Mower County transcript., 1904-01-13
SHALL WHIP BE: USED Z
Evanston Educator. Thinks It
Il Best Way to Punish.
THREATS NoT ENOUGH, HE CLAIMS

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Of Three Things Needed to Cure
Bandit EVIL In Schoolboys-Presi-
dent Butler of Columbia University
1ndorses the Rod-Chfcago 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
boys: He thinks that he can trace the
bandit evil to the lack of corporal pun
ishment in the public schools. He re-
CARDS 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 hoodlums.
These statements he recently made in
antaddress before the cooperative class
OF gthe First Congregational church Of
Evanston. says the Chicago Record
Herald:
.I have nothing to retract," said Pro-
fesSor Boltwood when told that his re-
matks had caused considerable crit
cisn. OF course I do not believe in in
dmipa ipping in the public
schools, bat IN bidding corporal pun
ishment members Of school boards are
asking of teachers what is asked of no
government on earth - namely, that
IL che In
without power. You may try moral
suasion on a hoodlum five days in the
week for forty weeks in the year, and
he will still be hoodlum at the end
Of the year.
"Some of those who favor moral sua-
sion will tell you that threat to expel
bad boy is all that is necessary, but
of what power is threat when the
very thing he most desires is to be ex-
PEELED? Darn you, you dassent touch
mev is what they tell their teachers.
In ny 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 sentimentality
protects bad boys and leads to crime
Professor Boltwood seems to be sup
ported in his moral attitude as to whip
ping unruly pupils by the recent utter
ances Of DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler.
president of Columbia university, New
York, who said in part:
Il have never been a principal, but l
have come into personal contact with
principals. mean this literally. There
is a tradition in school Mol 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.
81 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 c.. Alling, principal of the ia
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 parent whip
child p he asks. .'The teachers are regu-
lated by so many 'don'ts' both by their
employers and the press that it takes
the courage out OF many Of them. The
best teachers would not use the rod II
you gave it to them. but from the best
to the weakest they desire stronger
lpublic sympathy for the girls who
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