The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-06-04

so far as it goes, t-is is very good
work on the part of the board OF edu-
cation. No one questions that brush
ing the teeth is a helpful habit in
which the young should be encouraged
for their own benefit. But why stop
there?
IF Tooth Brush day is to be SOL
emnly observed through schools, Why
should not special days also be set
aside for special instruction in other
ceremonies of the toilet? There might
also be hair brush days, shoe shine
days, clothes brush days, nat brush
days, to say nothing of face wash days,
and so on down through the list so
far as the school calendar permits.
Cleanliness is in every particular
allied to hygiene, and neatness goes
with it. We can not devote too much
thought or care in the schools to tie
personal habits of the young. Parents
must be relieved of all such annoying
duties in the home. Parents do not
want to be bothered with such things
and, besides, what do We pay the teac2-
ers, for, anyway?'-Anderson Daily
Mail.
Exactly. Precisely. You struck the
keynote to the whole situation. What
are parents for any way? And what
are schools for? People who are not
parents and who never will be know
far more about rearing and caring for
children than all the fathers and mott
ers in the world, and they should be
given complete and unlimited charge
of other peoples children. Let fathers
and mothers be released from all re-
sponsibility. Even the homes and
places for play should be taken out of
the hands of the parents and turned
over to folks who understand child
life and the science of play.
But, O my, these days! Mothers day,
fathers day, teachers day, children's
day, and no one knows how many
more we are to have. 1t is bewilder-
ing!-Greenwood Journal.
1t seems to US that we read the
other day where some scientist or ply
sician, or some one, had an article
in which the position was taken and
it was undertaken to prove that the
tooth brush was injurious. If that be
true, then we do not see why the New
York school authorities would want to
have a tooth brush day.
1t is just as the Journal says, there
are so many days set apart for this
and that, and so many rules and regu-
lations, and so many laws to govern
and regulate everything that one
scarcely knows where ne is at.
1t is true that we devote so much
time to the personal habits, not only
of the young, but Of the old and the
middle-aged, that it is rather remark
able that any of US ever live to mid
die age. 1t is all right to look after
the habits of the children who are in
school and see that they are neat and
polite and courteous, and that taey
behave, and all that, but it mas almost
reached the point where there is no
more parental control. And the pa
rents are coming to the conclusion
that after the children reach sc:ool
age that their responsibility ceases.
The great need, as we see it, in the
rearing and the education of the chill
dren OF this day is more parental con-
troll and attention. We are all SO
busy making money that we scarcely
have any time to devote to t3er train
ing of the children, and we excuse our
selves of the responsibility of it by
passing it on the teacher.
But everything is done in these days
by law, and we suppose it is all right
or it would not be.
ALI who are interested in the rural