The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-09-15

At AOuDit N you let the HlOSi
OF the moral training go TO the school
teacher. | never aspired TO but one
office In my life and that was a mem
Der OF the school board, and IL
ever were 10 become a member the
hrst thing would do would be TO pay
teachers twelve months In the year
instead OF nine.
IL Is a disgrace the miserable sal
aries we pay our school teachers I'm
inns country. They go I'm the fall
win their cheeks looking like roses
and they come out In the spring
looking like lilies. They spend their
lives trying 10 make something ont
oi mat nonentity that bears your
name
Inc average yearly wage OF the
school teacher in this country Ia $500
30 day for the school year. and
tne average wage Ia $3.50 a day for
the calendar year. There are IL
states In this union that pay teach
ers less than $500 year. two states
that pay less than $3.50 a year.
Children are all imitators. A
man gave a friend OF mine a water
spaniel and another fellow gave him
rat terrier. Later on the fellow
said. How are the dogs?' NV friend
said they were getting along all right
Inc water spaniel was a better rat
dog than the terrier.
THE water spaniel had watched
the rat dog and had initiated him.
! We are all imitators.
"Themistocles said. NY children
Eraann Il - n.
asked. My children rule their moth.
er and their mother rules me: rule
Athens. Athens rules Greece. my
children rule Greece
They are uncontrolled when they
are six and are outlaws when they
are sixteen.
II was in town In Minnesota and
was being entertained in the home
OF a banker. He had two children.
girl and a big sort of a Clydesdale
kind of a boy.
One day the door blew open in
that home--a Minnesota blizzard was
raging. The father said, Donald.
will you go and close the door,? No,
won't; / want to play with my
blocks II you don't papa will have
TO, and he is tired, working all day >
/ don't care Donald said, No, |
won't do it, and the fool father shut
that door.
II wanted to borrow that kid for
about 10 minutes. When got
through with him he would be like
Buster Brown-he'd rather stand.
Lessons From a Reformatory.
out In Jacksonville, Ind, there
are 500 inmates in the reformatory :;
2S6 OF them never attended Sunday.
school. 400 had no trade, 252 OF them
were employed at the time they COM
mitted the crime for which they
were punished. 312 used liquor, 374
smoked cigarettes, 325 had not
reached the fourth grade in the pub.
lie schools, only 26 had ever been in
high school. none had ever gradual.
ed from high school.
Judge Fawcet, down in Brooklyn,
n. Y, in sentencing a boy not long
ago, said. In the five years have
been on the bench have sentenced
200 persons, and not one of them
was a member OF Sunday
"If you want 10 crush the sources
OF reformatories on the head. you
can do 1t with Christianity, but one
OF the worst sources of Juvenile
crime is the lack of Christianity in
the bone.
For the last thing the devil robs
a boy of is what he learned at his
mothers knee.
II don't want 10 advocate that we
should lick the children all the time,
but when il is needed. There are
homes in which switch should hang
on the wall and underneath it the
motto: I need thee every hour
II was down in Sharon, Pa, about
four years ago. and was going home
from one OF the afternoon meetings,
and going across the Shenango river
loaded with goods. and going down
| the street amidst the crowds an old
COW was following after.
She came on and did not seem "a
mind the interurban from Youngs-
town. o., or any OF the traffic and
| | said. That liz unusual; just look at
( that old COW ! looked UP, and there
in a cage was little calf, and said
| oh, see. The mystery is solved
now. That is her calf And she
didn't propose TO lot her eyes get on
that calf.
II looked across the street 10 q
place where they sold high.priced
champagne, and there stood fouI
young fellows, all under twenty, al
had cigarettes hanging from then
mouths. caps that looked like frieC
eggs, trousers turned up like cuffs
! lf1B ghiytu sfyn nnpLtfno nd
said, That old COW has more sense
than the mothers of those yount
men,
THAT cow is going 10 know ever
minute where her calf is. while prob
ably the mothers OF those young boy!
are off 10 some bridge whist or wine
drinking affairs, probably discussing
me and leaving them go TO the devil.
said i take my hat off TO the old
cow
Getting Hold Of Youthful Hearts.
Susanna Wesley was the mother
OF 10 children. and she held them for
God. When asked how she did il
she replied. BY getting hold of their
hearts in their youth, and never los
! ing my grip
"In a conversation they were ask
ing when 70 begin 10 train children
A woman said. When they are 8,
and years old An old grandmoth
or said 75 years ago. Before the chill
dren are born. Begin with the ances
tors
she was right She was right
Like produces like. Blood tells. W,
see that In horses hogs, birds, hu
man beings.