During the investigations I have recently made In eastern states I kept this issue constantly In mind.
“New York does not permit corporal punishment In any of its reformatory Institutions, but. the equivalent of it has been attained through systems of fatigue duty, bread: water diet, and close confinement.
An occasional chastisement would Inflict less physical Injury and be the sooner, over.
.Massachusetts does not object to this.
The occasional spoiling of a hickory rod on a spare child if It cannot be made, to mind In any other way.