The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-17
WEAK SPOTS IN SCHOOL
CRITICISM OF CHICAGO'S
SYSTEM
MERCHANTS RAP HIGH SCHOOLS
Claim the Country Boys Are Better
Equipped Than Those Of tho
City-NTOre of ''the Three
RS Needed.
Special Correspondence of the Globe.

Special Correspondence of the Globe.
CHICAGO, Feb. 15.-The permanent
vacation school and playground com.
mlttee Of the Woman's club has been
very severely and very properly rebukcd
ry the Chicago board of education for
issuing and putting INTO circulation q
circular containing the photographs of
three bad boys The boys have their
names printed below and are known as
''Noseky,' horribly immoral boy; bad,
house Bill" notorious bully, and "Slop,
BY an incorrigible gambler. The MIC
lures do not indicate the dreadful ma.
lures that their names signify; indeed
the luCl1less urchins look almost pitiabIv
weak and inOffensiYe. The boys belong
TO the WaShburne school district. where
playground is to be established, and the
picture was to aid the citizens to an un>
Outstanding of the nature of the work
before the committee. The world can
get on without such philanthropy. The
heart that could conceive and the nina
that could execute such an appeal have
no place among those who really seek
to afford assistance to the needy Too
many self-styled philanthropists are much
given to the practice of loudly proclaim
ms the dreadful conditions they have
found and the wonderful remedies they
have applied, forgetting that successful
assistance is possible only when the good
and not the evil of the situation is dis
covered and understood, and that the
effort at reform is made quietly and I'M
ostentatiously
ARE BOTH RIGHT.
Just now the ladies of the Teachers
Federation are underwriting the trial
of their case at Springfield, but the la
dies Of other organizations continue to
be heard. Miss Ada c. Sweet is we'll
known here, and what she says has much
weight. Speaking before the Chicago
Noman's club some time ago, upon "a
Cole of Ethics in the City's Commercial
Life, she said: GA statement of the
ethics IN business in this city would
read much like tire famous chapter on
snakes in Ireland = there are none.
The business men We're by no means
amused at this clever remark of the
Bright lady, and at once Indignantly re-
pudiated the charge John V. Farwell
was sure that these ladies had better
seek code Of ethics in the Chica go
Womans club, while Franklin Mac
Neagh, like a true Chicagoan asserted
that there is mole commercial integri-
ty to the square inch in Chicago than
in most cities" While the feeling of in
uignation was gathering force and the
ladies' We're simply waiting for the men
to say something worthy of a reply, a
stunning blow from a wholly unexpected
quarter threw the ranks of the club mem<
bers into state bordering upon con-
sternation, and from which they have
not yet recovered
Judge Waterman refused to accent a
jury verdict founded upon the testimony
of women, because of the notorious
nacc'iracy of women witnesses" He ar
gued that women are not as reliable as
men on the witness stand It seems
that women are Of a more imaginative
nature than men, and, though it is no
doubt unintentiona1, they come to believe
as true what they at first only imagIn,
ed. and maintain their belief in spite Of
all evidence against it." The Woman
club has been ominoUsly silent ever
since this remarkable dictum, perhaps
waiting to find out how MANY will in.
dorse the judges position. Already a
number of men have fastened to say
that they do not concur in the iudge's
opinion, and he has found so far but few
open supporters. However, there are
those who declare that a multitude have
patted the judge on the back and warm
1y assured him that he is right bug
call i'll the strictest confidence" On no
account were these names to be made
known. When the club does speak We
doubt not they will furnish some very
interesting reading. We can but ask by,
what standard or standards we shall
reason these two very important charges.
Are both right?
CHICAGO CULTURE.
But there are other differences also
among the leaders of the two sexes than
those above named. The Countess Fran
fanelli-Cebo, having travelled from a far
country, and through the literary centers
of America, upon reaching Chicago is
compelled to utter conclusion that has
become fixed in her mind, viz, that
American girls marry foreign husbands
because of the superior culture of Euro
p6an men, and Immediately comes the
announcement from the irrepressible Mr.
MacVeagh that Chicago is soon to be
the supreme educational center in Ameri-
ca, and If in America, why then, OF
course, in all the world. Viewed in
the light of the latter opinion, the judg-
ment of the countess would seem almost
justifiable. In the matter of culture as
in everything else we must look to the
expression and not to the profession of
It, and, so considered, Chicago doubtless
suffers greatly. The coat of arms of the
city bears this singular motto "Urbs in
Horto," but does not specify the kind
Of garden, indeed without the use of lam
guage that might well be considered vio-
lent. No adequate description of the gar
den is possible
AGAIN THE CHARGE OF DRUNKEN
NESS.
The Rev. Mr.. White, member of the
educational commission, is not satisfied
with the treatment of his general charge
of drunkenness against "a few princi-
pals" by the superintendent of schools
and the president of the school board
After justifying his refusal to give
names and particulars, he says that his
statement was endorsed by a number
of persons and that one man testified
that he had seen a principal reeling
drunk on the streets no longer ago than
Christmas time and yet the superin-
tendent had coolly declared that there
is nothing in it." He claims that il
was the duty of the board to exercise
such care that no such charge could
stand for a moment, and that it possess
: ed powerful means" for ascertaining the
truth. If the board failed in the use OF