The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-01-29

not simply good, but good for some
thing.
Technical training is needed that our
boys and girls may be made SELL
helpful. independent and saved from the
crime of helplessness. The criminal
and vaRrant classes are unframed.
The vast army of the unemployed today
is an army of unframed men. No one
ever heard OF sober tramp blacksmith,
sober tramp carpenter or machinist.
This training is needed to save the
world from the interruptions classes in
the professions, people made unscrupu-
lous because they are untitled for the
high callings and feel themselves above
trades. Such men make up the list of
corrupt quscks, dishonest shysters, in
com petent school keepers and fossilized
preachers who handicap the worlds
social. mo raj and intellectual progress.
! The demand OF the hour is for trained
men, men who can do some one thing
well and IN the name OF pure and I'M
de6led religion il is time for the
churches to stop the hall hearted pal
tering with the question OF soup houses
Tor these unfortunates OF the present
day or the question of furnishing them
work which they cannot or will not do,
and address Themselves to the graver
question of educating the tramp out of
the civilization of the next generation.
The physician who for q distemper of
the blood disclosing itself in cutsneous
eruptions would simply apply lotions or
poutices to the cicatrized surface would
meet the derision which his procedure
merits. So too ii we would escape the
we'll merited ridicuie OF posterity we
Oh ctO fn Any
seated dietempers of the social body by
the sole applications of any such sane
titled and deodorized iodine as free
soup. Industrial education is the
remedy for our children. Have we the
intelligence and the devotion to ed-
minister it and thus get at the seat
of the disease? Does not the love OF the
Lord or God whose children all these
are demand it? Does not the love of
our neighbor as of self command it?
Does not the religion of each OF us de-
clare it duty? Again, the relation to
new economic and social conditions calls
strenuously for this industrial education
if either ethics or religion are to be con
cerned. A vast body Of young women
in this country go annually to lives OF
shame and vice solely because they lack
the rraining which would give them an
honest living and keep them out oil the
environments which eventually work
their ruin. California today cannot
End --enough trained young women for
any line of service from the kitchen to
the college class room at more generous
wages than obtain in any other part of
the Union, and yet annually this state
contributes it's full contingent to this
fallen unframed army.
Young women are today entering on
marriage alliances in order to have a
home and becsuse they lack independ
ence. because they are without indus
trial education. They are ordaining
themselves to be miserable wives, and
wretched mothers; they are preparing
to meet that brute of HUSBAND in the
divorce court; they are condemning
their children to an environment both
pitiable and degrading. Shall not all
this be saved when woman ia trained to
stand alone if need be, SO trained that
if she take husbands hand she goes
to him true help-meet? And Just here
| would have you think Of no marrow
range OF training, but one that would
reach down to the humblest girl or give
free play to the aspirations OF. the most
ambitious woman.
Stlll other girls are starting out IN
life, loving and with every prospect
bright for all the happiness that the
ideal home may have for her who holds
its destiny in her well trained hand. A
few short years in which che can neither
serve herself nor her own, nor train others
to do it. and all is changed. Sorrow
and misery begin their inroads on the
home from which little later sad.
eyed woman and cynical man depart
forever, each vowing that the times are
out Of joint. 't~
''Oh cursed spite,
That ever was born to set them right"
The wife of the future will need more
the training which our schools do not
now give. Ia the integrity of the home
OF sufficient moment to society and to
religion to warrant our striving to put
such training within the reach OF every
girl?