The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1909-01-17
ADVISES TEACHERS
AGAINST WEDLOCK
Taft Says Women Educators
Have High Mission
HEAPS PRAISE ON OLD MAIDS
President-eIect Declares that Secret
of Domestic InfeIieity Is that Mar
rIage Is Thought 10 Be Essential.
Tells College Boys Of His Expert
enee at YaIe-TaIks OF Ministry.

Atlanta, Ca, Jan. I6-Mr. Taft thinks
that most OF the unhappy marriages in
this world are due 10 a mistaken notion
on the part OF young women that they
must get husbands IN order to make
their lives successful AIr. Taft expressed
this opinion IN a speech before the Nor
nal School girls al Athens this after
noon. He was speaking OF the prOba-
bility OF competent women teachers il
the future commanding equal pay with
men.
7 hope" said M Taft, that this
progress viii be as rapid as possible for
the benefit Of you al. but. whatever hap
pens, you may always have the salts
faction Of knowing shat while there are
higher professions. there IS no profess
sion IN which self-sacrifice is manifested
more clearly and none in which more
good can be done than that OF a teacher
Not Necessary.
7 congratulate you on beginning your
life IN that way and I hope that you viii
not regard matrimOny as necessary. I
think that the secret Of most domestic
infelicity is that young women think
that unless they are married their
lives are not q success As q matter q
fact. I think the reverse is exactly true.
Look into your own lives and your
families Take some aunt Of yours. who
never married What sweet. seIf-sacri-
fcing, disinterested. ard lovely char
acter she has grown 10 be, 20 and 50
years Of age. and think what beneAcence
shall spread over all the family circle
IN which she lives. and then tell me she
would have been better OF II she had
been married. I don't believe It"
The normal school girls received Mr..
Taffs expression with every show Of
sympathy and approval
Regard for Teachers.
In this little informal address Mr.. Taft
expressed his regard for the American
teacher further BY speaking of his
brother. Horace D. Taft. who is at the
head Of a boys preparatory school at
watertown. Conn, and who gave I'D the
practice Of law 10 instruct the youths OF
the country.
Mr. Taft delivered four other speeches
in the course Of the day. Two were be
fore students at the Georgia School of
Technology, in this city, and the Uni
versity Of Georgia. in Athens.
Mr. Taft spoke twice to negro au-
diences.
Mr Taft's reception at Georgia's HIS
toric State University was wet. The
President-elect went down to Athens
from this city or a special train. 1t was
| raining hard when he left and the down
pour continued while he was in Athens.
Hall Is on Fire.
The Georgia University meeting was
enlivened when the hall took fire Just
as Mr. Taft was entering it. Sparks
began to fall from a stovepipe hole in
the ceiling. The academy procession. in
Guiding Nj Taft. halted outside while
the students and the Athens firemen car
Tied in a ladder and started to fight the
blaze through a scuttle hole
About so persons were in the hall The
fire was put out however, without the
audience leaving
Mr.. Taft told the college boys what
he felt when he was a student at Yale.
When look hack to that period in life, ''
he said. 1t seems TO me that we felt
/ that Daniel Webster did not have any
great advantage over rs in matters Of
Craftsmanship or anything Certainly,
when we became seniors We knew good
deal more than our fathers did, and Il
took the subsequent year after you had
stepped down and out Of the great dig
nifty Of that last year In college TO con-
vince YOU that you were not altogether
/ Indispensable to the growth Of civilization
/ in this country.
AT least. if the world needed you. and
was yearning for you. the world was able
! to conceal IL
Mr. Taft told the college boys further
that he never came under the influence
{ Of an academic atmosphere without feel
( ing upliftec
Mr. Taft spoke Of the professions OF
the ministry he said.
I think during the last twenty-five OF