The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-27
SOUND DOCTRINE

William A. MckeeVer educator. connection
with the propaganda for the ratification of the child labor
amendment has very timely article in recent number Of
the Dearborn independent He emphasizes the necessity of
work for the growing youth AS students of the moderh
trend in education must note there is over-emphass
upon play We concerned with play and recreation
for the youth than about his and service to the
-fnuny. In some class studies referred to as
games and taught in the spirit Of play rather than with
determination that subjects something to be mastered
and known thoroughly 81
Employers know the aings Of the high school
is for mans whether qualified or not. majority
Of them are Inaccurate at the commones kind of figures
table has given to the "ply method of teaching fig
The pendulum has swung about far enough and the
reaction should soon and the time come when
disgrace to do of the tasks which parents did
Through the discipline Of chores and work progress
and under the tutelage the Welfare upers
To quote the McKeeyer article which is headed: "ls 1t
Crime to Make Boys Work?'
after than quarter-cenury of experience
educator, free to that there is something funda
mentally the matter with the national drive for the child
"Unfortunatey there is connected with it a sentiment
OF m , molycoddlsm and threat Of national ennui
what we need today far more is national movement
for teaching all the growing young to worknot to produce
money goods gain but character.
'The typical high school of today is generation of
soft baby beef physically under mlsced
and rfagued by poison toxins which percoae into the
tissues of their soft, loose flesh
'"Ihey deserve a better fate at our hands.
But instead of giving physical development the training
in industry which their growing bodies require,
head them in the opposite direction.
owe teaching them to loaf and to regard it national
crime tor any one to ask them to work
The ability to work with the hands and the whole body
is of the Godgve prerogatves of the young Expert
in the great trnklne industries such producing
food from the soil, manufacturing amateur handling
and transporting goods, bartering in materials and
business trafctha is what every growing boy and girl
in America needs today far than they need national
laws to keep them from learning to work.
You cannot break boy to work after he is sixteen and
make him like it. You cannot and strengthen
the fibre his body that he work happily and
resist fatigue II you permit him to reach sixteen as an un
developed idler
mark you i unateraby opposed to commercialized
child labor everybody else Children need to be taught
to work for the sake of their health and happiness and self
reliance They need to work with their hands experience
that delightful of belonging to humanity"
1t is only to read the lives of the successful
appreciate this kind of sound doctrine Their
not hedged crcumscrbed by bureau of child
labor with it's army of deasts and zeaots. Immigrant
boys landing the shores of America thirteen fourteen
years of often become leaders many fields of endeavor
through hard work and sacrifice The present generation
should have the opportunity unless develop
y race of "sOfties."