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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30

This commission should be appointed
by joint session of the Legislature, and
should be made up of persons who are
interested in the development of youth.
consisting of physicians, lawyers and
laymen Of both sexes. There should be
at least nine on this commission from
various parts of the state, three Of whom
should be recognized physicians, three of
judicial mind and three laymen. The
appointment should be for a term of
years. carrying with it an adequate SAL
airy, so that the proper ability may be
obtained
"Of course, this would necsssitats the
establishing OF an institution suitable for
such cases, It's object being TO train tho
young mind Of the sc-called criminal
into useful puysujts.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30

for now: Chastity in the man as we'll
as In the woman limitation Of offspring,
because Equality IL q better testimonial
than quantity.
"Pcople should desire children beyond
all mere earthly possession; they pay
their own way, you cannot afford to live
without them. But you must
not invite these little ones to your home
any oftener than you can provide for
them in body and in spirit, and for the
health of the mothers who are to bear
them.
"A great part Of the physical and
moral deterioration Of the present day
arises, it seems to me, from the fact that
children are not conceived in the desire
for them and out of the pure lives Of
their fathers as we'll as their mothers
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30
Everything but
The Three Rs

Feeling as though had been set down
in liliputian world in which the bust
ness of life was carried on by children.
the province of grown-ups being merely
to look on, l retraced my steps to Miss
Pratt.
II have" / admitted, something on
my mind. These children are certainly
learning; but how do you manage about
the three Rs? Unless he can read, write
and cipher a child cannot go into the
regular school grades, can he?"
Reading and writing for little children
really raise difficult question" Miss
Pratt agreed. "We find that the younger
children seem to feel no interest in
either, but the seven-year-olds of their
own accord have taken to both. It may
be story which is read to them and
which they long to finish for themselves
that starts them off. The natural step is
to turn to the books and blackboards,
which, with the teachers help and lit
tie regular application, are soon mas
tered.
1.-The approach to arithmetic has
come about even more simply. A child
must know how to use foot rule accu-
rately If he is going to build things, and
this brings in the use of figures and
even fractions. Also in playing store
simple arithmetic is involved.
After all, we do not expect when a
child leaves here he will have gained
any special technique. All we attempt
is to- lay broad foundation which will
serve him well whatever he decides to
build. Do you think"-Miss Pratt
smiled-"we are too sanguine?"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30
No Place for
Woman's Intuition

The seven-year-olds were investigating
the laws of physics the morning | found
my way into the Play School. Sitting in
a semicircle on the rug, they watched
the rapid descent Of small and a large
block from the mantelpiece and tried to
determine which first reached the floor.
Il know; / know" volunteered a small
girl before the experiment was under
way; "they both get there together"
mo fair, Edna; you're making up
your mind before time stead of waiting
to see what happens" reproved Peter.
A sign that, though Edna still chung to
her woman's intuition, he, Peter, had
adopted the experimental attitude tow
ard life suited to his surroundings.
For Miss Caroline Pratt's Play School
is itself an experiment. But, instead of
being the usual kind performed by adults
upon children, it is one in which the chill
oren do the experimenting. They learn
the c s of education in the same
way they learned to walk and talk-by
the method of trial and error.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30

Editors Note: The news came too late
last soeek to print on this page that
Assensbtvnon Donnslly's bill, foundsd on
tho case Of Paul Chapman, the sixtssn-
year-otd boy spho mas sentenced to cleo.
frocation and saued bv Governor Wait
mans communication of his sentence, had
passed the Assembly mithout oppositic,..
The oil provides for the embellishments a.
capital punishment for minors uMSer
eighteen. and 10 should hare direct bear.
ING on the case Of the fomrtsen-ysay-old
c'rt Just indicted On this state for ,wwvSer
in the fret degree.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30

THE sentence should carry minimum
and maximum lengths of time, and the
institution should be put on a level
that would take from a sentence the
odor OF criminality so far as possible.
1t should be product of careful thought
and study. The maximum sentence
should not be imposed unless in the
opinion OF the commission it is necessary.
and then the one convicted, if not prop
cry re1ormed' should go to tho
.f'ai cour. Tor sentence an asylum
for the criminal insane, or. as the enae
may be, to the state penitentiary."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30
Before Six the Child
Is an Individualist

"You will find the three and four
years old if you will go down the alley
few steps," Miss Pratt directed.
"They are in another building just at
present"
The room l entered was divided into
sections by latticed screens, and each
child was carrying on his play in his
own small Enclosure. In it were a chair
and table, and besides this he had
access to the common materials, such as
blocks, crayons, paper and clay. Like
Christian on his famous pilgrimage,
| asked the meaning of what saw.
Cup to the aga of six a child is an
Individuals" il was explained. "It is
only gradually fhat he learns to work
with other chi Fren, These screens make
1T possible Il each one to carry out his
s s~s idea A''' i"'''''''''" fro" the
An excellent scheme, decided, max
ing mental note of good many people
older than six who would profit by such
isolation.
AT this moment the four year-olds
were summoned to a luncheon of milk
and crackers, with stories interpreted.
"Once upon time." small girl began,
there was a wolf, and he ran 50 fast
you couldn't see his legs. Like this"
she demonstrated, sprinting across the
room. Gould you see my legs?" hope
fully.
"A little," one honest child admitted
There are the three-year-olds," said
the teacher, in an undertone to me,
pointing to window which looked out
on a yard-and such yard!-with a
sand pile and bars and packing boxes
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30
The Court Should
Act as Guardian

"The Juvenile court goes wrong unless
it is founded on the idea of guardian.
ship. In New York it is in reality
criminal court, although the Judges are
able in effect to make it court OF
chancery And Massachusetts is so far
from the ideal that child must be con-
victed of crime in order even to be
paroled!
"Other states are further advanced than
those of the Atlantic seaboard---they do
not permit their children to be cassed as
criminals, whatever they have DONE and
| am amazed to SEQ that the Federal
government does NOT recognize this"
DR.. Hart turned to the pages Of the
recent census and pointed to the place
where page was headed: prisoners
and Juvenile Deinquents"
"That classification when applied to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30

fare of our race. both moral and physical,
requires that they be understood, and II
80, the truths that need TO be stated
should be stated with delicacy, but In
language that can be understood, and
language that plainly conveys it's mean
ing il far better in its moral effect than
that which deals with its subject in CO.
vert and ambiguous expression and thus
suggests concealed indelicacy and stimu-
lates unwholesome curiosity.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30
Crime: Juvenile Delinquency
vAARIEDE y
By MARIE DE MONTALVC

the population of these states is abso-
lutely wrong and Illegal" said DR.. Hart
Il think New York is the only state
where Juvenile delinquents are criminals
yet here we find them divided among
grave homicide; burglary; larceny;
fraud; forgery; vagrancy; and other
ofences' ;"
1t was significant to notice that in New
York out of 1856 child terminals" listed
2,0S3 we're under "othcr offences" In
the grand total the figures stood 1868
out of 24,974!
Daniel II. Willard, of 115 Broadway,
referring to the Chapman case, believes
that life imprisonment is far too severe
a sentence for a young boy, and sug-
gests novel plan for dealing with
youthful offenders.
A Commission of Citizens to
Sponsor Youth
Mr.. Willard outlined his idea in this
way:
81 should like to see the Chapman case
treated entirely from humanitarian
standpoint. 1t seems to me that boy
OF Paul Chapman's age irrespective of
the crime and the subsequent convic-
ton, should receive no such communication
az u life sentence in the state peniten-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30
Where Are the
Potential Newtons?

Look at us grownups to-day No jury
would ever convict us of being expert
mental minded. Are we the same peo
pie who as children took the clock to
pieces to find the strike, and tried to see
how many green apples could be eaten
without fatalities? What has become
Of our one-time spirit of inquiry?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30

vlction and the court imposes sentence
OF guilty, it will direct into the custody
OF the commission such a youth for such
a period as the statute provides-of
course, carrying with the conviction a
minimum sentence, if not sooner par
doned by the Governor with the approval
OF the commission.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30
She Saw What
Came of War

of six drew aeroplanes, guns and ships,
and then smudged the whole thing with
red crayon. Asked what his drawing
represented, he said: THAT? Oh, that's
war. Isn't it mess?"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30

large enough to live in. 1t looked more
like a tiny village than yard, and that.
in fact, was what it was. The sturdy
citizens were busily engaged at the time
in transferring the contents of the
sand pile to another corner of the yard.
A real, old-fashioned bucket brigade it
WAS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30

Suppose, for instance, child is ar
rested for burgary-to my mind the i'm
portant thing is not in the least what
the child has done Chat is, burglary
except in it's relation as an incident in
his life to many other incidents which
form his history and reveal the trend of
his character.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30
- TO Learn by Doing Is Real Education

1t is to utilize and direct these early
Newtonian curiosities that the PLAY
School aims. Miss Pratt believes that
education should be process of
growth in which the child's natural
curiosity and interest are the guiding
factors.
The World Not
Built for Children
''In a world built for adults it is, we
would all agree, impossible to turn a
child loose to experiment as he WILL"
she smiled. "We must adopt some plan
of education which is confessedly art-
fetal and try to reduce the artifciality
to a minimum. That is what the Play
School attempts to do-instead of fol-
lowing method of training we try to
create an environment which children
will attack"
And she would seem to have sue
ceeded. Perhaps the fact that the chill
dren are of many nationalities and ali
ranks, poor, rich and even middle class,
helps. At any rate, they betray none of
age, but attack everything, including
the environment, with zest.
The Street
AS a Textbook
The streets have always been avenues
to knowledge and the Play School does
not neglect the opportunities they offer.
The children are taken on trips about
the city, in the course of which they
learn the significance of many sights they
have seen but not understood. "Where
are they all going?" they ask of the
wagons and trucks, trains and barges
forever moving past. "Why are those
men tearing up the street again-and
what makes the water rush out when
the fireman turns the hydrants?"
Such questions lead naturally to dis
cussions of food and transportation,
street and house construction, water
pressure and the like. Incidentally, al
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30
BY LUCY PORTER
OWAnAYS wnmeJ

7 OWADAYS women are "A lot more
up and coming than they used
- to be. They have more sense
and they think things out for themselves
lat least that's the way we feel about
it,
But we really aren't as far ahead OF
some of the women OF two generations
ago as we may think.
Most Of us have never heard Of lisa
bella Beecher Hooker. Yes, she was Ly-
man Beecher's daughter-one of them.
She had every last conviction which the
modern feminist prides herself on hav-
ing, and she was born in 1922. The en-
cyclopadias don't tell much about her.
They dwell on her ministerial brothers
and her anti-suffragst sister, so you
have to go to the few things she wrote
to find out what sort she was
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30
A Century-Old
Sufragist

One was "a Mothers Letters to Her
Daughter" and in them Mrs. Hooker
tried to convince her daughter of the
reasons why women should have the
vote. Her arguments are the very ones
we hear to-day, only better expressed
She didn't argue entirely with the suf-
fragists of her time, either. She was
ahead of them.
81 am persuaded" she said contrary
TO the judgment of many earnest advo-
Gates of equal suffrage, that women are
quite as responsible for the present con-
1ition of affairs as men, and that they
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30

the best welfare Of those who are
addressed.
"The boy should be taught about him.
self and about women In clean way
before he learns IL from obscene and
Photographic sources.
There is power Of imagination and
conception in the minds of little children
which grows sadly dim with years and
the mother who fails to show herself in
all the depths Of her motherhood to her
boy has lost her one golden opportunity
in life; her daughter may learn for her.
self by sad or happy experience, but her
sons can never truly behold their mother
unless they are called to her in their
extreme youth and before any other
human being has planted an image of
womanhood in their imaginative minds"
So with the girl. "In my conception
one generation of instructed mothers
would do more for the renovation of the
human race than all other human
agencies combined, and it is an instruc-
ton of the head they need, rather than
the heart"
Isn't that wonderful idea? Doesn't
that put it up to us women7 We need
that instruction. Those Of us who have
it tremble for those who haven't.
She Saw What
Came of War
Mrs. Hooker passed through the time
of our Civil War and saw the effect of
war on a nation. We can foresee the
effects of this war. The girls of to-day
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30
A Mothers Duty
To Her Son

'If these things may, consistently with
purity and delicacy, be in the mind and
be cherished in the heart, they may GER
tanly be spoken of where the object is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30
By MARGARET M. MOSES
FEW steps down Macdoug;

a FEW Steps down MacdougaI Al
"A ley there is gate with "Play
School, neatly painted in green
across it's panels. On entering you leave
behind the Village, the world of Pollys
and Brunos and Romany Maries, and
find yourself in universe run by chill
dren for children.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30
Advocated Plain Speaking
On All Subjects

She pleads for plain language in
speaking of sex matters.
"'rhere is great disinclination on the
part of refined and fastidious people to
have these subjects spoken Of at all and
especially in plain language, but nothing
is clearer to me than that the best wei
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30

and that far worse misfortune might be-
fall our race than decreasing families,
inheritance rs too many young men OF
the present day are likely TO transmit.
And | speak not from Il desire to blame
them 30 much az to call the attention
of mothers to their own neglect in the
method Of training these faulty sons"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30

M n body will be the last to be convinced
Of their duty In the matter Of good citi-
zcnshp, no ! am seriously anxious to
make converts TO my faith from the
young mothers rather than from any
other class"
This wonderful woman thought women
ought to be represented in the trials
of those accused of wrongdoing, not be-
cause of their virtues, but because they,
as we'll as men, commit crimes. Partcu-
larly in cases which involve moral legis-
lation should mothers as we'll as fathers
have voice in the decision.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30
Women's Place
In War

Until women have Il voice in deciding
when and why war shall be undertaken,
says Mrs Hooker, unjust wars will never
cease. She thinks women need the edu-
catory scheme Of personal responsibility
and the uneducated woman needs it as
we'll as the other. She believes, as we
to-day believe, that the day of pure
friendships between the sexes is coming
and that such factors as co-education and
political privileges for women will bring
that day nearer.
The best thing she did was to write,
as a grandmother, in 1867, "Woman-
hood: Its Sanctites and Fidelities." 1t
sounds as if it would be quantity scnti-
mental treatise on the saintliness of
women, but it isn't
In the first chapter, on motherhood"
many of her points are those which
women as whole are beginning to stand
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30

almost any other person in TIL. field Of
work.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-04-25
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Live Ones

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The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-05-08

missionary work ever done in oul
country said Or. Z. L. Gillian, pas.
tor OF the st. Paurs A. NJ. T. church
of Columbus and chairman of the Az
rican Centenary bureau. in a recent
Interview.
Among negroes of prominence who
will be in Columbus TO take part in
the Centenary proceedings are Bishop
Alexander Camphor Of Monroyis. Al
RIGA; Bishop Issah Scott of Nash
vile, Tenn; Or. w. A. c. Hughes,
neld secretary Of the Board OF Home
Missions; DIS. y N. Delaney Of the
ON cinnsti- Msysviile district and A.
N. Jeass. Asld secretaries Of the
Board OF Sunday Schools; Dr.. w. 5.
0Asrrill. Asld secretary Of the Board
Of Forsim Missions: DR.. J. n. c. COZ
gins, nsld secretary u the Board Of
TEN pssaaee; pv. !. o. Pssa. CORE
sponlias secretary sl the 1rsedman's
AID s3lasg; AlRAll 2: = Csrtsr. pre-.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-05-08
NEGROES WILL TAKE PROMINENT PART IN
METHODIST CENTENARY CELEBRATION

r HE Methodist Centenary celebra-
] tion. which will be held in Co
lumbus, O.. June 20 to July 10. will
for all time establish recognition for
the negro on the International church
map by transferring him from his
traditional racial role of recipient to
that Of q potent contributor to the
worlds religious uplift.
The very fact that all Methodism
n celebrating the one hundredth an
niversary of the birth of missions is
a tribute to the zeal and the conse.
Grafton OF its negro membership ex.
emplited in the person of John Stew.
art a negro member of the Metho.
DIST Episcopal Church, Who started at
Upper Sandusky, o., the first HON
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-05-08

siding over the A. NJ. f. church
Tennessee; Or. E. W. 9 Hammond
editor of church literature. Rushville
Ind; Or. J W. Robinson. DIT. G. Il
Bryant and DR. E. NJ. Carroll of Oh.
caso; DR.. X. E. Jones, editor of III,
Southwestern Christian Advocate
DR.. ". NJ. Brooks Of New York: nun
Der Of college presidents and distric
stperintendents as we'll as a host G.
we'll educated. intelligent men anc
women. lay Representatives Of IL
varied fields OF African Methods
church activities.
Columbus boasts of eight Africa
Methodist churches. new Y ". &
a. building, valued at 800 .00o. twr
community social center houses. one
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-05-08

on the tax duplicate for s25 900. the
other for $4,000 Y. W. c. A. var
community center. a theater and d
movie house and two good hotels.
A thoroughly organized African
Centenary committee 10 actively en-.
gagged in perfeeting plans for the par.
ticipation Of nearly 1000 negroes in
various forms OF the celebration &C.
tivities. This committee includes
district superintendents and tbs pas.
tors and lay members OF the Colsm.
bus churches. who have charge Of the
enlistment OF Africans fer paSsant
and musical service aad securing OF
Accommodations for the Centenary
visitors. Already a chorus Of ~ col
orsd singers, two eoiosed baads, oae
OF men. the other Of women, and
collsse quaTtettss are pledged and In
training. In addition 300 NEGROES win
take part in the passsnts and assist
in the dswoasEaliep sxhibitp
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-05-08
Iad Right idea. Anyway.

Ny youngest daughter i quite o
r'uchy little person and Il N quite
cruising NJ times to hear her air her
vrus. The day after Christmas sew
crHl children from the Ecirhhorh0od
G.. me IN to see her Sits AMI 90 play
VIII h'r When exhibiting her pres
Doe said In her best r.achy man
H.. 4 rlycl away lot ~ things AMI
! 'I,y"l wy Christmas sn much 'caus"
l.s nicer o. Pee r. giy.r than a taker."-
t.'calp Tribune.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-05-08
earometric Violin.

Abram Moses, violiuist ~ Bait.
more, Is the preseason Of what might
be called harumetric violin. Some
noticed that at certain times II eN-
hailed strange and subtle fragrance,
Ike an aroma ~ oriental incense.
Later, he observed that this fragrance
was noticeable only when the wealth
er was about 10 become damp. He
obtained the violin in Paris some
years ago when he was studying there.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-05-08

To be always intending To live
new life. hut never 10 find time tn 81
about II. il a. II mnn should put
on eating and drinking and sleeping
from one day and ni-ht Ia another. TN
he IS starved and destroyed
Spn
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-05-08

Said the facctlous fcl'rr: ~ cynic
- merely philosoph With chronic
Indigestion"