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A Kansas Portrait



Nelson Antrim Crawford

Kansas State Historical Society


"There is less will to war and more to peace now than there was 20 years
ago. It is untrue to say that a peace psychology cannot be built up." This
strikingly contemporary thought was penned in 1937 by Nelson Antrim Crawford,
then editor-in-chief of Topeka's Household Magazine.

In his book Your Child Faces War, Crawford firmly denied the inevitability of
war and set out guidelines for educating children to peace. Placing
responsibility for building a peace psychology squarely on the shoulders of
parents, Crawford urged them to raise their children in a calm, loving,
helpful environment. He stated that parents should supervise what their
children read, watched, and listened to and should encourage informed and
unemotional discussions of international affairs in the home, guiding their
children toward peaceful rather than violent solutions to problems.

Teacher, author, lecturer, editor, and journalist, Crawford, who born in
Miller, South Dakota, on May 4, 1888, was a far-seeing renaissance man with
many interests. In addition, during is career, he published several books,
edited numerous magazines and books and contributed articles to Encyclopedia
Britannica, the Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, and the Dictionary of
America Biography. He died in Topeka on June 30, 1963.

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