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Show m YOUR BOYS AND GIRLS III contrast with the boy who knows when to light and when not to, Is tho enso of ono who would not fight under any circumstances. This boy. was tho delight of a dozen tormentors who would chaso him after school until ho took rcfugo in somo storo, from which ho would telophono homo to his mother to come and fetch him. Tho principal of n largo city school, tolls mo that ho finds among tho parents of his pupils Just two attitudes atti-tudes toward children's fighting: EI thor thoy encourngo tho lighting In-stiust In-stiust without regard to clrtumstnnc-os clrtumstnnc-os or thoy lay down tho rule that tho hoys must never fight. Ono nttl tudo Is just ns arbitrary as tho other and neither fits all cascB. Somo boys need Just ns much to bo discouraged In their bolllgerciit activities. Each Individual has to bo Judged by himself. him-self. And each boy has to loam to Judge each lighting opportunity by Itself. Tho moral effect of ono's nttltudo townrd fighting Is oven moro lmpor tnnt than tho physical effect. While nggrosslvo combatlveness Is to bo discouraged, wo should try to retain onough of tho lighting instinct in each child to mnko suro that tho joung peoplo do not grow up with a soft ludlffercnco to Injustice m |