Here's T'other Side

[To the Editor of The Reqisteb.I In your last issue of your ever welcomo paper appeared an unsigned article professing to be from an interested parent who objects to the fact that the High School Teachers of your city indulged in the "nawsty weed. " It is his or her desire that the School Board demand the resignation of those teachers whorefuse "toquit forever the use of tobacco in any of its forms, privately or pubUoly." Carried away we trust by sineerety, he or she forgets that we livo in America, and that sumptuary laws was somewhat out of dato. There are some people who rush into public print in order to see how their views will look in black on white, forgetting in the meantime to question themaelves as to the consistency and logic of their wasted tok. The interested parent is waiting for some one else who also has "backbone enough' to spoak out against the pernicious habit. Will he or she kindly furnish the nacessary reg ulations as to what said wicked mal teachers shall wear and eat and drink? Having been in the classes of these wicked pedagognes I gladly confiim that their habit of smoking so affected me that to thi8 day I do not smoke. Proper solicitude of parentsas to the inllucnces broughtto bear upon their childrcn is not commendable but natural and necessary. Howcver parents should not be too ready to shift blame upon the overworked and usually illpaid teachers. If paren ts will take more interest in their ehildren and the development of their minds and characters, so bringing them up that they will of their own aocord observe the flfth commandment, then tho children will have "backbone" enough to resist all reasonable temptations. The State is a oombination of families, but has no authority to exercise that which the Romans called patria potcstas. Thero are cei-tain lessons In othics that should bo taught in the sanctity of the home. If the school board of your city should so oxceed its authority as to prescribe that no teacher shall seek solace in a cigar or a pipe, then let it be said as a counterpieeo to the oft repeated and alas too truc saying that in this country, "Liberty is often converted into licenco," that our liberty to do, to act and to think depends upon the construction of the most selfrighteous cití" Let us rather reenact the Blue Laws, as a golden medium. Truly Yours, Clara of "88. Greenville, Ohio, Doe. 28th 1894.