Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1914 — Puts Blame on Roys' Parents. [ARTICLE]

Puts Blame on Roys' Parents.

The Hammond high school authorities have been having some trouble lately with an overflow of animal spirits on the part of under classmen and public sentiment has passed judgment on this conduct. Without any desire to minimize the offenses charged to the young men, they must realize that hazing is a thing of the past and that public property is protected by law. A natural ebullition of enthusiam must find other outlets than by destroying church property. These boys all come from good homes. Their parents are much distressed at the conduct of their young hopefuls. It is too bad that the parents can't handle these matters as they did in the old days. We distinctly remember that there was little desire on the part of school boys to raise Gain when father gently led their boys to several cords of hickory stacked up in the back yard and said: “Now when you get back from school get busy with the axe and the sawbuck and put in your spare time this winter transforming this into stove w r ood, and when you get that done I have something else for you to do." < 1 After wrestling with cordwood for two hours, Uli desire to go out o’ nights and “rip hell out things’’ gets a hard jolt. Bed feels pretty good then. We still insist that these lapses are not so much the boys’ fault as the parents’. Give the boy something to do. that will take care of this excess of animal spirits. A boy is no good without it, but he must have an outlet for it. —Hammond Times.