The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-05-14

to come will possess them. If they are
traits which make the skeleton in
your closet, you have prayed that
they be e~radicated. These things can
never be accomplished unless your
child and yourself thoroughly under
stand each other fairly.
You may believe that ~eugenics
should be relegated TO the fad-list and
it may be that certain features are
not appealing to the public, Luther
Burbank believes in eugenics in the
plant world. The kings OF the animal
industry believe in eugenics of ami
NAL husbandry. Shall we, the makers
of a human race, overlook the very
thing that has proved essential in
the lower realms?
Racial heredity, immediate ances-
try, economic and social conditions,
and environment should be studied
by every prospective parent begins at
the adolescent period. The prospec-
tive parent is the adolescent child.
Two great watch words of any pro-
gressive people are eugenics and
e%uthenics.
Did you stop to think why the
Emersons We're philosophers, the
Beechers ministers, the Alcotts writ
ers, and the Roschild's bankers?
Simply because generation after gen.
GRAFTON worked out it's own life prin-
ciple.
Il believe hal the whole aim of
education, whether in the day or
Sunday school, should be to make
out of the individual the best citizen
possible in all its ac%ceptations.
hn1inVn thnt nvnry how Shnn11
be brought up from early childhood
with these ideas foremost-that some
day he is to be a man to carry out a
mans work in the world, that he is
to be a factor in his community, that
he is to have a home and family of
his w someday. that he is to be a
father and one who is to bring sons
into this world who are strong, Wig
orous men, capable OF taking his
place.
Il believe that every girl should
be brought up with the idea ever be-
fore her that someday she is to oc-
cupy the highest station that God has
made for her, that of a wife and
mother; that her children are to be
among those who aspire for and can
assume places of honor and e%fficien-
cy; that her home shall be n pro-
ductive of all good and a light in the
community.
ANY teacher of the upper grades
or the high school will bear me out
in the statement that, in the class
room of average school, any allusion
to love, marriage, or childhood is met
with a sheer or a smile which indicat-
es that the proper reverence for the
best type of citizenship is decidedly
lacking.
mo parent can hope to turn out a
finished product in the way of a son
or daughter where the finest ele-
ments of character are lacking.
Nov, when shall the education of
the youth along the line of his life
mission begin?sAre we to wait until
we see him struggling with adde's
cent problems and sex relations? Ii
we do, we are too late. When the
child has reached the age of eleven
years, III Z all probability his ears
have already drunk in the vile stories
of the overload companion. You may
strive to erase, to eliminate the blot
on his young mind, but the stain is
there.
VIC uU lOC ueSItdtG 10 l6dCU
the completely of the sex nature OF
the plants, animals, insects. We fos-
ter these subjects in u schools and
colleges for mixed classes, and we
hesitate. Through moral cowardice
and false modesty, to teach the young
of the human ace the welfare of his
being and the production of his OWL
race, even in segregated classes.
What harm is there for the boy OF
girl to knowethe truth of a human
beings creation, the knowledge oil
his W body, that he may have clear
thoughts and desires?
P" Chastity is not an acquisition
it is a development 1t will be de
veloped through wholesome feeling
of companionship. Boys and girls oil
the %adolescent period can be such
frank, helpful friends without 9
companionship which breeds familia-
rity. The boy, who realizes that he is
growing into a man of affairs; 6
boy of purity of thought. who thinks
of a girl companion as he does of his
own pure sister, who is'interested in
his classmates because he can be one
to help make a stronger moral uplift;
the girl who enjoys hearing of the
latest athletic achievement, who in
spire your Tom to an enobling young
manhood by her frank advice on the
tobacco and cigarette habits, his as
sociates--such young people, with
correct ideas and motives, are power
full factors in your communities.
"A boy champions the cause of his
sisters, and, if need be, defends their
purity and good names with his fists.
Has he yer been taught that the
other girl is some boys sister. some
fathers daughter who has a right to
the same defense and protection as
his own flesh and blood? Why does
he dare besmirch her name with the
jeer, the idle tale, the smirk? Largely
ignorance. One reason for the exist
ing familiarity between school child
rem today is ignorance of results.
Every child has a right to demand
Whence came ~, Whittier am L go
ing?' and For what was created
and what is my mission?' and to hear
from some source Of truth. Is it the
mission of the home, the school, the
church to answer? May / say that CO.
Operation of all forces which lead to
good is the only safeguard? If your
hoy Tom and your girl Mary come. to
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