Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-28
SHALL WHIP BE USED ?.
Evanston Educator Thinks It Best Way to Punish.
THREATS NOT ENOUGH, HE CLAIMS

Professor Henry l.. BoItwood Tells
 of Three Things Needed to Cure
 Bandit Evil In SchooIboys-Presi-
 dent Butler of Columbia University
 Indorses the Rod-Chicago Princi-
 pal Wants Public sympathy For
 Teachers.
 Professor Henry l.. Boltwood, princi- pal of the high school at Evanston, ILL, says the whip is good thing for bad bandit evil to the lack of corporal pun ishment in the public schools. He re- gards it as maudlin sentimentality on the part of members of school boards to prohibit whipping in the public schools and holds that such prohibi- 'ton Is in part responsible for the de velopment of bandits and boodlums. These statements he recently made in an address before the cooperative class of the First Congregational church of Evanston, says the Chicago Record Herald.
 T have nothing to retract," said Pro- lessor Boltwood when told that his re- marks had caused considerable crit cism ''Of course do not believe in in- discriminate whipping in the public schools, but in forbidding corporal pun ishment members of school boards are asking of teachers what is asked of no government on earth - namely, that they shall maintain discipline and rule without poweE You may try moral suasion on a hoodlum five days in the week for forty weeks in the year, and he will still be a hoodlum at the end of the year.
 Some of those who favor moral sua- sion will tell you that threat to expel a bad boy is all that is necessary, but of what power is a threat when the very thing he most desires is to beex- pelled? Darn you, you dassent touch mel is what they tell their teachers. Tn Eey opinion, based on many years of observation, three things are necessary if we would cure the bandit evil among schoolboys-frst, the establishment of free kindergartens; second, the rigid en- forcement of the truant laws; third, the restoration, to principals at least, of the power of corporal punishment. AS mat ters now stand, weak sentimental1ty protects bad boys and leads to crime 7
 Professor Boltwood seems to be sup ported in his moral attitude as to whip ping unruly pupils by the recent utter a11ces of .Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia university, New York, who said in part:
 q have never been principal, but have come into personal contact with principals. mean this literally. There is a tradition in school No. l in Pater- son that they used to have two meet ings before school every morning. The first was a prayer meeting, and the second was a moral meeting. The moral meeting was for the purpose of thrashing those who were not attentive at the prayer meeting. The moral meet ing was much the longer of the two.
 'T understand that in New York, we are without that admirable exercise and that the modern child has to get on as best he can on persuasion. hope that the large hearted and senti- mental and soft hearted will give us chance to get back at the boy in the only way in which the impression lasts. I offer myself in evidence"
 James 0. Alling, principal of the Ja- cob Beidler school in Chicago, said he hoped the schools would never return to the use of the rod because of the turn backward spasm in New York. but at the same time he argues that the teachers position is not properly up held by the press. He claims that the teacher stands in loco parents and should have the same right to discipline by whipping that belongs to the par ent. "Why may a parent whip child ?" he asks. ''The teachers are regu- lated by so many 'don'ts' both by their employers and the press that 1t takes the courage out of many of them. The best teachers would not use the rod if