Show TO RESTORE THE ROD RODA RODI A I GROWING G DEMAND for the to re 1 of corporal punishment In Inthe Inthe the public schools of Chicago Is 19 noted by a cOn contemporary wl which ch views with approval the suggestIon that only by means of the th rod can unruly boys be made tractable It ha has been some years oar since the rod has been sene generally rally u used ed In progressive public schools and andIn andin In spite of tile Chicago mOe movement nt to toward toward ward itS the public school hool morale han bM nut not deteriorated If at all For OUr PUTt we do not believe whip whippings pings make good boys out of bad boys Some of the most hardened offenders In the local public schools have been whIpped at home numberless times but they have lIae not been Improved th thereby reb i The tr trouble ube about thIs whipping It on Is that It usually makes the boy sulkier As soon as the paIn has ceased I Ih h hO Is 18 wilting WIlling to gut get into of devIlment just by way ot of gettIng even i There are times when whippIngs seem too but n a boy should never be whipped except for tor the gravest sOrt of The best form ot of punIshment for school children II Is for them to be kept In Let Let a b ora or a girl who has Ib ben en unruly unruh be kept in for fifteen or twenty t ty minutes after the others have gone on their way and more good will be accomplished than by a dozen whippings Teachers object to thIs pem ty because became the they are sufferers also They want to get a away wa as badly as the chIldren and they prefer to in filet a punishment that will affect only the culprit Even lu hi the home corporal punish punishment meat ment 1 Is resorted to far less often than thai In other days dys Children are sent to bed bed eArlier than usual they are de deprived deprived of some f favorite de ert the theare they are made to stand up In a corner for ft raw few minutes to reflect on their sins sin and they are punished In other ways Parents are coming more and more to realize In the light ot of theIr own e pe that the whippIng of children often does more harm than good Solo Soo Solomon mon saId Spare the rod and spoil the child but Solomon had a great man many wives and nobody knows how man many children so he hAd to act very ery prompt I hy and ana the rod was handiest And by the wa way It if any of oC Solomons children to very much in spite of the fact that he was wac always giving advice about the care of chit drezi we we dont recall their |