Arizona republican., 1906-04-29
EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
 NEEDS REMODFLING
Views of Thomas 5. Wallin of Phoe.
 nix in the Chicago Chronicle.

Thomas $. WaIIin or this city has school system of the country. He be- lieves in the schools but believes there are many reforms needed. Recently he addressed d communication To the Chicago Chronicle on that subject, which that paper printed as follows:
 Tn your New Years issue you re- port an address by Rev. F. 4. Paddock of Idaho or The wrongs of the school system The same gentleman spoke last year at the Auditorium by the re- quest of the Union eLague club and his address published in the clubs annuu3 of February 22 strikes this keynote.
 A short time ago you published a report of a sermon by pr. Fullows giving earnest warning upon the dan ger to girls in schooling processes to which they are subjected. Why not the boys? He also arraigns the entire edu- cational system from the primary school up to the university.
 "A few days ago Judge Mack said in the truant court: There have been four cases before me this morning where I believe manual training would have saved the boys
 Surely the Voice is being heard and needed by some. although they do not yet grasp its full meaning which lies in the promary law of God to man Six days shalt thou labor and ap- piled to all ages and classes Of men long before the era of schools.
 It is recognized by the infant of an hour who begins to strive It's little best to supply its wants, To neglect the command brings decay ana ruin upon men and nations physical. mental and moral.
 For fifty years our teachers have been trying to substitute schooling for work and have been saying to our young folks. Don't work; go to school Lately they are beginning 10 see that something is wrong and they say:
 Take a little manual framing in the schools
 The absurdity Of teaching the half a million children of Chicago all the varied lines of work they should be learning in the schools seems not to have occurred to many. It would be an effort to delight and satisfy the most enthusiastic socialist
 Even this wise editor who usually thinks right down to the bottom of q subject and begins to hear the Voice has not found that the root of the trouble in child training Is that work as the principal factor has been left out while really it is the most impor- tant thing. He urges more moral iR- struction and discipline.'
 Surely that is necessary. too, but above and below all else is the habit of labor for every human being. With out it there is lao successful human development and the neglect or it is terribly apparent in the young people of all classes just coming out Of schoO-
 Parents will ask: What then shall we do with our children?' A grave and difficult problem with present condi. tions, we all krow. I would answer. Begin by sending them Co school half a day, all ages. and those over ten, try to find them some work for half day and encourage employers who would give them work in always trying to make working conditions as good as possible.
 But insist that poor conditions are no. so bad as fdleness or over-school ing. Working is more important thar schooling for human development. add my feeble voice to the effort 10 i'm press this truth upon society. When it is accepted the means to correct present methods and to substitute bet ter ones will be found"