[The Family and it’s Members by Anna Garlin Spencer]@TWC D-Link bookThe Family and it’s Members CHAPTER XI 8/20
Some men show such power of moral recovery as to put to shame those never tempted to a fall.
These prove that mental power and the raw material of character, even after many untoward experiences, may take a fresh start and enable men and women to "rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things." =The Right Use of Leisure Time.=--In the fourth place, the agencies of social protection of child-life must cooeperate with all parents, whether those parents are wise or foolish, strong or weak, in preventing occasional criminality and preventable vice. The helpful use of leisure time is a vital factor in the prevention of vice and crime.
The pioneer study of "Public Recreation Facilities" in the _Annals of the Academy of Political and Social Science_ of March, 1910, indicates lines of social service in this particular which have been followed to great social advantage. =The Moving Picture.=--The influence of the "movies" is the strongest, the most all-compelling influence to which children have ever been subjected.
There has never been an agency that so appealed to all the senses, especially to the eye with its supreme registry of impressions, and we have so far let it play upon child-life with little direction from the educative process.
What it is right and helpful to read is not always right and helpful to put upon the stage, with the more vivid and popular appeal to eye and ear and with the lessened opportunity of the drama to explain and soften and balance the presentation of tragedy and evil.
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