Show PROF NEEVER mm AT THE TABERNA tabernacle on sunday afternoon last prof mc ilc keeter of 0 the department of philosophy in the university of kansas who has been giving a series of lectures at the ogden chautauqua occupied the time at the services in the tabernacle his corning coming had bad been widely advertised and as neighboring wards were invited to participate in the services the building was quite completely filled as it usually is at quarterly conferences prof mckeever spoke under the auspices of the parents classes selecting selectia tin as a 8 his topic A better crop of boys and girls girl the lecture was listened to with nith deepest interest abi bout and was filled with helpful suggestions prof Mc Keevers argument Is that a helpful sympathetic attitude toward oward children with permission to live their own natural normal lives will assuredly e develop a better belter crop of boys and girls parents know altogether too little about natural normal instincts feelings and desires of children and consequently misunderstand them juige then them and fall fail to bring out the iest there is in III the boy and the gir girl the speake pointed out some half dozen characteristic instincts of children and indicated how these might be most profitably directed he mentioned first the instinct for play and showed bow this could be utilized lie he maintained that home play grounds 1 and accessible play ground centers should be established in every community for the sake of odthe the child the very best investment any community can call make ile he detailed interestingly the play house and playthings plaything she he has at his own home for his and hs neighbors children lie he vent ent on to cliar characterize acte the groath of the play movement in ill the contested con jested centers of r the east and told bow millions we were being profitably spent spent in securing play I 1 grounds he emphasized the necessity I 1 of proper supervision of play and characterized the purpose of play as being for life and for development not merely that the child might have a good tinie time any child may have a gloriously good time on oil the aish heap 10 1 o or reveling in the scraps of uie the garbage bage can butsch bu tsuch a ti time ile col contributes 11 I 1 A nothing to education or life I 1 the speaker asserted secondly that andl the child has an instinct tor for work and by numerous illustrations of its in manifestation ani fe converted his audience e that I 1 this is absolutely true thirdly is the social instinct the de sise she for companionship and sociability 1 he characterized this as belonging especially 1 ally to the adolescent period period chic i period he treated with considerable detail being of such great moment and importance the period in which a child is particularly apt to be misunderstood and misdirected mis directed he emphasized pha sized the importance of parents having baving patience and great wisdom during this great period i he maintained also that children have instincts for religion for reverence economic independence etc and cautioned parents against crushing these instincts or mis directing I 1 them as they appear the lecture vas avas fi aught fraught with such helpful suggestions g gest ions as will bear fruit in our midst in really securing a better crop of men and women prof N Me Keever also took occasion to speak many complementary things of conditions and people as he be found them in utah and characterized his sojourn as ag being one of greatest profit and learning to himself he was especially ally impressed aith n ith the large number of fathers found at gatherings in utah with the strong social spirit everywhere t I 1 present alith with the seem in determination h I 1 i a 1 hytt evident to build soundly and well an on the great work the pioneers began here ile he paid also a most glowing tribute to his own native state kansas picturing in ill a vivid manner the advantages that thai had accrued financially morally and spiritually thru prohibition and predicted that otiler other states would follow in her wake |