Would Hold Fathers' Meetings
"Countless sons and daughters go wrong to-day because of the fathers' too great absorption in business and too little attention to their children. Present-day fathers are too often merely their children's pocketbooks and bogy men, instead of being their law book, monitor, teacher, guide, and closest friend. Were modern fathers punished for the wrongs done by their children, but for which they themselves, because of their neglect, are responsible, we would have to free half the prisoners in our public prisons in order to make room for their fathers," said Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, D.D., of Philadelphia, in a recent sermon. To the modern father's neglect of his parental responsibilities, Dr. Krauskopf ascribed such present-day evils as skepticism, divorce, race suicide, the exchange of self-respecting homes for shoddy apartments, and "bachelordom, with all which that term generally implies." He said that the irresponsibility of modern fathers had made it necessary for the conscientious and unassisted mothers often to become saints and martyrs. To raise children properly in the present social atmosphere is becoming more and more difficult every day, he said. He recommended the formation of "fathers' meetings" and "fathers' colleges."—Exchange.