Show v U CHILDREN RAINING CHAINING v a Benjamin Franklin continued his policy of self taming from Crom tho time he tie began it In his early middle life lire until his old age He devised demised a ase series se se- se serIes series ries of thirteen training self stunt each of or which he carried out for one week Each stunt therefore received rec received iv- iv ed cd his attention for or four periods or Of orone orone one week each in each year He lIe devised a system of recording and scoring himself in his sel- sel self self-ap p. p pointed tasks Thus Benjamin Franklin In addition addition addition ad ad- to starting circulating libraries libraries libraries libra libra- ries sayings savings banks police departments departments depart depart- ments Lire pIre fire departments depart departments hospitals and universities universities ties in America devised the essentials essentials essen essen- of oC the health crusader plan adopted by the National Tu Tuberculosis Tuberculosis losis association One of Benjamin Franklins Franklin's thirteen thirteen thirteen thir thir- teen stunts was a system of self- self training in orderliness But Benjamin Benja Denja Benjamin ml min Franklin started to learn orderliness order order- i liness rather late in life he ho ad admits admits mits mUs when as an afi an old man he set ou ou to write his peerless ss autobiography that he was greatly handicapped i ii its preparation by his lifelong ity to be orderly I The trouble with Benjamin Fr j J Un Ha was that he lived about years too soon Had he postponed being born until 1922 and had he lIe shifted his birthplace from the Atlantic Atlantic Atlantic At At- lantic to the Pacific shore he might have come com comer under the care cal of Dr G. G Hardy Clark But persuading on one of the Boston-born Boston to change his birthplace to California is more dil- dil than persua persuading him to 10 o shift hit the date of his birth a couple of cen cen- Even if he had been born in III Boston in 1922 his mother could read a System of Character Train Train- Ing lag for Children written by G Hardy Clark and thus have made It possible for or Benjamin to one of the few defects In nis character character character char char- acter namely orderliness Dr Clarks Clark's book sets forth an orderly or 01 or I derly method of training children len physically and mental mentally in m disposition disposition tion and nd in character The TIle plan starts tarts them at birth or very soon ther thereafter after and it continues by orderly orderly 01 or or- derly development w with th changes chang s a 11 l detail and andin in method as age increases es and experience broadens This is a second edition I 1 h heard criticism of the first edition that too little was left to o the childs child's initiative Much of the basis for that criticism has been removed Children trained trained train train- ed under this revision of l the e system will be a little more more human than those trained under the method first proposed n |