Gunnison Valley News | 1928-02-16 | Page 7 | Child Seldom will be Found Better than Home from Which it Came

Child Seldom Will Be Found Better Than Home From Which It Came By DR. ALBERT PARKER FITCH, New York (Presbyterian). The human race as far back as Plato has been trying to find a substitute sub-stitute for the home so we won't have to he bothered with the annoyance and care of children, but no one has ever succeeded. Fathers and mothers moth-ers represent Hod to the child, who says nothing and sees so much, and in my 18 years of teaching undergraduate boys and girls I have come to know that you can expect the child to be just what the home was from which that child came. There are two ways of loving your children. One is in the creative way, which sees in them the coming man or woman that should be fine and great, and the other is the lazy and indulgent fondness which a cat will give to her kitten. This kind of love makes a milksop of the boy and a shallow, inefficient woman. If the parents never talk about God, read the tabloid newspaper and cheap literature, the boys and girls will never learn the supreme value of life. They will not get it anywhere if they don't get it in the home.