Evening Star Newspaper, September 16, 1923, Page 80

Stealing This is another gripping Instaliment Yot the series of unusual articles re- counting some xperiences Capt. Monckton as ior officer of the constabulary; resident magis- and other posts which he held under the British government of New Guinea. | BY CAPT. C. A. W. MONCKTON. LEARNED that a gold-prospect- tng party of miners had set their hearts dn penetrating into the country to the south of Col- lingwood bay, up & stream named the Laku, thelr cupidity having been ex- .cited by a tomahawk stone which had been purchased by a trader in the bay and which was shot through with veins of gold. I knew quite well that if they went tn alone among the uncivilized tribes they would only end in stirring up & Jot of trouble for me. I therefore decided to escort them beyond the range of the coastal people. Accord- ingly I left for the Laku, accompanied by my police, De Molynes, the miners @and their Suaus. Arriving there, we camped on & low-lying sandy beach at the mouth sof the river in the midst of heavy rain. The strearn rose and fose in height until I became anxious as to the safety of my camp, and in order to make it quite secure shifted late in the evening some four miles up- stream to igher and more solid country and among the Kuveri peo- ple. The Kuverl were at first much alarmed at our Intrusion into their “territory and inclined from fear to be hostile, but at last, finding that we intended no harm aid, instead of interfering with them, paid them well for any assistance they gave us, they became very friendly. They told us that they were shut in between the Malsina on one side and the hostile Kikinaua tribe on the ‘other. The former descended peri- odically upon them and carried off all their best-looking young women, as well as levying a blackmail of pligs, ‘while the latter tribe constantly ®wooped down on their villages and murdered and carried off—for ouli- nary purposes—any one they could lay hands on. Our advent they had at first regarded as their crowning mis- fortune, thinking that we were yet another enemy. As they put it to me afterward, they would have ‘run away at sight of my force, but had mowhere to run to.” I told the poor devils that, instead of adding to their woes, we would protect them from their enemies—a promise they at first apparently re- garded as mere words. “The Maisina. they said, in awed agcents—"the Mai- sina are very brave and very numer- ous” Old Bushimai, a native chief and ally, who was sitting in my tent during the discussion and listening to it with growing impatience, got up and, leaving my tent, soon returned with his hand covered with biting, crawling ants. “Look at this,” he said to the trembling deputation through the interpreter; “these things are even as the Maisina, and thus will we treat them.” Then, with a couple of sharp smacks, he smashed the snts and sat down to smoke. That deputa- tion left much impressed. Msanwhile my sentries were belng posted for the night. £ % % x Wn—: had a fine, clear, starry night, and the whole camp of tired men settled down for a comfortable re Bushimai slept under my hammock. An hour before dawn I awoke in a jumpy state of nerves, and called to Bushimai but got no reply. More and more jumpy, i got out of my ham- mock, buckled on my belts and revol- ver and, taking my rifle, walked out through the sleeping camp to the sentries: as I did so, T met Bushimal walking slowly backwards and for. wards with his axe on his shoulder. “Why don't you sleep?” I asked him. “T felt danger in my sleep,” he answered; “did you too?’ “Yes” I replied, "I fear I don't know what.” ‘We both walked towards the sentries and met the sergeant. “Sergeant, why are you not asleep?” I asked; “the corporal is In charge of the sentries.” “T cannot sleep, sir.” he answered, “T mwoke feeling trouble; I should like to turn out the men, but there is no re: son.” Bushimal, the sergeant and I walt- "ed until dawn, roosting round a small fire, and watching the different men being relieved by a puszled corporal; then, yawning, we went off to bed again. Later, I learned that the Maisina hed heard I was camped at the mouth of the Laku—the camp I had vacated a tew hours before—and had flung fthree separate bodies of men upon it Just before dawn, only to find my ex- piring fires. Had we been in that camp, I am convinced that they would have smashed us, as we should hsve been taken by surprise. I leave it. however, to the psychologist to say why an attack upon 2 vacated camp should affect the nerves of men four smiles distant, and why it should affect “the nerves of only three men out of more than one hundred, The following morning we marched fnland into uninhabited country. We cut a tunnel through a dense jungle of sugar cane for about & mil then notlcing how exteremely dry an inflammable it looked, I asked De- Molynes how sugarcane burnt. Like an over-insured second-hand old clo’ shop,” he remarked; “If this catches fire, we shall have less chance than a snowball in ——" I halted the line, ealled back to the rear-guard that ‘there was to be no smoking, and any tinder carried by the carriers was to be put out at once; and again we went on. ' Suddenly, I heard an ominous erackling sound from behind and, gaz- ing back, saw a black pall of smoke Tising over the rear of the line. For- tunately, there was little or no wind. At.once the long line of men in single file began to press hard on our heels, screaming with fright. Frantic with rage, I falaed the police In a dpelemn oath that, if we escaped, we would kill without mercy the man or men responsible for the fire. Then in trenzied haste we cut on, two men ahopping unt!l they fell ‘from heat and fexhaustion, then others dashing over their prostrate bodles, s:zing thelr tools and taking their places; while Dbehind came the ever-increasing roar ©f the fire. * x x % LD Bushimal toiled like a man 0 possessed of devils, dashing re- /peatedly at the wall In front, and smashing with his axe, whenever the two choppers slacked for a moment “in their efforts. At last, when the #luation was apparently desperatgy 1 sent word along the line in the ocon- stabulary to blow out their brains as the flames reached them, after shooting any carriers within their reach who might prefer a bullet to roasting. Suddenly we cut into a cabbage tree, up which one of the men climbed. “Master,” he yelled, “the fire comes fast and the cane extends for miles, Little Group of Men Sets Out to Accomplish What Seems the Impossible in a Large Armed Camp—Escorting Miners Through Zone of Danger—Desperate Plight When W.a.lled in by Fire—Three-Day Battle Is Fought. but I see a green, swampy patch with | engaged in securing these men, how- trees on the left, close to us.” Magi, the man up the tree, extended ever, I nearly lost one of my police, who incautiously ventured some dis his arm in the direction of the wet|tance from our main body and got cut patch, and by it I took a compass bearing. along which we cut, emerg- ing after about 200 yards into an oasis, formed by springs, of about two acres of green, swampy land. Man after man struggled through by the cut track, until all were there; then, with our clothes saturated with water our faces in moss and wet plants, and the stifiing fire rolled past and over our sanctuary. Once safe, I inquired into the cause of the fire; as I held the inquiry with my revolver pouch opened and Bushi- mai standing alongside me fingering the edge of his ax, it was sufficlently impressive. “It was no fault of ours, said the corporal in charge of the rear guard, “it was these fools of white men—they lit it I then found that, as my order that there should be no fire or smoking had been passed back in the vernacu- lar, the white men had asked what was happening, and had been told in pidgin English. “It is about fire” whereupon they had concluded that the advance was out of the cane on the far side, and wished the patch burned to make the homeward march easier, and had accordingly fired the cane before the police could prevent them! At last we left the miners to their prospecting in uninhabited country and retraced our steps to the Laku camp among the Kuveri. These peo- ple told me that during my absence the Kikinaus had swooped upon them and killed several of the villagers, while at the same time the Maisina had sent in demanding the usual tribute of pigs and youns women. The Kuveri, however, had declined to pay, relylng upon the support of myself and the police. The Malsina, recelving no response to thelr demands, had then changed thelr tactics; professing extreme rflendship toward the Kuveri, they suggested that as the latter were on terms of friendship with me they should humbug us and join with the Maisina in making a sudden attack upon my unsuspecting camp; & propo- sition that the Kuverl had the good sense to decline, and to report to me. I now had a very large bone to pick with the Malsina; but before I could do that I had to break the Kikinaua and render the Kuverl safe from th- land attack by them. Accordingly, accompanied by many Kuveri, I marched on the first Kikinaua village. £k x % FTER leaving the Kuveri dis- triet I discovered that the Ki- kinaua lived across and In the midst of some particularly vile swamps, full of plants which possessed ex- tremely long and sharp thorns. After passing the first swamp we came to a strongly stockaded village named Aparu, which, I was informed by the Kuverl, was a colony pushed out by the Kikinaua, who appeared to be conquering and holding the country as they advanced. This village we passed, as it had been abandoned; we soon, however, approached a large village named Bonarau, the actlon of whose in- habitants did not leave much room for doubt as to the reception which we were to meet at their hands. Yells of deflance were set up as soon as our approach was per- ceived, and preparations for a fight made by the natives. The village of Bonarau was one splendidly designed for defense, being approached through a long tunnel cut through dense undergrowth for about 100 yards, down which one had’to crawl bent nearly double, and up to one’s knees in an unusually sticky mud; the tunnel ended at a strong stockade, behind which was a small square courtyard, backed by a second and much stronger stockade, flanked by houses from which spears could be thrown on the heads of an enemy attempting to force the gate. Finding that it was impossible to g0 round the stockade owing to the dense undergrowth, we rushed and carried the first one, the defenders hastlly falling back on the secont and stronger one of the two. The first attempt to take the second stockade falled, owing to some of the police being delayed at the first one. However, on the whole bf the men making a second run at ft, and Bushimal chopping away with his ax the plaited rope hinges of the heavy wooden stockade door, it also was carried, the defenders losing three men killed and two or three wounded. Four prisoners were taken. News of our coming had plainly been sent to the village, as no women or children were in it, nor any ar- ticles such as natives value; while large quantities of food were stacked inside the stockade, and many spears in the village itself. There also were many more men engaged in the fight than could have been furnished by the one village. The prisoners, upon being questioned, admitted having constantly ralded in the Kuveri dis- trict, but pleaded in extenuation that they themselves were constantly being ralded and murdered by a mountain tribe at the back of the Kikinaua country, by whom they (the Kikinaua) were belng driven in upon the Kuveri. Two of the prisoners were released to carry a message to their tribe, ex- plaining why the visit had been made and pointing out that the punish- ment recelved by them was the result of their own action in recelving us in an unfriendly manner. They were also informed that the two men taken away would be roturned as soon as friendly relations had been establish- ed between them and the Kuveri tribe. * K X % ETURNING to the coast after dealing with the Kikinaua, I found that the Maisina bucks and about a 100 of the Winlap!l had been ralding and generally playing Hades on the coast as far south as Cape Vogel, though they had all now returned to their homes. I, accordingly, at once went te Ulaku, thelr chief village, where I succesded In surprising them and grabbing half a dozen men con- cerned, in the raiding. While I was off by the Malsina; fortunately, he managed to get his back against a tree, and to defend himself until we rescued him, We hatdly saved this man before the sound of firing from the whale- boat told me that the privates I had left in charge of her were in trouble. and plastered with mud, we burfed | Rushing back, we found that they | bad been attacked by & strong force of Maisina. ‘They had immediately pushed out to sea, and from there ‘were firing upon the assailants. One of the arrested men was released and sent back to his friends, with a de- mand that the chlefs gnd others con- cerned in the recent rald should be surrendered to government, and that {the remainder of the tribe should at once lay down their arms; also with an intimation that obedlience to this order would be compelled by force if necessary. No notice whatever was taken of this message, nor were any natives visible on the beach on the following morning. On proceeding down & bush son and consequently a fair wind from from Cape Vogel to Cape son, so that my crew of three con- stabulary would be ample. “Who is going to look after the women?” asked the corporal. “We may have to camp for two or three- nights on the way.” Private Agara, a Cape Vogel ‘recrult, suggested that he should take his wife for that pleasant task, she being In her village. This was really rather artful on the part of Agara, it being one for me and two for himself, as first year's men, such as he was, lived in the barracks, and were not allowed to have their wives with them; while the married E:-ronna that, with her | ;- tives that they were covered by the rifles of the police hidden in the scrub. Then we marched our handcuffed gang back to the' whaleboat, and dumped them in, just as the remain- ing natives discovered our weakness and the bluff we had put up and flew for their spears. The whaleboat was now so far increased oad, we could not hope to get her off fore dawn, “which ‘was fast ap- Proaching. - Hastily pulllng out my réyolver, 1 handed it to Mrs. Agarh, ordering Agara to tell Bogege- and his fellow prisoners that«Mrs. Agara wouM shoot “them, and the Cape Vogel prisoners knock - out their braims with tomahawks, If they at- tempted to escape or-take part in-the coming fight. As they were all linked together with handcuffs they were fairly Belpless. The thyee police and T went ashore and took cover between the boat and now thoroughly incensed nu- a scrappy, desultory fight then took place, lasting until day- light. Neither side could see the other; the merub, the dark and gen- eral uncanniness of the thing con. fused the natfves and prevented them from charging. Spears thrown at ILLVSTRATED BY OME ONE has asked me to write a talk on cbedience. Here it is. 1 have argued both for and against obediance. That's really the only way to get at the truth of any stibject. Come along with me, Pal, into one of those homes you know. You've met Effle, haven't you? Effle Ruther- ford, who doesn’t belleve in spanking children. who quite agrees with mother that children shouldn’t be spanked. Here's a cross sectlon of a day in the Rutherford home: “Just walit until your father comes home!” storms Effie. Little Bill wait and nothing happens. That particu- lar threat has become a dud as far as little Bill i concerned. He doesn't know why his memma should say things that are not true, but since he escapes unscathed, he should worry! “You're a bad, bad, bad boy and mamma doesn’t love you any more!” walls Effie. But lttle Bill, being comfortably stuffed with the forbid- den layer cake, doesn’t care much whether mamma loves him or not. Moreover, he knows she'll be kissing him in another minute, regardless of her previous statement, “T'll not take you down town with me!?” shoe cries—and takes him. She knew all the time she'd take him, because she has nowhere to leave him. Little Bill also knows this fact as ‘well as she. Mother's bluffing—that's all. Little Bill is well peased with a world In which mothers bluft and little boys do as they wish, L Effie “loves little Bill o much” to punish him when he 't -come 41in when he is called, when'he dosen't “TO LOCATE BOGEGE WAS BUT THE WORK OF A MOMENT, WHILE THE CAMP AWOKE WITH A CLAMOR.” track two of the police were again attacked and a general fight ensued. This fight continued for three days, with endless maneuvers on their part and counter-moves on mine. It ended in the hostile Maisina being driven through and out of a large swamp, which they evidently regarded as their great stronghold, with the loss of three kllled and several wounded, they fleeing in a state of utter panic A second prisoner was then re- leased and sent with a message to our late opponents, pointing out the futility of attempting to resist ar- rest by force of arms, as they had been doing, and allowing them a week in which to send in the offend- ers wanted in the matter of the coastal rald. Again no notice was taken by the Malsina people of the message. From the prisomers I learned later on that Bogege, their principal chief, was mainly responsi- ble for the ralding at Kuveri and had personally conducted the party by whom the station of the trader Clancy had been looted and his wife subjected to ili-usage. It was palpable that little could be done toward establishing order at Matsina as long as Bogege went un- punished and was at large to influ- ence his people in resistance to gov- ernment authority. “Well,” I thought, “in the meantime I'll cripple the raid- ing powers of the villalin: I can,” and, accordingly, destroyed every large canoe belonging to them that I could find. Bogege always knew when I was moving with anything like a force in his vicinity, and skipped for the sago swamps, where I could not find bim; he was too strong for a village con+ stable to arrest, or for me to @o 50, for that matter, except in strength. Some little time later, a steamer call- ed in from the Malnbare and the captain told me that a launch was coming up from Samaral in = Souple of days. “Ah!" I thought, “as there are & number of pretty osaes of theft, as- sault and that sort of-thing to attend to at the mission station at Cape Vogel, I'll run down there in this ves- sel, clean up the work, and come back by the launch; that will save me a good fortnight” Accordingly, off ‘I went, taking with me only a corporal, my orderly, and a private whom I had recruited at Cape Vogel as inter- preter. v L wu arrived at Cape Vogel; I finlsh- ed my work there and at the end found myself with two man and three woman prisoners. Thé beastly launch never put in an appearance, and later I learned she had her shaft. At last I went Samuel Tomlinson and borrowed whaleboat; it was the southeas! men of longer serwce lived In sep: rate houses, and had altogether a better time. Agara knew that if he once got his wife landed into mar- rieq quarters, the chances were that I could be persuaded into allowing her to remain. Under the circumstances, however, I consented for Mrs. Agara to come. We set sall, my argosy’s comple- ment consisting of myself, three con- stabulary, one acting wardress, two man and three woman prisoners. ‘While running up the coast, just off the Lakekamu river, as night was closing in, we met a Kuverl canoe, ‘which Agara halled; he spoke to them for a few minutes, then turned to me and, with his eyes bulging with ex- citement, sald, "“They say Bogege is camped on a small island close to §= s much as |, Ulaku, fishing:; he thinks you went to Somaral in the steamer. I sat and thought; months might elapse before I got such 5 chance again; but then, only three fighting men with me, and a small whaleboat already cluttered up with prisoners! Prudence told me to go on to Cape Nelson and get the detachment, com- mon sense told me that by the time I had done that Bogege would proba- bly have heard of my return and re- treated to a safer spot. “Ask them, Agara, if they know how many men he has with him.” The reply came that, with the ex- ception of two minor chiefs whom they named, they had not heard wWho was with him. The two men they mentioned I also wanted badly for certain deliveries; they acted as Bo- gege's lleutenants in most of his villaintes. “Any women or children with him?* I asked next. “We are not certain, but don't think s0,” was the reply. “Canoes?” I next queried. “Yes, some new big ones he has bulilt, how many we don't know.” “Hm!" I thought, “It may be a peaceful fishing party, but Bogege, his two chief scoundrels and new canoes, look more like fresh devilment; especially as he thinks I am out of the way, and knows the police are all at Cape Nelson. I looked at my men. “Well, shall we take Bogege? You have heard the tale; he may have fifty or he may have a hundred men with him, and we can't find out until we are amongst them.” They, looked at one another, then they looked at me: finally Corp. Barlgi said, “It is for you to say.” “Yes, you mutton-head,” I snapped at him, “but what do you think?” “I don't think,” he answered. “You say we are to try and take Bogege; all right, we try; you say Bogege too strong; all right, we go to Cape Nelson.” At last I decided that the chance of catching the old scorplon was too good to lose, and told the police we would make the attempt; clearly they thought we were taking on a whale of a tall order, but even so, the pros- pect of an uncommonly good scrap pleased them. The man prisoners were then taken into our councll, their villages had frequently been raided by our quarry, and they both hated and feared him. My plan was to approach the island at about sn hour before dawn, find out by the; fires on which side the natives were! encamped, and then sneak up on the other side. The police and I would land with the handcufts, while the! prisoners looked after the boat; If} anything happened to us, they were to bolt at once for Cape Nelson, and there tell the constabulary what had occurred. * k¥ K B sneaked up to the island in the dark, feeling our way on & falling tide, over the deep patche: and channels of a wide coral reef. Then the four of us crept slowly across the island until we (uunfl( ourselves in a large camp of mostly sleeping natives; to locate Bogege ! was the work of a moment, while| the camp awoke with a clamor. Agara and I got up to him. “Up with your hands, Bogege! The govern- ment has come for you!” sald Agara. _Bogege saw the uniforms and rifles and promptly surrendered, with the sole remark, “Those lying Winnapi pick up his scittered toys, when he wantonly breaks her vase, .when he sasses back. “He's 50 little that he'll outgrow all that” But he dosen't outgrow all that. Why should he? It's much easier and jollier to do as one pleases, and since no unpleasant consequences follow, why change? * k% X UT the world isn't going to excuse and lie to little Bill when he dis- obeys and misbehaves. The world isn't going to plead, threaten, scold and cajole, and then withhold its punish- ment. In yearsto come when BiIf loafs and wastes, is unpunctual and untidy, destructive and rude, he’s golng to lose his job and go hungry until he gets another. It he's too destructive, and too rude to the wrong people he's going to be fined. If that doesn't cure him, he'll be up against harder meth- ods. If he steals he'll be jalled. If in a temper he kills, he'll be hanged. And the world won't consider his feelings while doing these things either. Does such a sequel to a littel boy's naughtiness seem over-colored? It isn't over-colored. It's the natural result of an untethered spirit. The basis of all social order is obe- dlence. Without it, each man Is & sav- age tribe unto himself. 8in s simply a disregard of duty— your duty to yourself or someone else—disobedience to established law. Often, taken by themeselves, the acts which constitute sin are quite harm- less. But thelr reaction on soclety at large isn’t harmless. A man succeeds or fails as he learns such considera- tien and adaption. And there is only one time when he can learn it with the greatest ease and the fewest mis- takes. That time is childhood. medium. The old analogy of the “bent twig” Is literally true. As a child’s bones are easily straightened or de- formed, so Is a child’s mind. He takes shape easily. But the shape he takes, he keeps. It is harder every year to undo the warping, just as it is hard- er to straighten out an old tree th: a young one. e HAT'S the why and wherefore of obedience. On the other hand— Consider Clarence. Little Clarence | has a customsbuilt character. From | his first consclous moment he has| been trained to jump like a little dog at the word of command. “His not fo reason why, his but to do or die—" To argue over the case is considered quite as frightful by Clar- ence's parents as actual disobedience. They cherish obedience for its own sake, not for the good it produces. But obedience for its own sake s pt to be one of the deadliest experi- nces that can happen to & human be- ing. gm nce's mama and papa are not training Clarence to cope with the world. They are simply training Clar- encé to cope with mama and papa, and he won't be worth two hoots when mama and papi‘ release their strangle hold. The self-righteous glow they feel is not the result of dolng their ‘duty, but merely the ecstasy of bossing. Such mamas and papas are just about as much credit told me that “‘The Man' had gone to Samaral!® (“The Man," by the way, ‘Was my name amongst the natives.) ‘We got five other offenders as well. to this country as the siave drivers of the old regime. And they turn out as pitiful and stupid a product. And young Blll, aged six,| | {nim which you would demand from The mind of & child is a plastic|your cotemporaries and you'll Into a Lair of Savages to Capture a Dangerous Chief random, of at pur rifle flashes, rattled amongst fls and the ston, and bushes {n which we were shelter- ing, whilst every now and then a yelp or a falling bodx. told that some of our shots were taking effect. As soon as dawn broke the natives drew off a little, whereupon we rushed our whaler out a couple of hundred yards over the reef, Bogege and his fellows belng made to wade and haul with the rest. We then hastily pulled round the island to where Bogege's camp was situated; here, standing off in deep water, at about a hundred. yarde' range, the police made such practice that in a few ‘minutes the now thoroughly de- moralized natives bolted actoss the island. Coveted by our rifies, our two Cape Vogel prisoners then lahded ana chopped holes with tomahawks in the bottoms of about a dozen large canpes. Whereupon, very pleaséd in- deed with aurselves, we huarried home as fastas sall and paddie could drive us to Cape Nelson. 'The two Cape Vogel prisoriers had taken some pad- dlés from Bogege's canoes, 80 he and his friends had the pleasurs of speed- ing their way to jail with thefe own paddies. [Copyright, 1923.) Elowe Tolunson dogs if they arn't made to obey, Do you call that mense?” Yes, I call that sense. The import- ant thing s not the act of obedience in itselt, but the reason for obedience and the logical result of disobedience. ©Once impress these two things upon a child’s mind and obedience will fol- low automatically. But it may take more of & revolution than you antiel- pate, for you'll have to train your- self as well as the child! ‘When little Bill disobeys nothing happens, and when little Clarence dls- obeys & whipping happens. Both proc- esses are destructlve of character from start to finish. Neither child is told the reason for obedience. So far as Bill or Clarence .goes, the request emanates from a personal whim of the parent. And tHe result of the di obedience isn't logical. * x % \HINGS do happen in the grown- up world when you disobey, but whippings don't happen. Every child knows whippings don’t happen. Papa isn't whipped when he files into & temper or tells a fib or forgets an errand, and little Clarence is whipped. Therefore, it Clarence has any spirit at all, he speedily perceives that whippings are not the result of wrong doing, but simply the result of being little and being found out. Naturally, he concludes that when he is big enough to make whippings difficult, and sly enough to hide his tracks, he will not be whipped. Ana if Clarence hasn't any spirit, he succumbs without a struggle and is the world’s doormat forever after. At ie therefore plain that the Bill and Clarence types of discipline are quite altke in'method and result, de- spite their seeming unsimilarity. They give no-adequate tralning for adult experience, and they produce either weaklings or rebels. The wrong kind of obedience i{s as bad as none at all. But the right kind of obedience is the greatest blessing which can befall a child Give your child a reason for obed!- ence. There's alwaye a reason for obedience in the adult world. No older person with an atom of self- respect keeps a law which fen't backed by reason. = You've no more right to demand obedience to sense- less laws from your child than your govérnment has to demand such obedience from you. Then give your reason to the child. And here the hard part comes in. There's mighty little reazon,” save parental peeve, for about 50 per cent of the “Don’ts” handed out to chil~ dren. If the child disobeys a peevish or unjust command, it's more the par- ent's fault than the ohild's. Be mighty sure you can justify your re- quest before you make it, or you'll Sow the seed of disrespect for law in your child's mind which will maki for bitter reaping. If you make mie- takes, as every parent does male mistakes, apologize. This is heresy from the parental viewpoint. Never- theless, it's big truth. > * K F you wish consideration and courtesy from your child, set him & courteous example. And demand apologies, not grovelings, from him when he makes a mistake. Don't de- mand them in the name of love, nor threaten to withhold love unless he does apologize. Use the dignity with be amagzed at the response you'll get. There is nothing which brings out the best in a ohild so quickly as a recognition of his equality. Hayving once promized punishment, keep your word. Promise only those punishments which you can execute and which have some logical re- lationship to the wrong committed. The world does not°whip adult of- fonders, but it does deprive them of liberty, subject them to soclal ostra~ cism, rob them of special privileges, fine them. All such punisiiments may have thelr counterparts in the home. The home is soclety in the small. Snubbing will do vain little Mabel far more good than spanking. Make Billy eat apart from the tamily table, in an improvised “sty,” when he, makes a plg of himself. If you go about the matter rightly, he won't regard it as a joke, I as- sure you. For older children use the fining system, just as It is used for Infraction of law in the adult world. They cannot pay .{n money (although their weekly al- lowances may be docked) but they can pay in mervice. These are only hints of possibie punishments, but they show the spirit of the thing. And ‘the spirit of the thing is what counts. The government which rules by tyranny breeds slavery and ultimate revolu- tion. ‘The government which 'is based on just laws, and which ap- peals to the self-respect of its sub- Jects, breeds loving hearts and honest, service. What sort of a government “Well. what is right?” you ory.|are you setting up in your home? r“According to you, children go to the