The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1923-07-12

Foreign Advertising Representative
THE IMPRESS ASSQCiATION
PARENTS ARE RESPONSIBLE.

PARENTS ARE RESPONSIBLE.
Fathers and mothers, if your chilt
rem are not all they should be it
your fault. You are responsible 70
them, their birth and the sort of cit
zens they make. This responsibility,
cannot be shifted. AS this fact be
comes more widely and thorough,
recognized civilization advances ac
cordingly.
Last week there was held in rh'
city of Oakland, California, the an
: nual convention of our National Edu
cational Association, and by far the
biggest thing this convention put ovel
was the election of Miss Olive M
Jones as president of the Association
She is principal of public school No.
100, New York City. She knows boy:
and girls, and every parent should d.
gest the advice she gives.
Miss Jone s election to the pres.
dency of the association, one of the
highest honors that can be paid IN
educator in this country, comes as she
completes her 18th year in charge OF
probationary correction in the public
schools of New York. Miss Jones,
white-haired, virile, strong-faced, be-
gan work when she was Is years old
Her first teaching job was in the old
Seventeenth ward, where her predecs,
sor in the school-room had been liter,
ally chased from the building by hard
boiled youngsters who routed her with
a shower of shoes.
From that day Miss Jones has sue
cessfully handled $4,000 of New
York Is worst" boys and girls and
she gives the reclamation recipe which
she has used with such splendid result.
'There are no real bad boys Or
real bad girls. +" Some mothers and
fathers may dispute this statement,
but their opinion to the contrary,
Miss Jones stands by her guns.
Give a boy responsibility and
keep him busy, - she said. "Teach
children responsibility by letting them
earn in some way their joys and priv
leges of life. Never give them some
thing for nothing Also when punish
ing a hayward boy, be doubly sure
that the punishment is deserved and
just.
More than one boy has been saved |
from pounding in somebody's skul.
BY pounding piece of sheet iron in
stead. Mix quantity of manuel |
raining work--the kind the boy likes
with book learning and reward for
'hings well done, and badness will us
tally fly out of the Window
Miss Jones blames environment and
lot heredity for the badness in most
'hildren and she doesn t spare par
nts in laying the blame for incorrigi-
'ility.
Parents are to be blamed for most
asses of delinquency Some fathers
nd mothers think that if they feed
nd clothe child their duty is done.
PARENTS think when they send their
hildren to school all they learn isl
eading, writing and arithmetic. - II
Miss Jones does not believe in whip
ing children. Corporal punishment.
ne declares, only makes the average I
hid store up hatreds. Unjust PUNISH
ent, she also asserts, is far moro
armfull in it results than in letting
'e guilty escape. Many youthful
iminals have been created by pun {
hments which they did not deserve. {
two boys are caught fighting in 7
ISIS Jones school they are given box
G gloves--told to fight it out. g
Out of the 500 or more +" badn boys c
Mt yearly to Miss Jone 3 school from
other public schools of New York o
", 70 per cent are reclaimed eieun,
sponsible citizens. The referma. Il
hes are able to reclaim only 81 per n
At of their youthful inmates.
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