The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-02-11

1Elnisl Describes Chazae-
srj ss!e Y ysulA Bs1sfs Eat
81 1ellne Banquetefs.
\ boys honor must be respect
II ! pass between my boys
I'm page and the light ! have Just
much right to say excuse me- al
&lave . right to expect that boy to
kuss himself II he passes between
Ia open page and the light, Dad"
mpel told the 1856 men and boys
1.-The father and son banquet in
p East Moline Y gymnasium last
mt
&3dr. Rompel Is without doubt the
IT authority on boys and boy ma
&ge in this part Of the country. He
- vsitedIevery large city in the
H&ited States, talked with the ma
Sr4ty of boys who have served in
II penal institutions. In the
ish-American war he enlisted
Mthe navy as a private. an ! in the
HIT war he was the first chaplin in
special service in the navy.
but Dad Is a home-loying man,
and says that IL he had his way
hss would not 60 to heaven for
ambition years, because he has that
American Boy" he clearly illus
American Boy he clearly Illus
tr1ted the many and varied natures
o4sthe boy, and told of several rem
eGies for their faults.
1.-THE American boy is a hupor-
FL continued the Joliet minister
lie loves a joke. He may not be
ashunk rist in the sense that we
sometimes think of a humorist, but
TIA average boy can see a joke
coming long way off,, He can see
apke two days before it gets here,
a9a by the time We laugh at it it
Ing gone on down the road.
The other day l was in the pull
pit in my hcurch in Joliet and was
watching boy laugh at some of
the soberest things l ever said. l
concluded that he wasn't laughing
at-what ! said but something else.
HfH poor mother was wearing her
seH out nudging him, but he kept
on laughing. .e h..
after the sermon I rushed past
the old standbys and the home
guards, and everyone else and made
ahee-line for the boy. When I
REACHED him took him to one side
and said, how are you this morn
ings That was a fine service we
had this morning. He said it was
and I said You saw something
funny in church this morning,
didn't you? What were you laugh.
ing at?' WE'LL he said, DO you
see that lady over there?' She was
chewing gum and the two flowers
on her hat were going round and
round. That boy wasn't listening
to what was saying, He was
watching those flowers doing a
Jack Dempsey and Jess Willard
The American boy is always look
ing for joke.
I have boy like that myself.
have three of them, and they are as
d1nerent from each other as can be-
l am glad they are not all alike in
this. 1t was when Wilson first ran
for office, and had a private wire
put in the church, SO that everyone
could come and find out how the
race was going. And If the returns
were slow N coming in / had a few
entertainers there to make the time
pasf There were two singers there
Inc tenor was short man and the
baritone was tall man, almost as
talH:as myself, but only about hall
asmfn. The singers took we'll with
thajpecple and gave several encores
ann the last one was one that Won
has9 all heard. something about a
teaeher, and the pupil and a tack
ana when the singers got to the
ple4 where the teacher sat on a
tack the tall one took a pin and
1abbed the. short one where he
would sit on the tack. The short
one jumped way up in the air, so
startled that he couldn't sing. NV
boy laughed and laughed, why he
mad regular commissions, but he
wasn't laughing at the way the
man jumped. He was wondering
how far his father would jump il
he vas stuck"
Lad Rompel believes that it is
WRONG for anyone to punish a child
when he is angry, and this rule an
plies equally to school teachers, DO
licemen, juvenile judges or par
ents. In his opinion the child
should be brought to realize the full
danger Of his practical Jokes and
reasoned with as man to man.
bad also says that the American
poy1s courageous and he cited a
numper OF incidents of youths who
sw0fe they were older than thew
actually were to get into the SER
suS WOliu war.
le average American bow IL
not grumbler." continued dad"
and he is blessed with an abun-
dance OF seif-confidence. The ay-
erage American boy feels SO big
that his fathers overcoat wouldn't
make vest for him. And / think
We should encourage it."
The Joliet minister also brought
home to the men the urgent need
OF a schooling for the bows. as
founding them with the fact that
aitheugh sIllinois is second in
weehh in the United States. il is
24t45in education. He also told in
IN emphatic way OF the large num-
Der OF teachers leaving the profess
sion to take up other lines OF en-
ieasor. As an example he told Of |
ne many good men leaving the !
University. and that when the |
ichocl term opened last year there
we're 1,s00 high schools without !