Athens Daily Banner summarized the common diagnosis in 1921: "The tendency of the times toward disorder and crime and revolution and unrest" had a taproot: "disregard for authority both parental and governmental." "Bolshevism and socialism and all the radical isms rampant" were the harvest of lenient parenting. The return of the state's authority would "have to start in the home"; parents must "compel obedience and
