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Show KEEP THE CHILDREN ON A MORAL BALANCE. As an authority on the psychology of the child, W. A. McKeever ranks as the nation's leader. . In a recent article, ar-ticle, he called attention to the serious shock the moral and spiritual sensibilities sensibil-ities of children are receiving in the dally recital of the horrors of the battlefield, bat-tlefield, and he urged the importance ofmaking it clear to the youngsters that the moral and spiritual delinquencies delin-quencies in the war zone are not inherent in-herent in mankind and shall not pro-vail. pro-vail. "First of all, it must be remembered," remem-bered," says Mr. McKeever, "that the .awful acts of carage now taking place along the battle lines aro but magnified magni-fied repetitions, of what the world has witnessed again and again throughout tho centuries. Even tho insane and unspeakable cruelties of our enemy aro not new in either form or substance, but merely a shocking surprise to this supposedly enlightened enlight-ened age. Now, we can very much strengthen our position as moral' guides of our children at this trying time by carefully reminding them of the unassailable integrity of the race as a whole Wo can explain to them ' how the human family has many times passed through crises similar to this one and has come through It all chastened chas-tened and serone, but in no sense fundamentally fun-damentally changed. "We can show how the sins of the fathers are visited upon individuals, few or many, but not upon tho common com-mon race life. Thoro Is no ovidenco to Indicate that all this insane and wicked slaughter has ever permanently permanent-ly damaged the integrity of the human hu-man family as a whole. Likewise there is no evidence to Indicate any pormnnent good. "This knowledge of the substantla-blllty substantla-blllty of the human race should cheer and encourage both parents and young In our set determination to win tho war, and not for ourselves, but for a further vindication of the bettor aspects as-pects of our common nature. It Is not humanity that Is at stake, but the righteous tendencies of human nature are temporarily dethroned by the enemy. en-emy. We must all contribute our part toward putting them back in their place of supremacy. "Thus, Instead of permitting the daily reports of carnage to incite our children to acts of depravity of their own, we may actually make moral capital cap-ital out of these startling currents. Perhaps it is wrong lo teach the young to despise individuals of any nations, but is certainly not wrong to Invest them wtih an unyielding hatred toward to-ward the despicable, murderous attack of our enomy upon all that is best and most sacred in the cntiro family of mankind." |
