The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-11-16
THE. /. PUBLIC ]. !! 1 i. SCHOOL |. /. ): /.
:. |NO.|...IPlACE FOR SNOBS.
Sensible Article by, Winnifred
Black in the Denver
Post. -.
Can be Read With Profit by
Certain Aggregation in
]. Duluth. -


The Frat boys and the Sorority
girls had a glorious time yesterday
being real naughty. They took the
| ."Frat must go'' circulars sent by the
Board Of Education and tore them
right straight up, SO there. now.
Massey me, it makes me tremble in
my bootees to think Of such terrible
| things. 49,. !
And right here in Denver, too. IL
Ut mad been out on the range now. or
| In a brand-new. mining town where
life is bold and free, but-b-rb-r-br-
what a blood curdling world this IS.
sometimes, when you come to think
| Of it.
It's no use, boys and girls: !.
We all know just how you feel when
you think your boosted: liberties, are
being trampled on-but it isn't the
slightest bit Of use.
The Public School Frat is dead,
dead as the nail in old Scroogs' coffin
peace be to its ashes, and more poW-
er to the sane. sensible American men
and women who are helping to hold
! the funeral services.
! There are a whole lot of things to
be learned in the public schools Of
this country Of ours, but the one real
lesson that really counts is the lesson
Of real Democracy.
| I'm glad went to little district
school for a few minutes when was
little and sensible not because I
learned to read and write there. I'd
have learned that from the sign posts
or the billboards If I hadn't had any
other chance, but because + learned
| that the little tow-headed German boy
who lived up the road in Dutchtown
had more brains in minute than
had in a day, If he did wear blue yarn
socks that showed under his short
trousers cut down from fathers, and
a red stocking around his neck IN
place of an overcoat.
| There isn't an inch of room for a
snob in the public schools.
That's the reason it's good place
to send our children.
It's all very we'll to be high and
mighty, because papa struck it rich
in a hole in the ground one day, or
because mammals receptions are the
smartest things in town; but none OF
these things count the least little bit
in the yard, or the study hall, either
Of the public school, or they ought not
to count.
Can you flight, and fight cair?
Do you know enough to. go in when
it rains. or at least to carry an UNI
brella That will keep you dry?
Are you good humored, kindly
quick-witted? :,,.
You're all right nobody cares
q piece OF chalk who you are or where
i you come from. .-';-.a 49, ?.>::,>
! Are you pretty and modest and
clever and easy to laughs
Well, then, you're a favorite in the
school room, and it doesn't make q
cents worth Of difference whether
your name is Beatrice sanguinetti 0,
Mary Anna Gallagher or Gretchen
Snicklefritz or plain Kate Smitn, with
a mother who's working her fingers t
the bone. to give you chance TO go tt
school or Marjorie Van Ardsdale will
an electric auto and a maid.
That's the kind Of thing the Amer.
lean Public school stands for, and al.
ways must stand for, as long as there!
a. star left In the flag That means lib.
erty and equal rights.
Tut, tut, boys and girls, stop ant
think a minute.
Il You're Americans, fair minded, clea
headed, commemorative the othe
fellow all the chance-there-is is" Amer
icans-don't act as If you weren'
proud Of it.
\ We're so proud of our boys an,
girls and our schools that we can
bear to see the least thing about then
that could be twisted into an advers
criticism.
Let's cry down with the snobbis
spirit that elected a boy to this an
kept him out of that because he didn'
wear good enough clothes or thdn'
|, tilt his pancake hat at. the correc
angle.
Time enough to draw lines wne
you get big enough and old enough t
prove on which side Of the line 70
belong yourself.
don't believe all the wild an
scareful tales hear about the wicke
and ungodly frats and the mtschievor
Y and silly sororities either.
A decent lad Is adecent lad an
1t takes more than g. few dmttatio
ceremonies to make him all over.
3. If girl is good-numored and ger
erous and kindly not all the soroutie
g on earth can make her over into
minded gossip. ....
The only thing have against
ii Public School Frat is that it is ur
American-and that's enough to XII
anything once and tor all to my min,
The Frats are dead boys and girl
Dead and buried. .. -. 49,.
Don't try to get up any eympatl
for the relatives Of the deceased.
Mr.. Union Man:-Notify your laur
/ dry man that the Bell Phone Ii u