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Show RECLAMATION OF THE HOME Governor Davis of Idaho emphasizes the need of reclamation reclama-tion in the home, and intimates home and church are losing their control. To overcome this national weakness he makes an appeal to parents to correct the ideas of wastefulness and extravagance begot by war. Family life must return to a sane and conservative basis and we must let up on raising children in idleness; whose idleness idle-ness may lead them into mischief. Fathers and mothers must spend more time with their own children instead of turning them over to schools, clubs and streets to raise. Habits of industry can only be acquired by boys and girls when parents work with them instead of giving them money to spend on pleasures. Honest labor and habits of saving will form more characters charac-ters than scolding, lecturing and passing laws to safeguard the young people. We have got to get beak to the principle that there is only one honest way to get money and have it to spend and that is by service rendered. Recdamation of the home must be founded upon industry, and all schemes to bring up young people to live without working work-ing are doomed to failure. The public schools must give more time to manual training, train-ing, teaching trades and occupational work instead of cramming textbooks and sharpening wits. An enduring constitution, good common sense and sound moral character are impossible without applied industry and earning before spending. |