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Discipline: What Is It?
Discipline: What is it?
Many parents think of discipline as punishment or in terms of
making, a child obey, “making a child*mind” or “making a child
behave.” But discipline and punishment are not the same, Neither
is discipline concerned with “making a child do something. The
aim of discipline is to develop a self reliant child who can become
a self-controlled adult. If we think of discipline in this way, we
will try to find methods of control and guidance which put the
responsibility upon the child as he gradually becomes ready for it.
In this way we help him to control himself. It is our job as parents,
to give the direction, to show the way. How we do this is all im
portant. If we continue to think of discipline as the emergency way,
we are apt to be severe and rigid, to hold the reins too tight. But if
we think of it as helping the child to learn to behave in ways that
are acceptable, we can be more relaxed, for we know that it takes
time to teach. We shall also realize that we do not have to crowd
all our teaching into the early years of a child’s life. There is plenty
of time before he is grown up. But stay on the job, “lest he forget.”
Anti-Restrictive Covenant Decision
The unanimous decision of the supreme court restricting anti
Negro realty covenants to the status of private agreements which are
unenforceable in the courts iS’ of world wide importance. The de
cision probably represents final victory for Negroes and other racial
and religious minorities in a long struggle for equal access to land
in the U.S. For the crux of any system of racial and religious dis
crimination is exclusion from use of the land on the same terms as
those who would enforce unfair discrimination.
Since the Civil war the struggle between Negroes and the rest
of the citizenry for use of the land has been carried on with in
creasing bitterness. Negroes have won temporary victories as when
they induced the supreme court to declare over 30 years ago that land
segregation laws enacted by the states are unconstitutional. But we
lost position after position to restrictive covenants in city after city.
Only last week did we find a court which is honest enough to admit
state governments should not use their powers to enforce private
agreements which would in effect deny Negro citizens equal protec
tion of the laws.—George McCray for ANP.
Dixie Is Not Looking Aivay
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Southerners have a habit, when
you are least expecting it, of
speaking a good deaI*more plainly
and at the same time more prac
tically about their own region than
do their critical fellow citizens
who gaze down upon them from
the North. The Greater New Or
leans Industrial Union Council,
C.I.O., which is a 100 percent non
communist-controlled outfit (544
Camp Street, New Orleans, La.),
does some of this speaking in the
recently released report of its
Civil Rights Committee. Says the
Report: ,
Since President Truman’s Civil
Rights message, we have heard
outcry that Southern “tradi
tions” are in dire peril and that
“American ideals must be pre
served.” . . .
But a conspiracy of silence
still clings around one most sig
nificant fact. It has cost the
South millions upon millions of
dollars to keep the Negro “in his
place.” . . .
Hence if the South still is
Economic Problem No. 1, it is
so because too many of its
“leaders” have not wanted the
large Negro segment of its pop
ulation to enjoy living standards
equal to those of the North and
West. Thus a preoccupation with
“keeping the Negro in his place”
has pulled down the economic
level—and with that the cul
tural level—of all the popula
tion.
These, and other items in the re
port—as well as the recently issued
challenge of Prof. Howard Odum
of the University of North Caro
lina, calling for new and scien
tific appraisal of the relationship
between the colored and the white
population in the South—confirm
the judgment America has already
vigorously expressed, to the effect
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BY JAMES C. OLSON.
S«pFri»t«tid«*t, Historical Society.
A few days ago it was an
nounced in the press that an arch
eologist from the Smithsonian In
stitution is searching for remains
of the Daniel Freeman cabin at
Homestead National Monument
near Beatrice. The findings will
be used in the development of
the monument as a memorial to
the homestead movement.
The site of Daniel Freeman’s
cabin is one of the most historic
spots in the United States, for it
was there the first American
homesteader lived. And the home
stead movement was one of the
most significant aspects of the
democratic land policy which set
tled the western plains.
Daniel Freeman was as typical
of the hardy men who home
steaded the west as was that 160
acres of land in Gage county
typical of the land on which
America was built.
Freeman was a soldier in the
Union Army and was temporarily
detailed to duty at Brownville.
While on leave he staked out his
claim near Beatrice and hoped to
make his filing on January 1,
1863, the day the law was to be
come effective. On December 31;
1862, he received orders to pro
ceed the next day to St. Louis.
Fearing he would lose his claim
Freeman looked up one of the
that the Southern Senators’ out
cry over the President’s Civil
Rights message is more of a po
litical stunt that a bona fide ex
pression of universal Southern
opinion.—America.
Neglect
One-half of your neighbors
never go to church—not even on
Easter.
Less than one-half of the pop
ulation in 31 states belong to any
religious body.
Less than one-third of the pop
ulation in 12 states have any re
ligious affiliation.
Two people in each hundred, in
one middle west county, express
a religious preference.
One person in ten, in an east
ern county with 22 Baptist
churches, is affiliated with any
religious body. After a series of
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men from the Government land
office in Brownville and per
suaded him to open up shortly
after midnight and take his
filing. Thus, when Freeman left
for St. Louis he had homestead
entry No. 1 in his pocket, and
whether he knew it or not he had
achieved a degree of undying
fame.
After the war Daniel Freeman
returned to the homestead with
his bride of a few weeks. They
had to ferry their meager house
hold goods across the flood swol
len Blue on a flat boat. And
while the land had looked good
to Freeman when he filed on it,
chances are it didn’t appear too
inviting to his young wife.
During their early years the
Freemans shared the hardships
that were the lot of all who
homesteaded in the West. Yet
these first homesteaders were
typical of the thousands who fol
lowed them in that they stuck it
out on their land the rest of their
lives.
The national monument was
created in 1939, in accordance
.with a bill introduced by Senator
George W. Norris of Nebraska
and passed by Congress in 1936.
It is to be hoped that it can be
developed into a fitting memorial
of the hardships and the primitive
conditions through which the
early settlers developed the great
west.
meetings these 22 churches bap
tized 18 converts in a year.
Over three-quarters of a well
populated west state is un
evangelized.
Some people keep their ideals
as they keep heirlooms, locked
away, so that but for their own
er’s word we should almost be in
clined to doubt their existence;
others use them and wear them.
Well, they may get a bit cracked,
a bit tarnished, and some of them
may even get lost altogether; but
they’re more convincing when
they’re handled that way.
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Sports Scope
By L. Parker
Boxing
ST. THOMAS, V. I. (ANP).
“Joe Louis will close off his pugi
listic career by knocking out Joe
Walcott not later than the fifth
round when they meet in June,
Dr. Leo Gaylord Robinson, Spring
field, O., Joe Louis’ personal phy
sician, told newsmen here this
week. , Dr. Robinson, who is on a
tour of Caribbean countries, came
here to visit his close friend, Gov.
William Hastie. He recalled that
when Hastie was at Dunbar high
in Washington, he was at Howard
U., and coached Hastie when he
won at the Penn relays. Since
then they have been fast ffiends.
CHICAGO. (ANP*. Ray Robin
son signed this week with Pro
moter Irving Kovin to defend his
welterweight title against Bernard
Docusen of New Orleans June 4
at the International amphitheater.
The champ will have posted
$11,000 as guarantee that he will
appear. Recently Kovin lost $23„
000 when Robinson was sick and
did not appear on a scheduled
bout against Georgie Abrams.
Robinson will receive 27 Vi percent
of the gate.
* * *
Ezzard Charles, the man Gus
Lesnevich (seemingly) wants no
truck with inside the roped-arena,
has continued faith in himself by
his recent knockout of rough,
“contender-spoiler” Elmer “Vio
lent” Ray, the man Joe Louis once
turned out as a playmate on an
exhibition tour after the cham
pion came out of the army.
Charles kayoed Ray in the ninth
round of a scheduled 10-round
bout in Chicago stadium. The
weights were: Ray 195, Charles
175. (ANP).
Baseball
NEW YORK. (ANP). According
to Herbie “Georgia Rose” Taylor,
■the Black Yankees are a vastly
improved club over last year.
Taylor, who is not merely a fan
but a student of baseball, said
some good things about the Yank
ees after seeing them open the
season against the Philadelphia
Stars May 2.
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