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HHHHHP m"Xir-9 - . . -... Li-!!F -; '.''.!, -i liyif f 'i'"tl'j;yStee: r-&&i&tfri&&& BOYS ARE HUMAN BEINGS - Franklin W. Johnson, principal of the University high school, in an article in the School Review, hands out a lot of language that, boiled -down, plainly calls the American high school boy a poor sport, thief and a liar. He qualifies by saying, "The boys are probably as honest in their sports, as their fathers are in business." . It's easy to give a boy a hard reputation, but not so easy to prove it. v Lincoln once asked some men who called on him, "how many legs a sheep would have, if you called its tail a leg." , "Why, five of course," was the reply. Abe smiled and- shook his head, saying, "you're wrong, only four. Calling a tail aleg don't make it one, does-it?" t So it is with boys. Saying they are no good doesn't make them so by a long shot. To appreciate a boy at his real worth, you mvtist understand boy nature. The average teacher tries to work out the 'boy problem "by going at it in the same way he would dissect a bug; and, of course, fails. But ask any mother the ques tion whether her boy is good, bad or indifferent, and see her eyes sparkle -with love-light, and her lips express great pride and "boundless fafth in that boy. I And who on earth is better able to pass judgment on her boy.2 She brought .him into the world. She was the first to answer the .guestions of the child mind, the first to teach the child lips to frame the spoken words. She it is who laid the foundation for others to build on and complete the work she so ably started. Boys will be boys the world over, and they're pretty much alike, no matter where you find them. Putting old heads on young shoulders, isn't as. easy as it. sounds. Boys must put m 21 years gathering experience before the law holds they have acquired sufficient wisdom to be treated as men. Boys, especially healthy, robust fellows, chuck jam full of animal spirits, can't keep a curb on either tongue or ' action continually;; they're bound to break loose and; spill over sometime and some where. Take the boy who lies;vdig into his mental make-up, ptudy him," not as a two-legged curiosity, but as a human being gifted with rea soning faculties, and you'll be surprised at your own ignorance There is not a single human thought, word or action that hasn't got some -kind of a motive, behind it. To snitch on his schoolmates, in a boy's eyes, is as great a crime2 as treason is to a man. Sooner, than be guilty of so low a tricky he chooses what he considers the"1