Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-08-24
IS THE PARENTS RESPONSIBILITY.

T. b rv excelent lecture on The American Child at the
Chauauqua assembly last evening the speaker Mrs Oanz OF
ouyle Kv brought focby the whole underlying prn
ce Of successful child training by ne next to the child
and STAY there In which generally characterized as
times Of loose morality the tendency seems to be to u response
btes onto schools and the authorities generally and to Tx re-
sponb rather than seek and eneaor to correct e
Even any corrective efforts the OF the school authorities nave
met with little response When military training was adopted by the
high school met with considerable opposition and although is
fixed institution hardly encouraged should be- One OF
the beneficial and democratic features that OF the wearing or
the uniform insisted upon by the parents as should be- and
the suggestion made many by the directors that uniform dress
adopted girls has with little encouragement although
its beneficial has been demonstrated many times where such
dress has been adopted and generally worn Inc most oaoe ~
ampes of the good results of girls uniform have been shown IN
the In consequence of the apathy which has been
found whenever the members of the local board have brought
the subject I'D September fifth and subsequent days will probably
find our high school girls aayed like the young ladies of the chorus
unless the limits exceeded when they may be sent home to
dress and Jew layers OF Calcrnne
In fixing the responsibility for juvenile delinquency one prom
nent Investigator gets back the Old old goat movie Now
be If child (boy Crib allowed select his own and attend
movies they he will doubtless encounter many which he
has business and which will have anything but refining or
good moral influence The producers make their films
meet the popular demand owntps and the idea OF what conS
presenae film under those conditions varied that except
TO certain decree even what many would consider proper censorship
impossible Pictures the wild and Wooy West always popu
lar with their gun play and houp but on the basis OF groWnp
spectators cassed Objectionable yet growing boy
given free the result very liable be brought home to the
ent as in case illustrated by the investigator Inc reormatoy
that visited recently receives boys from all of the state boys
there for all of juvenile dnquencyng that among
gownups called stealing robbery burglary homicide and
der wanted TO ask those boys questions about the books they
had read and the they had seenhe questions that
have asked hundred other boys have of composite
from boys of whom unusually bright Others
binary dull but all OF whom have been either truants
thieves liars think though that they have all been truth
full to me-thev have to be otherwise
Zone said 1T was the movies that got in here
asked Do you that you stole order to get money o
to the that YOU pictures that made you want o
steal
pictures that made me think of stealing
But didn't the pictures show that the thief always gets caught
and punished
Oh yes but thought wise and wouldn't get caught
thought wouldn't make the mistake he did to caught
THAT yongser fifteen of ordinary intelligence,
tional-he took chance and lost
Now, going deprive the kidde Of the enjoyment
Of the little the part of parents will just easily
bring to bear another influence The investigator writes
after talking with the boys, upstairs to the assembly
that wholesome Of Charles Ray, Homer
Gene Home You should have heard these denquents applaud
Homer for walking miles and miles rather than carare one
penny Of the hundreds of thousands of dollars he carredbecause
wasn't his own
With all schools both grade and high about OPEN is time
for parents to give thought these things If your kid becomes
ncorgbe if in the high school she arrays herself like any
thing but the lilies Of the field don't blame the teachers and the
thortes for indifference