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MRS. CATHERINE CONRAD EDWARDS
Associate Editor, Parents' Magazine
DEVELOP SENSE OF
i RESPONSIBILITY
Not long ago a friend was
showing me some keepsakes of
her childhood. One of them was a
quaint white silk dress, scarcely
more than 18 inches long, yet in
the grownup style in which chil
dren’s clothes were once made—
a square yoke, waistline with sasli.
and kick pleats in the skirt.
"You must have looked like a
tiny lady in that," I remarked.
"And that s exactly how I felt,"
my friend answered. “When 1
came across this dress, not having
seen it for 30 years, I suddenly
had a vision of myself as 1 had
looked and felt when I wore it. j
In this flash of understanding 1 j
knew that I had felt then as com- !
plete a person as j do today— j
and just as responsible. Not that •
I was a precocious child—1 was j
no brighter than any other five- j
year-old, but I knew what was
expected of me and that I alone
was responsible for my actions, i
I didn't feel like a partial adult—
I was a person.”
Psychologists have been telling
us for years that a child is a dis
tinct Individual at each stage of |
growth. My friend’s experience of
reliving her five-year-oldness for
a second provided proof from ac
tual experience tTTat a child is cap
able of accepting responsibility
within the bounds of his know
ledge of life.
Since this is true, then parents
should make the most of it in
the character education of their
children. Too many parents give
a child an “out” every time he
fails to live up to their cxpecta- |
tions. “Bobby was too tired to i
put away his tricycle," Mother1
will explain to an exasperated j
father who has had to get out of |
the car and remove the tricy-I
cle f i om the driveway bet ore he i
could put the car in the garage
Occasionally, of course, it is
true that a child is too fatigued
to do an expected chore. In which
case it would be better for Moth- 1
er to say, ‘Bobby, I can see that
you are very tired. Come have !
your supper and I’ll put your tri
cycle away sc Daddy won’t run
into it ween lie drives the car in
the garage.”
But most of the time when a
child fails to do what he knows
is his own task, he is aware of his
shirking. He doesn’t want to do
it so he takes a chance on the con
sequences. If he discovers that his
mother will find an excusi for
him, part of his innate sense of
i esponsitility is lost. But if he
finds out that the penalty for his
failure to do what is expected of
him is a logically unpleasant one
(such as not being allowed to ride
his tricycle for several days) the
sense of responsibility, which had
prompted him to do right and
which he had disregarded, is jus
tified in his own eyes and becom
es an even stronger part of him
Children learn much by trial
and error. If this sense of respon
sibility, or conscience, is discredit
ed by repeated experiences of
getting away with what they
know they shouldn’t do, or getting
by without doing what"They know
they should do, they soon cease
to put much stock in it.
MORALITY FROM
POSITIVE ANCLE
At old-fashioned revival meet
ings much of the time was taken
up with confessions in which the
sinner painted his past life as
blacker than black. To many young
sters who listened, fascinated by
these recitals, the evil goings-on
sounded more exciting than the
sinner’s reformed life. Today we
teach morality with a positive ra
ther than a negative approach—
we teach the child that happiness
is a natural accompaniment of
good conduct, faith in God, cheer
fulness, putting effort into one’s
work and being thoughtful of
others. We don’t talk to him about
forbidden things as if they were
really more fun than acceptable
behavior and then hope he will re
frain from investigating them out
of fear of the consequences. For
we have learned that lives built
on fear are unhealthy both men
tally and physically.
One proof of the workableness
of this positive method is that it
has done wonders in building up
healthy appeties for nutritious
food. Nowadays most children de
vour heaping plates of vegetables
instead of holding out for several
ears of sweet corn, the only veg
etable other than potatoes chil
dren seemed to like a generation
or two back.
But can character education, as
well, succeed by emphasizing the
things to do rather than those to
shun? We believe so. Even piety
as it is taught today, is based on
God's love rather than on His
wrath. School attendance is en
couraged on the basis of the in
terests you’ll miss if you stay a
way unnecessarily, rather than on
the punishment you’ll get if you
are absent without leave. And
when have children liked to go to
school as well as they do today?
Honesty is not only taught as
being the best policy, but dishon
esty is shown as unworkable and
stupid instead of as something
wicked that clever people some
times get away with. Boasting is
unmasked as the resort of inse
iure minds, but emphasis is put
on teaching a child to listen to
others as well as talk. Too much
of the teaching of courtesy used
to be based on telling a child
that hi# lack of manners was a
TODAY
«md
TOMORROW
By DON ROBINSON
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ADS .... farmv
The catch-line “excellent spo,
for a swimming pool,” in an ad
vei t isement of a farm tor sale
protialil .• attracts the intsiest of
farm minded urbanites more than
a a j other sales phrase,
v I know when the classified ad
vertisements in newspapers or
farm Journals start me dream.irt:»;
about a farm of my own, there is
nothing which furnishes a better
stage-setting for ray dream in,;
than the • icture of a nice, cool,
shady pool back of the house into
which 1 could plunge after a hot
day i.i (lit fields
Tut such dreaming is rather
rudely shattered, so lar as the
swimming-pool backdrop is con
cerned, .,y a book called “Fai m
For a Living or Visa Versa,” writ
ten by lauld Haystead, farm edi
tor of Fortune magazine. For,
according to Mr. Haystead, those
lines about a swimming pool are
an linintiot of farm lealtjvs for
disposing of larms which have lost
their productivity and are gener
ally down at the heels. City suck
ers, it has been found, can ie
attracted by centering their at
entinn on a Lute in the ground in
stead of on vhe land itself
-.malar tricks are, of course,
used to sell real estate in cities
aid towns. 1 remeir.be:- going
through a row of little houses in
a development where a ical estate
man had successfully boosted pric
es by $1,000 per house by install
ing a gadget which proved irre
sistible to all feminine visitors—
an electric hair dryer.
Aside from the occasional trick
ery which may creep into classi
fied ads, I imagine there are
many people who find these small
type, personalized notices about
things for sale, help wanted and
jobs wanted to be among the
most interesting features of a
newspaper or magazine.
Some lead these eagerly in or
der to find bargains and to find
opportunities for themselves. Otli
ers read them with a sort of a mill
curiosity about other people'
lives und problems. They glory ii
picturing themselves living in the
sumptuous estates described in
the classified wonder about the
tragedies that must have befallen
the people who offer to sell all
their household belongings, find
drama in the adt of people who
are making a frantic effort to
better their position or find a
more favorable niche in life via
the “Situations Wanted’’ columns
and enjoy peeping into the private
lives of strangers by reading the
personal notices like, “Harry, W
want you to come home. Every
thing all right now, S.E.b,”
In many ways the classified ads
are the most intimate part of a
newspaper-—the part which is
written largely by the readers in
stead of the editor and is concern
ed with everyday financial and
personal problems
GOODS .... ide».
During this war classified ad
vertisements under the heads of
“Wanted’’ and “For Sale'1 have
beeii a great help to many fami
lis. In the newspapers in some
towns the classified page has be
come the first page to which
readers turn. Through the classi
fieds they have been able to find
that secondhand refrigerator they
need to replace the one that broke
down, the bicycle they wanted to
make it possible to get to work
without using gasoline, the pres
sure cooker necessary to put the
Victory garden in jars for the
winter, or any of a thousand and
one other articles which ure unob
tainable in the stores.
In the farm and industrial areas
where help is at a premium, the
classified pages have played an
important role in finding the few
men and women who are still
available for jobs.
But we hope the interest in
disgrace to his parents. Now man
ners are presented as props to
self confidence, as the means for
making and keeping friends.
Likewise the child who tells
tales isn’t cured by shaming, but
by being encouraged to relate the
amusing, likable things about his
friends.
One reason why this construc
tive method has its failures, as
well as its successes, is that too
often when seeking to inculcate
pleasant and admirable traits we
use less zeal than when combating
the unpleasant and undesirable.
Just as the world is faced with
the problem of making peace ap
peal to the imaginations of men
as strongly as war has been gla
morized by militaristic nations, so
parents should work as tirelessly
to make kindness, honor, cooper
ativeness appeal to their children
as they would strive to eradicate
their opposites, cruelty, dishonor,
selfishness, if these unhappy
traits were to appear in a child’s
character. _.
34 colored regittrants
left here this Morning
The 34 colored registrants list
ed below left this morning for
Camp Croft for preinduction phy
sical examination at 7:30 a. m.
James Haghes, Bessemer City;
,Richard Crawford, R-2, Cherry
ville; Hasker Meredith, Bessemer
City; Plato Gamble, Trenton, N. J.
Howard Stinson, R-l, % Dallas;
John Lee Brooks, R-2, Cherry
ville; James Thomas Adams, R-l,
Rings Mtn.; Garfield Campbell,
R-l, Dallas; Johnnie Mack Lee
Abernathy, R-l, Bessemer City;
Melvin Mason, R-l, Clover; H. B.
Roseboro, R-2, Shelby; Henry D.
R. Bullard, R-l, Crouse; Hazel
Lee Johnson, R-2, Cherryville;
Tate Stockton, Jr., R-4, Lincoln
ton; James Harmon Wright, R-l,
Bessemer City; John Frank Adams
R-l, Kings Mountain; James Wes
ley Starr, R-l, Crouse; Henry D.
Abernathy, R-l, Bessemer City;
Avery Calvin Coolidge Webber,
.-2, Cherryville; James William
i.arnett, R-2, Cherryville; James
Archie Little, R-4, Lincolnton;
Alton Luare Harbison, R-l, Cher
ryville; Howard Brooks, R-l, Cher
ryville; William Clarence Lind
classifieds, awakened by the war
will not die with the war’s end.
For, if the people in a communi
ty support the classified page of
their local newspaper—the page
which they must write themselves
—they will find ever-increasing
enjoyment in it. Not only can it
be used for selling and buying
merchandise and real estate, but
it has infinite other possibilities
for development. Use it. if you
will, to give your views on politi
cal candidates, to suggest town
improvements, to congratulate a
well-known lesident on an anniver
sary or for any other purpose
where it seems worth a few cents
a line to get your message in print.
The classified page in most
newspapers is usually thought of
as a “Buy and Sell ’ page, but if
the people wish it there is no rea
son why it cannot become a pub
lic forum as well. Pay your cash
in advance and most any publish
er who will permit you to use the
Classified columns to try to sell
your neighbors on free enterprise
as readily as to sell your discard
ed lawn-mower.
-oa wrtHUAV :^?0 «ui#w*g MS«P
bert Stinson, R-l, Dallas; Robert
Theodore Williams, Jr., Lewis
Alexander Feemster, R-l, Besse.
mer City; William Lewis J. T.
White, R-l, Bessemer City; Beau
fort Wright, R-l, Bessemer City;
Lagree Byrd, R-l, Bessemer City;
James Lester Stevenson, R-2,
Bessemer City; Richard Mann Cun
ningham, Bessemer City; Thomas
James Ross, Bessemer City.
15 COLORED REGISTRANTS
TO LEAVE AUG. 2 AT 3:52
The 15 colored registrants list
ed below will leave August 2 at
3:52 p. m.. for t amp Croft, S. C.,
tor preinduction examination:
James Thomas Craft, R-2, Lin
colnlon; Johnnie Graham, R-2,
Bessemer City; Clyde Shepherd,
R-l, Bessemer City; Lester Blan
ton, R-l, Bessemer City; Leonard
Roy Brown, R-l, Kings Mtn.;
James Junior Graham, R-2, Bes
semer City; James Cleveland
Gamble, R-4, Lincolnton; Mat Lee
English, Crouse; Elzathion Lom
ick, R-l, Bessemer City; L> Fay
Wilson, R-2, Cherryville; Herbert
Matthews Ijames, R-l, Dallas;
George Walter Green, R-2, Cher
ryville; Moses Hamrick, R-l, Bes
semer City; Clarence Eugene
iV.^ns, E-3, Kings Mountain;
'Yl 1‘ James Little. R-2, Cherry
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