Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-30


geography. nor by simply teaching re-
NRion, although teaching religion In q
broad way will help.
The problem of moral training Is not
one merely for the school.
Because are young nation puDic
opinion here Is not as strong as 1t is In
older nations. where people live ana Ole
In the same community.
SCHOOLS from which children go out
when fourteen and fifteen years old can,
not be held responsible for their morai
welfare.
1T is the duty OF society to remove vice
from the streets. We realizing that
vice often strikes the innocent In terrible
FORM
places where children and grown people
together can get recreation This Is the
only way 10 keep people from dance mans
and such places. In this way the. pay
ground movement is significant
TT Is a disgrace to this nation that
40 much crime exists. The number or
criminals who go undetected ana I'M
punished is alarming
IF the criminal laws were really en-
forced conditions would he much bet
ter, and If judges did their duty, ana
criminal lawyers were less criminal
there would be less crime.
Demands Justice in Law.
THE public cares lttle ABOUT Tue
technical sides OF the law, but they
must insist that justice and law mean
the same thing. II is useless TO teach
morals in the schools when the laws
are not enforced.
Society owes 1T to itself to sec 10
the proper housing of the poor ana
the payment Of decent wages
You can sing Home, sweet Home
but not Flat. Sweet Fiat
Men will fight for home. hut not
for boarding house.
Fighting and stealing. in the cases
of children, arc not crimes. but merely
the outgrowth of the instincts OF nght-
ing and having property whlch came
down to them from their remote ances-
tors. This instinct must De retained
but properly developed.
The way to study Hamlet is to see IT,
but not to listen to lectures on II. A
student never derived benefit from n
as we'll try to define emotion by making
a chemical analysis of tears as to at
tempt to get good from literature by
studying the footnotes-
Must Reach Their Hearts.
I'm order TO teach children properly We
must reach their hearts and feelings. and
not talk about abstract things
1T is a mistake to try to teach children
morals from classical figures. Tell them
Of men and women of their own time.
whose morals are up-to-date. 1t IS 1901
ish TO allow children 10 draw tneli
morals from Aesop's fables and from
fairy tales, in which the chief event IS
the marriage of poor girl to prince.
sHThe time will come when the morals
Of our day will be looked upon as very
crude Morals are progressive, ana
change with the ages. There Will De
time when things We do today Will De
looked upon with horror and surprise
Honesty reaches some things and NOT
others and this shows that our morals
are but imperfectly developed. Most
neonle are honest about money, ana
would not think of taking cents.
but many do not mind steailng %
umbrella or valuable PAIR OIL rooDei
shoes.
'+Nost games are merely outgroWths OF
tribal rivalries. and are therefore inter-
esting TO u.s. Football is an outgrowth
of tribal warfare.
"Rase ball is more interesting than
saving wood, because one comes from
an old and the other from new In
stinct People will gather about score
board to watch a base ball game tnou-
sands of miles away. but they pay no
attention to the man saving wood in
the next yard
immortality Makes War.
IF we had universal morality we would
have no wars. Race prejudices and pro-
tective tariffs are remains Of tribal In
stincts and are immoral They show
that we do not feel toward the man far
away az we do toward our next-door
neieffbor Our morals have only de-
veloped to the point where We consider
1t murder IF we kill our neighbor, bu&
heroism IL we kill the man of another
country In warfare.
Miss MacKinney, in her address. told
Of how the Kindergarten Union was
founded twenty-one years ago, and now
numbers more than 1900 members 1t
has been largely responsible for the
growth Of the kindergarten movement.
she said. She declared that the wave
of materialism upon which We have
been riding for years is now receding, and
we must keep abreast of the times"