Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-02-02 | Page 4 | Profanity among School-Boys

0 S PROFANITY AMONG SCHOOL SCHOOLBOYS SCHOOLBOYS SCHOOLBOYS BOYS The father of a schoolboy s at Rich Richfield Richfield Richfield field heard a crowd of boy pupils out for the noon recess talking about the tha various interests that concerned them and indulging in a most amazing pleni plent plenitude tude of profanity He talked It over with his son eon that night and found that the language heard there by accident was the common speech of the boys bos when at play It Is difficult to say how general is that practice but we fancy the boy pu pupils i pile pils at Richfield are not much better and not much m ch worse than boy pupils anywhere else And if the surmise is fair it is worth while to give some adult attention to the matter There is probably no one thing more harmful to boys bos than indulgence ce in profane and obscene language It loads to acts of depravity with a perfectly demoniac It fixes the grade of the boy in lifes levels and one who gives free rein to his tongue has less respect for himself and gets less re respect respect respect from others because of it And presently he has a fixed habit which he cannot abandon Words however are things And the man who gives to his lan language language language guage the tho license to outrage his soul soulIs so soulIs ul ulIs Is controlled by the words he lie dis disdains disdains dains dams to control Every influence within the Utah schoolroom is moral and educative along the tho very ery best beet lines It were a pity if Just outside the doors door waited a custom which counteracts all aU the uplift of the teacher and the community be behind behind behind hind her