The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-03
USELESSNESS OF hE|GHBORAO0O DISPUTE
Fat Man in Texas Came to an Untmely End by Be-
coming Too Greatly Excited Over Such Row
Great English Actor Is Coming to u. S.
Life is TOO short for eternally map

ping out the plan OF acton. Every
body is misunderstood. It's impossi-
bic, in the complexities of modern ac-
tivities that it should be otherwise.
There's always somebody nice who
knows you're 'all right and if you're
all wrong, the police will be after you
if you give them time.
Elders will wrangle Indefinitely, and.
indeed, engage in feuds covering vast
periods, over some trifling peccadillo
OF the others children when the lat
ter will fight it out and forget it in
ten minutes time.
Children should not be stood over
and taught how to play. Their in
stincts are almost invariably true.
Their childish imaginations supply
world not visible. They go straight at
difficulty and smash it. The finesse
that comes with years is not theirs.
They are still primitive and go after
what they want and if anyone is in
the way, brush the latter aside-if
they can. The other child may want
it, too. Let 'em fight it out. They'll
have to later and they may as we'll
learn to take their own part early
This is not saying that children
should not be subjected to the discip-
line Of manners. There is nothing a
child learns earlier or easier.
! And they are initiative. This is
| trite and yet so true that older peo-
pie should pause an instant to reflect
what sort of an example they're set
ting.
Does your child scream and yell and
shout at the top of his voice when
he's mad? Isn't it altogether possible
that you do the same thing? Stop d
moment and listen to yourself. The
things you hear may give you what is
! sometimes termed food for thought"
"If you strike a child, take care that
you strike itin anger, even at the risk
of manning it for life. A blow in cold
| blood neither can or should be for
given says Shaw.
IF you beat children for pleasure,
avow your object frankly, and play
| the game according to the rules, and
you will do comparatively little harm.
Remember that even in child-beating
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cads way
The beating of children is brutal.
Many children, all children, of
course need correction and discip-
line. Punishment of certain charac-
ter should be melted out now and then
without doubt. But the indiscriminate
! cutting and slapping and pounding OF
| youngsters too little to know what
they're about is out of reason and, as
quoted above, is oftener the express
sion of irritability and anger on the
part of the elder than the degree OF
responsibility on the part of the child
1t is matter of record that many
children have been-more or less OBJ
scurely--injured for life by being beat
en- and jerked round. People wonder
what is the matter when some un
pleasant bodily i'll appears. They may
be heard to say that 1T was never in
our family
Women are seen to jerk little babies
out of go-carts on the street and shake
and cuff them when the poor little
wretches are suffering from discom
fort or unintelligent care.
The plan of certain cult to turn
children over to the care of the state
for scientific "raising,' up to a certain
age, is not SO bad as it is denounced
1t would result in more perfect race
The human breed would be improved.
And the fat man in Texas might be
living yet It's a pity he didn't take
a Richmond paper and learn how tt
do it.
Lewis Waller, the accomplished
English actor, is on his way to this
country to take the leading role il