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Show II What the Home Stands For By Judge George R. Stapleton of Oregon Supreme Court at Portland Realty Board Luncheon IM II At one ot the weekly lunrhfons of the Portland Realty board. Ceorge V. jM sirtpleton. Judge of the Circuit court of H l 'regon. presented an address on "The H Home. What It Should Stand For in ' fl ur Civilization." Somewhat nbrldK-; H rr. the address la as follows . precious voice of ihr fireside. H sweet spirit of eo im and cheer. )H 1 ho' the wild wind roars o'er the palh- H less waste. H What matters, so thou nit near." 'i'h voice ne'er stills tho' the years H 80 on. H When the palti r of falling rain H brtpi from' the eaves and Irembb-s H the leaves H And ratilfs the window pane. H Holy and sared ihc voice of home, H It steals to our hearts again. H There is something In-hind o.DX Civil-j H Izatlon. something upon which 't rests, H something that must sustain it. some thine without which It could not and H would not continue That something H Is the home. H c ordinarily, when poaking of the' H home, have In mind our place of H ahode. our dwelling place, our state H 01 the citv in which we live, the lo- calltv of our residence. I will ad-1 H drOM myself to the phase of the word I that has to do with the family rela - tion, with the relation which brings H men and women together and unites' H them in the sacred ties of marriage.! I thus laying the foundation upon which ' H our civilization rest IH Civilisation, like any oihor struc- H ture, like any other institution, rellR- H Sous or political, must have a proper U support, a proper foundation, proper H and sufficient pillars upon which to H rest or It will topple and fall. There - H fure in order to determine what the H future of our civilization is to be H shaky, transitory or permanent. we H must examine the foundation upon H which it Is built and upon which It H must rest. PILLARS l l ILIZ H W'o frequently hear It stated that the H four recognized pillars of our civllisa- H tion are the church. th school, th H home and the state li is true that H these are. as wc ordinarily refer to H them, the four pillars of our Clvlllaa- H tion. but to niv mind they are all con- H templated in the one word, the word H which describes that one Institution H from which all the others sprung. From the home sprung the Instltu- H tion. -which is today represented in our H modern school, then followed the state H rt presenting; society organized so as S to protect and preserve the growing H and advancing ideas and instruments H or civilization. H future of our civilization Is to be. H considered in the maintenance of our H civilization, but it came as the result H of organized society, and it contem- B plates an organization for religious S worship and religious teaching, but it H is an outgrowth of the home- As a pillar of our civilization, the 'home should bo sccorded the first I place, because it is from the hom that the risinp generation grasps its first instruction, its first lesson In all that Is involved In our who!.- religious and political life. It has been said that the home is the holy of holies of a man's life There he withdraws from all the world a,n3 shutting his door Is alone with those of his own it is the reservoir of Ills strength, the restorer of his en-rgips. en-rgips. tho resting place from his toil, the brooding place for his spirit, the Inspiration for ail his activities. Home Is when- lovs UveSi nOI where it hoards, nor pays an occasional visit, with familiar fa-miliar access to certain rooms and i oS corners, but where It owns tho front door key, Sits by the jrlow of a hearth fire or its own kindling, and pervades the whole house with its 1 nee It mn be a king's spacious, luxurious palace. It may be the poor man's narrow walled cotiage or any where between these two extremes. The place cannot make the home, nor vet mar it. The simplicity and spareness ot the cuttage do not bring the home, and neither can they hln-der hln-der It nor disturb it. There may be present the evidence of wealth and nit ure and of the sort of refinement thev can bring, and yet the place be not home. And there may be the absence ab-sence of all this, except that real refinement re-finement that love always breeds and vet there be a home 111 the sweet, strong meaning of the word. 1 experience has taught us that it is 'not the wealth of gold nor the pride iof position that make? the happv. eon-' eon-' tented and useful home, but thar we I more frequently find In the home of Ithp humble and reliable citizen these (things thai go to make up the homes I that serve as the pillars of civilization. civiliza-tion. SAAB WALTON'S IDEA. So strongly has this fact been impressed im-pressed upon me In thirty years Of the practice of my profession, that I cannot can-not but repeat a few of the lines from the ffrayer of the London shopkeeper, angler and author. Isaak Walton, j I crave, dear Lord. No boundless hoard If gold and gear, I Of jewels ftne. Nor lands, nor kin. Nor treasure heaps of anything, i Lai iut a little hut be mine Where at the hearthstone I may hear The cricket sing. And have the shine f one glarl woman's eyes to make. For my poor sak. our simple home and place divine Just the wif cot the crickets' chirr-Love, chirr-Love, und the smiling face of her- I Tray not for Jreat riches, nor Kor vn?t ostalex. nor castls halls I iJlve mo to hear the bare footfall Of children o'er An oal-n floor. New -rinsed with shine, or bespread With the tlnv coverlet And nlllovv for the baby's head; And prav thou, may The door stand open and 'he da) i Send ever In a Kentle breeze With fragrant e from the locust trees. And drowsy moan of dovss. and blur 'f robin' chirp nd drone of bSS With after-hush of the stir ( 'f intermlngllnif Kounds. and I hen The (lood wife and the smile Of her, , Killing the silence aguln It IU VI l I Hi m HOME. All life is Indebted to the home The begumlng of every honorable lnstltu-1 tion was In the home. Ever valued ! activity may trace its .source to tho I home. Here the eed of every bit and kind of human organization has first 'sprung into strong life. The church an S great means of car ivlng the religious teachings of the world to 'he tide of poStertt) that Is continually rolling vipon our civilization, civiliza-tion, mav readily he acknowledged, 'yet the first religious Idea that finds l Its wnv into the mind of the child comes from the home, from the first words of the watchful mother caught by the child's budding understanding, 'we hear. "Now 1 lay me down to ; sleep.'" Krom lis mother the child learns to turn Its thoughts to the father fa-ther of the universe for guidance, direction di-rection and security. The church, 'tis true undertakes 'o carr on In a larg-Si larg-Si way the work thus started In tho home. Again the father, as the head of the f.irnily. is the ocnter of law and authority, au-thority, and the family represents In 'a small vvav an organized gov eminent, em-inent, and here, the: child first learns i obedience to law and order, and whai ;law . and Us enforcement really means, and what follows in the law's i iolation The whole school system scheme began be-gan In the home, from the primary: grades uo to the university post-grad- I uate course. Hero the child learns fiom the blocks ornamented with let-iters let-iters and scattered upon the floor for lt amusement the meaning of the alphabet, al-phabet, that letters can be so combined com-bined as to form words, and thus to Kpress thoughts arid convey meaning Here from the books of fairy tales and pictures of the old woman In the shoe It acquires Its first inspiration to read, so as to be able tu pursue his tales f urther. The ambition thus formed leads on-j ward and upward from the home to the finishing schools and the world's broad field of experience all contributing contrib-uting Its parts to the man a or wom an s ure euueauon. HI !IIH Willi I li iv The incentive to intellectual re-3arch re-3arch and mental culture come to the Child through the little collection of books UDOn the manfe or tastily arranged ar-ranged in an ovcrdraped corner of the spare room. Here the child first found Its hls-torv hls-torv of Its native land and learned that Washington was the first in peace, first In war and first In the hearts of his countrymen, and that Lincoln fieed the slaves and was himself him-self the object of the assassin's bullet. The home library In the vears that have gone has been responsible for Lh lights that has directed the footsteps Of many a young man or woman in the struggles up the rough and rugged path through life The home Is llm pLatform from j which manv a youthful orator has; gathered hi? first suggestion of the power of words. Krom the firesides, where he hits learned to repejtt for the, entertainment of an admiring father, j and lor the edification of doting relation, re-lation, some oft-repe:'tcd verse of "Twinkle. Twinkle. Little Star," "The House That Jack Uuill" or something more pretentions, such as "A Hjorse.l a Horse M Kingdom for S Horse,'" he graduates into the neighborhood Home Literary society, and soon if is ringing words and overpowering elo-quenoe elo-quenoe Is hc:'.rd In the hulls of leglsla- ' Hon or from the soap-box In the public pub-lic square. The earliest hospital WSJ In the home, and 11 was and is there where the tender nursing of the mother. ' guided by the mlnls.tr) of brain and hand, an accomplished, and the organized or-ganized service ultimately found ex- ' presslon in the up-to-date hospital i t TORY w Ol TGROWTH. The modern factory is but the out- growth o the home shop. It was while the father and son worked to- 1 gether over the home forge that the Idea which resulted In ihe trip ham-mej ham-mej and the power-driven drill and the turning lathe was developed. It was while the father and son sat upon the bench and fashioned into shape the shoes for a large family that the machine to turn them out In quan-titles quan-titles was Incubated The army and navy, that great force I organized and maintained at public expense for our home defense, is but I the enlargement of the equipment J kept constant!) by hand by the fathei and his Stalwart sons for Ihe protec-1 tion of their home, either Inland or down by the sea from thu enemy; and the home guard for the commun-i'-. whs but a step toward the forma-' tion of the larger organisation w hich i bai followed. The old home circle, with a few! choice friends fiom a distance in for; the quilting, the barn razing, the hog killing, or even for Just an old-fash-1 ioned visit, was the germ from which ' has sprung so many social and frater- ' nal organizations. The home has been the source of all ' advancement, and may Justly be term- I ill the main pillar of our civilization ' Will It continue to play as important . part in the future of our civilization civiliza-tion as it has In Its past? The home. If properly organized ! and regulated. Is the bulwark of our freedom; from It must come the men and women on Whose shoulders will ' rest the responsibility of the future, it the home Is right, the children of; that home will be right, then the men j and women from the famllv and home: will be right. The home Is 'he great; character builder of the rising generation |