The Wilmingtonian., 1886-12-04
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4. 1855.
Wha. Should Have Attention.

undoubtedly deserve.
Notoriously one OF these il the Manual
Tr4iuing School.
CHARLES F. Peck, Commissioner of IT,
State Bureau OF Labor Statistics Of the STAT
Of NV York in his annual rpo,t TO IT, |
Legislature of the Empire tate makes som
cirar distit ct statements which have exc,
application to conditions as they exis, in ou
own State, Delaware.
He makes use Of these significant words:-
"a system of schooling that will not euah =
a buy to make livh is failure.'
In presence of tie social distul bances
strikes aud labor agitations that trouble til,
community just now it behooyes all go, d
citizens and especially those in authority +,
consider these Wo,ds.
They deserve to be Inscribed upon 'tai
let's Of silver, in letters of gold"
Now, Commissioner Peck is no idle iheo.
rist, nor has his department been established
at some annual expense By the Legislature
of New York ior IDLE show alone.
1t has been appoin ed under pressure, to
meet certain detiuite socio-ecouvmic needs
1t would be well il Delaware came to the
same understanding oI this pressing ques
tion as 1t affects us to-day and will bear vi
on our citizens with yet stronger harmful
effects IN the future if due attention be no,
given it.
When speaking Of "schooling" Commits.
sioner Peck referred specially to the public
school, the Common Scho System. We
must be alive to the new development of ST.
cial facts. Our present school system does
not educate except to the result of mum.
Der Of practically useless young men aud
women in the community
In his last report Mr. Peck says :-'I an
inclined to think that the average American
boy loUks upon trade as disgrace, and
that he ina agines that he can reach the tor
round of the ladder quicker by other means.
The present schnol system is responsible for
the state of affairs. The schools thru ou,
clerks, bookkeepers and professional men at
great rate. In many Of the trades men re-
cetye better pay than clerks and buokkeep-
ers. TAe State should of course educate it,
children, but it should adopt some system
OF educating boys in mechanics. favor
manual training. The great complaint il
immigration. and if our boys learn trades
there will not be that iuducement for emit
grafton that there now is in other countl les
1t will take years to bring this about, but
1t eau be done, We shall prove by statistic.
the necessity for manual training in schools
believe this is the solution of the appreu,
ti1eshp question have found that boys wtt
have had manual training make greater p o
gress in their other studies than boys VII,
study books only.
a PRACTICAL pEMoSsTRATIoN.
Il am thorough believer in manua
traiuing. So,.etime ago visited Girar
College, Philadelphia. Uuder the provision
Of the will OF the founder every boy mus
learn trade. 1t was found impossible l
carry it uut under rapid industrial changer
80 to comply rs far as possible with the pr,
vision OF the will manual training scho,
was introduced To-day the college canu,
supply the demaud in Philadelphia alone f,
boys. The trouble is that boys are suugl
before they have finished the course. Til
Is the right system, for system Of schoot
that will not enable boy to make ivir
is failure. Labor IL huuorable and digt
d, but is a fact that It is not SO iec,,
zed by a large class There is d f. ell
in the social standing Of those who y ork
trade and those who follow a profsssio
1t is wrong, but It ex SITS, aud We cannot ST.,
our eyes tn it. Put manual labor into /
schuols, and let the son OF the rich man al
the son of the poor man labor side by side
working clothes, and It will go a great W
toward remnving this feeling.
SUGGESTIONS OFFERED.
"In my annual report shall ffrr ma
sugE stions n this question, and the qu
tiUn ul strikes and DO, COTS have rereiy
a great deal OF infoi nation frum E. gl
trade unions. These unions favor mani
aiming, aud have established schools. 7
in ormatIou they give will probab asto
s'ms Of the trade uuioni>ts in this country
These ar true words and far seeing, pit
otic citizen wi value their sig nfic nse
they deserve.
Oar common school y stem as an ducati
al system is at fault
SOCIAL condttious as they exist nowadi
arU not to be judg d as they existed
hundred yerrs ago. Vast econpmic and
cial changes have Come to pass. Ideas II
might bs TOLERATED. a century ago d. not
ply AZ the present time
Annually our present system Of educat
turns "ut hundreds OF thousands of yor