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Show MOKAL TRAINING IN SCHOOL The wave of crime which is and has been for several years sweeping over the United States, a situation not equalled elsewhere in the civilized civil-ized world, indicates that the children chil-dren of the country are not receiving receiv-ing the ethical and moral training which is their's by right. The children chil-dren of today will be the men and women of tomorrow. If they are not to be taught the value of right living liv-ing now the chances are they never will learn it. The theory generally in use in the United States is that the home and the church should teach young people peo-ple what is right and what is wrong. That the church and the home are not meeting this responsibility seema evident. If parents will not give their children the needed moral instruction instruc-tion and if the church is not in a position po-sition to do so, the nation ought to see to it that the public schools meet the emergency. In Eur'ope practically all schools are controlled by the church. Moral teaching forms a large part of the curriculum. Perhaps it is for this reaf-on that in Europe and England lews are respected far better than in the United States and crime is almost al-most infinitely less than here. This is not a plea for church schools A large section of the American public pub-lic is and always will be, it appears, opposed to church schools. But there seems no logical and sensible reason why teachers should not be required to give special instruction from the kindergarten up, in the need of obeying obey-ing the laws of God and man. Such teaching to a very limited extent is being given now, but teachers are so I afraid of breaking the rules, or offending of-fending some particular church denominations, de-nominations, that this highly important import-ant feature of a child's education Is being largely neglected. The schools of the country ought to teach religion and morals. Certainly Certain-ly some such course could be arranged arrang-ed that would not be offensive to any brand of religion and which would fill this desperate need Exchange. |