Evening Star Newspaper, February 16, 1930, Page 40

MOTHERS URGED TOTEAGH CHLDREN Former Bryn Mawr Educétorl Sees Home as Answer to Crime Wave. i Mothers should teach their small, ehildren in their homes, save where it} 18 necessary for them to go out to work | to earn a livelihood, and any mother ‘who will place a child in school merely because she is unable to control it is “a greater menace to the country than & forger or a pickpocket,” in the opinion of Miss Ella Frances Lynch, educator, of Minerva, N. Y., who conducted her own schools for 20 years in Atlantic City and Bryn Mawr, Pa. She is the author of thre: books on educational topics. Miss Lynch in an intsrview recently | pictured this educational set-up as desirable: Parents should teach their children to read and write before sending them | to school. | Religious Education Needed. i Obedience and religious education should be.taught in the home from the earliest years. A child must be taught duties as well as its rights. Children, in the home and after the | age of 7 in the schools, should be taught economy. A desire for knowledge should be stimulated in the child, as there is no such thing as a natural hatred for learning. This is merely cultivated. Schooling in the*fiome by the parents for a short time each day would benefit &mall children more than a‘ day in school. Children must be taught concentra- tion, and concentration is “doing as you are told, minding your own business and keeping at your work until it is finished.” History and geography are taught at present at the wrong time, Miss Lynch maintains, as children have no concept of the importance of time in the life of the nations nor of distance. Miss Lynch, who is in Washington, staying at the Burlington Hotel, in the interests of the fourth International Congress on Family Education to be held at Liege, Belgium, from August 4 to 7, is the founder of the International League of Teacher Mothers and says she has been in communication with 25,000 mothers, representing 75,000 children, in various parts of the world. | Properly instructing parents to teach their children in the home, so that they will be able to read and write when they go to school and know the funda- mentals of obedience and the value of Property and economy, are the aims in Miss Lynch’s program, she explains. Says Crime Commission “Futile.” ‘This method of pursuing education, she believes, provides the solution of the so-called “crime wave” in the United States. , The presidential crime commis- slon, she asserts, should be abolished as “an utterly futile thing,” contending that the remedy lies in the home. Any woman who can learn to use a cook book can learn to use right and simple methods of instruction in the home, Miss Lynch says. | “If we can set right a child for the ! first seven years of its life we can do away with the crime wave,” Miss Lynch said today. “We could save millions of dollars if the parents would properly | care for their children, for we could do away with large numbers of prisons, jalls and asylums. The progress of crime is fairly regular and constant. ‘The disobsdient 3-year-old is the defiant 7-year-old. By 14 he is incorrigible and by 21 he is a jail bird.” Miss Lynch insists that there are “multitudes of worthless school books” and says that “the field is monopolized | by the psychologists.” H The words “I don’t know” are not taught to children these days, Miss | Lynch says, adding, “They are so afraid of silence that they are taught to make some kind of an answer even if only a i Recalls Own School Methods. Miss Lynch recalled some of the| methods used in her own schools: No | reports, no marking system, no exami- | nations, but each child taught economy, | the vaiue of property and made to | attempt to do the best possible. Her | schools, she said,- lacked erasers and | waste-paper baskets, in an effort to| make the children thoughtful and avoid mistakes, for no pages were per- mitted to be torn from note bool ;l:‘!f:h retained the mistakes that were e. “After all.” she said, “schooling is a real, not a theoretical, training for life.” SETTLED NEW YORK| Awards Sculptor $5,850 in Decid- ing Case Brought Against Daugh- ters of Holland Dames. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 15.—It was Robert Aitken's opinion, as a sculptor designing a memorial statue, that the Hollanders who settled Nieuw Amster- dam (now New York) were of a hardy peasant stock, and a jury in the Sh!/el Supreme Court agreed with him yes- terday to the extent of $5850. The Society of Daughters of Holland Dames commissioned Aitken in 1923 to make a memorial statue. He fash- ioned a clay model of a family group in coarse peasant clothing. The Daugh- | ters of Holland Dames were horrified. Their ancestors, they affirmed, were not peasants. Aitken sued, a jury gave him $4,800, but the verdict was reversed because of a technical error. He sued again, and this time the jury awarded the full amount, $5,000 plus interest. INSOLVENCY CHARGED TO STATE PARTY HEAD| Involuntary Petition Filed Against Robert Jackson, New Hampshire Chain Store Magnate. BOSTON, February 15 (#).—Creditors of Robert Jackson, Democratic national « committeeman from New Hampshire, chain store magnate, art connoisseur and philanthropist of Concord, N. H.; Boston and New York, have filed an involuntary bankruptcy petition against him in Federal Court, charging in- solvency. Attorney Lothrop Withington obtained the action in order that creditors might ' not be barred by statutory ‘provisions from access to a collection of oil paint- ings valued at $200,000, which Jackson is alleged to have placed under cor- porate protection. Jackson was one of the backers of Rene Fonck in his attempted trans- atlantic flight. Severe losses in the stock market crash of last October are understood to have brought on his financial difficulties. Well, That's Settled. CHICAGO, February 15 (#).—A dis- pute involving California and Florida has been I!ettled.d Ah.l;rln{tnt a sec;mt} honeymoon to end the estrangement of a couple, Judge Sabath found that ideas of the best place were different. ‘The couple compromised. They are going to Hot Springs, Ark. 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