Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-19
TEACHERS TOLD
WHAT IS NEEDED
NECESSARY QUALIFICATIONS
ARE EXPLAINED
Prof H. A. Adrian, superintendent Of
Schools of Santa Barbara,
Talks to Pedasoeues
on Derelicts

on Dereliets
| The second days session of the an
nual teachers institute proved of more
/ interest than the first, if that were pos
sible. The 1000 teachers in attendance
and wearing their daintiest apparel pre-
sented a pretty sight as they sat
through the sessions, notebooks in
hand. 1t is safe to say that they are
making the most of the interesting and
instructive addresses delivered for their
| benefit and the children will learn their
A, b, C's after the most approved
methods and even punishment, If that
is necessary, will be administered in
homeopathic or alopathic does as pre-
stribed by the doctors learning dur
ing the institute.
The city teachers. who meet at the
Polytechnic high school have the add
vantage of the cafeteria run in con-
nection with the school, and imme-
diately after the closing of the morning
sessions grand rushes are made to the
dining hall.
At the morning session a the Poly
technic high school II. 4. Adrian, city
superintendent of schools, Santa Bar
bara, delivered one of most interest
ing addresses of the session on "Dere-
lets" He said in part:
"A postmaster in city where l was
holding an institu,, told me that he
could tell a school teacher by the way
she asked for her lail ! did not be-
lieve him at first, ut bit of investi-
CATION under his direction soon con-
WINGED me that he was right. No mat
ter how soft and polite the request
might be there was i it a subtle order.
Nra11 N1,,N T.. -
in which we show our fitness for the
work-our education.
AT Minneapolis Mimi, in the largest
-four mill in the world, stood one day
for an hour watching a black Hercules
seize the barrels of flour as they came
forth from that perfected machinery
filled, headed Up. and with bare hands
send them whiring on their chains
across the 200 Feet of floor to hit a
cleat not more than two feet long,
nailed down near he door, and shoot
down the slides into waiting freight
car on the siding, arG during that time
he did not make single miss. When
his off hour came L stepped up and
said You seem to enjoy that work.
Yes, sab, 1 does. I'd ruther do that
than be president Most any fellar can
be president but there is mighty few
fellars what can do that like l does II
He was educated.
Driver Educated
"a few summers ago L happened to
be on the drivers seat of a big noun
tain stage drawn W four fine horses.
when the brake gave way just as we
had started down that long steep grade,
full of sharp turns, with a towering
cliff on one side and what looked to me
like a bottomless gorge on the other
side. AS the horses felt the sudden
lurch of the stage against them they
started at & furious run down the tor
tuous road. Steadily that masterful
driver swung them ~ound those curves
with the inner wheel grinding as much
as he dare against the sloping walls of
the rocky cliffs, making it act like a
brake, and in a little while he brought
them safely to walk, in spite of the
screaming and fainting passengers. He
was educated.
Last summer on our way into the
wonderful Yosemite we were held up
by the lone Highly ayman of the
Sierras.' Single-handed and alone he
lined up five big stages, forty-five men
and women, and leisurely went through
their belongings without haste or ner-
vousness. His tones, low and well
modulated, his Language pure and clean
and correct, his every movement was
business like and self possessed. He
was educated-in the wrong way CT
course-but with powers that would
have made him marked success in
high finance
I'm the social world wher in we live
every tramp and criminal and idler
are deredicts-a living danger to every
honest man and woman, a sinister
menace to every child, Gripping bur-
den to every form of imam industry.
There are today more than 100000 of
these derelicts in this fair land of ours.
not one of them productive nor self
supporting and all living off your labor
and mine.
When a dereliCt is found at sea, a
sack of dynamite or a keg of giant
powder sings it's funeral song, but on
land it is different; the tramping dere-
lict we permit to drift about at will,
on weary feet or jolting brakebeams,
sometimes anchored for the winter to
some warm Jail, and in some cases
chained to an Vnfeeling rockpile with
ii heavy hammer i'm unwilling hands
The pauper dereict we feed on mis-
directed aims and clothe in misfit char
ity; while the criminal derelict we ex-
hibit for weeks before a curious crowd
and a jury of twelve good men and
true then hang him by the neck until
he is dead, or send him to prison for "A
term of years until he is worse than
dead and all this at enormous expense
to us all.
Tramps EXpens
Every tramp costs us $500 to wear
out his tired life. Every chronic pau
per wheedles from us $1,000, including
the undertaker's fees at the end, and
every criminal compels us to put up
$1400 before he goes where police cease
from troubling and judges and juries
are at rest.
THE enormous expense of our courts,
police and peace officers, penitentiaries,
reform schools, detention homes and
charities is very largely on account of
these derelicts. And do you realize
how great a drain this is upon your
slender earnings and mine and every
other producer?
But where were these derelicts forty
years ago? They were not in real
homes where regular habits were en-
forced and tasks provided for big and
little ones, and they were not in the
schools Of the day, nor were they be-
ginning to learn useful trades under
proper tutelage. for boys and girls
brought up under such conditions do
not become derelicts except In COM