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Show 3hJi Iks. Rod (A l n-.if, i yr-H(i:CI1 l.rill f,r mr There was uuvW V"!:' 'WI when the old aqyi,1sri" iJ! the rod anl spoij , jl'rr oi coultl receive ntoY(; p.'1 c confirmation tl,rm jt c-m t lr1 for tljouiisDoijcl cl,iM hard to find a thoiieclU.i haymow. Jt is ood tlJ , that there is an I''4, anion; parent and tVi, that may result in tlie, " training of the avr,!",. " can child who ,s, ns evoi)!i) blindest of us must ndrnit - ' tiling but well traineij. "e' ruly hoodlums" is the do,,. tion lately jjfiven by our best educators, who ;ir V voeatin the us:o of the m-i'; schools. I believe the mothers' iny;s have, clone much to (Z work that rule of ;jni,u'; which, nltho admirable iu 6h instances, ban been apulii 1 together qo indiscriniuuti.!, for njany years, Theee Ul(l,j ers' meotins should noV j,;.,' ecjually as much attentj,, undoing tlje vrouf for Vi,i,j they are in lare measure rt spoijsihle, The rod, judiciously used, i, neither horrible nor hrut;;i ' There are cases where jt is a1, solutely necessary tn teach er respect to constituted nutlin; ity. X'or niy part, I'd rat!it, my children should hewliip every day than that tlw, should he as impertinent, i'; hred, intolerahlo atul impossihl as are the majority of the clii, dren of today. I am rbd i say that they do not need sud punishment every dav, hut the would have needed it had the not heen taught prompt obed, ence from the cradle; and the know they are sure of a whij. pinjj when they do ' need ii from their first birthday to tiki sixteenth. As a 'result, their father ani I have not been at all afraid ti send our children away h school and college. We kne that they had been taught self' discipline and self-control, a well as the necessity of obdi ence to proper authority, aw that they would not disfjrso us. And they didn't. We dii ii(t content ourselves with ad njonishitijjf them not todisjjnio the family, hut with the Imp that they would uot were com biued promises of penalties ti pay in case they did. We Iwvi J two relatives and one neij'hl i j whose children were brou'li; up with the "rights of tlit children" held up for constant family worship. Xor one d those children but has hroiht more worry to their parent! jthan we have suffered from ali ours put together. Not oni passed a creditable exntnitiri; tion. Our children led their classes. Xor are they "rwiffV! by any means, for they all excel ex-cel in sports. Jjut they" know they were sent away to schoi! to study, not play. Their fir?i business was to -jet all the y;ood possible from the opp,r: Itumties we jave them. aoii iinT less would be tolerated And they had been trained t!l obey. 1 The lawlessness ami lack it control .anions the voting pie of today forms -one of on" gravest sociological problem How h.m- will it be before our parents open their eyes to Uk gravity of the situation? Thev. and they alone are "respond1' for their children's conduet. Let the teachers use the rod. when necessary, since parei) seem unable to use it themselves. them-selves. It may be the means11, saving the younjr people ir;,!;' something far worse than whipping. |