect. Paternalism has woven itself into the very web of national life. Does an idustry get into straits? It demands a federal subsidy. Is a community troubled by" lawlessness? It runs hotfoot: for help to its state capital or to Washington. Do crimes increase? There is a clamoij for more lav. Does a parent hava difficulty with, a child? The tendency is to put the blame on social) conditions and throw the burden on the school, the church or the juvenile court. New York Evening Post. |