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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 18, 1914

The Richmond Palladium

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Professor Pickell's Experiment. As described in the Palladium of Monday evening, Prof. Pickell of the Richmond High School is planning to conduct a unique experiment. He intends to have each of twenty-five teachers select a pupil and to adapt the teaching and curriculum to that child's inborn capacity and needs. This is one of the most advanced

steps ever taken in the history of Richmond schools and is a frank recognition on the part of local school authorities of the new theory in education. To Horace Mann usually is given the credit for establishing the American school system. He and his assistants in that mighty work lived in

that we owe to these two fundamental institutions. Among our lowest animals children do not have to be taught because they are born almost mature. But where the baby, as in the human family, comes into the world tiny and helpless, it is the parents' duty to care for it and train it through many years of growth. It is this care and training thus made necessary that has

brought into existence the school and the home. What greater debt, therefore, do we owe to anybody than to the child? But it took us a long while to discover this indebtedness. Jesus of Nazareth was the first prophet of child welfare and he, as time in this world goes, lived but a comparatively short time ago. It was a common custom in his day to destroy babies if they did not happen to come at a convenient time and place. Thousands of parents in Rome did not hesitate to carry their children out to the desert or the wilderness and there expose them. A flourishing slave trade arose through

slave dealers rescuing these babies and bringing them up as future slaves. This terrible system of infanticide was sternly rebuked by him who said that it were better that a mill stone be hanged around a man's neck and he be cast into the sea than that he should harm one of these little ones. It was Jesus who discovered the child.

the atmosphere of Civil War days. All about them was enlistment, drilling and soldier's life in its various phases. How natural it was then to organize the school somewhat after the fashion of a regiment of soldiers! The pupils were lined up in a company; the teacher was the captain, the superintendent the commander-in-chief. Fupils marched in and out of the class room in soldier fashion, were seated in straight rows and the whole discipline of the school made to smack of the military discipline of the camp. This regimental system of school life may also be traced to Horace Mann's theory of the human mind. According to him, the brain of a child was like a piece of white paper on which the teacher may write anything she wishes. It was supposed that any child could do anything any other child could do, providing he was willing to put forth the same amount of effort. If a pupil showed no aptitude for a study, it was attributed to his disinclination to work. Naturally the remedy for ftiis condition was a copious draught now and then of the birch rod. In choosing a profession for the child, the parents were guided solely by considerations of income, honor and fame. As to whether or no

they were driving a square peg in a round hole never seemed to enter their heads. This "tabula rasa" theory and the military camp formation are the two characteristics of the average American school and have been since its inauguration. But ever since that early day, there have always been prominent educators to condemn the system. "We have simply built a factory," they have argued, "rigid, formal, inelastic. We feed the boy into one end and turn him out at the other a finished product. But too often he ha? indeed been 'finished' in the most literal sense of the word; his own native ability, his own original capacity, have been sacrificed in the interest of the machine. Like the bed of Procrustes ve have hacked and cut at the pupil to make him fit the stiff frame-work of the system. "We will never have a scientifically organized school system until we recognize the principle that the school is for the sake of the pupil

and not the pupil for the sake of the school: until wc come to understand that the whole school apparatus must be adapted to the requirements of the individual. He must be the standard and not the military camp. ".As for the 'tabula rasa' theory, that is unscientific and absurd. A child does not come into this world with a white paper mind. Hereditary and early environment influences have already given it a character peculiar to itself long before it comes into the hands of the teacher. Every child has inborn abilities peculiar to itself alone. The only reasonable and successful educational system is that which seeks not to trim

the pupil down to fit a rigid standard, but rather to develop to the full those original and unique gifts with which each and every child is endowed. The school exists for the pupil and not the pupil for the school." If we interpret it aright, Prof. Pickell accepts this pedagogic principle and is endeavoring to work out a practical method by which the Richmond High School system may be adapted to each individual pupil. This is magnificent, pioneer work and every parent who has any genuine interest in the education of his child will await with eager expectancy the outcome of the experiment.

But in spite of twenty centuries of Christianity, in spite of all our schools and churches and means of culture and refinement, the old custom of trafficking in children, of feeding babies into the mills of slavery, is not yet by any means extinct. Of course we do not throw them out on the desert. We do worse than that. We leave them helpless among the hyenas in the slums and tenements of our cities. We do worse than that ! We harness them up with a steel bridle and make them grind out profits for us in our mills and factories. Instead of exposing the babies to the mercy of the slave driver in the wilderness, we sell them on the installment plan, two million of them every year, to the slave driver in the cotton mill and the canning factory. All of which entices us to smile when our twentieth century people speak of the old Romans as barbarians! Another interesting custom of our times is that of boycotting babies. As everybody knows, it is almost impossible in the larger cities to rent a flat in an apartment house in the better sections of town if one happens to be cursed with children. The very ones that need the most ad

vantages, the pleasantest surroundings and best treatment are in all modern cities driven to the least desirable quarters. The institution of child labor cannot any longer be justified even on the crassest economic basis. The most brutal dolt in the Tennessee Mountains knows better than to break in a colt too soon. He has discovered that a horse broken

too early means a horse dying too soon. Our

modern slave driver has not even yet learned that he is killing the goose that lays the golden egg when he grinds the life out of the little ones. It is against all this that child welfare day is

directed. This function surely will meet the approval of every Christian man. But may it not be true that there is another province in which child welfare work is needed for which the best of us may be somewhat responsible? Is it not possible that child welfare work is needed in the average respectable home? Consider how many parents there are still

who make use of the old savage doctrine of corporal punishment. Every doctor will tell you that

many a tender little tot is wrecked and ruined by j the jerkings about and the cuffings and the slaps j

and beatings and vicious threats to which some parents' bad temper leads them. A study of our vital statistics will suggest still another phase of the question. It is surprising how many child deaths are described in the register as due to "wrong feeding and lack of care." The farmer studies carefully how best to feed and house his stock and yet there are many mothers who give not an hour's thought as to how their babies should be fed and cared for.

After all, child welfare is not going to be realized until we have mother welfare and father welfare. It is bad enough to have two million children ground down in the mines and factories, but it is just as bad to have children everywhere growing up in the better class of homes the victims of ignorance on the part of their parents. We need another Mrs. Birney who will turn her attention and attract ours to this larger problem of child welfare in the home.

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TWENTY SHEEP ARE KILLED BY DOGS Charles Shank of Milton Loses Twenty and Has Seven Badly Mangled.

MILTON. Ind., Feb. 18. Twenty sheep belonging to Charles Shank, southeast of Milton, have been killed by dogs, and seven other badly injured. The dogs escaped. Mr. and Mrs. Alva Faucett of Connersville visited Mrs. Joe Decker yesterday. Dr. Sweney attended a bean supper at Cambridge City Monday night. Mr. and Mrs. Griff Cooney have returned from a visit with their children at Indianapolis. A pair of twins

were born recently to their son, Louis Cooney and wife of that city. Both babes died. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wilkinson and daughter have moved from the It. I. Lindsay farm to Milton. They occupy James Sipples' property in the southeast part of town. James K. Mason was at Connersville Saturday. Miss Effie Hubbell is suffering from a broken bone in her foot. Mrs. S. Templin is putting up ice, which is eight inches thick. Harry Murley is- home from Kalamazoo for a short visit with his parents. Frank Morris went to Indianapolis yesterday to spend several days. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Brown will soon go to housekeeping on their farm near Spiceland. John Daniel has moved from the Silas Clark farm to Perry Freeman's farm near Beeson's station. The freshman class of the Milton high school was entertained by the sophomores Saturday evening at the home of Ruth and Furman McCormick. Games and contests were enjoyed during the evening. The library was decorated in the sophomore colors and the dining room, where the guests were served at a luncheon was decorated in honor of the freshman class. Prof, and Mrs. L. E. Thompson and Miss Veva Witter were guests. The freshman class is composed of Misses Laura Bertsch. Helen Trine .Carmen Shantc, Minnie Higham, Laura Rotherraal, Dorothy Hoshour, Messrs Olin Davis, Howard Basson, Ralph Bryant, Robert Kirtley

and Harry Gause. The sophomores are Misses Ruth McCormick, Serena Hoshour, Pearl Cook, Messrs. Paul

Merchants to Revise Credit Rating Books

Credit rating books are as important and necessary to the business men of Richmond as Dun and Bradstreet reference books, according to statements made at the meeting of the business men's section of the Comemrcial club last evening. Reports were made on the results accomplished from the 1913 credit rating book and it was decided to revise the reference for the 1914 edition within the next sixty days. Contrary to the opinion of many Richmond persons, the credit rating book here is not a black list book, but rather assists persons who are not personally acquainted with the merchant to obtain good credit. It also protects the merchant against unscrupulous persons. Every family in the city and its suburbs is classified in the book and the credit of the family specified. Thousands of dollars were saved local merchants last year by the work of the sanction committee of the business men's section. This committee

protects the merchants against special

advertising schemes, such as songbooks, time cards and vest pocket

, memorandums. All such schemes i must be taken to the sanction comj mittee before any of the merchants j will order the advertising. I In the report of this committee, subI mitted last evening, it was said that i many merchants heretofore had been I threatened into taking such advertisements because their competitors had l done so. If the advertising is not

I considered as being first rate the committee refuses to place its "O. K." I on the scheme and none of the local i merchants will accept the advertising. I "The committee desires to encourj age all advertising in regular perlodiI cals," the report concludes, j Officers to serve during the ensuing ; year were elected as follows: H. C. I Hasemeier, president; W. M. Penny, I vice president; Edgar V. Hiatt, treas- ! urer, and Charles V. Jordan, secre- ! tary. Directors chosen were Philip I Birck. M. J. Quigley, Jacob Lichteni fels, O. P. Nusbaum and W. D. Loehr.

Werking, Furman McCormick and Henry Callaway. Mrs. Frank Winter of East Germantown was the guest of Mrs. Alice DuGranrut Tuesday. Word has been received here of the death of Mrs. Pinnick, mother of the Rev. C. H. Pinnick, of near French Lick. Rev. Pinnick was for several years pastor of the Milton M. E. congregation. He is now stationed at Scottsburg. Mrs. James Napier visited her husband at Reid Memorial hospital, Richmond, Tuesday. Miss Maggie Wise of East Germantown was the guest of Miss Sarah Roberts Tuesday. Mrs. Mary Walker of Dublin, was here yesterday calling on friends.

GRAND OPENING TONIGHT. Roast pip; and all the trimmings, Wagner's Famous Beer on Draught. Charley Graham, 322 Main streets, op posite Court House. Smyrna produces 2,500,000 pounds of wool yearly.

Child Welfare Day Driven by a social conscience, as well as her mothers' instincts, Mrs. Theodore Birney founded the first national congress of mothers in 189G. In honor of this great woman it has now come to be the custom to honor her birthday, February 17, by making its anniversary a child welfare day throughout the nation. But while Mrs. Birney deserves the credit for this great work, child welfare would have come to be one of the live issues had she never lived because our American social evolution would have driven us to it sooner or later. God never has invented a better device for taming and civilizing man than a common ordinary baby. He has never discovered a better means of civilizing human society than a child. It is the child, as John Fiske, our greatest American evolutionist pointed out, that is responsible for our home and our school and therefore for all

"THE CRY OF THE CHILDREN'

Alas, alas, the children! They are seeking Death in life, as best to have. They are binding up their hearts away from breaking, With a cerement from the grave. Go out, children, from the mine and from the city; Sing out, children, as the little thrushes do; Pluck your handfuls of the meadow-cowslips pretty; Laugh aloud, to feel your fingers let them through But they answer, "Are your cowslips of the meadows Like our weeds anear the mine? Leave us quiet in the dark of the coal-shadows, From your pleasures fair and fine. "For oh!" say the children, "we are weary, And we cannot run or leap; If we cared for any meadows, it were merely To drop down in them, and sleep. Our knees tremble sorely in the stooping; We fall upon our faces, trying to go; And, underneath our heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would look as pale as snow; For all day we drag our burden tiring, Through the coal.dark, underground; Or all day we drive the wheels of Iron In the factories, round and round." Elizabeth B. Browning.

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Mr. and Mrs. Ray Warfel and family entertained Sunday at dinner, Mr. and Mrs. Lee J. Reynolds and guest Misn Mary Reynolds of Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. John Runnel and family and Mr. and Mrs. Enos Warfel. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Monroe spent over Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Paul at New Castle. Miss Esther Jones of Richmond spent Friday night and Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. John Hunt. Miss Anna Horn of Richmond was the guest of friends here Saturday. Mrs. Clifford Fouts will entertain February 21 at a five hundred party. Mrs. Chester Life will be the hostess for the Progressive club Wednesday afternoon. The Harriet Thornburg estate consisting of 69 acres, north of Hagerstown was sold at public sale, Saturday to John A. Locke. Seventy dollars an acre was the price paid. J. M. Lontz of Richmond was the guest of his mother, Mrs. Margaret Lontz, Monday. Noble Thornburg of Mnncie, spent over Sunday among relatives here.

George Bishop faithful friend and true For you our plaudits ring. A tribute of love and friendship Moat freely do we bring; Your brethren here within the lodge Their homage gladly pay. And pray that every Joy of life Be yours from day to day. Fifty years have you labored here. In the lodge you lore so well. Faithful and true to each lesson taught Where friendship and love doth dwell; To "visit the sick and bnry the dead" Have been literal facta to yon.

And an honest desire to see the right Permeates what e'er you da. Other men have come and gone. Others have borne a share. But none have served so faithful and long. No service been so rare; Others have served an apprenticeship. And then have drifted away. But no other man has been so true. And a worker every day. Fifty years has your kindly thought To Whitewater lodge been given. Fifty years for her benefit Faithfully you have striven; That you may serve us a fifty mora Sincerely do we pray. May peace, happiness and faithful love. Follow you day by day. Lawrence A. Handley.

IF CHILD IS CROSS, FEVERISH AND SICK Look, Mother! If Tongue is Coated Give "California" Syrup of Figs.

Children love this "fruit laxative." and nothing else cleanses the tender stomach, liver and bowels so nicely. A child simply will not stop playing to empty the bowels, and the result is, they become tightly clogged with waste, liver gets sluggish, stomach sours, then your little one becomes cross, half-sick, feverish, don't eat. sleep or act naturally, breath is bad. system full of cold, has sore throat, stomach-ache or diarrhoea. listen. Mother! See if tongue is coated, then give a teaepoonful of "California Syrup of Figs." and in a few hour all the constipated waste, sour bile ard undigested food passes out of the system, and you have a well, playful child again. Millions of mothers give "California Syrup of Figs" because it is perfectly harmless; children love it, and it never fails to act on the stomach, liver and bowels. Ask your druggist for a 50-cent bottle of "California Syrup of Figs." which has full directions for babies, children of all ages and for grownups plainly printed on the bottle. Bware of counterfeits sold here. Oet the genuine, made by "California Fig Syrup Company." Refuee any other kind with contempt.

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New Stock of Optical Goods Including all style automatic Eye Glass Holders Eye Glass Chains Aluminum Cases, Plain Glass Eye Protectors Automobile Goggles Large Amber Glasses to protest the eyes from sun and dust. These are to be found at the new Optical store. No. 10 North 9th St. F.H.Edmunds Optometrist.

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Announces the removal of his office from 931 Main street to 27 South Eighth Street Opposite Intemrban Station Practice Limited to

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