Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1912 — Use of Quirt Will Make Children Better [ARTICLE]

Use of Quirt Will Make Children Better

By VICTOR G. ROSENBAUM

Atlanta, Ga.

I am one of a family of eight. All of us arc good citizens and one is-even etiii- « 'S. nent. We were soundly whipped in our youth and each 01 us honors anil reveres our parents’ memory). No child was whipped after the fourteenth birthday. We didn’t need it.' It is fear that rules; not love. Children are having their character ruined j)y too much allowance being made for their youth. The ten, commandments are as applicable to human frailties today as they were when written. The crying question of the day is how to rear children.

The abolishment of the rod is producing' criminal tendencies among the young. >• ° My parents whipped their children when they lied and stole. As a result, fear kept us from repeating the offense until we were sufficiently developed to guide ourselves. A prominent dentist recently told me he honored his parents for haying whipped him, as in his practice he handles the modern “love guided” child, than, whom there is none more unfortunate. The .mother of today no longer reads aloud to her children. Livingstone and Stanley will enthrall the young for many happy hours. Let the mother wear pretty clothing, no matter how cheap. Dainty dress attracts and invites respect. The mother deserves some reward. Finally, let us beg for more competent surgeons, who will not leave u* neurasthenics, unable to rear children; it is this which prevents competent women from permitting maternity. ’