Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-03-10
Outside Point of Wen

There is great deal Of talk these
days Of the Termination OF our boys.
thru the continued influence and per-
sonal daily contact with women teach
ers, There is something to it. And
with 1t comes the thought perhaps our
boys need this feminine influence dur
ing their tender years. ITO prevent their
becoming worse specimens OF the male
than nature made them. But the point
made by these writer's On "femininity"
is that such influence by women teach
ers is really disastrous to the future
Of the average boy sent to the public
schools. In a word, we make "sissies"
Of many boys that under male teachers
this In the way of example and pre-
cept-would develop into strong men.
rather than "mollycoddles. To state
the proposition still palmer, women
teachers never will teach the boy the
manly art of self-defense, l. e., make
him handy with his dukes"
OF course, individual cases prove
nothing. There are boys that need to
be taught boxing because they need to
be taught a form Of self defense. And
there are many boys that a, knowledge
Of boxing only adds to their successful
role Of bully, another weapon they GER
tatnly do not need. Such cases we all
have seen and remarked upon. The
question is: Has succession Of years
Of women teachers in our school rooms
changed the, fighting qualities OF the
males OF these United States? SAnd
here's the answer: Remember the
Maine" No nation ever sent better
army Of fighters into the field, than we
did during the Spanish war. Not that
there was no such fighting. nor long
drawn-out sieges such as the Japanese
had during the war with Russia, but
we had thousands Of young men ready
to fight and who did fight when nee
essary, and SO per cent Of these young
men attended schools taught almost
exclusively by women teachers.
What many call fen1ininity is really
culture, education and refinement The
very word male suggests brute and
brute strength. 1t suggests profanity.
vulgarity, obscurity and indecency.
And if the influence Of women teach
ers on our boys is knocking out some
OF luCS0 IIlOliSIlOuSlIlGSs lIACl1h 1OS. hoA
the day that women began teaching in
our public schools. Unfortunately the
effect Of women teachers. on our boys
is not to eradicate the outrageous
characteristics All the woman teach
er really does is to teach the boy to
omit his profanity In certain places
and at certain times. Her teaching is
that to grow up a gentleman, no boy
or young man does or says certain
things in public. And even this is
gain. It means a part holiday for the
real gentleman that has to be placed
in contact with the men of the day,
a large portion OF his time.
Then too, we have a school Of phil
osophers that are sure the reason for
the 1essened hold Of the christian re-
ltgion on the mass of the people is IFS
The argument is, the
great exemplar teaches non resistance
as the cardinal virtue, Love is the
primal doctrine. Justice disappears
and forgiveness takes it's place. An "eye
for an eye" is wrong, while to turn
the other cheek" is Christlike and an
gelic. And again there's something in
it. The men of today do not make
the christian religion part of their
daily life, as was the custom. in Cron,-
wells time. The sixth generation from
the Puritan FATHERS is not burning
witches. even il that was sign Of
masucline christianity, 1t Il; true the
christian religion has become more and
more feminized in this, the world un-
der its teachings has developed the
better traits of humanity, in the care
OF the weak, in recognizing the rights
of children and women. Yes, the world
as 1t adopts the present form Of fem
inized christianity, does teach men to
be kind, decent. temperate, and to
adopt many of the virtues Of the fe-
male. The christian religion. FEM
intzed as it is. however has only ac-
complished what the woman teacher
has in the public schools. 1t has only
restrained men from an outward form.
Our preacher the go of May breaches
peace ON EARTH and on THE acth of
May, decorates the graves Of the fight