Evening star., 1938-03-16
STOP BEING PALS,
DADSARE WARNED
Military School Head Says
Sons Become Amused,
Then Embarrassed.

A warning to Dad" to remember
his age and stop trying to be a pal to
his son was issued today by Col. A. M.
Hitch Of Kemper Military School in
an address to the twenty-f1fth annual
meeting Of the Association of Military
Colleges and Schools of the United
States. closing a t1lree-day convention
at the MayfloUer Hotel
Being pal may be all right when
a son Is about years old and thinks
dad can lick any man in town, he said
but after the old man muffs a few
grounders the lad becomes amused
and then embarrassed.
you fooled him on Santa Claus
and the stork for a while" he de-
clared. "but you can't fool him all the
time. He's getting smarter all along. II
The colonel said dads "pally' atti-
tude often resulted only in large
allowances" which did the youth NO
good.
Intelligence Tests.
Second speaker on the morning
program was Harold NJ Smith of Bor-
dentown Military Institute, who dis
cussed various types of intelligence
and reading tests for students.
He amused the group by reading a
letter from parent we'll pleased with
the development of his son from these
tests. The boy. the father wrote,
"misspelled much more intelligently
than he used to-"
Mr.. Smith said he had noticed a
general rise in the I. @. of students
attending his school for a four-year
period and wondered if it were due to
the military training. This raised
considerable discussion as to the value
of an I. O.. several representatives de-
claring that it is not considered so
important today as it once was.
The B. M. I. representative also
warned that the public schools by
their development are challenging the
existence of the private school.
DR.. Byrd to Speak.
DR.. Harry C. Byrd, president of the
University of Maryland, was to ad-
dress the afternoon session on What
the R. o. T. c. Means to America. {"
and the convention is scheduled to end
with dinner at 7 o'clock, when Rep
resentative R. E. Thomason of Texas
Will discuss THE Thomason Bill"
Following discussion. there will be
the annual elections, after which the
convention will close with the annual
banquet at 7 o'clock when Representa-
tive Thomason Of Texas will discuss
The Thomson bill"
Yesterday the military school just-
fed its existence before the group
from the standpointS Of physical de-
velopment, character building and in
connection with the National Defense
Act, but didn't fare so well on scholar
ship.
COL c. R. Endsley of Tennessee
Military Institute told the group that
Much as hate to say it, the military
school Is not justified in claiming su-
periority scholastically over other
types of schools
Col. Armstrong Speaks.
Describing the average high school
group as pale, stoop- -shouldered and
dull" in comparison to the cadet
student body. Col. H. L. Armstrong of
Castle Heights (Tenn.) Military Acad-
emy lauded the work of military
schools in the field of physical de-
velopment and character building. He
condemned over-emphasis on inter-
scholastic athletic competition. saying
parents do not enroll their children in
schools simply because they have a
championship football team.
Taking up the contribution Of the
military institution from the view
point of national defense, Col. Roy F.
Farrand of st. Johns Military Acad-
emy cited figures from a QUESTIONABLE
designed to show the participation of
military school alumni in the war
and in present organized reserves.