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WHO CAN TELL HIM?
The editor of The Golden Age has received
a letter from an anxious father who is look
ing for a school to fit his ideal.
Anxious Father We know several colleges
Looking for with part of these require
a School. merits —and one. we think,
with all of them, but lest we
leave out some other splendid institution that
complete “fills the bill,” we call no names in
public, and leave our readers to make answer
according to their knowledge and inclination.
To say the least, the questions raised by our
correspondent present a serious problem in our
educational life. Let consecrated educators
ponder well:
Editor Golden Age:
Can you tell me a college in the South
where they have no secret fraternities or in
ter-collegiate games and where each boy will
get some personal attention and be taught that
they are there for business and not pleasure?
Where “society ’ and dress and spending
money are not all the go?
So far I am utterly disgusted with my expe
rience and obseravtion with sending boys to
college.
I am exceedingly anxious to find a college
where young men will be taught they are
moulding character and should be choosing a
profession and getting themselves ready for
real life. Very sincerely,
Answers to the foregoing letter can be sent
to “Anxious Father,” care The Golden Age,
Atlanta, Ga., and meantime and any time we
will welcome to our columns a frank, fair dis
cussion of the educational and practical prin
ciples suggested by the letter of our corre
spondent.
DO YOU BELONG TO THE TEAM?
George Mathew Adams says lots of bright
things in The Constitution from day to day
One of his recent best is his de-
Inspiration scription of “Team Work.”
of Fine , Whatever the organization to
Team Work which you belong or whether
you belong only to yourself, it
is a ringing, helpful call to harmony, purpose
and power. Hear him :
“One of the most inspiring spectacles in
all this world is team work—whether it is
worked out on the football field, on the
baseball diamond, in the home or in the
affairs of business. It is team work that
really accomplishes results.
Team-work is where every one in the
game works with the determination to be
as helpful to his neighbor as his neigh
bor works to be helpful to him.
Team-work is co-operation. It is sys-
THE GOLDEN AGE FOR WEEK OF AUG. 28
Harry Thaw Victim of Misguided Mother Love
A Terrible Lesson For Indulgent Parents
We can find only one gleam of comfort in
the whole Harry Thaw tragedy—and that is
the awful warning to over-in-
The Tragedy dulgent parents—yea, and their
of Idleness petted children who are passing
and Gilded Sin through the fascinating, fatal
process of being spoiled by
wealth and idleness—either or both.
That the lesson may be clearer for this edi
torial we give here a press tabulation of the
miry “mountain peaks” in Harry Thaw’s piti
ful, pestilential career:
Born in 1871, son of Wiliam Thaw, of
Pittsburg.
Forced out of Harvard University in
1891 for playing high stakes at poker.
From 1891 until 1901, toured Europe.
Met Evelyn Nesbit in 1901, when she
was a chorus girl.
Entertained chorus girls and actresses
lavishly from 1901 to 1906.
Married Evelyn Nesbit in 1905 against
his mother’s wishes. His father practi
cally disinherited him. but his mother set
tled an income of $60,000 a year on him.
Started campaign against Stanford
White in 1905, spending thousands of dol
lars for detectives.
Killed White on Madison Square Roof
Garden, June 25, 1906.
Tried for murder from February until
April, 1907, the jury disagreeing. Cost of
counsel estimated at $200,000.
Tried again for murder in January,
1908, the jury acquitting him on the
grounds of insanity. Estimated cost of
counsel, etc., $150,000.
Committed to Matteawan on February
1, 1908, by Justice Dowling.
Commitment confirmed by Justice Mor
chauser in Poughkeepsie in 1908. Esti
mated cost of proceedings, $65,000.
Commitment again confirmed by Jus
tice Mills, after second attempt to gain
freedom. Estimated cost of proceedings,
$50,000.
Three later attempts to gain liberty.
Estimated cost, $125,000.
Incidental expenses of Thaw’s commit
ments. luxuries while in the Tombs, etc.,
estimated $15,000.
Money alleged to have been paid Clif
ford W. Hartridge, counsel for Thaw, “to
keep some persons quiet,” $125,000.
Expenses of Thaw’s mother in the pro
ceedings estimated $150,000.
Maintenance of Evelyn Nesbit since the
murder, estimated $50,000.
tern. It is comradeship. It is the combined
as one. There can be no confusion—no
loss of power, with perfect team-work in
play.
If you run a business and its human
machinery is not moving smoothly—bet
ter give attention to the team-work.
Somebody is shirking, neglecting, or wast
ing in some way or other.
If you, yourself, are failing to secure
the maximum amount of efficiency that
you feel is within you, the chances are
that there is not the proper team-work
between your various faculties.
The brain and body must work togeth
er. Abuse and dissipation can have no
Alienists for the various hearings in
which Thaw tried to obtain his freedom,
estimated cost $75,000.
Grand total spent bp Thaw’s another
for him since lie killed Stanford White,
approximately $1,020,000.
God pity the misguided love —the sinful pa
rental indulgence which these staggering fig
ures reveal I While they are so large that they
would seem to lose their lesson for countless
foolish families of lesser wealth the essence
of the wrong that has helped to ruin Harry
Thaw finds its counterpart in positive thou
sands of the homes of the “idle rich” today.
Almost every community furnishes its melan
choly example.
Take this one item in the foregoing tabu
lation :
“Married Evelyn Nesbit in 1905 against his
mother’s wishes. His father practically disin
herited him, but his mother settled an income
of $60,000 a year on him.”
What on earth could his poor mother have
been thinking about?
When Harry Thaw at twenty was expelled
from Harvard for “playing high stakes at
poker,” he should have been put to work and
told in the language of U S. Senator Clay, to
“stick or starve.” He ought to have been
taught then, indeed long before then, to know
how a tired man feels.
And if an indulgent mother must settle an
allowance on her petted and pampered son
to keep him from work the poor, blind soul
ought to have known that one-tenth of $60,000
would have been quite enough to guarantee
such liberties of idleness as would blight her
boy and poison every phase of society touch
ed by his parasitic indolence and his unbridled
dissipation.
Why lavish enough thousands upon her
son to appeal to all the wildness of his profli
gate passions, tempting him to plunge yet
deeper into all the orgies of spectacular shame
which depravity could crave and money could
supply? Harry Thaw’s mother is said to be a
good woman at heart— but the trouble is that
her ideal of life is wrong—totally wrong—and
her poor, spendthrift son furnishes a gilded
national example of misguided mother love.
Let is be said right here that, however
small the sphere of action, any sort of parental
indulgence which encourages idleness at home
or abroad or extravagance in the formative
period of school life, howe life or social life
is simply sowing the seeds of evil in our youth
from which will spring, to a larger or lesser
degree, that monumental folly and everlast
ing failure of which Harry Thaw’s tragic life
is such a shocking example.
part in efficient team-work. Remember
that you are endowed with infinitely finer
faculties of mind and body than were
ever moulded into machinery.
Start every day with individual team-work.
It was a realization of these truths and a
burning desire to ultimately bring about such
“Team-work” throughout the Christian woSd
that caused The National Civic League of
America to issue its call for The Southern
Christian Citizenship Conference, to be held
in the auditorium in Atlanta, the Metropolis of
the South, Sept. 19, 20, 21, 1913.
Let every Christian pray and work for the
succes of this South-wide movement for reform
and progress in the Master’s name.