The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1909-10-27
CORPORAL PUNISHMENT

ment, he Caldwell tribune says:
As the principle of sparing the
rod and spelling the child has been
rcligiously enforced ever since Solo
mon gave it utterancc, and as the in
crease of incorrigibles and smart alecs
among the children is simply amazing,
according to the Globe, we would
suggest that perhaps a change in prac-
tice might accomplish something to-
ward the decrease of incorrigibles and
smart alecs. The Solomon precept
has certainly had a fair chance, and
UP to the present day has accomplished
nothing, according to the Globe. In
Canyon county this one precept of
Solomon's is the fundamental princi-
pie of our school discipline, and to-
day Canyon county has more boys and
girls at the reform school at ST.
Anthony than any county in Idaho
with the exception of Ada, by far the
most populous county, and Fremont,
one of the largest counties and the
home county of the reform school.
Ada county has committed SO child
rem to the Idaho reform school; FIRE.
mont county has 1o and Canyon
county IL. We would remind the
Globe that up to date Idaho county
has not deemed it necessary to send a
single child to the Idaho reform
school. There can be no great in
crease in incorrigibles at Grangeville,
where corporal punishment is ta-
boocd."
The Tribune is mistaken, we are
sorry to say, in the statement that
Idaho county has no delinquents at
St. Anthony. There are FIVE in the
reform school there at present, and
three which the Juvenile Judge is now
holding out on parol and quite a num-
Der of others who should, and will
be sent there if their course is n OF re-
formed. The Tribune says the
Globe admits that the increase of
incorrigibles is amazing" under the
enforcement of the wise mans in
junction not to spare the rod and
spoil the child, and therefore argues
for the adjustment of all corporal
punishment. The Globes conten-
ton, however, was just the reverse
from that, claiming that the public ex-
ploitation of the fact that under the
law teacher was liable to be- ar
rested and fined for assault for thresh-
ing an unruly pupil, had a tendency
to create insubordination among the
very pupils who needed suppression,
and that to the "change in practice"
from Solomon way, was largely due
the increase in insubordination. The
Globe is not contending for the in
discriminate breaking of ribs and the
smashing of heads among school
children. Itbelieves in moral suasion
just so far as it brings the results, and
no farther. There are children, like
grown persons. who are not amenable
to mild measures; to these sterner
means of correction must be applied,
or the lawless spirit displayed by them
will become contagious among the
other pupils and the school will be
ruined.
Expulsion from school as a means
of discipline does not effect the de-
sired end; that is just what the really
incorngables most desire; it gives them
freedom from restraint and mental
application; besides schools are main
tanned for the purpose of educating
children in the various branches of
learning and personal conduct, and
they must be kept in there, instead of
being turned out, to affect that result.
Pupils should never be expelled from
school unless they become absolutely
incorrigable and then they should go
direct to the reform school. To turn
them out is open encouragement to a
lawless and criminal course. Instead
of turning them out and letting them
90, this is the very point in their lives