Show Public Schools Are re Discussed By Educator Several delegates to the twelfth annual convention of the National League of Compulsory l' l Education Ed- Ed d- d officials were told by br WillIam William Willlam Will- Will Iam lam L. L Bodine rU ot of compulsory education in Chicago s 's some ino pertinent facts about the advantages advantages ad lid- vantages and shortcomings of the public schools of America The public school Is the humanitarian humanitarian humanitarian as well as the academic factor factor factor fac fac- tor in our national life Ufe Mr Bodine declared God could not allow all his angels to leave heaven That Is la why he put teachers on earth to care for children An And that Is why so 30 many t teachers are aro women I believe In teaching the tho household house bOllS hold arts and cooking classes A b bu cook can spoil a good man Many lany Manya a L good looker Is a poor cooKer A woman nowadays can veta she can fill the vocations of men she can do everything a man can do except desert her child And nd wife desertion Is one ona of or the greatest greatest great great- reat- reat est causes of truancy There was a time when mothers raised their girls In days 01 oi tho the defiant incorrigible fl flapper some girls try to raise 30 ther moth moth- ers ors There Is an Increase In delinquency delinquency delin delin- quency among girls Devils Denis i while parents sleep Light-headed Light girls ought to keep out ut m If f dark automobiles More parental schools now mean fewer prisons in the future Blessed Is the boy who an ran walk and talk with a father who Is a pal and a patriot One good mother Is worth a dozen institutions The rhe Juvenile court is merely i 4 clearing house for fathers fathers' failures and mothers' mothers mistakes Most fathers fathers fath fath- ers put all the education of a family in the wife's name There is too much science in child chUd welfare work What children need is simp simply more old-fashioned old spankings Mr nodine Bodine in closing his address urged tho the officials to consider their responsibilities in dealing with the children of the large largo cities with tho the utmost seriousness 0 o |