Show 5 I Sparing the Rod I 0 By JOHN BLAKE A magistrate in In a. a a great American city recently discharged a woman for tor cruelly beating a step step- child I believe he said laid solemnly as he allowed the woman to leave th the room leading the terrified little girl gin that Jf t f y jou ou spare the rod you spoil the child I I have ha often whipped my own children until the they could not stand It Is the only way to make men of them Fortunately the publicity the case received brought it to the attention of a Judge of a higher court who examined into the facts It de eloped developed eloped that the woman was of ot a a thoroughly thorough thorough- ly bad character r and has been using the step child cruelly for a number of years The child was taken from her and placed In the care of ot a childrens children's society where she has a chance to grow up and be happy The beating of ot children is the surest way to brutalize them The spare the rod Idea has done more to fill the world with cruel bullies than all the petting e end and d spoiling that t foolish parents have haYe ever done Had not the magistrate been swiftly overruled In this particular case his decision might have done Infinite harm for It would woud have encouraged i many stupid and ignorant people to deal cruelly with their children and step children sowing in their hearts the seeds of hatred which some day would grow grow up to bear beat bitter fruit Children are are naturally restive and resentful of authority If they the were er not we would be pe a submissive race ruled over o by a handful of unscrupulous tyrants trants who would live Uve at ease on our labor and hold the power pO of ot life lite and death over us The spirIt of f Independence that Is born In a child Mil Is If i the ht spirIt that has saved the world from subjection It Is n to control children before their Judgment Is formed and to subject them to pUne pline s M that the they learn leam may in ln time to control control S nut But to tb do It brutally y- y bV by Physical chastisement only mal maRe makes e. e them cruel crue too and Is likely to camj caus theta them to grow W up P Into dangerous members of ot the tbs community r It s not always possible to to bring up children on Herbert Spencer SPEncers plan ilan of reasoning with them about the cause e od effect of misconduct l nut But ut It Is never to necessary hurt them to to make them afraid of the father and mother that the they ought to love e George Bernard Pernard Shaw says pays somewhere that the only possible po e. e excuse cuse for bating b a a. a child is that the tho l Parent arent was in a f violent fit of ot anger aner at the be Im imo ani and that this is Is a sorry excuse To lo child chUd a 0 in cold blood announcing This TUN hurts buns me more than announcIng it does doe you O Is I. a n which jou crime ought to be punished b fly uy by the me aw a. aw Children R supply a geat part of ot the Joy and beauty of ot life lite Thoc who are worthy to live Uve n In thie world W would BW neV never r leat them or r Use them roell e-roell cruelly The other kInd ought tl to be kept In ln fear ot of the tho i. i law If It thy y nr tha that the same kind of punt h- h ment would be meted out to them as as they ev me mete out f to the K I M little ones In their power there would be no more beatings jf |