The Washington times., 1919-08-26
The Man Who Whips a Child Is
a Brute and a Bully
The Judge Who Sent Child-Beating Father to Jail
Did Most Commendable Thng-F You Want
Your Child to Hate You Strike It.

ing his little SON.
The body Of the boy found covered with wes from
blows with harness strap.
It wise judge who inflicted sentence of from six
months TO three years on this brutal father
Every grOwnup person who strikes a child ought to
be punished.
Any parent who uses blows to enforce his viii ought
70 be ashamed thereafter look any other fsOwbeng
child or adult IN the face.
Striking child is not only brutal but it is cowardly
Pehghters who have trained for weeks to Withstand
punishment quibble about pound two difference in
weight
But some big, burIy, acknowledgement father win
take a5srap stick his hand and administer punish
ment to child that doesn't weigh onequarer as much and
whose lack Of strength makes effective resistance impossible
He thinks he is educating the child to mind him
The only education he is giving is one Of hatred and
resentment
BE is killing both respect and affection with one act
he teaching that child that his father brute and
coward unworthy his love and at only for his contempt
and his revenge
There time when the lash and the cato
and the paddle and the marnspe were looked upon as
necessities in the jss and the ships and in the armies
and navies Of the world.
Beating was thought to be the only way to maintain
discipline.
But the world gradually woke up to the fact that bru
taty bred butahty-that you couldn't beat morals into
man or reform habits with blows and by one the
hdeous forms Of punishment were made unlawful
In only one place is whipping still in general vogue
and that is in the private home and the subject Of the
punishment is the defenseess little one whose very nnc
Of the law and hepesness make him the less
able to invoke protection
There misapplied quotation than that
which the coWardy parent thinks he approprates from the
Bible as supporting his contention that he has right to
beat his child.
BE recites solemnly: "spare the rod and spoil the
child"
There is no such sentence in the Bible
That lying slogan written by Samuel Butler in his
muchquoted but seldom read Hudibras political poem
Of sarca nature whose chief merit is that it contains
guotabe sayings frequently appropriated from earlier au
thors even this one was
Solomon IN his Proverbs occasionally gives some advice
s to the chassng Of children but there is more reason
for adopting his suggestions Of punishment than to put into
force the directions written in the book of Deuteronomy
which advises that disObedient child be stoned to death
by the neighbOrs.
Whatever the custom or the teachings of ancient
times modern fathers and mothers should be above striking
child
There other and immeasurably better ways of
maintaining discipline and enforcing obedience
II you believe that there is no other way of making
your child conform your wishes than by nicting bodily
pain then you confess that you are the parent of an
spring who is mentally deficient that he cannot be an
peaed to through his power of reasoning but only through
his Of feeling.
The attitude of the parent to the child shouId be g
ened BY code Of morals definite and as strict as that
which is required between grOwn-up people
parent has no right to Lie to child and then blame
the child if it lies in turn.
parent has no right to break PROMISE no right TO
appropriate the property the time which has been def
nitey given the child as its own.
child should not be deceived frightened by false
stories Of dangers which do not exist of ghosts and terrible
animals and horrible happenings which will result from
disobedience
Love and truth should be the guiding influences in the
upbrngng Of children
We have just finished war one of the purposes Of
which proclaimed to be the establishment and maintenance
Of the rights Of little nations and defenseess peoples
The spirit which ustihes the killing Of men TO estab
ush such principle ought to be above the Endorsement or
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