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Show I HARDING ASKS i " MOTHERS' HELP Revival of Reliciioiis I raining in Homes Urged by President-elect MARION, O., Dec. 16 Amerlcun mothers were nuked by TYcsldent-olect TYcsldent-olect Harding Wednesday to give to school officials and other public acr-v;inL: acr-v;inL: a full measure Of ooperatlon I in tho educational, religious and physical physi-cal training of obildren. Speaking before a state meeting of the Child Conservation h-agur Mi'. Harding declared it the duty of motherhood moth-erhood to keep th old lime home spirit olive in apito of the growing tendency to entrust the Instruction of the child almost wholly to public ln-I ln-I sti tutlons. He made a particular pies that religious training be k pi within Lhe province nf the hearth, ind voiced r a hope for revival of religious reverence rever-ence in the trying times ahead, l YV DEPARTM1 NT N PED. The president-elect alio asked that ihe public welfare agencies of the na-I na-I Hon he kept democratic and expressed disapproval of the practice of the rich I in withdrawing their children trom tho public schools and entering them in private institutions lie reaffirmed his hope that groat good would be accomplished ac-complished by the o" v public welfare department to be proposed by hla administration ad-ministration and said he had found sentiment In and out of congress strongly supporting the plan. In his address Senator Harding f said: "In my address to women voters lust October first. I spoke of my desire that there shall be created in our go -eminent a department of public welfare. wel-fare. It Is With some satisfaction that I am now able to say to you thai since lU the election I have had opportunity to discuss that proposal with a number num-ber of leaders of liberal public thought. In and out of congress, with reference to crystallizing it into logls-' logls-' latiyc accomplishment, and have found them eagt r to help in the constructive con-structive task. MOVE LONG CEDED. "Its accomplishment will tardily place our government on something like an equal footing. In recognition of this set of problems, with govern-I i ments which have lopg maintained I ministries of education represented in their ca 1 dm : 1 While m y own 1 leal , envisages a broader scope for the new department, kIviuk it concern, with many other phases of human w Ifare, It Is Interesting 10 know that its creation will for the first time place great work on a phase of dignity comparable to that given it In many other countries. "Whether we may esteem It wiso or unwist tiio modern mother must realise real-ise that society disposes more. Jind more tp lake from her control the training, the Intellectual direction and tin spiritual guidance of her chii-! chii-! dren We niay well plead with the mothers to make the mo!, for good of the lessened opportunity they possess for molding the lives and minds of their children. Through such cooper-aflVe cooper-aflVe effort as this, it seems U m-. there Is opportunity for S great service. serv-ice. Heroin Is presented the opportunity oppor-tunity to lift up i!, poorer and the Nv-.-i r.iitnna!.- i,i higher level DEMOCRACY IN SCHOOIA "Th- mother who Inderatlgably I seeks to train her own children rightly I win bo performing t h is service not! only for her own children, but fori those from other homes not so richly blessed with the finer things of life. I confess to no great satisfaction in ' the good fortune of those families, i which, when they become sufficiently well to do, like to take their children away from the public schools and give them the doubtful advantage of htore exclusive educational procosse-s I like the democracy of the corrunu- I nlty school and. Indeed. J would like,' to seo a greater measure of it enforced en-forced In the public Bchools by the. elimination of ihoo evidences of ex- ' travaganco in dress and social Indul- ment of something like caste Within our democracy. RE1 IGIOl - Si 'IRIT DYING. "On the side of the teacher and the responsible authorities back of her, j Du re mu.v i(. the saine ready dlspo-1 sition to cooperate with the home and ' tho mother. Our public school system leaves to the homo and Its influence j the great duty of Instilling Into the child those fundamenttal concepts of' religion which are so essential In shaping' the character of individual cltlsens and. therefore, of the nation. ! That duty remains to be performed at I the fcrearthslde, and will always be peculiarly prerogative of the mother. I I could wish, indeed, that our nation might have ;i reytVSJ of religious spirit along thee lines. There never was a! time when the world stood in more need than It does now, of the con- eolations and reassurances which only' a firm religious faith can have It is' a time of uncertainty, of Weakened faith In the efficiency of institution-, of industrial systems, of economic hypotheses, hy-potheses, of dictum and ilogma. What-ever What-ever our realm, let not our engrossment engross-ment with those things which are concerned con-cerned merely with matter and minrl distract us from proper attention those which are of the spirit und of t lis soul. M i l l R 1 VDERN1 l RIBHMEN I "it has been demonstrated t,, ;ist":.-ishlnt, ;ist":.-ishlnt, and alarndng ecrtulnty thnt a large proportion of school children and even of adults suffer from under-nourishment. under-nourishment. Perhaps in the cose of most adults, the fault is of the lodl- I vidunl rather than society. N )th chil-l dren. however, H Is otherwise, ir so- f clety has permitted the development I pf a sywlem under which t,he citizens! of tomorrow suffer real privation to-1 day, then the obligation is upon so-eletj so-eletj to right thut wrong, to Insure 1 some measure of Justice to the chil- I dren, who are not responsible for be- ! ing here. I am not of those who believe leg- ' isl 'ion can find panaceas for all) Ills, but on the other hand I am not of th.osc who fear to undertake 't hrough legislation tho formula 1 1c n of new programs. "I firmly believe that our country,! along with others that claim to share! n tho world s leadership', has lately I achieved one victory in behalf of ui better understanding and more Intel-llgent Intel-llgent graup of thefe problems 1 - j fer to the bestowal upon women of. full participation in the privileges : nd 1 obligations of citizenship. With her large part wider Influence In the world of affairs, I think we shall see women and her finer spiritual Instincts at length leading mankind to higher planes Of religion of humanism and of ennobling spirituality. Healthful mothers amid fit conditions condi-tions for maternity, healthful, abundantly abun-dantly nourished hildren, amid fj ooQditlons for development mental and physically all made certain b the generation of today In Its concern con-cern for tomorrow will guarante. citizenship from the soli of America which will be the guarantee of An,. 1 lean security and the American ful- 1 f illment." |