The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 3, 1940, Page 5

[ i Best Wishes to the Legitm JAMES C. COOPER, C. P. A. COMPLETE FEDERAL TAX SERVICE AUDITS — SYSTEMS Juneaun Alaska To The AMERICAN LEGION and its AUXILIARY WE EXTEND GREETINGS and BEST WISHES DURING YOUR 1940 TERRITORIAL CONVENTION FLOWERS For Every Occasion Corsages Bouquets Potted Plants | We Invite All Legionnaires to See | Our New Greenhouses Juneau Florists Telephene 311 311 Seward St. ooy | WE SERVE AS THE LEGION SERVED! Rights of Children Must Be Guarded in;Emgrg_gncy With the national realization' the physical protection of the child that the defense of the Nation is by its immediate removal from a a matter of importance to all of place of physical danger to a place the citizens of the country, there of safety. Little consideration fis are sure to be many efforts to given to the child’s future needs | reduce other expenditures and other as an individual and its adjustment | interests. In other words, National to future citizen responsibflmes.} | Defense has now become popular| Children are moved from battle| and those who would ordinarily be zones to localities that are consid-| | vigilant to the needs of children|ered safer in the emergency, but| | may not recognize in. this time of when the emergency has passed.! | emergency that “the most critical| there {s seldom consideration given| line of defense of our Nation and|to the child returning to those who b | our democratic institutions is the represent its family ties, and from ;)n-ul(h. skill and morale of the| which it was hurriedly removed successive generations of the peo-| and suffered great fears and emo- ple.” | tional conflicts. This is the situa- Some of the temporary stop g(\psi tion in all disaster, but especially and experiments of recent years|is it true in time of war. | :mm be curtailed and perhaps even| In times of emergency in the| | eliminated, but the sound and tried | United States of America, it is | 1 \ | | | | | | { Open24 Hours | ! i Pioneer § ! ! ! ] ? 183 SO. FRANKLIN S | BEELECT \ John McCormick |needs and facilities must be de-| necessary that the people make i % wvndeld, ;etalned"and maintained | sacrifices by the temporary cur- or the best welfare of our chil-| tailment of rights and liberties nemocrahc z dren and the future good of our guaranteed by the Bill of Rights candidale Nation. ’ and by the provisions under that Hard on Children Bill of Rights. During the past | for i‘he Emergencies have always been decade the American people have | difficult times for children. The allowed themselves to be shorn of first consideration in disaster is many of the liberties they formerly House of Representatives 5 WE ARE WITH JUNEAU IN EXTENDING Welcometothe | egion : | 5 A CANDIDATE ‘ | WHO ASKS YOU | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, SEPT. 3, 1940. ‘hnd come to accept as constitution-|of the privations that many of our TO CHECK HIS | RECORD! ; D.B. FEMMER "Born in Alaska” Juneaw’s Greatest Show Value USSR S NORTHERN COCKTAIL LOUNGE | al rights. This condition was caused by the emergency of the economic depression and the resulting unem- ployment. Laws and regulations re-| sponsible for such loss of individual rights and liberties have been de- clared constitutional, It was in- terpreted that they were for the general welfare of the Nation; nevertheless, they have swept away rights that were considered sacred liberties of the people of our coun- try. Sacrifices Required In case of a national emergency caused by war dangers, or threats of war, we will be called upon to make even greater sacrifices by re- linquishing many more liberties Emergency dangers will not wa upon the slower working mechanic. of democracy, in which the repre- sentatives of the people function in the interest of the individuals, and therefore democracy suffers during such emergencies. However, emergencies pass. The people must be on the alert to reassume their democratic rights and liberties that were curtailed oc| eliminated in the time of emergent danger. The time for reconstruction arrives and the people must have the foresight for preparation and training to carry on reconstruction that will be permenent and bene- ficial to liberty. The child of today is the future will work against great competitive) adult and citizen upon whom that reconstruction will depend. It will be they who will have to reclaim the lost liberties; it will be they children have experienced, the ap- plicants are not meeting the re- ‘qmrvmrnts of physical strength and mental equipment comparable with the youth of the sturdy stock fro:a | which came the recruits for 1917 | and 1918. Illiteracy was more often the complaint in those days, but | now it is being found that neglect |of handicapping physical condi- tions, bad teeth, bad eyesight and bad hearing, etc, caused in the main by the lack of proper nour- ishment of the youth of America, | is responsible for the rejection of applicants. Youths applying for en- |listment are being rejected because | wf physical conditions caused by | under-nourishment and neglect. The biggest drawbacks are bad eyesight and underweight. ‘ Delinquency Problem Juvenile delinquency is a prob- lem of youth and is taking its toll. This can and must be pre- | vented. But it is going to take | more than just talk to do it. | It is not going to be an easy lor even a popular task to enlist and retrain help in the interest of | child welfare in this time of more spectacular activity in connection with world affairs. There will be, | as always, those serious-minded and incerely interested individuals who ! know that the child is the future |of the race and of our Nation and | interests to hold some public at- tention to the child welfare needs | Members of The American Legion and the American Legion Auxiliary who will make the reconstruction have pledged themselves to theu either something suited to sound democracy, or if we fail to give them the necessary training and equipment for the purpose, they may not assume that responsibiity, and thus allow a temporary emet- | a aid of many men and women, but gency condition to drift into child welfare responsibility and should do everything within their power to not have the needs of children neglected. The glamour of the more fleeting “war work” ac- tivity may attract and enlist the permanent loss of the natural rights unless they also continue concern and liberties of a democracy. Youth in Defense in the present youth problems, they will find them:clves faced with A lad who is called upon toserve! even greater and more expensive poses of national defense, or girl who takes on responsibility of work in connection with these pro- grams, become a part of a more serious concern of the conditions that surround them and returns to more normal life no longer a youth.|Every Child” is and must continue| The experience reaction can be con- structive or destructive. Who is responsible to see that these children do receive this edu- cation and training? It will be the teachers in our schools and the :hild welfare worker of today who vill be leading and guilding these ‘hildren to a great degree. But we 1s an American Legion must do our share in leading and guiding youth. We are facing a test. Not a test of arms and mechanized war ma- chines but a test of our foresight in the right kind of training of youth, Lost Opportunity A lost opportunity to care for and train the child of today can- not be regained in the future. The meal missed by a child who fis ONE LEGIONNAIRE WAITING TO GREET ANOTHER LEGIONNAIRE j in need and perhaps even starving, | cannot be made up to that child | later. Child Welfare is a regular day to day, hour to hour responsi- | bility, Neither can a mother who | died because of neglect be brought .| his country in battle or for pur-|youth problems to overcome later. the| The American Legion must not permit itself to lessen its efforts |in the interest of and for the bene- fit of children, Square Deal Our goal: “A Square Deal for |to be as important now as at any |time in the past in The American | Legion. The work of education and ‘spreadmg information on child wel- | fare subjects must continue to be a major program of The American | Legion. We with our experience of 1917-18 are more responsible than any others for what happens to this youth of today on which our | future national well-being depends. If we were sincerely concerned with the problem of youth during ;le& emergent times, we should now | be concerned even more with those |same problems. If we are not on the job along these lines, there will be influences at work to destroy all that we hold dear. Child health should be even a greater civic concern in a time of |emergency. It is of the greatest | importance that the child be ‘kept | healthy in a time of emergency. ‘Dlsen.se. infection, contagion, take on epidemic form unless the pre- ventive and protective measures are l'exercised. It costs .less to avoid Juvenile delinquency is a menace at any time, but it is even a greater menace Wwhen general conditions are abnormal, at a time of emer- gency, and its influence for destruc- tion is far-reaching in human and financial loss. The American Legion has dem- onstrated its sincerity and accom- plishment in the interest of ‘the child who has been adjudged as de- linquent and has been committad to a State Training or Industrial School, With the proper interesi, that child can be helped to be- come an asset in the life of the Nation. We must not allow the diversion of emergency conditions to lose for us the ground we have gained in :his necessary work for the children. It is so very impor- tant for us to help these children to develop into asset citizens, To fail to recoghize the impor- tance of protection of motnerncod and to make it safe and vossible for an expectant mother to bear healthy offspring and to have as- surance thar her infant will have a fair chance, 1s a serious handicap to nation: ecurity, Many of the problems 1 develop in childhood and you:h and later present adult inadequa:y traceable to pre- natal, natal and postnatal neglect of mother and child. Conserve Homes The security of a nation is de- pendent upon ire individual family home of that nation and it is im- portant to conserve the hom: fer the child and to strengthen ihe home life of the nation. We must not permit a cnrtailment of those essentials that help to strengthen and maintain home life for children and that are an assurance to healthy motherhood and heaithy childhood. Funds for various forms of war relief will be demanded and if our interest and effort lags, the needed money may be secured at the ex- pense of child welfare and family home needs. We must enlist public attention to a realization that a long-range national defense pro- gram must include consideration and assurance of the well-being of the mothers and children of the Nation. The American Legion has long been the principal promoter of es- sential constructive national de- fense and true Americanism. There will be no let-up in that national ideal. At the same time the cther great and beneficial programs of The American Legion’s service to children will go forward in coop- eration with national defense and national security. Active Support “A Square Deal for Every Childa” and care for the “whole child,” is the watch ‘word of every Child Welfare worker in The American Legion, the American Legion Aux- iliary, the Forty and Eight and the Eighty and Forty, and has the support of The American Legion and its affiliated organizations as a whole. The Child Welfare workers must give full and active support to those programs approved and sponsored by The American Legion for national preparedness and na- tional defense. We must look to the future and not neglect those whose duty it will be to carry on in that future, are epidemics than to overcome them. Our child health insurance pro- gram should be adopted in every | back to life for the benefit of a| | child. 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