New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 24, 1924, Page 2

. T ST IR S — OUNCING THE OPENING OF THE RADIO DEPARTMENT AT THE DICK- INSON DRUG CO, Special For This Week Only | lelTIlbts, WD 12 Tubes, Ra- | 201 As ... Radio Sets of all standard makes including the Greve and Chelsea. Freed Eisemann trodyne Receivers (flve tube) $127.50 Freed Receivers, Eisemann complete with d | The speaker was the Rev. T. Neutrodyne, |1 Hicks, a prominent Neutrodyne ||| comes diverce at first slight,” |ing to Rev, 100 MUGH JAZZIN THE HOME OF TODAY Lack of Parental TH R0 e e s o B b e Blamed for Evils of Society Only 340 men attended the services at Everyman's Bible class yesterday. Ross Methodist min- |ister, who spoke on religion and home | lite. | frem the city, Rev. John L. Davis was absent “Sometimes live at first sight be- accord- Mr. Hicks, who accused tubes, batterics, phones and {the newspapers of “low ideals” in tl{e installation . .. — THE — |luc DICKINSON | Drug Co. 169-171 MAIN ST. SPRING FEVER Sometimes that you're wearing underwear that's too heavy. Drop in and choose your lighter garments today. means candy entirely differ- ont—You'll like the difference! DENTISTS A. B, Johnson, D. D. S, T. R. Johnson, D, D. S. Gas—Oxy;| X-rays National Bldx NURSE IN ATTENDANCE DR. COOMBS The Natureopathic Physician and Chiropractor has MOVED nto Fis Nature Oure Institute 19 S. HIGH ST. Opposite the Post Office, where he bas installed the new Voice Culture WAR TRAINING SIGHT READING James D. Donahue Room 318-319 Pooth’s Block Trainee of Yale University 1 Beften Drive . ‘Phone 191413 Special Attention to Beginaers YOU’LL DO BETTER at AXELROD’S We are out of the High Rent District A fresh shipment . $180.00 jcourse of his address. He said in part: “Religion expresses itsclf whole life—everything we do, everything we say, everything we |think. We simply cannot diverce re- ligion from any part of our being. 1t through | shoutd begin in the proper place; it | should begin in the home, and the boy | or girl who isn't given the anchorage | of religlon is sadly handicapped as he faces the stern realitles and issues of life, the church, not the Men's Bible class and the Sunday school. The first place for religion to find its impres- sion, the first impressions of religion are made in the home. The Chris- |tian home is the highest produet of society today, the highest product of civilization. Tn fact there can be no civillzation without the home, ‘““Sometimes love at first sight be- comes divorce at first slight. “The irresponsible young man and carefree young woman come together and take upon themselves the vows of married life. Of course there will he disillusionments; they will get to un- jderstand each other better after the first few months and if love is theve, that great love that makes a home possible, there will be yielding here and there and they will manage to fit heir lives together as a unit even nesses and some disappointments op Loth sides, Parents Should Restrain Children “I wonder how far the present generation of fathers and mothers is responsible for the conditions — the present canditions, the uniimited free. dom of boys and girls togay. T am rather thinking that the real reason for some of this freedom, and some of this undesirable froedom of the boys and girls is the Wck of restraint on the part of the parents. 1f there's eriticism to be placed let's place jt where it rightly belongs. A woman complains that her girl does not home any more. Someone said, ‘Well, what's the reason?' ‘I don't know?' T remember that on my father's farm there was & fine herd of cattle, Somo of the young heifers scemed somehow to get ever the, fence into the next [farm. Y spoke fo him one day about it. ‘Why do you suppose they are all the time jumping the fence and got. ting into the neighbors' farm the uelghbor eald, ‘You don't hawve forage enough on your side of the fence,' That's the reason our hoys and girie spend thelr time away from home; we don’t mike our Nomes at. tractive enough for them to stay in, Of coursa to g certain extent it is natural that they should go out and assoclate with other lives, What kind of an atmosphere do we maintain in our homes? Doos it attract and help [to keep hoys and girls at Wome or are | we Indifferent, so that they seek their {eompanionship And plensures in al. | most any other placs exeept the hom | We have been shifting our responsi. | | bliity. We have been turning over (our children to every other institation |tor tralning, Wa send them to Sun- day school and expect that the Bun- day schoel will be responsible for the entire religiovd training. Parents are God's first teachers, and we cannot evade the responsibility of teaching and traming our boye and girls in re. lgious things, “There are changes in the home, of course. In a good many eities today {people are living thelr lives in apart. ments. Some of us remember when we used 1o live on & farm and we had @ consldersble varlety of responsibil- ity. We had to cul the wood and do the chores. When we want to be | warm now we turn on the gas; when we want milk we open the back door :and there i is on the stepa. Even the |baking and the preparation of food s largt-ly done outside of the home. We great many operations that used to | be done in the home are done by out- | | side agencles. Perhaps we are not re. | sponsible; but hecause of these jchanges there liave come certain weaknesses; sybtie influence have ! |eome into the Yoms and made it herd lto maintain that delightful and fine| Christian spirit in the home that our | parents maintained. Then there's a | IM!I of propaganda going on at \m expense of the home. You who at- tend the theater know that the homg and the marriage relationship is the butt of all kinds of jokes. Folks do uot take the marriage seriously. Cheap magazines are filled with trashy fanuendocs against the [ home, n which a man or A woman says. 1 am going to have my fing In life’ | Perhaps you have read the book, 1 do | not recall the name now, but the | | own way and going her own way. There were three children, a girl .m {two boys. They wouldn't have , “The first place we should think | jof in connection with religion is not though there may ha human weak- | wond oud clothes to the laundry. Al woman simply ineisted on having her discovering the real love, mother never cultivated that love. What was the resuit? One boy be-, came a murderer, one boy did away with himself and the girl turned out on the wrong side morally, and the mother wakened too late to realiy that in those years when she might | those and the Ing it, and she had raised a family lh;ll werg, no credit to this life and | had no chance at the life hereafter. Increase in Divorce, “Take the matter of divorce and its alarming increase: | “In 1888 there were in the United | States 17,962 fivorces; in 1896, 38, !’00(‘; in 1906, 72,000; in 1916, 112,000, “In those 30 years the population of the country increased at the rate of | 72 per cent and the dicorce rate 524 per cent—more than seven times as rapidly as the increase in population. | "Lest I spend too much time on these things that are tearing down the influence of the home 1 want to ! spend the last few minutes on some | constructive suggestions. We cannot | think of real home life without think- ing of it in terms of religion. Re- ligious atmosphere is the very funda- { mental atmosphere ot the home lift. 1t your home life is not religlous what chance has your boy or girl at high | moral standards? Some schools have’ | been having honesty tests. As the re- sult of those tests it was discovered that more than half of the boys and | ®irls of public schoo! age were un- | moral or dishonest in & varlety of |tests, 1Is that a reflection upon the | boys and girls or upon the parent- hood, the manhood and womanhood of the gountry? It is an indictment | against the homes of America today. | We must do something to remedy conditions or the coming generation will be no better than the present one ——even worse, “What can we do to make our homes those blessed units of society, really religioys, religious atmeosphere producing institutions. .1 want to mention four different things that we can think of from a tommon sense standpoint., Tirst of all, we must use our homes in & sense as a church. There must be an expression of re- ligion there. We cannot depend up- on the church just one hourra week, There ought to be in every home some oxpressién of religipn every day. It fean be formal or informal-—just so | you give some attention to it, make God real to those boys and girls. It Is & hard task; it challenges us; we| hardly know how to go about i*, and yet, how casy it Is, T never dmbarrass any congregation by asking how many observe grace at table, There's an opportunity for that little formal cero- | mony to be observed more ‘widely than it is. Ts it fair not to thank God for the material blessings of life? One of the most sacred institutions given to the church was given at meal time, | at the table of the Lord's Supper. Tsn't it an honor to God and an hon- or to us to thank Him for the ma- | terial blessings of lire? “Then family worship: 1 suppose that has faded out from the present generation, No it hasn't: there are more than we realize who observe [*family worship, We teach our boys and girls to say, ‘Now I lay me down | 1o sleep:’ but how many of our boys and girls do we teach to pray? We teach them te say their prayers; but do we teach them to pray? Reading the Bible, praying together, private devotions and saying grace at table, and there ought to be other form¥ of maintaining the Christian atmos. phere in our homes. One might be | the form of the convepation around the table; keeplng the conversation wholesome, free from criticism and cynielsm that eharacterizes too many of our table conversations today, What father does and mother dors | and what pareuts say is a protty sure ndex of the type of conversation boys and girls have, What do we talk |about Sunday afternoon around the {dinner table? I know some homes | where they bave roast preacher. God | forgive them. What kind of attitude of mind are thore boys and girls going to have towards religion and the church? Newspapers and Jare. “What kind of books ure the boys and girls reading: what kind of pa. pers? In thére any chance for re- liglous life through the jiterature that comes Into your home? 1Is there anything more aesthetic, on a higher level than the dally newspaper with all its low suggestions, low jdeals that are expressed in every form? And {the music: What's the kind of music |your boys and girls are learning to |play? 1s it all jazz? Bome one said & while ago that jazz was dying out. The Jast time I heard it I thought it (was dying. It cannot dle any 100 quick to sult me. The pity of it that |our boys an¥l girls are not getting a ‘huh‘r taste of things worth while. Jazz in_music, Hterature and conver- sation to such an extent that our | boys’ and girls' minds get perverted. Lot us see to it that they don’t find that in our homes., please God. “Then example—conduet: And the responsibility falls almost entirely { relationship | There 18 the spirit of freedom | | 1c'this Signature {ehance of finding ont what God was Lic-o-rice WEE SAVERs will keep your throat from getting “rusty.” Look for the upon us as parents as to what kind of conduct and what Kind of example we are giving our boys and girls. How can we expect them to reach a higher level than we give them, I simply want to give you this from my heart this mornihg; a great men's class like this, representing a city- wide religious life, can do more for the kingdom of God by beginning right in our homes, by starting in where religion first belongs, in the %l family unit, and maintaining in those famity units of soclety. such an at- mosbhere that our boys and girls must think in religious terms because they have the real religion in the home life, and it is being made real becauge we have made up our minds that we will make it real -nd pay whatever price is neceseary.” CONTRIBUTED “Tribute ‘at a Child's Grave” in Verse New Britain, Conn., March 22, 1924, Editor Herald:— Probably many of your readers are famillar with the beautiful, “Tribute at a Chlid's Grave" by Robert G. In- gersoll at Washington, D, C., Jan. 8, 1882, This i» one of the most perfect gems of speech ever dellvered in the English language, and is so admitted by even Ingersoll's most bitter ene. mies, And he had many, as we well kni Ingersoll spoke in poems, als wa i and the beautifol language and ar-uncnl which he wused in his tributes has never been equalled by any other human belug, How foolish therefore, for the writer of this letter to attempt any improvement over Ingersoll. Such, however is not my intention. T have merely taken his address, started from the beginning, and, by changing a word or line here and there, have set the entire tribute Into verse ever keep- fug In mind the original themeo--life, death and the hereafter. No oredit is claimed by me for originality in a gingle | ne of this poem. I have purposely taken bodily from his address, as ma of the original lines as ble. As stated, no credit is claimed, consequently no plagiarism has been committed, Your readers, if Interested, are asked to compare what follows with Ingersoll's original ad- dress, It is to be regretted that space | will not permit its publication here, Tribue at & Ohlld's Grave . MY FRIENDS!=<I know how vain it is to gild a grief with cheer, and ygt 1 wish to take away from every ve its fear—both Life and Death are equal kings, so when our sun has wet, all should be brave enough to meet what all the dead have met. The future has been flled with fear, stained by the heartiess past, and from the wondrous tree of life the fruit is falling fast. The ripened fruit and blossoms fall—we ses it every day——the old, the young slecp side by side in common bed of clay. Why should we fear that which will come to all that bpeathe on earth? Which is the greafer blessing, life? or death soon after birth? Perhaps the grave does not end life—it's not for me to say. Perhaps the night here on earth is elsewhere break of day. Which, think you is more fortunate, who breathed its last in mother arms, before a word from baby lips -had passed, or he who journeys all the length of life's uneven lane, and takes the last few painful steps “with ald of crutch and cane? The cradle puts the question, “Whenee?” and “Whither?" asks the grave. The savage, weeping o'er his dead in far off lonely cave can an- swer these two questions in a manner just as well as any minister who ever preached of Heaven and Hell. No man who stands.beside a grave that spans a life of tears, has any right to prophesy a future filled with fears. May be that death gives all there is of value to our lives; perhaps the grave's the. common goal toward which our being strives, If those we press and strain within our arms could never die, perhaps all love upon qur earth would wither by and by. Out of the paths between our hearts, may be this common fate destroys the weeds of selfishness and blasts the seeds of hate. And I prefer to live and love where death is king supreme than have cternal life where love is only as a dream. Another life is naught to us to be unless we love again the ones who love us here on earth through sun- shine, snow and rain. And they who stand around this grave with spirits so depressed, need have no fear— death at its worst is only perfect rest. ‘We know that through the wants of life—the duties of each hour—their grief will lessen day by day, and hope again will flower. A peaceful place, this little grave will be to them at last; this consolation is for them, his suffering is past, And if he lives again, we know his life will surely be as good as ours,—we have no fear of immer- tality. We all have the same mother, the same fate awaits us all, and all must make the journey from the spring of life, to fall. We too, have our religion, friends, and after all is sald, it's sim- ply this: Help those who live, and hope for aH the dead. BISH K. IBBLE. IR, ACHIEVEMENT LIVE ORGANTZATION Director Squire Makes Successiul Record Since Assuming Position One of the outstanding organiza- tions to be Included In the United Community Corporation drive is th:( Junior Achievement movement, which has for its purposes that of salvag- ing the out of school hours of boys and girls, by teaching them to make ful articles of salvaged material. al. While Junior Achievement is one of the newer units in the United Com- munity Chest {s has, nevertheless, a history. Junior Achievement came to the eity in June, 1921 under the aus- piees of a temporary committes com- posed of representative citizens, The prime mover in the work was Abra- ham Buel, then president of the| Chamber of Commerce. Frank O, Kreager was the agent of the Spring- field burcau during the organization period. The first president of the organiza- tion was the late Mrs. C. A, l"orv.rr? and Miss Esther Miller was the first secretary. In 1923 the work was rfl-mnnlud and a new foundation was created with Harry C. Jackson as president, | assisted by an able board of direct- ors. The foundation was ln(‘orpnrlltd} under the state law of Connecticut | and had for a considerable time the nesistance of Miss Esther Donahue, a | field worker for the bureau of Spring- field, Last year George P. Spear became the president of the organization and the work has expanded widely under | his direction. Willlam W, T. Squire was engaged as the local director in June 1928, the foundation having| been admitted to the Community Chest a year ago. The clubs are now organized on & permanent basis and much admirable work has been gpc- complished by the members. The hand work done by the children as members 50 » ihnd and upwan{ rowlu ulty of fln Anm b the child eumlnent of Junlor Achievement clubg has been on exhibition several times in the eity, a tent exhibition being held at the end of the last playground sea- son and a bazaar being held at the Boy's club during the Christmas holi- days. During the United Commiunity Chest drive the foundation will have an exhibition in the wihdow of the New Britain Gas Light -company, where its exhibit during the winter attracted so much attention, The New Britain clubs compare favorably with those of other cities, The local delegates won eleven prizes at the Eastern States exposition last Scptember. Miss Esther McCable's “Little’ Flower club,” which has 30 members is the largest Junior Achievement club known. A type of work that has been much admired is the bed spread and other boudoir embellishments made by Mrs, H. C. Warner's “See-More” Junior ‘Achievement club which has recently been on exhibition on Main street. The budget for Junior Achievement for 1924 in the Community drive for $50,000 1y $4,760, PR AR S, A reform of the ' calendar that would cause Easter to fall on a fixed day has frequently been proposed 189 Park Street H Serlous Mixup Occurs Over Hockey .Title Dates Poston, March 24-The dates set for the western games of the national hcckey championship series by Presi- dent W. S, Haddock of the Hockey asscciation are unacceptable to the Beston Athletic - assoclation team. champions of the eastern group. “The B. A. A, never will agree to April 5, 8 ¢rd 10 as the dates,” said Manager Tom Kanaly. {‘Our boys must be at sclicol and at business and while they are willing to be away a reason- ab'e length of time, the present ar- raugament Is stretching the series too far, The players are willing to be away five days, but this is the posi- tive limit.” The eastern games of the series will be played at the Bos- ton arena on March 26, 28 and 29. B. A. A, will meet the winner of the western group series to be determined by tonight's contest between Cleveland and Pittsburgh. The yard and the pound are the only two independent standards for weights and measures. Let us replace them for the last time Stop renewing your guttersand conductor pipes every few years. Let us install some that will last a life- time. We carry them made from Horse Head Rolled Zinc. After we put them on your buildings you can forget them —absolutely. Thomas F. Fitzpatrick & Co. 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