The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-19
KANSAS cOMAENT
CORPORAL PUNIsHMENT.

OOAs1 OIl<a1x RONlSdD1 EfNT.
educators are devoting much at
| tention to the question Of corporal
punishment. To be or not to be is
now the question. One gentleman
learned in the art of spanking and
It's AFTER effects. has published a book
upon the subject and collected the
opinions of many other eminent edu-
cat1onal authorities. The consensus
or opinion seems to be that while the
palmy days of the birch-rod and cane
are over to large extent, they should
not be altogether abolished. They
| are to be retained as a sort of Damo-
cles1an punishment The pupil will be
the subject of moral coercion rein
forced by the knowledge that If he
gets too awfully bad the rod may still
descend. That advisory adage attri-
buted to Solomon has been worm
eaten for these many years anyway.
About the only person who has
nouthed it at all has been the timid
male parent who has bolstered his
waVer1ng determination with it and
flung it in the face of his better halr
opposed to the chastisement of their
precocious tnfant-her darling boy.
We are glad that the cane and the
birch-rod. especially the cane. are not
to go altogether. We have amusing,
and wfthal somewhat tender, recol-
lections OF the days when we stuffed
our neither garments with brown pa
per anticipatory of punishment and
felt the long, 1.-THE cane writhe round
our limbs without the supposedly at
tendant pain, and we can yet recall
the chuckles with which, under the
shadow of our desk or out behind the
old school house, We rubbed our
hands with resin in anticipation of
the sternly delivered command: Hold
out your hand SIR" And. when our
hands did sting and tingle for a little
while how many of us can say that
we were any the worse for it after
wards.-Wichita Eagle.
LONG AND BRIsTow.
The fight between Senator Long and
Mr.. Bristow starts out in lively fashion.
Already the Newton Republican claims
that Mr.. Bristow owes his prominence
In national affairs to Senator Long.
Mr.. Bristow will not have to disprove
this. Senator Long himself will not
persist in the charge. Bristow was
endorsed by Long for appointment as
fourth assistant postmaster general
under President Mckinley. But the
prominence he gained in the distin-
guished service was due to the manner
in which Mr.. Bristow met the expecta-
tons of both administrations of both
Mckinley and Roosevelt. The people
do not ask any longer who got this
man his job,' but rather did he make
good?"-Wichita Beacon.
DOCTORS
The quack doctor is really more dan
gerous than the diseases he processes
to cure. He has probably caused more
deaths than cancers have. He thrives
through the stupid attitude of the men,
bers of the regular profession who re-
gard 1t rs non ethical to expose the
quack and instruct the public along
sane and wholesome lines. The doctors
profession Is the noblest of the age,
and the members OF it are as rule
able and consecrated. But their attitude
of reserve toward the public, and the
nonsense they indulge in about the
ethics Of public announcement give
the entire field to the ''quack'' who de-
sires to reach the public and who hasn't
any false notions Of modesty-Wichita
Beacon. u.s.