New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-12
BULLETINS ON BOY RAISING
Helpful Pamphlets Sent Free to
Millions of Parents. :.

MILLIONS OF Parents. ..
William 4. McKeever. professor of phil
osophy in the State Agricultural College al
Manhattan. Kan. writing in The Worlds
Work" says:
The fact that many persons are SUI
following eighteenth century methods OF
child culture in the home and at the same
time applying the aids Of twentieth century
science TO wheat culture. morse culture and
hog culture has for some years appealed to
me as one Of the anomalies of our time.
After OBSERVING carefully the methods
o9 the agricultural experiment stations in
sending out free bulletins on livestock tC
thousands of interested pei sons, | decided
t. undertake counterpart OF their work
with a series of bulletins on the home
training Of boys and girls More than To-
sac O0i copies OF my home training bulletins,
IN the originals and in various reprints
have been sent out over this country and
into foreign lands.
NO pretence is made Of originality or OF
special merit so far as the individual bull
letins are concerned But the cause is q
worthy one and there is need for authentic
and specific guidance of parents. SO with
the hope that what 1 nave undertaken
may be the means Of stimulate others TO
perform this work more efficiently, brief
explanation of the bulletins Is here given.
ut was in tn. autumn OF 1905 that |
began TO issue them. AT that time there
was not dollar available for the purpose
and those who were asked about such a
project discou aged the undertaking. But
a deep and mistaken faith in the prac-
ticability OF the work led me to bring out
the first number and to announce several
titles OF a continuous series TO follow.
Thus far seven have been issued:
NO. THE Cigarette Smoking Boy
no. 2-'Teachins the Boy TO Save
NO. 3-'Teaching the Girl TO Help in the
Home
mo. 4-'Asssting the Boy in the Choice
Of Vocation
NO. 5-'A Better Crop of Boys and Girls.
NO. S-'Teaching the Boy 10 Work
No. Teaching the Girl TO Save
The plan OF the undertaking is this: 10
offer TO parents every possible assistance
in the tremendous work Of training their
children in the home by furnishing them
a series OF free bulletins. each treating IN
a popular style some particular home train
ing problem. For example, the cigarette
bulletin undertakes a careful study OF the
mental moral and physical status OF some
twenty-five hundred youths addicted TO the
smoking habit II also offers the best
known methods Of cure and prevention OF
the habit This bulletin was received most
cordially bv the press and the public at
large, and very soon calls for 1t began to
come in by the hundreds.
NO ., Teaching the Boy TO Save has
been almost as popular as the first Dozens
Of banks have ordered quantities TO supply
their patrons. some OF them having USED
and distributed IS many as twenty-five
hundred in one lot. In its preparation more
than a hundred parents who were attempt
ing 10 train their boys to earn and TO save
money were questioned. and. their methods
were summarized in the pamphlet.
NO. 4 Assisting the Boy In the Choice
OF A Vocation has been ordered by the
thousands One man sent for enough copies
10 supply every horne in his county. II at
tempts 10 show Just how 10 follow the
growing boy patiently through all his
youthful experiences and finally TO help
him discover a proper calling.
mo. 8. A Better Crop of BOYS and Girls
Is intended 10 stimulate an interest in eie-
mentary eugenics.
NO. s. Teaching the Boy 10 Work. tries
TO explain just how parents may proceed
TO inculcate the spirit Of industry in their
bows. and how they must SO arrange II
that the work will be for the sake of the
boy rather than the boy for the sake OF
the work. A radical feature of this bulletin
10 out SNh
OF working hours Tor boys OF all ages rang
ing from four 10 sixteen.
Although more women than men. per-
haps. write for The bulletins the interest
I'm them seems to be country wide, espe-
cially in the North and East and not con-
fined TO any one class Of persons
From at least two outside states pub
fishers have come 10 me and asked 10
place this bulletin movement on paying
basis. with the claim that 1t could be made
highly profitable, but I have In every case
refused TO turn 1t 10 personal gain. IL is
my theory that the best way TO serve hui
mainly with ihs thing is 10 offer the
bulletins 10 patents as nearly free as pos
sible and not 10 think OF profit. | have
therefore. continued to send thousands oi
them, even preparing postage 10 foreign
countries But after much experiment as
to price. / have concluded that the bes
results scan De got by charging all alike
cents each for samples and / cent each
postpaid, for quantities
The small sums sent in. usually in the
form OF STAMPS. 40 not nearly meet Tx
expense Ct printing and issuing all these
pamphlets. but they help. 1t is my pur'
pose that no one shall receive persona
profit from this work. The expense. above
the small stamp income. necessary for car
rying on the work has been met partly by
few small donations received from inter
ested persons aid from money derived
from my public addresses and my maya
zine articles.
Millions Of earnest. worthy parents are
cropping their way la ala effort To give theiI
growing boys and girls such training in
the home as will best contribute to the
20 Per cent OF the child's character which
originates shereim | look for q great
awakening in this fruitful field Of human
endeavor"
ZIG TEXAS DAM