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The Globe-republican., 1906-08-02
Chances to Rise.

The bright, capable workman, wSn
O fair education, does not permanently
remain at standstill in any depart
ment OF mechanics, unless, in spite OF
his mechanical ingenuity and capacity,
he completely lacks ambition, con-
dition which too often exists. Sooner
or later, he may become foreman or
superintendent, and possibly a manu-
facturer.
The boy without pronounced bust
ness or professional capacity stands a
better chance Of success, both in the
present and for the future, by entering
some trade which allows his hand to
do his hands best, than by taking
chances with what he is probably un-
fitted for. If the bulk Of his work is
something which encourages and de-
velops his handicraft, he is reasonably
certain of rising from the ranks and
Of earning a comfortable livelihood
The workman is almost certain of per-
manent living wages.
If his mind takes little thought Of
what his hand is doing, an ordinary
mechanic he will remain; but If the
work of his hand comes under the in
telligent direction of his brain, then
he will rise as high as his combination
of brain and hand will allow; which
may be only a few steps above the or
binary or to any height even to that
of manufacturer and proprietor.
The ordinary mechanic, above the
laborer grade and beyond the appren-
ticeship step, earns from $40 to $12 a
week on an average, and up to seven
dollars a day as maximum. The
skilled workman, who is able to do
something beyond mere hand-work,
seldom receives less than three dollars
a day, and from that UP to five dollars
a day. The expert workman often
earns as much as $4,000 a year, and
from that UP to $1,000 year, although
comparatively few receive the latter
amount. His average income Is prob
ably not in excess Of $1,000, although
there are by no means a small number
earning as much as $500 year. The
foreman and superintendent, who are
either skilled workmen or expert work
ers. and who are discipiinarians as well
as mechanics, are seldom paid less
than 81 900 year, the amximum be-
ing not far from $4,000, and the aver
age from $1,000 to $500 year.
The terms foreman and superintend-
emit are, to an extent, analogous, and
frequently both Offices are vested In
one person; but the superintendent
outranks the foreman, the latter being
usually in charge OF a department,
while the superintendent is manager
OF several departments, and has gen
eral oversight Of the foreman.
skilled workmen are usually in de-
mand. and are seldom out of work fol
more than limited period. They are
not as likely to be affected by depres-
atoms III business as are those OF or
binary capacity. Expert worlkmen rep
resent the highest class Of hand-work-
ang mechanics, and often grade with
forsmsn and superintendent.
The Globe-republican., 1906-08-02

Lemars, Ia, July 27.-Three boys
tried to make cream separator go as
fast as possible, when 1t few to pieces
George Frerich, aged II, was instantly
killed; Fred Frerich was struck in,
the head and will lose the sight Of
one eye; Ernest Frerich has his arm
broken.
The Globe-republican., 1906-08-02

The terms skilled or skillful may be
90 broadly defined as to cover all hand
work requiring more than the exercise
OF automatic action, and 1t may be SO
narrowed as to eliminate any work
save that Of extraordinary, or, at least,
Of more than ordinary mechanical abil-
ity.
For the sake of convenience, pro-
pose to consider in this article all
workers whose employment de-
mands the use Of their brain at the
same time that they exercise their
muscles. Such men may be classified
as Observation-Disclosures or as hand
and-brain- workers, in the one case the
brain doing more than the hand; and
In the other, the hand accomplishing
more than half Of the work.
The expert worker is commercially
one grade above the skilled mechanic;
by the combination Of ability and ex-
perlence, he does some particular kind
Of work better than 1t can be executed
by the so-called skilled workman.
Neither the skilled mechanic, nor the
expert workman, nor anyone who en-
ploys both brain and hands, can be
classed as laborer, or as a mechanic
in purely mechanical sense. While
by the false ethics of an artificial soci-
ETY. the skilled mechanic and the ma
jority of expert workmen are not con-
sidered the social equals Of successful
workers in some other callings, they
are recognized at their full worth by
the representatives Of civilized society.
And this recognition is advancing IN
mighty strides, and sooner or later the
combination Of brain and hand work
will rank so high that society will dare
die no exceptions to 1t.
! The formation of gigantic monopo-
lies, the consultations of capital, and
the fearful increase of business upon
paper, cannot but produce a reaction
which will apprize work at works
value, and render unto intelligent
workmen the appreciation Of high
progress The skilled workman is a
product of civilization, and progress in
no small measure depends upon the
work of his brain and Of his hand. He
is builder of something, a maker OF
the tangible. The institute of technol-
ogy and the technical school are to-day
more vigorously pushing progress than
are many Of our classical institutions
which teach less of the necessities than
the realities of life.
The Globe-republican., 1906-08-02

VS.
which should precede actual sxvcsn-
ence. The first few years Of technical
school training give foundation,
which the actual work In the shop
cannot afford. Experience needs edu-
cation for Its economical development.
The scientific or technical school dis
ciplines the boys mind, and gives him,
in tho most economical way, the broad
principles OF mechanics-the principles
which experience teaches more slowly.
Too much cannot be said to impress
the would-be skilled mechanic with
the enormous advantage of a technical
education, to be obtained In some high
grade institution, where the principles
of mechanics are broadly taught. The
graduate Of the polytechnic institute,
or other technical school, will find his
diploma the key to position.
It should be clearly understood that
education, In itself, will not produce
the skilled workman or expert hand
worker. Education, to be of any use,
must have something to work upon
some natural ability in the first place.
Without this basic material, the most
liberal education Is worthless, and GER
tainly has no commercial value.
The Globe-republican., 1906-08-02

While shrewdness in business pays
better than skill in mechanics, and
while this business quality undoubted-
ly wins greater money return than
does any work of hand or of intellect,
yet the skilled workman is not without
opportunity for rapid advancement. He
Is in no sense second factor In civili-
cation. AS matter Of fact, he has a
right to be really prouder of his at
tainment than has the man whose
wealth consists only Of money. When
civilization advances another peg, the
skilled mechanic, the man Of brain
and hand-action, will have the same
social recognition as does the rank and
file of our business and professional
men. The quality Of skilled labor is
rapidly growing better, and Is pro-
crossing by such gigantic strides that
it is only a question of time when the
intelligent work of the hand will be
considered upon the same plane as Is
the work of the brain, and there will
be no such thing as despised labor.
There will be little labor that involves
muscle alone.
Comparatively few educational au-
thoriries, or those who have given ed
ucational ways and means intelligent
thought, are in favor of classical COL
lge education for those who propose
to enter a mechanical trade; but the
educational opinion is almost unani-
nous in advising, for anyone who in
tends to be more than common
laborer, a course in the technical
school of institute of technology, or, at
least, course in manual training. The
boy VINO enters trade without, at
least, partial technical education, is
liable to stay near the bottom, or to
rise vecy slowly, while the technical
school trained boy usually makes rapid
advances after his first year at work.
OF course, experience teaches, but ex-
perience is often too far away to prop
erly instruct in the preliminaries. A
few years given to hard technical study
in good trade school or institute of
Technology will pay better in the end
than can any amount of working ex-
perience. But on the other hand tech
nical education without experience is
well-nigh worthless.
Experience without technical educa-
ton is worth something. The COM
bination of the two wins success. A
thorough technical education, with ex-
perience, never allows its possessor to
remain at o standstill He must rise,
and generally rises rapidly.
The Globe-republican., 1906-08-02


liberal education Is worthless, and GER
tainly has no commercial value.
Aids to Success.
The boy Of natural capacity, with a
willingness to work, and an ambition
to amount to something, finds that his
education makes 1t much easier for
him 20 market his ability; and, fur
Their, 1t enables him to develop much
more rapidly than he could hope to do
II he entered the shop directly from
the common school. The man is made
from the boy, not the boy from the
man. AS the crude boy is shaped, SO Is
the man likely to be. Therefore, the
boys educational years will probably
be the most important ones OF his
whole life.
The world needs more skilled work.
men and expert hand-workers. There
is room for many more than are now
available. These men, far more than
the business men, are the pushers OF
progress. They, with the farmer, are
producers Of material commodities.
They actually do something, something
which contributes to the roundness
and Wilderness of life.
A liberal technical education is an
asset: First, because it assists In de-
veloping ambition; second, because 1t
broadens the mind and makes 1t
adaptable to the work Of both the
mind and the hand; third, it disci-
pines the mind, that the mind may
the mere master the muscle; fourth, 1t
opens opportunity for advancement;
fifth, 1t is economical, because 1t ena-
bles the boy to accomplish more in a
given time, after he is fairly started in
his work, than he could possibly effect
without this education; sixth, 1t fits
him 1or proprietorship.
The blacksmith, unless he is self
taught, at an expense far greater in the
aggregate than is the cost of being
school-taught, is many times more
likely to remain a journeyman black
smith than is his neighbor who has
had the advantage of some sort OF
technical education. This trained man
will hot long remain at the anvil. In
time, he will be master OF many an
wills and of anvil men. True, he may
rise to proprietorship without the aid
of the technical school, but he will be
promoted quicker with this school,
taught education, and can hold his own
better than he can hope to do other
wise. This argument applies to other
mechanical departments, much more
than it does to blacksmithing. 1t Is
simply a question Of going to ones
work before the mind and hand are
economically and practically trained,
or of going at 1t with mind and hand
especially trained and disciplined to do
that work in the most economical and
satisfactory manner.
The Globe-republican., 1906-08-02

z New York. July S0.--Application by
the minority stockholders OF the
WeIls-Fargo Express company for a
writ Of mandamus. compelling the
officers of the express company to sub
nit its books 10 an examination, was
denied BY Judge white In Brooklyn
The Globe-republican., 1906-08-02
Technical Training.

and generally rises rapidly. &.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-19

affirmed the decision of the lower court.
If new trials are denied it is expected
that the usual thirty days stay of exc
cution will be granted, when renewed
efforts will be made to save the woman.
No effort is being made to prevent the
hanging of Hoffman. Many letters are
being sent to Governor Folk, urging
him to commute Mrs. Myers sentence
to life Imprisonment.
A brother-in-law of Clarence Myers,
however, has sent the governor a let
ter expressing the belief that his sister
in-law Is as guilty as Hoffman and that
IL Hoffman is hanged the woman also
should pay the extreme penalty.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-19
OREYFUS FAILS
TO ATTEND TRIAL
Maltre Monard Argues Against Fur
ther Proceedings, as Many Of
the Former Witnesses Are
Dead
BY Associated Press.

PARIS, June 1S.-The palace of JUS
tice was crowded today at the OPEN
ing of the supreme courts public hear
ings of the Dreyfus case. Many wo-
men, including relatives of the for
mer captain of artillery. were in court,
but Dreyfus was not present.
Maitre Monard, representing Drey-
fus, summed up the results of his ex-
tended investigations, showing the err
rors made at the Rennes court mar
tial. The chief points were the in
eliminating letter stating that ID"
was furnishing the Germans with
valuable information, which con-
tributed to the conviction of Dreyfus
at Rennes, whereas 1t was now dis
closed that the initial was "P" forged
into a 3D."
Another point was that the incrim-
mating letters are now proved to have
arrived after Dreyfus was serving
sentence, and it was established that
one of the witnesses against Dreyfus
at Rennes received considerable sums
Of money for his testimony.
Maitre Monard argued against a
further trial, saying that many of the
witnesses We're dead or had disap-
peared. Dreyfus, he added did not
ask for damages. He only desires the
vindication of his honor as an officer
and the official restoration of his name
to the list of officers.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-19
KILL
INNOCENT BABES
Continued from paEe ono.

has been chopped off with an ak. Here
also were the dead from the Schlachter
home, where, according to witnesses,
soldiers came and plundered the house
and killed the wife and a neighbours
and seriously wounded Schlachter and
his two daughters.
''I am told that soldiers entered the
apartments of the Lapidus brothers,
which were crowded with people who
had fed from the streets for safety,
and ordered the Christians to separate
themselves from the Jews. A Christian
student named Dikar protested and was
killed on the spot. Then all of the Jews
were shot.
''Some of the corpses were marked
with fire. These had been brought from
burned tannery and showed bullet
and bayonet marks.
''1n one corner of the yard was de-
mented Jewess trying to cover the body
of her husband, but her efforts were in
vain, as the blood simply oozed beneath
the inadequate covering.
From the wounded in the hospital
the correspondent heard many pitiable
stories, all of the same general tenor.
Here is the account of a badly wounded
merchant named Nevyazhiky:
Victim Tells Story
"T live in the suburbs. I tried to
reach the town through the fields, but
was intercepted by roughs. My brother
was killed, my arm and leg broken, my
skull fractured and 1 was stabbed twice
in the side. 1 tainted from loss of
blood and revived to find a soldier
standing over me, who asked: What.
are you still alive? Shall l bayonet
you?" / begged him to spare my life.
The roughs again came, but spared me,
saying: "He will die; let him suffer
Ionger."'"
The correspon dent. who adopts the
bitterest tone toward the government
holds the program undoubtedly was pro-
Voked and attributes the responsibility
to Police Lieutenant Schermatieff, and
says the distinctive characteristic of the
outbreak, in which it differs from the
excesses of odessa, Kishinev, Gomel
and Kiev, aside from bestiality, is the
comparatively small amount of actual
robberies committed.
Murder the Incentive
The participants seemingly were not
| inspired by motives of loot, but of
murder and destruction, pure and
| simple.
| He also holds that the participation
of troops has been completely proven,
| and quotes Deputy st. Chepkin as say
| ing that this is clearly shown by the
/ decentralization of the soldiery conse-
quent on the removal of all restraint.
The correspondent declares that not
only the soldiers but their officers also
| participated and that he himself was a
| witness as late as Saturday to the
shooting down of a Jewish girl from the
window of a hotel by Lieut.. Miller of
the Vladimir regiment The governor
of the province of Grodno. who. hap
pened to be passing at the moment, or
dered an investigation.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-19
BURGLAR
ASSAULTS WOMAN
Policeman Making Arrest Is Sur
rounded by Crowd of Victims
Friends, but Finally Escapes
With Prisoner
By Associated Press.


NEW YORK, June 1S.-The attempt
of an Italian burglar to rob a woman
of a pair of diamond earrings nearly
cost two lives early today.
The would-be robbers victim was ter
ribly cut about the face and head by a
keen-edged knife, with which the thief
attempted to cut the jewels from the
woman's ears, and scarcely five min
utes later the robber himself and a
policeman who had arrested him were
fighting for his life against a crowd Of
hundreds of Hebrews who sought to
avenge the assault.
The robber was kicked and stoned and
repeatedly knocked down before the
policeman succeeded in safely landing
him in a cell.
The victim of the assault was Mrs
Kupfer, who had been calling on friends
last night and was returning to her
home when attacked. Joe Carpaccla
was her assailant.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-19
POLICE ARREST
FOUR SAILORS
PRISONERS ARE ACCUSED OF
KELLNER MURDER
Midnight Tragedy in Golden Gate
Bay Results in Raid on the
Steamer National
City
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. June 1S.-Four
men are under arrest and charged at
the Stanyan street police station with
murder, to answer for the killing of
Andrew Kellner of the Sailors union,
which occurred last night as he, with
several other members of the union,
were approaching the steamer National
City in launch for the purpose of in
ducing the non-union crew to desert
the vessel.
The men accused of the murder are:
capt. Hammer James b. Hubbard,
Daniel Il. Cahill and Frank Martin.
The arrests were made after an all
night cruise on the bay by the police
in search of the National City. which
Immediately after the shooting was
moved from her mourings at the foot
of Sixteenth street to Hunters Point.
The arresting officers were all armed
with rifles and were prepared for any
resistance that might have been made.
Sailors Were Well Armed
The men found on the National City
had a large number of weapons and
plenty of ammunition in their possesses
sion, but they permitted the police to
go aboard. They did not raise any
protest until> the police detectives had
snapped handcuffs upon the wrists of
Port Captain Hammer, James B.
Hubbard, Daniel r. Cahil and Frank
Martin.
Capt. Frederickson, who was actu-
ally in command of the National City
took no part in the shooting and was
not taken from the boat. He went to
the police quarters of his own volition,
however and made an unsuccessful eff
fort to communicate with the arrested
men.
Engineer Bird of the launch which
carried the union sailors to the Ma
tional City last night, declares that the
men who were fired upon were entirely
unarmed and made no hostile move,
even after the men on the National
City opened fire on them.
The shooting has created tremen-
dous sensation on the water front, but
seems to have had no appreciable eff
feet on the lockout situation.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-19
No Court Review

The court review provision will not be
contained in the measure. This action
meets the suggestion of the president
The words ain the judgment of the Sec
retary OF agriculture will not be con-
tanned in the measure This action
meets the suggestion OF the president
also.
The section waving the civil service
law for one year in the selection of
inspectors will go out of the provision
also one of the presidents recon-
mendations.
There Is to be no date on the label
of the packing of meat products. In
this the president yields to the commit
tee The language which gives in
spectors the right to the packing plants
at all times is amplified-by the words
whether the same be in operation or
not"
With these changes made, the presi-
dent has indicated his entire satisfac-
ton with the measure, which was re-
ported from the committee as substi-
tute for the Beveridge amendment and
was today recommitted to the commit
Tee, that the changes might be made.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-19
KIDNAPs YOUTH;
LANDS IN JAIL
PHILADELPHIA BOY RETURNED
TO PARENTS
Former Stock Broker, In Desperate
Financial Straits, Attempts Dar-
ing Method Of Raising
Money
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA, June 1s.-Little
Frederick Muth. who was kidnapped
from school on Tuesday last, was re-
covered from his captor in sensational
manner this afternoon.
For several days the identity of the
kidnaper has been known tosthe police,
but despite the efforts Of 400 men who
have been working on the case he was
not located until today.
Accompanied by one of his men,
Chief Of Detectives Donaghy went to
42s North Sixty-second street, in West
Philadelphia, and there found Joseph
Kean with his captive. Kean attempted
to escape and was shot at by the de-
tectives. The bullets missed their aim,
but Kean surrendered and was taken to
police headquarters.
The kidnaper, who is AZ years old, is
described as former stock broker who
had recently been real estate agent.
He has wife and three children, and
It is believed that his desperate
financial situation drove him to his
crime.
Demanded Five Thousand Dollars
In communications to the father Of
the child he demanded $4,000 for the
Friday declared he would kill the child
and himself if the money was not
forthcoming.
Kean's terms were acceded to in a
personal inserted in all of the Satur-
day papers. Then, in a subsequent
letter, Kean proposed new terms and
these were likewise accepted and an
other personal was inserted yester-
day.
Meanwhile misleading reports have
been given to the public in order to
serve their purpose.
The boy, who is only years of age,
was apparently unharmed, except that
he bore evidence of suffering from
hunger and exposure. When the kid
naper and his victim were brought be-
fore superintendent Of Police Taylor
the boy still had in his hand the school
books he had when he was enticed
from school by decoy note, purport-
ing to be from his mother.
Found in Dwelling House
The house in which they were found
is an unoccupied dwelling on the out
skirts of the city.
The capture was primarily due to the
publication in today's newspapers that
the police had abandoned the search for
the kidnapped boy. This threw Kean off
his guard and he ventured outside the
house.
Detective Blair, who was watching
the house, pounced on him and sue
ceeded i'll forcing confession from
him.
When the boy was found in the house
he was dirty. not having been washed
since last Tuesday He said he had
been kept constantly in the house, had
been given bread and milk to eat and
was not mistreated
Kean was locked up and the boy was
taken to the home of his parents.