Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-01-31
Manuel Training schools.

Among the speakers at the annua
banquet Of the Merchants and Man
ufacturerh Association, given in Bal
timore last Thursday night, Judge
Hugh l.. Bond took for bis subject
Manual Training Schools for the
rising generation. La the course of
his remarks Judge Bond said
I'VE have for long while in Baltimore
with AS good system of public schools as
can be found on the Continent, been ed
ucating the heads of Our youth TO the to-
tai neglect of the hands. We have all
along had idea that talent means brains.
We have thought that II was his headpiece
that gave man his superiority over the
animal creation, but Sidney Smith has
well said that much was due to the for
nation of the human hand, and that ii
nature had given man the claw Of lob
ster in its place. the monkey would long
since have made sauce of us. Yet, in
this great state, so far as ] am aware,
there are but two schools where the
hand can be educated at all, and the one
talent or the five peculiar to each youth
developed. III all the money which has
been spent in trade demonstrations
orioles and fireworks to get manufac-
lures into this state had been spent in
manual training schools, and the youth
of the state were as highly educated in
the mechanical arts as they are in bellies
lettres, the manufactures of the country
would seek us Ii is home for them
where skilled labor is, and all the tom
tom blowing and Chinese gong-ringing
in the world will not persuade them to
the contrary. Mr.. Chairman, l do not
wish to be understood as depreciating
the cultivation of the mind. In proper
ton as brains is intermingled with
handiwork in that proportion is II re-
warded
Continuing the Judge said:
Now, the idle mind is the DEVILS
wosk shop and the problem is presented
TO us to-day Will you let the children
of Maryland be mere hewers of wood
and drawers of water to the skilled
labor that by reason of some local ad
vantages, wander hithers, or will we ed
ucate them as we can and ought to edu-
cate them TO ekilful industriesg The al
tentative is more expense in police
force, larger jails or loss of population
for ambitious youths will leave their
nifty Is given to cultivate the talent
which God has bestowed.
The Judge further said, that the
people of Maryland are awaking to
the necessity OF manual training for
our youth. He cited the endOw-
ment to a training school at Port
Deposit for the youth of Hartford,
Cecil and Kent counties by Mr..
Jacob Tome, one of the clearest
headed citizens of this State; also
the introduction of an ordinance in
the City Council of Baltimore to in
crease the number of training
schools in that city. The youth of
the present day, too frequently, sup
ported by their parents, have a
horror of becoming an apprentice to
trade and are consequently grow.
ing up useless citizens, unfit to earn
on independent support--"too
proud to beg-too honest to steal"
IA burden upon their friends and
prey upon the community.
The City Council and the County
Commissioner should cease to waste
the peoples money on political fa-
vorites; and with the money thus
saved, erect we'll EQUIPPED Manual
Training School to educate the
hand as we'll as the head of the
youth Of the city and county.