The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-01-18
PREVENTION OF cRImE-rHIeo STEP.

The step prevention should by par
first word the process word euenics The step
province Of the positive influence the
previous Of the Citizen and the third and
The third word wha. are thsyi
be- the schools The third step then ma. b. BY an
lac influence And here also there word dsci
pine -
what the school should be and un,srsa has been
for the that 10 has not boon sought Doubtless
would readily granted that it's sole function educate That
includes development Of the moral might also
be admitted Further the point should be pressed ]. would
he school fails giving however much Loo~.dss n.g
lec. give moral self control and evecion to the life
hemdsclare them wanting However this in keeping
with n. verde: The Of the O,h: o agencies for the
bhgh calls for and the being but little larger who
get training from that is he due There must there
FORE be discriminate before condemnation.
He that said that good mother s worth hundred school
comparing the good mother the bad school
MASTER declared that teachers fail contribute
the reduction criminal propspies in children must
not gotten they respobe for the chd inherit
and the home influences that destroying il. II
the years IS maxus malicious mischief
the year boyhood year after school, stas
the entire bland not he thrown the
school Only home has properly discharged its unc
the first crime prevention have been prop
ery the school merely ge do its work
hold the ground gained by the the school be
condemned One good choomae Gag hardly be expected to
treve the failure Of a hundred bad parents
Enough said show that She school should not have
do the work Of the home should only cooperate with the home
erug should be something
else be said justification Of the failures Of the past and eI
PLANTATION of the fact that is necessary press the point gain
admission that moral instruction the most significant part OF
the school work.
The schoomaster been the predcament the
parent Suppose that he interested in something besides
the intellectual dvancemsno his pupsther moral and spiritual
webeng what should he dor II he trained for integrity
and upghtness-inssed morality standard OF conduct
life the church denounced him. He heard from pulpit
He'll than the most violent sinner
dn anything to do with saafion
had
accepted this view and tried apply it, again he encoun
gotenf His patrons didn't hap
pen belong and again he denounced
claiming couldn't get religion others that it
with only brand and there
still others who insisted that "decreed that certain
couldn't get" itbe sard-whatever they might be do
did He concluded that he couldn't teach religion and couldn't
maso he conented could
parting knowledge And allowed drift by the the children
continued TO drift under
Withheld give warning opportunity their pound
Results the failure of the home the failure OF the schools
appalling of young e the amazing increase of crime
beginning learn that religion neither doctrine
dogma that better the deed than the creed and
with the anticipate
the SIM the crime and make the cure
sary. .
the teacher give syse
moral instruction He shows the beauty the bene
blessings of purity courtesy Kindness gentene ten
deness patenc OF urdne honesty integrity hfulnes and
the all the moral virtueshds them prdciced
Inspiration and guidance This part OF the curriculum
In place that school does not
school The seconoi and the sedirecfion
discpnng of the will habtuay and freely in re-
Spouse duty He realizes that the aim OF school
government is to give the po~e OF government ma e ana
of this the modern teacher
trains for character So he teaches religion
the Old Testament standard ito do justice to love mercy and to
standard he Golden Rule and the Diamond kue be
accepted ~, - =,
CRIME PREVENTION, and prevents wherever tried