Evening star., 1921-04-17
Abolishing Corporal
Punishment in Schools

progress
Abolishing Corporal through
Punishment in Schools. CI' Cor,tr tne
nifty years ago. Washington was in
line with the reform. The Star Of
April II. 1871, says:
ihe opposition to corporal 1unish-
ment in schools is making headway
In various parts of the country. and
in Washington quite decidedly. The
trustees of our public schools have
discouraged its use until il figures
much less conspicuously in the re-
ports of the teachers than formerly.
In the board of aldermen last nigh.
Mr.. Champion of the committee on
schools reported favorabIy on the
bill introduced by MIR. Connolly,
which prohibits the punishment of
pupils. whether by the application
OF blows. or by constrained position
OF the person, or by protracted stand
| ing. or by coerced exposure of any
pupil to heat or to cold, or to dark
ness or to solitude, or by denying the
privilege of water. or the qualification
OF any reasonable natural desire. or BY
detention in the schoolhouse after the
dismissal or intermission OF the
school. or by the requirement OF ex-
ScSSlSc eluQy, OF III any Otnef man
ner. This, IL will be seen. embraces
various modes that have been prac-
ticed by injudicious teachers, usually
without authority from the trustees,
and frequently in direct opposition
to their wishes. A motion to lay the
bill on the table was lost. receiving
only three votes. and 1t was made tho
special order for next Monday week"
A peculiar meteorological condition
prevailed nfty years ago that called
for the following COM
Peculiar ment in The Star of
" April II. 1871:
The extraordinary
weather phenomena of the last week
are something previously unknown in
the northern half of the United
States at this time of year. On the
| Atlantic coast from Maine to Wash
| ington the thermometer has ranged
from so to IS degrees, regular June
l temperature. and the high winds
| which have prevailed would have
been appropriate a month ago. That
| there is some general elemental dis
| turbance at present, which as yet is
| not explained. but furnishes material
for scientific investigation. is appar-
| ent from the daily reports OF the
| weather. In the west there has been
| apparently q moving succession of
| tremendous windstorms. principally
affecting Missouri, Kansas. Iowa. Ne
| braska and Wisconsin. blowing down
| buildings with almost the terrible
strength of a tropical hurricane"
The outburst Of radica1ism At the
French capital which marked the
end Of the Franco
ICnmmnnism Prussian war. was ac-
cepted as q symptom
IL GuIVpe. of a spirit generally
| The Star in its issue Of April Is.
i 1871. commenting on the commune"
| at Paris, says:
"It is claimed that these men sim
ply mean to put into practice the dog
mas Of the International Working
mans Association. which has such
large membership all over Europe.
/ The leading idea which animates them
| is to reorganize Europe upon social
istic principles. but they have no very
definite idea of just what they want
or how they propose getting at it. In
q blind and dumb sort of way they
existing relations between capital and
labor. but they suggest no practical
BILE escape from these difficulties.
They believe that their principal an
tagonists in France are the peasants,
several million Of whom acquired
small patches of land apiece under
the legislation of the republic Of 1888.
The commune is gigantic trade
union.
THE commune movement seems in
tended to be a general one all over
Europe. The Italian. German, Eng
lish and Swiss leaders Of the interna-
tional workingman's society have
been consulted and one of the latest
acts Of the new government was to
admit foreigners. even the hated Ger
mans. into the commune. The German
organ of the organization strongly
sympathiZes with the insurrecuon,
and says that the future of Germany
as we'll as that of France 10 involved
in the struggle"