The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-09-01

Hope Still Held That Redfern Will Be Found Alive
PARENTS URGED TO ACT AS MEDIATOR
BETWEEN CHILD and SCHOOL BY DR..
D'MOTS, KWANS DISTRICT GOVERNOR

If GrCwn-ups Diligently Full
fill Their Duty, Many Agen.
cics and Institutions For
Benefit of Juveniles Would
BE Unnecessary, MinOt Man
Says at District Conven-
ti0n
Alexandria, Minn., Sept. many
agencies and institutions which exist
for the benefit Of the Juvenile would
be unnecessary if the parents diligent-
~ fulfilled their duty in acting as the
mediator between the child and the
school, DIR. f. G. DcMots of Minot, N.
D., kiwanis district governor Of the
Mime sofa Dakota district, declared
here this forenoon in delivering the
governors annual address at the op-
cning sessions Of the district con-
ycntiOn.
Citing the desirability Of expanding
the program for the 'underprivileged
child. as recommended by Kiwanis In
ternational, DR.. DeMots took occa-
sion to question as to whether the
work can best be carried on by
building organizations upon organi-
cations, or have we overlooked the
most feasible or crowded out the
most practical solution in our haste
to do more ?"
Kiwanis' program for the benefit
of the underprivileped Juveniles. Dr.
DeMots declared, is intended ITO pro-
mote an intelligent, aggressive, and
serviceable citizenship
Too Many Organizations
II know Of l2-year boy who
can heardly be kept at his school
work and duties about the house be-
cause there are so many organiza-
tions in his city working for his wei
fare,' DR.. DeMots said.
"The same condition exists not only
in the homes Of many whom we are
trying to help, who could help them
selves if they were afforded the prop
er opportunity, but in your home as
well.
Concerning the schools. modern
conditions compel the parent to sur
render his child to some one better
qualified to care for it's mental de-
vel0pment, but it does not follow
that he is thereby released from all
responsibility in educational matters.
When the home is no longer respons-
ible for the education of the child,
it would seem that in justice to the
child ideal conditions should be
created within its recincts for the
conduct of the work of the school.
Unfortunately, this is not SO. for
distrust, interference and indiffer-
ence characterize the relation between
the home and the school to great
extent. Teachers know it and feel
helpless, but are valiantly trying to
find a way out. Parents feel that
why. The child is the buffer be-
tween the two and bears the brunt Of
it all.
Parents Shift Burden
IF the home and school are under
stood to be engaged in common
venture. why have SO many other
agencies and institutions come into
being? This is almost entirely due
to the fact that the majority of the
parents have slothfully thrown the
entire burden Of education on the
school. and thus isolated education
from community life; they have
shamclessly unloaded the whole re-
.sponsibility on over-burdcned teach
ers for the physical. intellectual,
civil. moral and spiritual develop
mcnt of their offspring. We
have come to live in an age of in
stitutional domination. The
school has not chosen this part. 1t
has been brought about by repre-
hcnsible misunderstanding of the
part it was intended to play in the
great task Of education Of American
youth.
"While the motive which prompts
leaders of institutions and agencies
to assume many Of the prerogatives
Of parents may in itself be laud-
able one Gin view Of the parents
failure to exercise them) it indicates
a very dangerous tendency. As they
extend their influence over the child,
most parentH seem to yield ground
gladly. Many children are as effec-
lively bereft Of parental influence
as if they were orphans.
Home Influence Important
1.-THE influence Of the home plays q
large part in the instructional life Of
Liz CuJtus 4NO 6UU6tltutC S0u GSCI
be found for the sweet, wholesome,
strengthening influence cxerted by
proper homes. By having come to
regard the school as the sole forma-
tive agency Of youth. people have un-
knowingly come to cooperate with
the establishment of an insidious
system which has graciously relieved
them Of their God given. RESPONSE
bility and almost wholly, il not en-
tirely, destroyed the influence they
alone can exert over their offspring.
"Qevelop personal interests, offer
cooperation, service and sacrifice,
marshal all your resources and re-
member ever the most powerful fac
tor in development Of q child is
sound and thorough training in re-
liRion and morality"
DR.. DeMots urged the Kiwanis club
give thought to the matter Of secur-
ing universal exercise Of the fran
chise In all elections. and outlined
the work which the organization has
done to foster closer understanding
between the city man and the man on
the farm, which he said. the country
il coming to recognise ~ = particular
function Of the service club
"Kiwanis has a great function to
perform in the building up Of more
prosperous and hap~~ agriculture"
the district governor continued.
Zone very material Wav II To kean