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From: "Andrew Crawford" <>
Subject: Re: [CRAWFORD] more on Nelson Antrim Crawford -Judy Jennings
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 23:40:46 -0700
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Interesting thoughts as the world headed into WWII - will we learn from the
past? Violence and peace are matters of the heart, not parental upbringing.
-Andy
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Subject: [CRAWFORD] more on Nelson Antrim Crawford -Judy Jennings
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> A Kansas Portrait
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> Nelson Antrim Crawford
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> Kansas State Historical Society
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> "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.
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> 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.
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> 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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