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' WHIPPING CHILDREN AT HOME AND IN SCHOOL A Story of Children And Their Impulse to Wrong-Doing [Dy Owen K. Washburn] Eight year old Johnny Reardon has just left here on his way home from school. I stopped him because I saw that he was crying and very unhappy. He ha*? 3 mother who is tender, but not strong enough to defend him. His father's rule is to whip Johnny when he gets home if he is whipped at school. No inquiries as to the justice of what the teacher had done are made. The teacher is a woman who is mentally too lazy to review her own ideas or to put herself in Johnny's place, so the little fellow who is sensitive, well-intentioned and heart hungry has a hard time of it. All who practice the whipping of children should remember that the more bigoted, the more ignorant and superstitious and stupid the age. the more freely the rod has been used. Just in proportion as civilization, science, and humane ideals in other matters have advanced, the use of the whip on children, adults?and animals too?has decreased. Almost every case of whipping not arising from the stupidity of the teachers and parents arises from their ignorance of the limitations of the S powers of the little victims. As a rule every child wants to do right, his instincts is to be right. When he is Vrong there are adequate reasons for it, and until we understand those reasons and are sure those reasons cannot be removed except by the whip, we have no right to resort to the whip. It is evident that a child should not be whipped for his hereditary endowment. You cannot whip a child away from its ancestry, and it is unjust to try. The quick temper which is usually an accompaniment of a quick mind, though often not of a powerful mind and never of a trained mind, can be improved only by teaching, never by the whip. Aside from quick temper, no evil tendencies are inherited. The children of murderers, thieves, drunkards and those given to vice often become like their parents, due to teaching, environment, poverty and poor nutrition. Nor is it just to whip a child for r the effects of its environment If you were brought up in a family where "jawing" was constant, where physical force was the rule, bullying the means of getting what was justly your due, fighting a common mode of self expression, hunger a constant source of irritation, and lack of opnortunitv to exDress one's active im pulse was chronic, you would probably during school age be a "bad boy" or a "bad girl". Manifestly the way to overcome the effects of a bad home environment is to substitute a good environment in the home and school, and if the home cannot be reached, then the need in school is greater for kindness, carefulness to be just, reasoning on all disputed points. Peace, not the use of force, is the cure for such habits of mind as a bad home produces. There is no hope of improving the child of a home spoiled by bullying by using the methods of the bully and demanding obedience without reason, or inflicting whippings for failures that the child could not perhaps avoid. But it is the physical equipment that the teacher and parent ipost need to understand before the whipping is tried. It takes a certain amount of I nerve vigor to stand up to temptation. The sick are notedly unjust while thuir nerves are in bad condition. We never want to whip a sick man for his inability to overcome the tempta- , tion to fret or to see things unfairly. ( The keepers used to whip horribly , for nervous diseases in the old insane asylums; many parents and teachers still whip horribly as a cure for lack j of nerve vigor. Both practices are un- ] worthy of a parent or teacher of or- < dinary common sense. Before whip- ; ping a child you should first discover . if the thing you are whipping for is \ cacsed by an inherited quick temper. < If so. you will get no good results i from whipping. Remember, too, that j only self-respect makes a gooa era- < zen, and a whipping, especially if it j be in public, is the greatest blow to i self-respect which can be devised. j Unusually the wrong-doing or ap- < parent wrong-doing of a child is in \ the physical conditions of its bodily ] inheritance and environment. Before j you whip for a wrong-doing you ] should eliminate all chance that you ] are wrong in your judgment as to the ] facts. We require twelve men, a judge, < at least two lawyers and a lot of j time l>efore we can decide as to the j guilt or innocence of an adult charged with wrong-doing, and then we are j likely to be wrong. Do not imagine that you can call a boy from school ground or the yard of his home, and find out the facts in two minutes. Childien ars as clever at deceit some times as adults; the code of childhood includes silence as to guilt of others; the motives of a child are something he often lacks ability even to present. A long series of aggressions may cul- ; minate in some trifling thing and, bring on the aggressor the sudden i wrath and blow he has invited, and yet even to an eye witness, the blow be wholly unprovoked and worthy of sharp punishment. Even open defiance of a teacher or parent may result from a firm or mistaken belief on the part of the child that he is in the [ right. To answer that heroic defiance with blows, till the sense of justice is lost in pain, is vicious. But having, as you think, eliminated the chance that you are mistaken you have still to consider the physical condition of the offender. Many children are slightly defective in hearing, and appear insolent, vicious or lazy about their tasks simply because they do not understand what is wanted or what is said around them. By sharp attention they can hear, but sharp attention all the time is beyond their powers. You should discover those who are in this class, or someone should by careful examination. before you whip. Another class is afflicted with defect of the eyes. They suffer a continual nerve strain from efforts at eye adjustment which results in irritation, sudden snapping of the bonds of authority, and difficulty in study. You have no right to whip any child until you know,?not guess but know, that the child is not defective as to sight or hearing. Some children are not able to comprehend some particular line of study. They seem capable but do not get the lesson. For example, the writer of fUSr* wnvo*. oKl n f a 11 r? rJn rof on/1 bllld *> OO UWIt WV UUUVIi^MMIU algebra; he does not now. He knows that he tried, and tried hard, to understand it. He was once sent home from high school becruse he apparently would not do the work, but the truth is he was, at least at that time, unable to grasp it, though good in mental arithmetic and above the average in some other studies. He might have been whipped to death, and it would have made no difference. "He could learn it if he wanted to," is often an opinion the teacher has, which is not founded on fact. , One should- not whip for mental peculiarities. "But are there not cases where the ? defiant and impudent wrong-doing boy needs a sharp lesson?" I would ask in return if the whipping is usually given while the wrong is being done, and if not, can the questioner say that it is only for the purpose of stopping something which is being done, that he would use the whip? There is much confusion as to the right to use force. To use it to stop a man in a crime he is men auempxmg, io stop a Doy in impudent defiance may be simply selfprotection, or protection of a family, school or social order. The boy who swaggers from his seat in school, or sits impudently reviling his teacher has attacked the school, and is attacking it while he acts that way. Attack ir y be resisted, but the right to punisn is a more seriously complicated matter. If the teacher or parent in such cases is in the right, if she has no better method she believes efficient, such a method as an appeal to the opinion of others, the public opinion of the group present, then she may, and wisely, instantly stop such an attack by force. But when the wrong has been done, whipping should not be resorted to until at least all the points I have mentioned have been understanding^ considered; until the teacher or parent is justified in thinking that violence is necessary. And when the causes and method have all been considered, it will be rare indeed that whipping will be practised. And even when it seems to be needed anH nil nhiertinns spfm tr> be met, we have to consider whether we ought to take the responsibility of the effect of even a deserved whipping upon the child. I know a woman who was whipped in school thirty-five years ago. To this day she cries if it is mentioned to her and her nerves have not been vigorous since that day, her nervous system was snocked. She herself grew up to be a teacher, ind for twelve years taught school in three different towns. She had both country and city pupils, of all ages, jut for the most part ranging in age From eleven to fifteen. They were often children of foreign parents of all rationalities. and often from the worst homes; yet during that twelve fear she whipped only one boy; and :hat in her first year, before she went to Normal School; and she afterwards regarded that whipping as too severe i remedy for the case. Yet she always had order and good work; she was popular with her pupils and before her retirement from school work she was presented, as a testimonial of esteem, with a life certificate to teach in the State of Minnesota. Such experiences are common among teachers. The number of cases where whipping is just, necessary and important enough to good order to entitle the parent or teacher to take the risk of injuring the pupil permanently, are certainly rare. It is probable that few teachers would ever resort to violence if they understood their work, their pupils, and the effects of conditions effecting the pupils. 24 EGGS FROM 28 HENS Mississippi Woman Had No > Eggs for Four Months. . Hens Now Laying Regularly, r "I wish to praise Dr. LeGear's Poultry Prescription to Poultry Raisers. 1 have 28 hens and had no eggs from .them for over 4 A nv T thorn nno and LXlKJll W1J. A AVU MlViU WUV MUM one-half packages of your prescription I gathered over 2 dozen eggs from them. This is a positive fact, and I advise all poultry raisers to use Dr. LeGear's Poultry Prescription, if they wish their hens to lay."?Miss Carlina Freeman, Harriston, Miss. Dr. LeGear's advice and a few pennies wisely spent have m^de layers out of loafers. You can obtain the same results. Get a package of Dr. LeGear's Poultry Prescription from your dealer. Use it as directed. It is a tonic which builds up the strength and vitality of hens, without overstimulating or injuring the egg producing organs. If results are not entirely satisfactory, return the empty carton and receive a refund of vour money.?Dr. L. D. LeGear Med.-Co* St. Louis, Mo. Blood is N.'e. 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