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Show 777" ', -,..," "1' "' The Duty of The, State. A priceless heritage which we can leave- the world is a race of decent young men and young women, schooled in ways of proper living and zealous in endeavors to enrich life by obtaining power over material things with which they are surrounded. To the church has been ascribed the duty of teaching morailty and to the state, the task of instructing along the lines of education and industry, hut the boy is the same boy everywhere every-where and the girl is natural at church, in school, or at work. All teacing must be natural whether given by church or state. Two of the supreme duties of the state are: 1. Tho teach persons to be better and 2, To teach people how to make a living. In tho teaching of people to be better as well as in teaching them to make a living, the home probably plays the greatest part and, therefore, there-fore, becomes the center of the nation's greatest social problems. A place where virtue and industry in-dustry are held sacred and indispensable, is a sanctuary where noble parenthood will be fostered and enterprising citzenship will be assured. In it "safeguards will be thrown about virtue and the spriogs of lifefwillbo kepU pure' If it has taught lessons of saricfice, of proper thought and action, of giving and sharing, of patriutism, of cleanliness and social purity, of gratitude and reverence, and of thrift, it will be, to thechidlren reared there, a shrine to which they may return for joy and inspiration. We should not forget that, among thesd lessons, thrift- must 'play its part. Eighty years ago the boys and girls in American homes were more familiar with the elements ele-ments of trade than are the children of today. "They shared their parents' anxieties, work and pleasure," Bays Forbush, "and gradually, before they were of age, became familiar with financial transactions, and became actual owners of live stock and tools. They were ready upon maturity to marry, conduct households, and take ip new farms of their own. Or they were fitted, in resource re-source and faculty, to learn trades easily or manage man-age buisness, and were mentally alert and physically physic-ally strong to prepare rapidly for college and, as was usually necessary, to work their way through. So satisfactory and efficient was the simple training train-ing of life that we have been in the habit of expecting ex-pecting that the biographies of our national leaders lead-ers shall open with a picture of a log cabin." The home is still the greatest unite in civilization and its aims and purposes should ever be strengthened and re-enforced. Home building and home making mak-ing should bo so encourged and taught that young men, not alone of the country but of the city should have the laudable ambition to become owners own-ers of property in order that they may realize some of the economic joys and possessions." Selected. |