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Show Did You Ever Stop to Think By Edson R. Wait The attraction and distraction of life today are such that youth, however eager, is unable to keep up with them. In these circumstances, it is little wonder that literature, historical and biographical, is neglected for sensational, exhilarating and exciting rubbish. We must realize that today the Apple of Knowledge, good and evil, cannot always be withheld from the lips of our boys and ijirls Frr that reason an enurmo'is responsibility re-sponsibility is thrown accordingly upon parents, teach ers and churches. Much of society no longer collaborates collabor-ates with them in the protection of childhood. The work of the home and school must protect them. The modern child does not tip-toe into the sea of life, but seems to be thrown out of his depth in order that he may teach himself to swim. There is, we think, an old fashioned, yet sure, protection pro-tection for the child, and that is through the building of a sound character in childhood by parents teaching the example. |