The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-03-25
MAKE HOME MORE ATTRACTIVE
superintendent of State School De
clares the Way to Keep Boys Out Of
Trouble is for Parents to Keep Them
Interested at Home.

"The real problem that is confront
ing people today is not how to care for
boys in an industrial school, but how
to make parents care for boys in the
home so that industrial schools will t
be necessary This was the burden
of the address of A. j. Hutton, super
intendent OF the State Industrial School
for Boys at Waukesha, who spoke be-
fore hundred members of the Parent
Teachers Association at the Durkee
school on Thursday evening
The boy problem is one that has in
terested Superintendent Hutton for
many years and he has seen nearly
every phase of it. He taught in rural
schools, in city schools, in normal
schools and then was called by the state
to take charge of the great industrial
school for boys. He is boy expert
aLu he spoke with authority when lie
declared that the problem of the boy
was the old problem of the home.
The speaker declared that the pio
neer builder made his home attractive
and that the pioneer parent found in
keeping the children busy the solution
of keeping the children out of the way
of vicious associations. He declared
that the proper training of children
demanded that the child be taught to
serve as well as to be served.
Every child has a right to be hap
Ply, he said, but they should be
taught to know that happiness comes
from doing for others as well as from
having enjoyment for themselves. !"
Speaking of the value of the good ex-
ample, Mr.. Hutton said: "Boys and
girls do what their parents say they
should do. The real parent figures that
Ia order to save his boy he must save
himself. Parents should live more for
their children and more with their
children. Boys measure manhood, not
by what men should sdo, but by what
men do do. What man is and not
what he should be but is not, is the
real measure that appeals to the boy.
Happy is the boy who thinks of his
father as "a hero when a boy and con
b4uuCo tliAo hFiO-W VIouiJ WIEN nc StDNs
older Tell me what your boy admires
and l will tell you not only what kind
of a man he will make but what kind
of an example of manhood you are set
ting before Kim Admiration is the
mother of desire and the admiration of
a boy for his father and a girl for her
mother is the keynote Of their lives
Mr.. Hutton made a strong plea for
the moral education of the boys and
girls, not by means of the club held
over them, but in the manner Of train
ing their minds to the right kind of
living, by instilling in them the right
motives for accomplishment BOYS he
declared, Who are trained to industry
and economy, seldom come under his
care in the Waukesha school and the
ranks of the boys in such institutions
are. recruited from the boys who are
raised in idIeness and without the
proper guiding hand in their lives. He
urged that boys should be taught not
to spend but to save, not to loaf but to
work and above all to obey at all times
The address proved a most interest
ing one and after it was over there
was a general discussion Taking part
in the discussion were Judge G. E. Ran
dali. Miss Louise Cottrell, and many OF
the members Of the association.