The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, October 26, 1923 Page: 2 of 8
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. ud ait to mr a Mr? Then 4o we
rwBn that «• mint shirk a task
. thss la mm it 'wm whk ssphadsahly
t ad imptaW; rakf oar children ?
0|l we knew that the l-Aetnhir of
oar school depends entirely upon oar
fellowship? What are wo With the
mother poorer dome about thia Mow-
ship? are we patting one bit of time,
individuality or ms thought into just
how w* can promote this gaad fellow-
ship? Are we teaching oar children
that oar teachers are bring, loving
ho man b«jnga that an trying as best
they can to help them solve these
many perplexing questions in the most
effective way? Are we doing every-
thing we can to inspire confidence and
love in oar children toward their
teachers, which would prove such a
oughty factor in their daily life and
work ?
If not, in the very beginning we have
weakened that mother power to the
extent that it will be felt in our own
home among our own children.
Do we give our teachers undivided
and that peculiar sympathy when
these little brawls come up in the
school room, caused from lack of early
training in some home? Do we tell
our teachers how much we appreciate
their efforts when our children are
‘doing nntisually good work?
Do we tell them to call upon os at
all times—we are ready to serve?
Then, sometimes, when we are bowed
down with cares and anxieties,.and in
the silent watches of the night as we
go to that never failing throne of
Grace for comfort and strength, do
we ask that grace and comfort to
enfold our teachers? If not, again
-MOTHER POWER”
When the Great God of Heaven and
earth entrusted to woman the youth
at the hai l wonder if aha fully ap-
preciated the gift, or hex she, even
today, fully realized the grave respon-
sibilities that are hers—rearing and
fitting a young life for the sterner
realities—training and saving a hu-
man tool that lives on thru eternity.
If we as mothers do realize the
great responsibilities that are ours,
aiul see the mar.y appalling things that
confront youth today, the many snares
*t* for innocent unsuspecting feet,
how we must crave the wisdom of
Eunice and Lois, who builded a Chris-
tian foundation for Timothy in the
days of his grandmother.
Oar character building mast begin
in infancy if we wish a perfect struc-
ture. Catholics tell us “Let me hare
your children at birth and until seven
years of age, you may have them
back, place them where you will, they
will still be Catholics.” So this moth-
er power must be exercised in the
early, tender yean—constructing a
budding fitly put together, placed on a
solid foundation. To do this we must
write upon our cornerstone the name
of Jesus. Write it with a firm hand,
and with indelible ink thnt the wear-
ing of time cannot efface. Then as the
years come, rear them under the in-
fluence of Sunday School and church
life, for these are the first and only
safeguarda along the way. And we as
mothers, with all the love and power
that we posses, must see that they
have this needed early training—for
the storms of life are. juat as surely to
come to yours and mine as they have
ami will to all mankind.
The hope of the world today lies not
in the laws of our nation, for how de-
fective are they, but in the cradles of
our narion-—not in parliamentary rules
but in our high schools. Then, these
are the mother problems, trying to
rear and educate our youth' for the
life that is out before them and trying j
to keep them fit by the safety barriers
we place around them.
When we initiate them into the f
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save innocence and modesty of char-■ And, man looked on and was proud woa!
acter, purity of soul and mind. And —proud that woman had broken her good
that anything save this simpler dress, shackles and stood no longer as the j worl
this modesty, robs youth of its beauty “clinging vine” type, but » woman j As
and of even youth itself. That this is that was big enough and intelligent wait
the golden hour for arraying the mind enough to walk by his side as comrade er v
with its jewels of truth and know!- ar.d companion, and help him carry to a
edge that veil lbe a never ending source life’s responsibilities, ar.d upon whom j balle
of pleasure and profit in the years to : even he eouid sometime lean. her !
come. But that was yesterday. Today, we one
When we look about us and see this set that woman of whom we expected pass'
great new world, made so by its many so much going back to her knitting— “Yes
thousands of new inventions backed laying aside this blood-bought free- and
by brain and brawn, and then see just | dom and the bigger issues of life as up t
in the distance the great, man-mad carelessly and lightly as a child lays am j
throng jostling, pushing, almost fight- aside the toys of which he has become safe
ing for the top, we can ohly partially ; tired. And, as a result, women’s votes So
realize the great need of the hour, in cities were hardly worth the count- beau
And we cannot even dream of what! ing, while in vilalges such as ours we honu
the next twenty or thirty years hold ' hardly blacked the ticket. What were lings
in store for our boys and girls—we! the results? We saw men go into life t
cannot know the great demands that office, put there by scheme and brib-; ities
are to be made of them. But this one cry; we saw men go into office that j ery I
thing we do know, this is no age for j the night of the election were reveling I tryin
rearing the flapper or the jelly bean— j in such drunkenness that they knew I our
such weaklings must go down like nothing of the returns until the fol- with
dead driftwood before the storm, and lowing morning; we saw men go into ticke
their names will be unhonored and office who stood directly behind these yond
unsung. rum dealers and bootleggers, and to- boys
This is our work, our responsibility, day this “curse of the Nation” flows her ‘
and unless our training be thorough, as freely in our peaceful valley as the On
deep enough, broad enough, our child- waters of the old Bosque. And if it these
ren will be incompetent and incapable were possible for us to penetrate into cradl
of dealing with the National affairs the future we might hear some of our sin t<
that our teachers were not respon- j forma tone*—how many less almost
sible for these little lives being here? babies in years are arraigned before
Had we stopped to think and to know juvenile courts—we should indeed be
proud of Clifton, proud of her efforts
— arMj htr victories.
We, with this great mother power
; and interest, should not be con-
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Thousands are
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grounds.
flows from their veins.
I am so glad that that we have lived
away from that age when the old
“moss-back,” with his talons like an
octopus, would take our ministers by
the throat and! after trying to squeeze
the last bit of free manhood from
them, tell them that “you can’t mix
politics and religion.” I thank God
for msnister* who are rtd blooded
enough to assert their free American
manhood, as one living under a free
flag and in a free country, and who
will dare to mix *' little religion mta
Politics. For the fate of youth de-
pends upon faithful men and Christian
mother, who must elect dean, Chris-
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Baldridge, Robert L. The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, October 26, 1923, newspaper, October 26, 1923; Clifton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth775575/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Nellie Pederson Civic Library.