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Show DR. VANCE'S DAILY ARTICLE ! By DJL JA3IES I. VANCE. Founder of Intcr-Church. .World Movement nnd Chnlrmnn, Federal Fed-eral Council of Churches or America. Child-lifo is freer than it used to Uc. Is it too froo? Wo hoar much of allowing al-lowing personality to develop untrammelled. untram-melled. By this it in! usually meruit that anything llko a norlou. efforUon tho part of parents to control jholr children in both unscientific and unethical. un-ethical. ' Tho result Is a generation rentlvo of any kind of restraint, deciding moral Ihhucs according to tho whim of tho momont, and respecting 1 iw only when It happens not to intorforo with poraonal liberty Ih It to bo wondorod .at that we have outbreaks of lawlessness? They are not accidental. They are. produced produc-ed by an adequato cause. 'J 'hoy hark back to a condition of anarchy In the home. If people are not taught obedience obe-dience in childhood, thy are not likely like-ly to acquire it after life. If rea-pect rea-pect for authority is not ingrained durlnsr the formative period f Ilfo. it will have lltt'.e cha.ce whon tht dls- r position has hardened It&oli against new Impressions. To be of vn'n., a col: must bo brok-on brok-on to harness on it Is not likely to bo worth much to society. To make good citizens ypu must aturc with babies. It in not more nooplo tho wot Id nejods. hut pooDlo who nun practlco self-control, and treat their neighbors deqontly. It this kind of population Is'pruducol motherhood imu.t inki rt-hand rt-hand In training up tho 'iilld 1m tho way it sh uM go. r'aipntal responsibility Ins bocomo a 'Joko. Parents have lUtle control over their children toduv, -It is not parental authority, buz parental servility, ser-vility, that in found in many a home. Slmai has been revised. Instead Of Honor thy father and thy mother .that thy days may bo lonjr upon the land which tho Lord thy God givcth thee." I it la "Parents, bo careful not to cro."s your children, lest they make it hot for you when their wrath -In kindled but a little." : No one is fit to rule who has not learned to obey, A home In which children disobey their parents is a "poor school In which to educate the futuro citizens of this nation. |