The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-02
CUPID COURSE IN ALL STATE SHOOTS IS URGED
Professor Arkansas Agricultural College Says Love Is Neglect
Rearing Raising

Prof w. A. McKeever of the phi
Iosophy department of the Kansas
Agricultural College. in bulletin
just issued by the college, urged the
establishment of a school for mat
rimony in all Kansas schools for
higher education Prof. McKeever
believes that the working out of such
a course and intelligent considera-
tion of its experiments and work will
practically remove all necessity for
penal institutions in the state and
will tend to remove the bad boys and
girls from the community, not by
law, but by raising the standard of
men and women.
Prof. McKeever gets out four bull
letins year on problems of the
home, and in this one he urges the
matrimonial schools as follows:
I'VE have scientifically worked out
cards for the scoring of COWS, pigs
and chickens, but how about scoring
young men and women who are can
didates for marriage, instead of
prizes as perfect specimens of
breed? What are the correct stand
ards of form and symmetry of the
body? OF physical health? OF
knowledge as to the care and in
struction of infants? What are the
marks whereby a young woman
whose hand is sought in marriage
may know a good man when she sees
him and those whereby a young man
may know a good woman?
Love Ignorant, Not Blind.
"All these important matters are
left to chance and accident, because !,
we have been laboring under the |
foolish belief that love is blind. |
Young men fall in love with super
fetal things as a big basket-shaped !
hat or a mincing gait and young |
woman with flashy neckties and |
glistening rings, partly because they |
do not know from intelligent instruc-
ton what to look for as evidence of |
real worth in the opposite sex.
I'VE provide courses of instruc- |
ton for those who would do well and |
improve the breed of horses, cattle, |
hogs and sheep, but we do nothing |
for a course of training or any stand I
ard Of requirements for those who !
are to engage in the complex and |
difficult task of raising children and !
improving the race. The govern /
ment is spending vast sums in study |
ing the antics of the sportive clam, !
but there is no public support for (
the scientific study of the interesting /
behavior of little children playing |
ar 70 hA
state and government are spending |
thousands of, scholarly dissertations |
on how to develop kindness and
good will in the recreant mule ana /
how to bring up an orphan calf, but |
those in charge of the rearing and !
development of the human offspring |
must grope in the dark for a sue I
cessful way.
There ought to be instituted for !
prospective parents course in mat /
rimony. Let there be obtained by /
careful inquiry body Of information
as to what physical and mental and
moral qualities are most satisfactory
promises of efficient parenthood and
what types of temperament may be
regarded as compatible. Then teach
these things to young men and wO-
men and they will be guided intelli-
gently in a search for a true and
likewise intelligent companion of the
soul
Children Improperly Reared.
I'VE often find boys, who, through
a lack of any well-planned exercise
or the experience of persistent work,
are without the moral stamina neces-
sary to enable them to answer the
many imperative calls for well-dis-
posed young artists and artisans.
Girls, too, there are, approaching tie
age OF grOMn-nn MOMAnhOnl !. whose