Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-12-04

gamble 70 decay, anu lail eIe IoHs
~ There the downy breasts so softly
lad g[ gisgs embodied slowly, day by day;
WI itar last out of the old home nest
W. III fall-fedged songsteTs gladly sailed
a"a}yfi Hes story. DER and Ger again;
~ '1 SSnringtime brings BODYBUILDING, love
- a az song 90 Soon comes round the time OF
pa ths home nest is empty. Is it wrong
Far hearts to grieye when forth our heag-
NE LES # mean -I'd give the world to
snow no s. Cutler in Boston Transcript.
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Lntle Knowledge.
The prevalence of ignorance in this
,.aJ of schools, universities and free lee
- systems is the occasion of much as
a;sbmanf TO the discriminating few
W familiar with the stock felicia
ans that statesmen, politicians and edi-
~ are continually proclaiming iii re-
.ard 70 the unusual intelligence of the
s,aaneraIity of the people in this country,
and actual conditions quite different In
t tbe large centers the thoroughgoing, IL
tterate native who can neither read nor
write is never met with in any social
Grade above that of unSkllled labor. As
Fnrf the ODlIllOLS Oh lnC JULY Vh S0Nu
oatters as affect Intimately the indiyid-
nal 10 say nothing of the larger public
onasti0ps. some are founded on preju-
Ace and on what the preferred editor
sovs or the point of view, is merely the
outeome of nothing diScernible any more
Than is the prattle of child of years.
Il think placing children in families
Is fhe loveliest way of disposing of de-
nepdent children," announces a woman
If means who has had years of school
inc and has travelled. When it is sug-
nasted that while this may be for the
fine being the most expedient method
# cannot possibly be the ideal one of
saving to themselves and the community
that most pathetic class-the waits,
since very feM persons are qualified to
he parents. and fewer still to be foster
nsrents. or arbiters of the fate of alien
children, she protests that the system is
all right, because she knew two cases
where girls We're trained into fine serv-
ants" etc, etc.
Does she think it quite just that de-
pendent children from whatever class
they come, should be compelled to go
into the servant class when placed out
and has she ever heard of the cottage
system of training dependent and delin-
quent children? She never has, and she
eyinces no interest in learning any thing
in regard to it. This woman is as little
informed on every other important sub
iect as she is on placing out, and yet
she does not hesitate to discuss any
question that may come up. The wom-
an is a type of hundreds of thousands
Of native women whose ignorance and
assurance are a national disgrace. Great
would be the establishment of this wom-
an, and others of her class, if she We're
charged to her face with being culpably
ignorant and with disgracing the land
Of her nativity. Both charges are true
nevertheless. She helps make public
opinion and her ignorance contributes
to the delay of important reforms the
advocates of which are compelled to
labor long and arduously to combat the
4 errors THAT people should find out for
4 themseives), and to awaken the public
Il 10 an appreciation of the value of sug-
! gested progressive methods and meas
Il ureS.
d The ignorance of men is more imme-
Il dately menaeing condition, since no
uaer words were ever spoken than those
a br Gov Hughes in the course of re-
a cent address when he said, 1.-THE real
n basis of all that we las a nation) cher
iSh must be found in the intelligence and
good Judgment of the average man."
Only the occasional maintaining the
many millions of voters into considera-
study OF economies or questions of pub
nc policy or social evolution and trend,
ana yet the majority presume to go to
the polls and commit the country and
It's S00OO,000 of people to policies of
worldwide significance. The usual run
Of men go to school in regard to the
thngs that voters should know only
70 the partisan journal and the cam
palga orator, and, in order apparently
JIdf they apnI1ipa Ifffla lrY 4 rs,
possible, they carefully refrain from
reading opposition journals or listening
% the spellbinders who present the
gd'ihs OF the other party and its candi-
yates Erroneous financial experiments.
visionary efforts in the line of social
Detterment. unjustifiable and unnecessary
war aYoidable and serious international
OHpilcatlons and violent attacks ON the
Ieuiclafy, have been some of the results
o. the ignorance of voters that have
auicted this nation in the last few years.
as 70 the ignorance of foreigners, that
y III the majority of cases abysmal but
SaS serious disqualification in a voter
uoes not deter the native from extending
w FRANCHISE to the male immigrant. In
Ie pubic schools the embryo voter is
ss,dae TO study foreign languages latter a
tasliiohl, ,counterpoint, and a number of
i1o1e UT less academic courses, but only
~ rare instances and then inadequately,
nm ne taught any of the subjects that
VIII come before him for consideration
WIN. maeh ne becomes a voter. Very few but
WI admit that by the foregoing show
lls the American is embarked recklessly
vi ms gigantic governmental expert
alguI and II appears time that he should
toiu about face, out-study his own ig-
ttIIIance defer for years after arrival
one giving of the franchise to immi-
sLaatS, and properly train the potential
sgteFs IN the school. If the mob is to
rue It should be an enlightened mob, not
S'laih a densely ignorant one.-Nogue.
~aghshwomen as Mayors.
The first woman in England to be
rn9Sen as mayor bears the gentle
sss 1e OF Dove. Miss Dove, who was the
a aLsJ student Of Girton college, and is
1JW principal of the Wycombe Abbey
u:'L mas Just been elected mayor of
-.ish Nycombe. 1t is reported that
ts9sure has been brought to bear upon
NJ rd,,i u sign, by persons who thought il
cn ellI hrlng ridicule upon High Wy
sI-De 70 have a woman for mayor. We
to- 5-'1 await further information with in
v yssssl. Miss Dove has been active for
t ~ IN work for the schools, the hospi
n and civic improvement.
=, Jars. Elizabeth Carra+r Andereor NJ