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On “Punishment by Cane,” Samuel Craighead writes: “Lying and stealing are foreign to truth, but relative to each other and to any other human weakness. You may flog inhibition into the mentality of an individual, or drive the weakness into secretness, but through an educational process, truth, the great healer of the weak and fallen, can be introduced with benefit to the individual and to the nation.”
“One Just Returned” asks if the Medical Board can explain why men graded 111 and IV are able to drive in trotting races. The writer understands that to drive in such races one has to be perfectly fit.
Norton Wright contends that the gardener in North Canterbury, to be successful, requires not only patience but also a conscience ("the guiltier the better”).
On “Punishment by Cane,” Norton Wright thinks that boys rally to kindness and that the “cruel methods of the cane in the past” only tended to make stubborn boys more stubborn.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23813, 5 December 1942, Page 6
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