The San Francisco call., 1904-08-20
THE PARENTAL SCHOOL.


the contemplation discussion OF affairs that force
and command public attention by the noisy and III
slsten presentation of their claims San Francisco is
apparently giving inadequate consideration reform
that has been quietly inaugurated pursuing its
admirably to the completion of splendid results and
win or later the hearties commentator OF those
elements OF the community that labor in the pitabe
of classes that by the operation OF unfortunate
conditions are least able to protect themselves.
This reform, for which much may be said and for
which much more may be done by the intelligent and
vigorous cooperation of the elements of the city,
that involved the organization of the parental
by the Board of Education The purpose OF this school
gather in the waits and derects of childhood, to
draw them away from surroundings that make babyhood
tragedy of omnous and terrifying potentiaties. to
train and educate young minds realization that life
is not all labor crime disease OF the mind less
than of the body
No better suggests itself to the consideration
and energies of public spirited citizens. Something
than the regeneration of the naturally deficient
templated Every child taken from environment of
mental moral physical ill-health is missionary
whose unconscious efforts making the destruction
of the very conditions that exist in San Francisco a
dangerous its progress, prosperity and, if
must look to the material and utitaran its wealth
Every child that is removed from the cannery the
factory from the dudgery disease and degradation of
child labor is that goes back its poor home
work unknowingly but successfully a revolution iii
dragged from the sums to the parental school, from the
moral filth and contamination of minds older in disease
pioneer the efficacy OF the teachers greatest
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. tuition
If the officers whom has been delegated the vital
duty OF making effective the parental school could do
more than what they accomplished lew DAYS since
when their inquiry led them a cannery owned and
operated by Chinese in this city, the purpose of this
splendid innovation of the Board of Education would
have been justified and its success would have been
matter of intimate personal concern to the general
community
These investigators made the startling and sickenin
discovery that many girls, not OF them fourteen
years of age, drudging in child labor as the
employees of Cinnamon in a Chinese cannery The
disclosure is credabe neither to our humanity nor to
boased civilization. Child life any community
should be precious than for such use of its ca
pacties for such sitting handicap its prospects
These children will b, removed from their employ
The power of the Juvenile Court will be invoked
necessary to enroll them in the parental school,
dsinfection of moral spot will have begun in San
Francisco 1t is by such work this that the parental
school of San Francisco is recommending itself to the
good will and support of citizens Laws that are upon
books, but of minds either recog
milton enforcement, being revived and made prac
tical in winning necessary reform.
Employers that have no right here or elsewhere to
prostitute child life small gain being taught the
lesson neither discretion humanity has been
powerful enough impose Children that inevitably
lives useless themselves and dangerous their neigh
bors are escaping wreched destiny to be set on the
right road healthfu Such reform is good
to contemplate and better demand, if wider and
more powerful agencies of government necessary TO
make the demand one that must not be refused