The Republican journal., 1914-02-12

anime from the cactus. IT'S ours to make
the boy forget the memories Of his an
Gent ancestors. Like the caterpillar he
must pass through the different stages
of development. As we watch the kit
ten play we see it living again the MEM
cries of ancestors stealing upon its prey.
Among the puppies we hear something
of the primitive savage growl. There
ia a constant conflict between. mature
and immature people. The mother wants
it quiet and constantly ID saying don't to
the noisy children who are constantly
reproducing the savagery Of their remote
ancestors.
The mother does not need food to
supply the needs of a growing body, SO
much of her energy is spent on fine
table linen and expensive silver ware,
while all the boys care for is the food to
build up their bodies. 1t does not affect
a boy to stand on his head as it does
grown person. A boy must get his abb
stract ideas by examination or experi-
ment. He admires mud puddle about
as much as parlor. If the boy hasn't
washed his hands, neither did his remote
ancestors. To attempt to violate nature
is an injury. We must aid and improve
nature by variation and not by destruc-
ton. 1t is better to change boys course
by the nape of the neck than appeal to
shame.
1t is right for the adult to have refined
feelings, but they are to be found in
children no more than in our savage an
cestors. The essential activity of abo-
riginal man was to fight his way. Com
bativity was the goodness which was
automatic, almost instructive. The only
way boys can visit is with their muscles.
If they appear cruel, their energies
should be directed into some other chan
mel, but not stopped. Boys use an earlier
type of language which is strong and
dynamic. Half the college speech has
not got into the dictionary. The pro-
foundest thing in life is the emotions.
When note writing breaks out in school,
the thing to do is, not to stop it but to
show to what it leads. The greatest
stimulus to morality is to give children
some living thing to care for, something
that will suffer by their neglect.
That mortal mind which has none
other to share it's conflicts with must
break sooner or later. Some will say
those boys parading as Indians ought to
be run off the street. But youth re-
strained is ten times worse. 1t must be
directed.
The State Teachers Association seems
to stand for a thorough organization
that will reach every individual in the
State, a practical vocational training
that will enable the pupils to do things,
a thorough supervision that will bring
all schools up to the highest standard and
the infusion of moral and religious ele-
ment that will give vitality to the system.
AS DR.. White condemns our physiol-
ogies for telling half truths in regard to
sex hygiene and exaggeration OF the in
temperance question, SO our psychologists
may be condemned from straying from
the original simplicity of Webster when
mind was that part of man which thinks,
reasons and feels.
Mind is coming to exist only in its ac-
icf "
in their activities. l submit to think
ing public whether all this modern prog
ress has been made by the brain of man
or by thinking, reasoning, feeling be-
ing which acts through the brain as the
most delicate organ of the body, and that
most closely allied with creative energy.
There is power in man to discover ener-
gies and forces in nature and to apply
them to practical purposes.
Is it the brain, the activities of atoms
of matter, which makes these discoveries,
or is it in the heaven born genius which
PLAYS back of these molecules of matter
arranged in the delicate tissues of the
brain?
Who that knows the power of true
love can say that it originates in the
brain. Admirable and undesirable quail
tiles of soul shine out through bodily
activities. If we say that the mind is
made up of thoughts, feelings, emotions
and memories, by what force were these
elements of mind generated? Are the
plans Of all our great productive indus
tries the spontaneous production of brain
activity or are they worked out by hui
man minds following the same line of
thought which has fashioned nature from
the beginning? GEO. M. COLE.
Monmouth, Greg, Jan. Is, 1914.
A 3Oth Wedding Anniversary.