The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-12-21
CHRISTMAS "PIC' FRAUD
UNEARTHED IN CHICAGO
School Board Decides to Establish Group of Trade
Schools in the City-Interesting News Letter
81 From Windy City.

Chicago, Dec. 21.-lndustrial edu.
cation as part of the public school
system OF the United States has
lust received new impetus as a
result of the decision of the board
of education to establish group
OF trade schools in this CITY, This
information comes on the heels of
the announcement of the Internat-
ional Typographical Union, which
was in conference here last week,
that the union is. planning to es-
tablish correspondence and techni-
cal schools in the large cities
and travelling school of lectures.
charts apd diagrams to make the
rounds Of the smaller locals. This
will be the first of similar schools
to be organized by other unions.
In this work Of advocating greater
facilities for Industrial education
the unions have found an unexpect-
ed ally in the shape of the Nat
ional Manufacturers Association, the
bitter foe of organized labor.
Alarmed at the growing competi-
tiion of Germany, where technical
schools are sdirectly supported by
the government, the manufacturers
and labor leaders have agreed to
lay aside their hostility for the
moment and unite in the common
cause. The Chicago school board
has collected statistics Of cond'-
tions in Germany. showing the
striking results of the governments
policy in that country. "Trade
schools are thing we have got
to come to in America, said the
president Of the board. "our fac
tories are handicapped just be-
cause we lack such training. I
know frsna- my own experience.
Manufacturers can hardly get fore
men who understand their busnes.
Workmen are put in to make the
eightieth part of SHOE, They do
that and die in that vocation. But
the man who can understand and
direct whole industry is almost
impossible to get."
nThere has been an absolute
decay of what is termed packet
tonnage as applied to the longer
routes such as that from st.
Louis to New Orleans", declared
Capt. J.>F, Ellison, of Cincinnati,
Secretary Of the National Rivers
and Harbors Congress, in letter
to Chicago member. ''But." he
added, the short line packet boats
are as numerous and as prosper
GUS as at any time for the past
quarter OF a century. Only the
larger long distance boats have
disappeared. The reason for this
disappearance of the picturesque
"river packet of ante-bellum days
is of course, the present unrelia-
baity of the Ohio, Mississippi and
other rivers, a reason which will
no longer exist when the prospec-
tive Improvement of those and
other important waterways of the
country is accomplished 1t is in
teresting evidence of the future
nse OF river transportation that
the "short haul" tonnage of the
Ohio, for instance. rs equal to
the tonnage transported in the
halcyon days of the lamented pack
ct boats, thirty years ago. The
need for the rivers is already over
whelming and growing greater
but the need seems now more
likely to be n'1led than at any
time In the history of the United
States.
AS a proper place-the proper
place--for national conventions of
republicans democrats or of the
Amalgamated Sons of the Blue
Ribbon. Uncle Sans new stau's-
tics of crime shed reassuring
allow upon Chicago. Among II
cities having population OF 900. 900
or more Chicago ranks with the
seven having the lowest percentage
OF arrests for crime. including vio-
lations of city ordinances, among
which, be III remembered, are
the anti-spitting and auto-speeding
ordinances. In the matter of
felonies Chicago. contrary to reputa.
tion, is shown to be among the
cities with the cleanest record, al
though the payroll disbursements
are annually $137OOO.OOO and nc
blue laws are In force. yet. These
however, were not reasons for
the selection OF Chicago by the re-
publican national committee: the
nersonsl comfort Of delegates was
the chief consideration, Chicago