Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-03
4UT0CRAT|C LANDLORDS
DRIVING OUT CHILDREN
Prof. McILccycr Says Age Is Pro-
duCing Class of Child
HatcrS.
WANT ADS ARE CITED
Expert on Training Asserts That
Wrong Has Become SO Common
That Some One Must Cry ca,
y Against Ii.
By DIR. WILLIAM \. MckEI1NEH.

~, IA DIX. WILLIAM \. McNl :I.N Elk.
e To rent-Modern hVe-room apart
ment. no children.
To Rent-Stric,ly high-class apart
ment. Very desirable. No children IN
& building.
Wanted Household work by the day
Il year-old child along.
The. fore go!n: want ads" all APP
pearing in the same daily pape- az"
indica tive or pathetic ana very dis
p tressful situation.
This age Of materialism is produce
ducing an increasingly large class Of
child hatrrs. For days past, a man
7 and wife and little s,veu-year-old
been trying almost franticaNN 90 Sc
cure decent livinE. quarters IN the heart
and sought far and vide. NO children
\ wanted The people in this building do
not want any children here" Have
& agreed TO take only adults IN TINS
which they We're turned away in a
large number Of places.
Indeed. this wron- against the child
. has become so common ana 50 serious
during this period OF high rents and
house famine that some one must cry
u' c ssai'S. selashnoss. ignorance.
meanness or sickness-one or moro OF
these FIVE accusation place against
z the landlords and the tenants above or
below who are intolcrant OF children
I j they are sick, | excuse them; il not
& accuse them.
Was Child Once Himself.
Every one of these bsby-haters was
himself oncela dependent chId. some
tended him patiently in illness. en-
iu-ed his no.ce, repaired the furniture
when he broke Il, or houEht more: de-
tended him when il trouble, paid his
( way, put him % school and tolerated
a thousand Of his blunde-s. He re-
{ ceived AL this abundan; good as a
Ira ct "a a,rs to- = e.
back. With What harsh words shall we
cha Tacterize such se!iishness.
Where e5 Is 'a Ss, i22dtoFS Who will "a
+ desirable. plenty OF l!tt!e ones" Never
lonesome lively boys and giH!s in
every. apartment and SO on? want
in the fiat below who will neg the
landlord 10 ill up ;he place with romp-
ing boys and girls and mus 40 some
thing TO Keep the spirit # the place
young? ! want To offer such a tenant
q place in my affections.
~ children sieen ionser han ADULTS.
and get UP late. The idca that they
seriously in;erfene with ones peace
or well-oeing is purely . fiction. The
idea that their noise is mere wanton-
ness or perverScness is merely Your
own ignorant or dyspeptic state OF
mind.
Method In Chiid's Play.
There is always method in a chilts
L pray. ne Is cnSrOSSci thereby IN get
( ting something done. jusa as is the
case with yourself in the pursuit OF
your own business. once get into the
/ little ones word and YOU viii ind il
StquiNer with meanings and Interests.
n onSe divine his motive and tho noise
II OF rs play may become a sur; of music
TO your tired nerves. Once learn to
sympathize with his problems and fail
ares, his trumphs and dsappoint-
ments. and his Very presence will seem
q necessary part Of Your own daily
f. comfort and satisfaction.
Finally, you intolerant landlords and
tenants. in proportion rs YOU shut
the children out Of your apartments
and regard them a nulsances ana
noisy interlopers. so viii many people
shut YOU out Of their hearts r., for
tat. The Law, Of compensation Is AT
work here. II Won hate the little ones
you deserve TO he stunned and de-
spised by all good women Think this
all through, pray over IL and then see
If YOU cannot he born again in the
II Kingdom ~f childhood