The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-08-13
DISCIPLINE. AND EFFICIENCY
The Library Critic

pass the next But you will find the just the same
the movies and anayze your motives for DOING they
will bring you round to the point for will find that
dealing with work Discipline relaxation and efficiency
these the all important problems living life which leads
anywhere at all.
Everybody believes in discipline other people-and in
relaxation for himse-but how have thought
to the difference between discipline which leads efficiency
and that which produces inefciency! How have
thought OF discipline other than unpleasant something
be gone through with IT you cannot help it,
Whatever idea you may have of the end and aim of life
you must concede that getting somewhere Efficiency
the OF getting somewhere with the least expenditure Of
material time money energy average man what is
the difference between the civilized and the barbarous
and he will you something which, when analysed proves
that civilization consists greater efficiency
by the of labor beesak and beer dinner
stead of handful of aormade suit in place
CLOTH and riding automobile instead of the back of
He add that it consists in greater freedom ideal
from which, alas we are still far removed
Efficiency manfess further the utilization of
era-and this may be inanimae or humanwhich
nGpeessy worthless Unless ns scenGe IN Itself have
upefuous female Infants they show their lack Of efficiency by
going to the pains OF giving birth to them and then killing
hem for OF remember the time when outside of
the factory teaching and the domestic there was room
pymen the household the factory the school she had
sell herself or ind someone charitable enough to support hers
it choice between prostitution under the of marriage
otherwise and charity We still far behind treat
ment Of denquents Not long the delinquent
orally disposed the Chinese dispose girl babies; he
death, and while do not often this now
treatment is but little better from the standpoint Of
efficiency
The end and aim of discipline should be efficiency. Dis
cplne often supposed have value in itself 1t has
whatever. Unless makes it's subject better
ment for useful CITIZEN nober being
utterly worthless This may seem trivial remark but its
neglect is costing country millions millions year, say
nothing of suffering and wasted and ruined lives.
Discipline consists suppresng them because requires
less intelligence than direct The simplest forms
of action reflex. Tread dogs tail and he will bite you
though he regards god he simply can't help it.
Ii touch iron withdraw fingers and
cannot help doing. The natural impulse is strike back
when struck and do today wait till
of the criminal likely be of this eye
for eye Many of our laws especially penal laws,
with better than the swapping of the dog when his
tail trodden And manifess this revenge in fashion
which only dsgracefu but which proves that its
retaliation commits crime and escapes detection
He reforms becomes useful citizen and years found
Punishment pure and simple social reflex action Society
knows statute of limitations with regard to oenses
though may be.
Nature implanted the natural impulses for good reason
Inquire into of them and you will why But
from the of simple beast social ANIMAL many
of them have become obsolete Why does thief stea Pre-
OF ia@ en es r'fess us
vaaby the control of impulse, that its dscipnng
either from within from without at first unpleasant and
often positively painful should all have
been long before this is we'll known fact that that
which peasuabe is very generally beneficial while that
which is painful harmful In fact pain is generally the
warning Of nature that doing while pleasure
its mandate continue. With the beast this is almost wholly
with there merable exceptions due
largely the fact that he trying to live than
level the that which would be right in the
beast and which would help him remain healthy beast is
mistake if he aspes higher 1t is matter of obser
that those impulses which beast indulge safety
without harm reduce to the beasty level ii uncontrolled
It has often been remarked that nothing valuable
in cultvang secontro than do each day voluntarily
thing which unpleasant do But all the same, subjecing
either mind oody to constant unpleasant sensations in
urou both require pleasure keep going To be able
dure pvaon good but be forced endure constantly
both physical and mental We do not have
look far for the effects of poverty. The deadenng
of the moral which regard characteristic of the
criminal is often nothing than the result Of enforced de-
prvan and consequent suffering the discipline instead of
eevating, has degraded.
Discipline them the of interfering with natural
tendencies quite likely do harm good No impulse
should be nerfeed with except clear and definite reason
promote greater efficiency and higher plane.
than interfere with her unless
have the best of
Of public institutions outside the military the penal in
distinguished by abundance of discipline
thnutt The lnaStha ON make