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THE PUBLIC FORUM FATHER OF MOTHERS' PEN SION LAW DECRIES SENTIMEN TALISM. Think hard, on Mothers' day! Understand that there are thou sands and thousands of mothers who are in terror every day-in the year! When you pin the flower qn your breast on Mothers' day think of these terrified mothers whose children are suffering. These destitute mothers are in your own neighborhood. Just around the corner from your house you will find them, if you look. Remember, on Mothers' day that these women and their children are in poverty through no fault of their own and they are in destitution in the richest land in the world. Sermons on mother, poetry and song, and all sentimental gush will accomplish no good unless the day inspires people to act. There has been more tearful sen timent given mothers than to any other part of the population, and they are the real white slaves to this day. They bear the heaviest bur dens, alone, unaided, in agony of tired muscles and brain and with the awful knowledge that the little ones they have brought into the world do not have enough to eat and are dis graced by charity. There is a way to remedy this. The mothers' pension system, adminis tered in all its fullness and with de termination to abolish child-poverty, will make every day a mothers' day, ahd for the .first time we will be do ing something really worth while for niothers. The stingy method of giving the pension is not the right way. Pen sions must be adequate and child poverty must be hunted out by agents of tlie government as small pox is hunted child-poverty is more dangerous than the plague. This lib eral method will reduce taxes, be1 cause child-poverty produces the paupers and criminals arid insane people who are so expensive. The people should be ashamed to indulge in weak sentiment about mother when American mothers in every city .and town of the whole country are worrying themselves to death, with breaking hearts and -no hope that they will ever get the eco nomic aid without which oui; senti mental utterances are of no avail! I Judge Henry Neil. IMPRESSIONS. The wonders of our subjective selves are beyond de scription ! It seems that , certain early impressions such as, notably, those of a beautiful face and things and events associating themselves with it, form, as it were, a nucleus of control over 'the rest. They in fluence our lives. To rob us of them is to rob us of life itself. ' The beauty and wonder of it is that the owner of the face can in actual life never grow old to the enamored. Those early impressions link themselves forever with its object as part of the birth and ripening of a soul. There is a mystic beauty and wonder about the whole thing. The place where these impressions took root is ever looked upon and remembered with a feeling of rever ence deep and compelling, as if eter nity itself and all that it means have linked themselves in hallowing it t AnJ should the object around -which these impressions are weaved fall altogether short of these beau ties then the one who has endowed them hasTio recourse but to impute all of them to himself. It were bet ter if ife could then drink of the river Sethe, the stream of forget fulriess, and start life anew in dif- ferent surroundings. He is. like a caged mocking bird who pours out his soul to a deaf owner and to walls that give nothing but the echo in return. But, where one knows, and when this conviction is replenished, that he is .not alone in this heaven of the past, then indeed does life