"The Whip Hand"
By "Bugs" Baer
“Teachers are no longer allowed to slap lessons into children. Yet every man over thirty years old was well rattaned when he went to school. When that branch of study was discontinued and reading, writing, and rattaning ceased to be our three R’s children started to dish up back talk.”
“Now butter, eggs and childish answers are all fresh in America.”
“Law calls itself justice, but is really punishment. And oldtime fathers knew their law. There wouldn’t be any juvenile delinquents, bob-haired bandits and infantile burglars if police carried whips instead of whistles”
“There are societies to prevent cruelty to children but none to prevent cruelty to parents. And when you took papa’s whip away from him it was like asking a baker to raise bread without yeast.”
“Give father back his cat-o-nine-tails and see our next generation wipe its feet on doormats instead of old folks.”
[“Bugs” Baer, “The Whip Hand,” New York American, February 25, 1924, p.20]
“Teachers are no longer allowed to slap lessons into children. Yet every man over thirty years old was well rattaned when he went to school. When that branch of study was discontinued and reading, writing, and rattaning ceased to be our three R’s children started to dish up back talk.”
“Now butter, eggs and childish answers are all fresh in America.”
“Law calls itself justice, but is really punishment. And oldtime fathers knew their law. There wouldn’t be any juvenile delinquents, bob-haired bandits and infantile burglars if police carried whips instead of whistles”
“There are societies to prevent cruelty to children but none to prevent cruelty to parents. And when you took papa’s whip away from him it was like asking a baker to raise bread without yeast.”
“Give father back his cat-o-nine-tails and see our next generation wipe its feet on doormats instead of old folks.”
[“Bugs” Baer, “The Whip Hand,” New York American, February 25, 1924, p.20]
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