Bisbee daily review., 1909-06-22
JNDERPA|D CHICAGO CLERKS
 EASY VICTIMS OF PROCURERS

The girls have right to live the same as anybody else and many of them have sick mothers or younger brothers and sisters depending upon them and when they cannot earn a
 living in the stores they are almost forced to the course of life that some of them take. I believe that the min imum wage for women in the stores should be $9 a week. Another thing. Many girls are working in stores sim ply to make little pin money. They have homes and plenty. but they go into the stores as clerks just to get a little money to spend. They can dress better than the girls who work be- side them and who are forced to work for a living. This makes the lot of the poor girl seem all the more hard and if she is weak she is often in. duced to go wrong because of this dis satisfaction. The surest way to pre- vent white slavery is to remedy the conditions which are largely responsi- bic for it.
 Closer relations between the Uunted States and Canada which were pre- dicted when the Canadian Pacific railway acquired control of the Wis consin Central, have already begun to be evident, especially in Chicago. which has become the southern ter minus of the big Canadian system. A party of investigators and editors left here early this week to inspect the coal fields, timberlands and water power of western Alberta and Brit ish Columbia. In spite of tariff du- ties, commerce between the two coun- tries is growing steadily and the Ca nadians are leaving no stone unturned to encourage this growth. Evidences pf this are shown in the increasing interest displayed by business men Of the Middle West in the resources of Alberta. British Columbia and the Rocky Mountain region. The largest saw mill in the British Empire. which is situated at Fraser in British Co luElbia, is today owned by Americans. Other big timber tracts and mines are in similar ownership. Just what nave been the results to date of thi. invasion of American capital and what further opportunities there are will be determined by the party which has just left. which includes, H. NJ. Hyde, Robert R. Jones. Elliott Flower. Bruce Barton, w. D. Nesbit, George D. Rich
 ards, s. E. Riser, Percy Hammond and Herbert vonderhoof. as well as J. s. Dennis of the Canadian Pacific
 and other railroad officials. Calgary
 Banff and Vancouver are the objec tives of the group who will travel lon Canadian rails from the moment they leave Chicago by the way of the Wisconsin Central and the Soo line
 until they reach Vancouver and the
 Pacific Ocean. This country, from | fr la, market every year for American goods. Twothirds of Canada's i'm ports today are manufactured. Of this
 amount 5 per cent, or according to the latest figures, $S9,060. 900 came from the United States, and this is ir spite of the fact that merchandis. entering Canada from England comes lin on mucl more favorable terms than that which is imported from the
 United States.
 The movement for more practical education in American public school:
 has just received big forward i'm petus by the decision of the Chicago school board to abolish Latin and al zebra in the lower grades and tho serious consideration of a proposition
 to build an immense training schoo lof domestic science for the girls o
 the city. Plans for this school cal for the expenditure of at least $500, lee0. Cooking and sewing will be tn,
 major subjects but it is intended tha
 girls shall also be taught how to mak'
 beds, sweep, dust and do many othe useful things which they may have |,
 do when they leave school and ente
 homes of their own. No expense il equipment is to be nspared if thu
 plans are adopted and the best teach CTS of cooking and sewing in the coun
 try are to be employed to instruc
 the future housewives in the art o
 making home. The return to th'
 three R's" and the common sens' ' teaching of the little red schoo
 house days by the dropping of Latil
 and algebra in all but the highe
 grades is part of a general effort ol
 the part of the board of education t'
 bring modern school education nor
 into harmony with the, needs of tn boys and girls. Algebra in thu
 grades means the displacing of prac
 tical arithmetic" said a trustee il ] explanation. Your boy or girl who
 going to the high school will get al . zebra anyway. The boy or girl wb' is leaving school after the. eight grade needs arithmetic more. Latil is also not essential to the pupil wh,
 leaves school early. What they wan ] are practical studies" The adoption of system of combination schoo
 and shop" training for boys. a sys l tenn as yet unknown in Chicago . rounded out one of the busiest se' sions ever held by committee. Unde the new plan a boy desiring to leari . particular trade spends half of hi , time in school and the remaining hal in a shop selected by the school of1 cials. His diploma will be issued no l only upon the knowledge required il school, but also on the practical re suits accomplished in the shop.