hould be a means of safeguarding the
people, and this leads to the most important service which a teacher
of domestic economy can render to the people in giving them a sense of
control over their environment, than which nothing is so conducive to
stability of ideas.

To feel one's self in command of a situation robs it of its terror. A
great danger in America today is the loss of this feeling of
self-confidence with which the pioneer was abundantly furnished. A
certain helpless dependence is creeping over the land because of the
peculiar development of resources, which must be replaced by a sense
of power over one's environment.

_Home Ideals_

There is no noble life without a noble aim.

The watchword of the future is the welfare and security of
the child.

Love of home and of what the home stands for converts the
drudgery of daily routine into a high order of social
service.

The economy of right uses depends largely upon the
home-maker, and brings the return in health, happiness, and
efficiency.[14]

[14] Motto, Mary Lowell Stone Home Economics Exhibit,
Jamestown Exposition, 1907.

CHAPTER VI

_The child to be educated in the light of sanitary science.
Office of the school. Domestic science for girls. Applied
science. The duty of the higher education. Research needed._

No Christian and civilized community can afford to show a
happy-go-lucky lack of concern for the youth of today; for,
if so, the community will have to pay a terrible penalty of
financial burden and social degradation in the tomorrow.

_President Roosevelt, Message to Congress, December, 1904._

The loss of faith brings us by a short cut straight to the
loss of purpose in life--of any purpose, at least, beyond
purely material ones. To those who need money the duty of
getting it first and above anything else becomes the gospel
of life. To those who feel the need of position, whether in
society, business, or elsewhere, their gospel drives them to
all means within the law to attain that. To those who have
both money and position comes the only remaining purpose in
life--that of using them for an existence of amusement and
enjoyment. Is it too much to say that never before in our
history have such aspirations so completely dominated and
limited such large classes?

W