The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-04-28

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no HeuadN
thars as children
puA aent either fane
school children
miAd-eT G 3ersess wha sfe nood aa
stitutien
way 1le aeiF heart hnt cH
sin Is DEVELOPED eaflg in most boys
and if not restrained grows into
moral tu pIsade ane 81 total de
prayity and the gang Ola EIF
got isnees broken sr not rests
ing his boys ana they eaan 3 bad
end Eli was q preacher. Solomon
said withhold not correction from
the child, etc. There were children
as Belial Thea and There are NOW
pr Hoiderby says there arc 500 boys
in Atlanta schools who never heard
the name Of God save when it w
used profanely and be might have
added and who neYer got a licking nh
home and are On the high road Ia
the changing and their only chance
& + at soae9l By W0d
and reproof. Teachers are better
than 1athers and mothers Tor MANY
children. IN fact we All know nK
parents WHO are not Ill t6 raise their
own ehildren and who ought TO dia
and LET their children be sent 10 al
orphan asylum. Why an ts racket
about whipping ssys2
The doctor throws down the ehal-
4eAge anI says the rod ID Ehe serip-
'tures merck means government. end
that the very moment that you dele
gate to a teacher the right 10 whip
a child you fling an insult 10 the faca
Of God. Wen, if everybody who knows
Dr. Holderby didR' love him5 they
would smile at such ridiculous asser-
tions. He could hardly End another
Biblical scholar but who would say
that the rod in Scripture means d
good old-fashioned lickin@ and fE IS
to be remarked that whenever it 81
used it is ia the masculine gender.
"CQrreet thE son and he shall gfgs
thee rest" BEAT him with the rod
and save his SOULS she that sbarath
the rod hateth his son. etc The
girls didn't need it then and they do
not now. They are all mildAeyed Jer-
seys, except some.
Dr.. Holderby declares that whip
ping d boy Injuries his social stand@
ing and takes away his -self-respect.
Maybe that is what's the matter with
me, and is the reason why 1 am so
meek and subdued. Maybe 1 was
whipped too much. / had a fight one
Sunday witha boy at campmeetng.
and ha ubfnrn1 Dao anI n.-Ilsc 49,
Sunday clothes and gouged The skin
off my face, Next morning my father
whipped me for fighting and when
went to school the teacher got ready
TO whip me, but I showed him my
legs and he let me OF. Good pra-
ciousl what a pr9ud sehrespecting
man would have been tf It had not
been for good old john Norton and
DR., Patterson. You see, I was not B
preachers sons
But, seriously, / know parents who
would rather the teacher would pun
ish their bad boys than to tackle tnem
at home. The school IS their reform-
atory, and with some mothers it is
the nursery. Then, again, there are
parents who think the teacher ought
to. whip other peoples children but
never touch their own. There are lots
of these, especially mothers. The
teachers have a hard time steering be-
tween the breakers, and I am sorry
for them, but [ have never known q
single case where the bad boy got
more than he deserved.
Long e1pereAce has proved that
corporal punishment IS best for bad
men as wei as for bad boys. Crime
has rapidly increased all the
land under the new regime. The ave-
erage Of boys are much WORSE than
they were 30 years ego RheT grow
up to fill our prisons and chaingangss
and fin the daily papers with murders
and suicides and crimes every de-
scription. The Atlanta cry is now
for d reformat0rga Nd land ha
never abolished the whipping post
and not a burglary on bank robbery
is committed there FOR The punish
ment is the lash once a week for sue
cessi9e weeks as the stripes are
healed. They can't stand that Be-
fore the civil war the lash was the
only punishment for the negroes, and
-
there was not a heinous crime conn
mitted by them from the Potomac to
the Rio Grande. But now there are
$4,000 in the chaingangs Of the south
ern states. Whipping hurts, I tell
you it does, and is long remembered
DR.. Jim Alexander and George Adair
and RYAN Howell and I used to taIs
about our whippings and laugh and
make merry. They hadn't lost any
~self-respeet to speah oG-Bin Arp, in
Atlanta Constitution
RotnteR for Winter Riders.
Here is ~aspointer for winter riders:
al flannel bandage, six or seven inches
wide, worn around the waist, covering
the kidneys, viii not only keep the
wearer warm, but Will ~protecrhim from
taking cold. II is also an established.
fact that the same strip Of flannel, worn
in var weather, will save one from
many a summer complaint. Beneath.
the ~scorehihg skies Of Algeria the Arab.
never sets forth into theppen air with
f#~rrA WTw~IrH nnT arnaIr ~ -F-4L --.-ANm