This new children’s crusade started in 1900. We are now going on the theory that the law is not one-tenth of the problem. Psychology, for want of a better word, is the other nine-tenths. The solution of the problem of child delinquents lies chiefly in knowing how to get at truth, in getting loyalty to the state and to the law. Once you get a boy to go regularly to school the problem is solved. On the other hand, we do not want him to think that the court is a brute or dead easy.
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CHILDREN’S RELIGIOUS IDEAS
A CHILD’S PRAYER
Please, God, grandpa has gone to you. Take good care of him. Please always mind and shut the door, because he can’t stand drafts.
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A PRAYER TO THE DEVIL
A little child was seen to bury a piece of paper in the ground. On examination of the paper by a curious adult, it was seen to contain the following: “Dear devil, please come and take aunt. I can’t stand her much longer.”
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MEN ARE GODS