Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-28

boy after the incident was closed He
treated it as necessary and salutary
duty performed. He talked as usual
to him about the usual things He just
licked him for his own good, good gov
eminent and in the interests of the
family. And then it was all over and
new day when the boy ceased smart
ing and quit sullSing. Grandfathers
sons We're good men; his horses We're
we'll trained; his SHEPPARD dog would
go eighty rods to the pasture, let down
a pair of bars" and bring in the cows
and none of them We're afraid OF him.
They all knew however, that an order
was an order and TO be obeyed. The
neighbors knew they could depend on
him in any time Of whatever need.
They also knew that they must keep
the fences up and their cattle out Of his
corn. Grandfather Jones was bus
mess" a good man who submitted to
And Grandfather Jones knew that when
one of his boys got licked at school 99s
times out of 1000 he deserved it.
There is too much fuss over the Des
Moines incident The chances are that
the children who are alleged to have
been assaulted and "battered' were
simply trimmed little in a mild and
decorous way that would have awak-
ened contempt in your mind had 1t
happened to you forty years ago. 1t is
possible that they had not at that mo-
ment been guilty of licking offence"
but no doubt they had run the ac-
count up to where a settlement became
imperative. The teacher dressed them
down. 1t is likely that the parents who
are prosecuting the teachers would
have threshed them long before under
similar provocation and with the same
propriety, unless as is the case in too
many homes, the children run the
4 house." and the parents obey. And we
all know the finish of children where
such conditions exist in the home.
Prosecuting teachers who thrash I'M
ruly children is business that should
be carried on with caution. A good
spanking very often changes g naughty
child into a cooling angel; sound
/ thrashing often removes dangerous
swelling from boys head and starts
him right on the road to manliness;
many bully and tyrant has been
knocked down to rise into companion
able citizenship.
"Children have rights?" Surely they
do, and every one from the street.
sweeper to the president protects them.
Slap little boy on the street in front
of a street cleaning gang and report
what happens. No hurry about the
report. Any time after you get out of
the hospital will do. Try it on the
steps of the bank and hear the tele-
phone ring for an officer. None will
=
one has fidgets 10 see an impudent
lawless, spoiled and unmana geable lit
tie reprobate get what has been com.
ing to all such children since Eve tool
Cain across her knee in the Garden o.
Eden, and Adam asked What has hi
been into this timer" Teachers ma.
generally be trusted to exercise mere.
at the expense even of government
When a boy gets licked at school hs
deserves it. That is an axiom estab,
lished and the exceptions are onl.
proofs of the soundness of the rule
We have filled the schools with WON
en-. some assert TO the Termination o
the boys, at any rate to the saving
of expense. When one of them pluck
up the sand to thrash boy who need
it, let's stay out of court.