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Omaha daily bee., 1916-03-12

duties as q favor. fro which the children
should be eternally grateful to them.
Then. parents often do the greatest
wrong 70 their children by choosing o
calling for them before they are born.
instead Of waiting until the right career
Is suggested by their natural aptitudes.
In fact. IL is not usually in the interests
OF the child that this choice is made,
but most commonly 70 satisfy the pater-
nal or maternal vanity or the tastes OF
the parents
Even when this choice Is not a brutal
contradiction OF the legitimate aspira-
tons of the child. the wishes OF the par
ents continually thwart and confuse its
development. These wishes prevail
over the aptitudes OF the child, and
turning him from his true career con-
denim him to perpetui discomfort in AN
unsuitable walk of walk That is q
crime of "lese-individuality."
AS humanity only acquires value
through the individual, through the
greatest possible number 81 individuals
working and creating, the family by les
SEEMING the strength of an individual. by
the exercise OF its legal powers. COM
mits a crime OF "lese humanity"
AS against the duties OF children to.
ward the family, 1t is now time to assert
their rights.
These rights are more sacred than the
ancient and superannuated rights OF the
family over the children, because they
are important to the future, and the
future is more sacred than the past.
1t is iniquitous that in a time when
love OF liberty and hatred OF tyranny
have overthrow kings and emperors,
the tyranny Of the family should still
exist
| do not, OF course. propose to abandon
all control and leave the child to its own
Instincts.
The child, being in process OF forma-
ton, cannot know itself, and therefore
is incompetent 10 guide itself. Il has
only vague and fleeing desires. II must
be instructed concerning its own nature
and taught TO reveal itself.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-03-12
The Ideal Athenian
System of Education.

The Athenians combined intellectual
with physical perfection in their gymna.
STA and this should be our aim in edu-
cation to-day.
The modern State should re-establish
these gymnasia and widen their scope
The State should receive all the children
of the nation from their birth, care for
them as babies in nurseries, and then
pass them on to the gymnasia. There
they would spend their childhood and
their youth. There they would develop
freely and harmoniously.
In these gymnasia, situated far from
the towns, in vast open space, in a
beautiful country, every branch OF edu-
cation would be included, including
sports and instruction, manual, technical,
scientific, philosophic and artistic.
The same morality, the same hygiene,
the same conception of the nation would
form in the gymnasia citizens with homo
geneous souls.
A youth strong, virile, devoid of all
sentimentality. would come out OF these
institutions, and, beginning with their
own generation, raise the intellectual
moral and dynamic level of the nation.
which should be the first to apply these
principles Of rational education They
would place that nation without question
at the head OF the civilized world.
There exists only one way Of realizing
the great modern dream of equality, and
that is, TO make all human beings from
birth equal ia the treatment they receive
from the community. The first step
necessary for this is the suppression OF
the family. Equality for men who are
necessarily different can only exist in
the form OF equality Of advantages, and
the means OF development offered by
society.
In brief, the child of the State" will
be the triumph OF the individual for the
greatest benefit of the community. II
will be the logical realization of the great
ideal OF equality through which alone
humanity can become godlike.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-03-12

cation from whatever family they come.
It should guide them into callings suit
able to their abilities and their tastes, so
Absolute personal Observation-Disclosures, the
attentive indifference OF strangers, are
alone capable of properly Judging. con-
trolling and directing children according
TO their capacities-that is to say, of put
ting every one in the right place, where
it can produce the most for the greatest
good of the nation and the greatest hap
Slness of the individual
We have no need to prove this by ex.
perience Ancient Greece, to which we
are so often obliged to turn to find ex-
amples of beauty in those magnificent
centuries when physical and moral
beauty reached its highest development,
created sublime harmony in education.
All the children were taken entirely from
their parents in the period of Athenian
greatness and sent to the gymnes!a.
In another Greek State, Sparta, they
carried the system of physical education
to its highest perfection. The idea was
to make the boy strong, healthy and
brave, and neither paternal tyranny nor
maternal tenderness was permitted to
hinder this purpose.
At the annual festival Of the "Diamas-
tigosis" in Sparta. boys of eight under
went test of courage by being whipped
before the altar of Artemis. A recent
painting shows us this interesting cere-
mony with the boy in the middle dis
lance prone on the ground.
The executioner stands over the boy
holding q long double switch, and by the
altar one of the priests holds up a stat
uette of the goddess that was supposed
to become suddenly heavy If the flashing
was not severe enough. The Spartan
mother calmly looked on to see that their
children bore themselves bravely.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-03-12
Painting BY crsu.s

The child should be developed in ac-
cordance with its possibilities. It must
be watched and guarded by an awak-
ened mind, eager to discover these pos
sibilities and TO help In their expansion.
But in no case, not even under pretext
of the most stubborn defiance Of disci-
pline should one attempt to enslave the
child
To be a good educator one must put
aside ones own character and ones own
preferences. One must get out OF ones
self, in a sense, and throw a mature
mind into the soul of the child.
Now, II Is impossible for father who
receives his despotic authority by In
heritance and finds It enforced by law
and custom, to put his child above him
self and not below himself. II is impos-
sible for the father not to hold himself
up as model. Try to be like me, my
son." he will always say, in effect.
It is equally impossible for the mother
not to see again in her child when II is
grown the baby who once had need of
her feeble physical protection.
The father has too much power. the
mother too much tenderness, for the
child that they mentally consider their
property.
In reality, to whom does the child be-
long? II II be the offspring OF a race OF
savages It belongs only to itself.
But when the child is the offspring OF
a civilized family Il should be considered
as belonging 10 the community which has
created the civilization in which It is
destined to share.
In any case, It never belongs TO its par
ents, who have only done for II what the
animals do for their young. what their
own Oarante did for them 4 a IN gtva
them life. For this act the parents de-
serve neither gratitude, nor condemna.
ton
They certainly do not deserve graft
tnde for the care and the comfort they
may have given to their children. Ami
mails instinctively and naturally sacri-
flee themselves quite as much as human
beings for their young, from whom they
Copyright. 1915 by the star compar
Omaha daily bee., 1916-03-12
The Father Ruins
His Sons Mind and Body

Thus the law, which no longer recog-
nizes a fathers right TO kill his offspring
as in Roman times, still gives him the
right to destroy his mind and body to
considerable degree. The father can de-
priye his son OF everything that makes
life worth living. He can condemn him
to live with harsh and degraded persons,
and all that simply for some boyish
escapade. Usually the children thus
punished had only shown some independ
ence and lack OF discipline, which are
often marks OF a strong character, which
would later make them develop into capa-
Bile citizens. This power, conferred up
on one human being to tyrannize over
another being In process OF formation,
who should receive every respect and
every consideration. is a social infamy.
Side by side with the fathers power,
affirmed by law. another menace OF child
birth is the more or less occult influence
of the mother.
For the ordinary mother, the ahild is
a fragile toy which can never be sur
rounded with too much care and love.
II Is a dollhouse plant over which she
must watch necessarily both physically
and morally She envelopes the child in
a network OF tenderness-gentle. subtle,
tenuous-in which II grows weak. Its
natural daring. It's youthful reckless
ness. is hampered. II Is restrained
when II should expand. What the father
does not command the mother obtains
by entreaty.
The proof OF this is that in later life.
when adult persons are brought to a
condition Of misery or weakness, the
image OF the mother appears TO their
weakened minds . and even the word
mother" usually comes TO their lips.
How well is our French conception OF
motherly tenderness illustrated by that
fayorite picture. Madame Vigee lie
Brun and Her Child" by herself Il is
a beautiful picture. but 1t reveals marvel
lousy the clinging parasitic type OF
motherly love. which holds its child so
closely as almost TO choke It. and which
is really one Of the greatest moral weak
nesses OF our nation.
Thus parents. In different ways, abuse
their artificial rights over their children.
without recognizing any other obliga
tons than 70 keep them alive and 70
choose a calling for them. The majority
Of parents even seem to regard these
Omaha daily bee., 1916-03-12
Children En-
HreLy AWGy
from Parents
to Secure Their
Highest
Development
ByMadame Valentine de St. Point

the Brilliant Partisan Poetess,
GrandnIeee Of the Great LamartIne.
hTHE child has in nearly all ages been
regarded as thing belonging
exclusively to its family, to those
who have brought It into the world. 1t
seems to parents that the normal and
natural act of giving life to being
secures to them the exclusive property OF
that being, TO which they accord no seri-
GUS rights and from which they expect
every duty.
This is traditional human error which
has brought untold misery and degrade
ton upon the human race. and which /
feel II to be my most solemn duty to com
bat with all my strength.
Up to the present the father has been
the head OF the family. ruling sometimes
his wife. but especially his children,
crushing them very frequently under a
tyrannical yoke. The conception OF the
ancient Hebrew patriarch and the Roman
Paterfamilias has dominated modern so
ciefy to its sorrow up to our day. This
hard pAternal yoke 10 regrettable because
4 annihilates the personality OF the child.
The independent children who seek TO
escape from II are not only pursued by
the anger or curses of the father, but
often, even, by legal powers which are
at the command OF the head OF the family.
In our days paternal rights have been
somewhat restricted. although in every
civilized country the law gives theoretical
control OF the father over his children up
TO the age Of twenty-oBe. Our inherited
ideas OF the paternal authority also give
the father an enormous power, which
varies considerably according TO locality,
and is perhaps greater In France than In
America.
In earlier generations the father had
the power OF c0ndemnsng his SON TO lite-
long disgrace for some trihing escapade,
and this idea is stiil strong with us.
The perils Of a disobedient SON are
less grave than they used to be, although
with us the father still possesses the
atrocious power Of destroying the youth
Of the son by shutting him up In house
Of correction until hts majority.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-03-12
Spartan
Mothers
Watching
Their Children
Flogged."

"In Sparta boys
were pub licly
logged at the age
of eight as a test
Of courage and the
mothers al m y
looked on to see
that their children
bore themselves
bravely."
Painting ny
Herbert Sidney
Omaha daily bee., 1916-03-12
Are ChiIdrens Parents their Worst Enemiec?
Madame de st. Point, DiStin-
guished Social Philosopher and
POetess, Makes on Ingenious
Argument That We Should Take
the Education and Control of

Madame Vigee lie Brun and Daughter"
This beautiful picture reveals marvellousIy the
cInging parasitic type Of motherly love, which
holds Its child closely as almost to
choke IT,"
Painting by Nine. VIaee lie srun.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-03-12
Painting by Rubens
Abraham ExiIing HGgGr and
LStnlaeL."
'The conception of the ancient He
brew patriarch possessing the
power of life and death over
his family and children in
fluences us enormously
to-day"

energy, but also because sick and incom.
petent persons win be a burden to the
State, which will be obliged 20 find an
asylum for them and support them.
The State must watch over the moral
development OF its children, in order that
they may not be ruined by the errors
and the hereditary defects of their fam
lilies. in order that there may not stand
between their budding mentality and the
collective idea OF progress, that static
element, that dead weight of family ira
ditions and prejudices, which would
check their progress. At present, under
our mixed system of education, the par
ents undo In the evening what the State
has done during the day in it's schools
and colleges of all kinds. The struggle
is perpetual and infinitely Injurious 10
the mental stability of the child.
The State ought to take care that every
child has the same opportunities of edu-
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Notice

Spanish CLASSES fcr beginners -
open Monday January ; 10 -
school inil Leopard street
Booth nnl Rev Nscuno teachers -
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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-28
TO KEEP KIDDIES
AWAY FROM MOVIES
Measure is Suggested as Prevent
i've to Spread of Contagious
Diseases.
LETTERS SENT TO MANAGERS

The city council adopted a mo-
ton offered by Commissioner Jardine
requesting managers OF motion pic
tlre theaters and parents to CO.
operate in excluding children under
4 ; years Of age.
Parents are asked to keep their
children from these places during the
scarlet fever epidemic and managers
sre urged to refuse admittance to
children under twelve.
There is no legal status to this action
by the commissioners. who acted in what
they believed TO be public policy.
City Clerk O'Connor has addressed let
ters to all motion picture managers.
During a discussion or the subject in
the council chamber a few days ago
emphasis was placed upon the motion
picture theaters as prolific mediums NJ
contagion.
I observed a mother with a 6-month-old
infant at one OF these places last eve
ming" remarked Commissioner Butler
The suggestion was made that the
health commissioner be directed to order
these places closed for a stated period,
but this stringent regulation did not meet
with favor.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-28
Consider Lighting
System on Monday

The city council decided to consider the
proposed new electric lighting system be-
fore committee OF tho whole next Mon
day morning. when the city electrician
and electric light compang officiels Will
be asked to explain features OF the plan.
Commissioner Withheld advised the ooun-
ell that the plan submitted was pre-
pared by City Electrician Curren. II was
announced that all persons interested In
this matter may appear and he heard next
Monday morning, II this plan shall be
approved. then the council viii take IN
the matter Of srantiny the light company
contract for street hghting. The city
has been without contract Tor year.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-28
DEATH RECORD
Willard Sweeney.

MilIard Sweeney. 10 years of age, died
at the City Emergency hospital. where
he was being attended for scarlet fever.
This was the second death at this in
stitution from the same cause within a
week
Mrs. Hannah Saunders.
Mrs Hannah Saunders died Wednesday
night at her home. 29O5 Leavenworth
street. Of heart failure. She is survived
BY a son and daughter. Funeral serv-
ices Will be held Friday from Burket's
chapel.
Michael McGraw.
Michael McGraw, aged so years. died
wednesday OF pneumonia at st. Joseph
hospital Gentleman has the body and Is
waiting funeral arrangements until word
is received from McGraw's father at AL
bany, n. Y.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-28
PIONEER PHYSICIAN
is TAKEN BY DEATH
DR.. Richard c. Moore Dies at His
Home in Omaha After Long
Illness.
LEADER IN HIS PROFESSION

Or. Richard Charming Moore.
pioneer physician Of Omaha. died
yesterday afternoon at o'clock at
his home in the Normandie apart
ments. after an illness extending
over a period Of five years.
DR.. Moore had been suffering from
a general breakdown during the
period and the end was more or less
expected.
Dr. Moore was born In Quincy,
ILL.,, November 25, 1S41. He was a
graduate OF Northwestern univer-
sity, Chicago. getting his degree in
medicine there March 5, 1866. He
came directly to Omaha and began
practice here, He remained in
Omaha ever since.
On May II. 1865 Or. Moore returned TO
Quincy to wed Miss Eliza Bushnell.
Or. Moore was one OF Omaha's most
prominent physicians and citizens during
his long residence here. He was a mem
Der OF the Commercial club and trustee
in the Omaha Medical college.
Head of Medical society.
In 1887 Or. Moore was president OF the
Nebraska State Medical society and in
1895 was president OF the Omaha Medical
society. In 1902 he was elected president
OF the Missouri Valley Medical society.
He was always an active member in
these societies.
In 1854, while still a student at North
western. DIR. Moore was honored with
the rank Of acting assistant surgeon in
the United States army.
Dr. Moore was republican politically
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-28
0RYS PLAN TO RAISE COIN
FOR THE FALL CAMPAIGN

Chairman Elmer Thomas of the finance
committee of the Douglas country dry
campaign working under the direction
of the Anti-saloon league. held a meeting
OF the committee together with score
of dry sympathizers at the Commercial
club at noon and assigned the work of
soliciting subscriptions to the various
men.
The committee hopes TO raise 300
within about ten days or two weeks &C.
be used in the campaign for prohibition
this fall.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-28
RESIGNS ALL INTEREST
IN PROPERTY OF FlANCEE

william S. Curtis. formerly Of Webster
Groves, Mo, who Is about 20 marry Janet
Monroe wallace, Omaha school teacher
has resigned all Interest IN her property
by a pre-nupual agreement filcd IN the
office OF Harry Peerce, register Of deeds
The agreement provides that the mar
rage will have no effect on the owner.
ship OF descent OF the property
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-28
W0MEN'S RELIEF CORPS TO
HONOR M'KINLEF'S BIRTHDAY

All patriotic days will be observed dur
ing the present administration Of the
George A. Custer post and Women's
Relief corps. according to plans OF the
officers. AS a beginning, the post and
corps will celebrate President william
McKinley's birthday Saturday evening
at the home OF the corps president, Mrs
Charles G. Everson. Thirtieth and Pink
ney streets.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-28
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS

w. II. Slaughter OF the walk-over Boot
shop. left Wednesday for st. Louis to
visit the western branch storeroom of the
Walk-Over factory.
Elmer Beddeo, the credit clothie- at
1917 Douglas street, has gone to New
York and other eastern cities on an ex-
tensve buying trip, which will keep HIM
away about a month.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Reed left last night
over the Illinois Central for a months
tour of the south. They go to Jackson
vile. Fla, making a nGmber OF side trips
en- route! after which they will go over
to Cuba, sailing from Key West
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-28
To Fumigate All
Movies and All
the Street Cars

Health Commissioner Connell has Is
sued instructions that all motion picture
theaters and street cars must be fumiga-
ted once a day.
Picture show managers will be required
TO start to fumigate as soon as the last
show Of the day is over and to continue
the fumigation until within one hour of
reopening time.
An inspector will make the rounds to
see that these orders are observed.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-28
Omaha Boy Writes
Story of Uncle Sam

Hawthorne Daniel. formerly Of The
Bee editorial staff and now writing for
maya zines in New York, is the author
of an extended article in the last issue
Of The outlook. He accompanied a gov
eminent boat on a Fisheries department
cruise, and his story. entitled Uncle
Sam Goes Fishing" tells of the strange
fish pulled out of the deep. A number
of photos taken by Daniel illustrate his
article.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-28
HERMAN HEYN SUES THE
ROSE REALTY COMPANY

Herman Heyn, proprietor of the
Lumiere studio. has brought suit for 1900
in district court against the Rose Realty
company for alleged damage to his BUSH
ness caused by the fenoe which sur
rounded the site Of the new Rose build
ing. Sixteenth and Farnam, during its
construction.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-28
ELECTRIC LIGHT COMPANY
PAYS OCCUPATION TAX

The Omaha Electric Light and Power
company has reported to the city state
ment wherein the total receipts for light
and power last year Ia given at $1,000
tI.i7. The company paid an occupation
tax OF tGSStLS2. being per cent OF the
total receipts. less sii5.t9Sei. amount OF
the city lighting for the year
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-28
Gives Part of His
Income to Fund for
Jewish Relief Work

Harry Green, star in the headline sketch,
Remember the Cherry Tree" at the Or
pheum this week. gives l per cent of all
wnr sufferers
He offered to help the local committee
II any way lie might. I'm even go out
and sell papers. or anything like that"
he declared.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-28
HOME OF E. A. BENSON is
ROBBED OF SILVERWARE

The home Of Erastus a. Benson, Forty
eighth and Dodge streets, was visited by
burglars Wednesday night while the fam
lily was away from home. Entrance was
gained through a basement window, the
house ransacksd and siverware to the
extent of 800 stolen. Several suspects
have been arrested.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-28

and his relsion was Episcopslian. lie Is
survived by his widow, three daughters.
Mrs Victor White. Mrs, H. q. Jordan
and one niece, Mics Lila De Wolf Of
and Mrs. y, s. westbrook. all OF Omaha,
Definite arrangements for the funeral
have not yet been made. but Il probably
viii be held at Trinity cathedral satur-
day afternoon at o'clock
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-28
CABARET SINGER INJURIES
HIMSELF DURING HIS "ACT'

While performing little business"
in connection with the song. when Bitl
Bailey Played the EuEaleli" Mort Beck,
demonstration for the broadway Music
corporation, slipped and fell IN the Mil
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-28
SLIPS ON ICY PAVEMENT
AND BACK Is INJURED

William Taylor. 1906 Douglas street,
slipped on the icy pavement at Thirteenth
and Douglas streets, and in falling sus-
tanned severe cuts and bruises, as well as
an injury to his back, which required his
removal to st. Joseph hospital. He was
attended by DR.. c. B. Foltz.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-28

lard Hotel cafe, and received painful in
tcrnal injuries
Becks home Il In the east, but he "
well known IN the middle west, as he has
been covering this territory for his house
for some time.
Police Surgeon Foltz took care OF him
and stated that Il will be some time be-
fore he will be able to move about again.