SELF CONTROL

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 114, 17 May 1927, Page 13

SELF CONTROL

AN" S.P.C.A. DISCUSSION'

-The recent remarks . of Mr. Justice Stringer on self-control, in the Supreme in Auckland, were discussed at the ?p"fi i L y r mcetin ß °f the Wellington o.r.^.A. The committee contends that by lessons on humane education in the home and m the schools, the practice of control could be early developed. ChildE?:°Iv 1"- * °?J- direction or example of the lißhts of things," exercised all its virm.T a? 4 on every article and. aidson YJ h% reach. What was more reasonable than to demand that parents, guardian*, and teachers should encourage the virtues by constant personal example v^/ *'°/ d ln Beaao°? Example to the child mmd was a great factor in moulding the character, and reprimand, even to pain, was the duty of every guardian. A Commissioner of Prisons in USA stated recently, after years of service ami experience, that he knew of few criniinah who had ever been taught to respect the reelings of animals, and in his search for the causes of, crime he believed the lack of humane education in the home was the principal one. The S.P.C.A. through- £•» I SL w!£ ld May was fighting an uphill fight, through the apathy of the general public, for the cause, which, without doubt, taught the way to minimise crime and i ease the social unrest of our times. Early instruction in consideration, compaßsion, and control was the formula to create that state for which mankind yearned to-day.