The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-11

On the last day of school, with the
long vacation looming gloriously be-
fore them, the pupils of the Clay and
Franklin schools were requested to
answer the foregoing question. Since
Russell Sage announced his platform,
it has been widely discussed, and by
none more interestingly than by these
boys and girls whose schools are To-
Gated, respectively, at Fourth street
and Twentieth avenue S, and Fourth
street and Fifteenth avenue N.
OF the 90 pupils who answered the
question yesterday, 81 condemned
Sage's idea of all work and no rest
| Sc from the Clay school and IL from
the Franklin. There were "A at the
Clay who preferred never-ending work
| if a million dollars would accrue, and
eight with similar preferences at the
Franklin.
| Two ideas seemed to be predominant
ing in the minds Of the little ones.
One was that If you worked all the
time you would be too sick to stand
up; the other was that if a million
was accumulated no one else would
have to pay for the final resting place
and the coffin. 4.54 i.
The answers, however, indicated
that the boys and girls, thought Of
many other things in their considera-
of Sage that "a man like him is what
we call a hog Another said that if
man works all the time he will get
stupid and hump backed"
A 9-year old boy wrote that he
wouldn't like to be a millionaire be
cause millionaires are mostly always
robbed and they would not have any
money at ALL" and a similar idea was
expressed by a little fellow in the
other school when he said he wouldn't
like to be a millionaire because If
you are going to buy something they
would charge you twice as much"
One reply contained the statement of
a pupils belief that God didn't APP
prove Of men who got together mil
lion dollars in a pile unless he could
give satisfactory accounting of the
good he had Sdone with it.
i Interest, however, lies In the
answers themselves. Some of the
papers from the Clay school that
were decidedly opposed to the no va
cation idea follow;
II do not think the man is right
4 A man like him is what we call a hog;
he wants more than he has. - do not
think I would want a million dollars
4 I would like to have vacation and
work and go to school when it Is the
time"
''What Is the Use?"
mo! the man is not right because
men have to have vacations some.
, times and rest; If they work all the
:, time they will get stupid and hump
: backed. A million Of dollars is MOI
{ worth giving up all vacations.
would be satisfied if had money
enough to keep my living. What is
the use of getting money and putting
it away in big piles? I would no
like to be millionaire and give III
all my vacations, because millionaire!
are mostly always robbed and the.
would not have no money at all.
am satisfied with which got
ct do not think he is right, because
t he has not had no fun and wha
good is a body when it is all wore
out he will have to pay out a grea
2 deal of money before he can ge
e WE'LL"
E IT don't think the mans thought
e is right when he said that maj
: should work all his life and don't talk
9 any vacations Now may
:; be that millionaire is old and tire,
i and wish he had taken some vaca
y lions, what use is it? when he die h
cannot take his million dollars wit
. him.
= Another Of the children bases hi
opinion on the statement, Il woul
; not like to be millionaire because
e you were going to buy somethin
e much Another, your brains wi
d get so tired out and then after tina
n your brains are not so good afte
i that
l, God Will Quiz Him.
" when he dies God will ask hin
+ What good have you done with a
!. your money! and he will have to sa,
q L have done very little good or nc
; any good with my money I woul
d not give up my vacations for two mi
lion dollars because when you ar
old and are working hard and wis
you could have vacation but .yo
them million dollars when you we1
TO small"
One of the doubtful ones wrote
IT don't think the man is right.
ST don't know
N And here are two from the yer
~ youngest of the pupils:
~ II think when a man works har
"a they get tire and then they get sic
VI and they die because they neaver sto
III to rest and go out into the fresh a
s. I know a man that kept on workir
ne all the time and soon he died and tx
c millionaire dollars did not do hi
6. amy good If I were him I would tax
r my vacation
" II would rather spend my vacatio
IN in amusement. i think it is n
al wrong to have vacation some tin
d
ON lionaire dies he has lots of none
a. So he can pay for the cofen.''
r. These Agree With Sage.
nd Some Of the opinions expressed i
ey the seven children who agree wi
d. Russell Sage are as follows:
II would work all the time al
earn lots of money and give it
poor people. And have plenty f
myself to get along with. I wouldr
have any vacation"
all IT think the story you wrote w
all right.
!, Il would give up my vacation
". working.
IN II know a boy that live near tt
= falls of Minnehaha, he said whs
No nc ever he comes home from school
H. ~. work and help his father, he said tn
Y once he didn't want to work and VIII,
MS started again he was SO weak
ey could hardly work -
or The opinions of the Frank
'ob scholars, pro and con, were no lie
De strongly expressed than those Of Il
~ co1, -