Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-03-20
CHILD AIDING SCHEMES
Chicago Woman's Suggestion
 For Housing Working Boys.
URGES GIVING THEM A SPARE ROOM

Miss Bartelme, . Public Guardian.
 Says Every Householder With
 Means, Should Provide Shelter For
 at Least One Young Worker-Na-
 tional Court For Children Advocat- cd by Mrs. Corinne Brown.
 If Miss Mary Bartelme, a public guard ian in Chicago, has her way the chilly spare room with shades drawn to pro. tect the tapestries from fading will disappear, says the Chicago Tribune The sun will be allowed entrance, the lace spread removed from Ihe mahog. any four poster, and little street gam. in will be invited to rest his thatch on the carefully bleached pillowcases. Miss Bartelme recently told 600 mem bers of the Chicago Council of Jewish Women and nearly 100 others, repre- senting clubs in all sections of the city that every woman should open the door of her spare room to juvenile lodgeI picked up in the factory, workroom o, shop.
 The subject discussed by the speak CTS was "The Outlook For Children In America"
 Persons with means" she said 'could do no more good than to give their spare room to some boy who has to earn his living. Find some worthy working youngster and give him bed l. in your house and breakfast in the morning. Save him from the ten cent lodging house and its contaminating in fluences. The working boys and girls who have to go out into the world tC earn a livelihood feel the lack of q home more than anything else. The cheap lodging house or the saloon are the only places open to them. In these places they meet demoralizing infu ences. ...
 Every woman should become per sonally interested in some one child in an institution. Suppose you go out tc Glenwood and meet little boy named John, we'll say. The next time you go out there speak to John by name Let him see that you have remembered him. Ask him to write to you, and you write to him. When he comes out of the institution get your husband to in terest himself in John. Get position for him. Invite him to a meal at youl house. Take a personal interest iu him. A little individual attention to one boy willTd do more good than all the committees that ever went to Glen. wood and reported how the boys marched into dinner ever have done Do something practical"
 A national court for children, which will also supervise their education, co equal in power with the supreme court of the United States, its members be- ing mostly women and under faminine jurisdiction, was advocated by Mrs Corinne Brown of Lagrange, H., at the recent reciprocity meeting of the Coun cil of Jewish Women at Sinai temple in Chicago. Presidents of several 0! ! the leading women's clubs of Chicago had been invited to speak on "The Out look For Children In America" Mrs Brown represented the Social Econom. ics club in place of pr. Frances Dick. inson, who was i'll, says the Chicago Post.
 "There are three times as many chil dren in this country as grown people, said Mrs. Brown in her address. ''They constitute a great, helpless, dependent class. Ought not their affairs, com plaints and troubles to be as much of concern to the nation as those of citi zens who have reached their majority l propose that the government estab fish a court at Washington to deal with the wrongs against children and their education. It should be composed mostly of women, because they can deal with these situations far better than men.
 "lt should have fully as much pow CT as the supreme court. Its decisions should be final, so that no appea against them would be possible. Un der present conditions employers and factory owners when brought to ac count for unhealthful and slavish con ditions among their young employee. can appeal to q higher court and by skillful legal manipulations of the stat utes escape from all penalty and con tinue their law breaking methods.
 "The government should establish : great system of education under thu jurisdiction of this court. Primary grammar and high schools and publi, universities would be included within its scope. wish to lay stress on tn, fact that we need public universitie where tuition is absolutely free. mak ing them advanced high schools. Tn, present privately endowed system i deplorable..
 "The report of the national educa tional bureau for 1903 shows that onl. one-tenth of 1 per cent of 100000 who enter the primary schools gradu ate from the universities. This mean that only this one-tenth of 1 per cen is receiving fair and just treatmen from society. Those chosen few, fl spite of their far superior wisdom. ar a homage in the government of tn country. the ignorant masses. wit power of numbers. being the rulers.
 According to the report. 11.000.0O of the 100000 drop out of school o reaching fourth grade, and only 5000 | 6suo ov,tor hfrvf, eri,ror Tharo ITO i .nO