The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-04-15
a. More expenses for ILL

pneumonia. More expenses for i'll
ness.
"A banquet was proposed. An
other demand for expenses. Then h.
came out strong on the society emo
Iie had to have expensive dancing les
sons. He began to get fussy abou
the cut of his clothes and the color O
his neckties. He refused to wear hi
uniform on any but drill days wher
he was compelled to wear it, because
he was afraid the boys would think
that he had only one suit of clothes
1--WE did not notice any correspond.
ing shine to his grades and we re-
ceived frequent notices of poor work
on his part from his teachers. He
couldn't pay attention to his studies
because he was too busy paying at.
tention to his girl friends. That frat
bunch had a date for every night in
the week. Dances, theaters, flowers
and candy began to wear a hole in my
income. And the last straw was
when he braced me for five dollars
for flowers and carriage to take
some girl to a party.
l told that young man that the
street cars were plenty good enough
for his mother when we went to part
les, and furthermore, / told him tina;
] did not propose to have his mother
go without comforts in order that
some snippy sixteen-year-old girl
need not soil the tips of her slippers
walking to the street cars.
HE told me that all the boys had
carriages for such occasions and that
the girls expected it. replied that if
a girl would not go with a decent
young lad in street car, she was not
worth taking anywhere and that faith
err had paid the freight about long
On top of all this he funk
ed at his exams. And then father put
his foot down,
! The rule in our house now is that
his grades and his social stunts must
strike better balance and that when
The markings go down the social af-
airs must do the same"
Some years ago, in the course of |
fraternity initiation, the senior
members thrust piece of ice in the
led of the latest addition. He slept
hat night in the wet sheets, and as a
'esult of the illness that followed he
viii be deaf for the remainder of his
fife.
He slept in the bed, wet and cold
With the ice, because of fondly fool
IN streak in the boy nature that leads
I'm to do many reckless act lest
is comrades call him "piker." To
he boy mind the good opinion of his
ompanions is more to be desired than
nat OF his teacher. He naturally ex-
ects the reproof of his teacher; but
ne ostracism of his mates takes the {
avor of life from him.
Already many of the states have
'gislated against fraternities. Ne :
raska, Kansas, Missouri, California. q
Minnesota, Indiana and Illinois are /
mong the states that have forbidden 9
osolutely the high school fraternity. -
'hool boards that have made II a \
loice between the fraternity and ex-
llsion from classes have fought
Ises through the courts in Kansas
ty, in Minneapolis and in Chicago
Id won. In every case irate and
lsty parents, upon looking into the
after carefully, have acknowledged =
at the school authorities were right .
School teachers insist that the high n
hool fraternity fosters interests that p
e inimical to those of the school. 81
d that 1t prevents the spread of the u,
mocratic spirit that should be In in
cry public school, It stirs up ZEAL 10
sizes, animosities and combativeness p'
which the question Of loyalty to the 81
lool Is either secondary or lost n,
hit of altogether. u,
In the train Of the fraternity come ar
score OF outside interests for the ~ ~
Ident. 1t throws him into a social o.
d business whirl that does not in tn
de his school interests and that a
IS him Of time that should be given ne ne
his classes and his lessons. g.
It keeps him as busy trying to keep
with the procession as the Scots Pa
ms chameleon. IN
I pit him on a wee bit yeJow rib ity
an he ay turnt yellow" ex- fal
ined the Scotsman. "Whiles I we
him on a shred of red and he err
ned red, and when I pit him next wa
'reen ane, he trunt green. And Da
n l pit him on bit o. McGregor to
ID and the puir wee beastie res