The Republican journal., 1909-12-09
Educational Movements.

But oh! the scenss mid which we met and
parted;
The thoughts the recollections sweet and Bit
Who shall restore them?"
and when l sat down to enjoy my
Journal and read, as l did two weeks
ago, the list of lecturers to be heard in
Belfast the present winter, lecturers
whom l have heard in my own society
privileges. the thought came to me.
s'Well, the world is not so wide after
all' and Immediately l was in Belfast
ready to listen again to Peter MacQueen
whom was once instrumental in bring
ing before the Waltham Woman's Club,
to appreciate Phidelah Rice and the Ad-
story of DR.. Charles A. Eastman, the
Sioux Indian, also told before the above
mentioned club, and long train of ''rec-
objections both sweet and bitter" follow
ed, restored by an item in the Journal.
The custom of bringing to societies in
teresting specialists and other distin-
guished men from other cities, whose
message is good, expands easily into the
great educational movements now going
on in Boston. Beginning with the visit
to our country of the distinguished Jap
anese Commercial Commissioner, Baron
Shibusawa, the Rockefeller of Japan, and
wife. Baron Naibu Kanda, professor of
the Mobiles School and graduate of
Amherst College, and wife, and large
party of equally unprounceable names, a
personal incident will show their educa-
tional standing and their interest in his
torical affairs and consequently our in
terest in them. During their visit to the
great Watch Factory, (all distinguished
foreigners visiting Boston, visit the fac-
tory they inquired carefully the distance
To 7 exington and Concord. ''Then you
have heard of the doings at Lexington
and Concord?' said the guide. "Oh
YES. every school boy in Japan so high,
measuring with his hand, ''has heard of
tban7'' said Baron kanda, the English
snaaking member Afterward there fol-
lowed the gracious courtesy OF placing
noble wreath on the tomb at Mt. Vern-
on.
Close upon the entertainment of the
1ananese visitors came Boston's greatest
Educational Exposition, now drawing to
. close. the Boston-l915 movement, in
+ba old Art Museum. Has any one asked
what Boston-l9l5 is? Let me in few
words give the gist of the Boston plan.
Roston-lol5 proposes to get all people
and organizations to work together tor
A well-planned and developed city
Better low-rental homes.
Greater protection to health and life.
More Fairgrounds in the crowded dis
tricts.
More public buildings with libraries,
pvmnasiums, meeting halls, etc.
Use of the schoohouses outside OF
school hours as social centers for the
people.
Best possible relation between workers
and their employers.
A school system that shall help boys
and girls find out what work they are
hest fitted to do and shall train them to
do it we'll
Until now Boston, like other cities,
has developed largely of itself, and If
no city plan were made it would I'M
doubtedly continue to grow in the future
as it has in the past, like Topsy. Nor is
this plan for the finest city in the world
peculiar to Boston: the cities of Wash
ington, Cleveland. San Francisco, Madi-
son. and many other American cities are
already planning physical extension. Suf-
fee it for us of New England that in adj
5ition to the cultivation and intelligence
of Harvard, Boston-l9l5 proposes city
where more men, women and children,
both rich and poor, shall have greater
opportunities than any other city in the
world. To this END certificates of stock,
III dollar shares, are issued, which every
oodv j. urged to purchase to aid in the
WORK, all money to be accounted for in
public print. Each certificate will con-
stiture the holder a member of Boston
1915
Apropos of the third item in the Bos-
ton-l9l5 platform Greater protection to
health and life-the Waltham Business
Mems Association. whose message is
always good, invited ladies to hear an
illustrated lecture, both apt and timely,
on "A Safer America" by DR.. William
II To.I,oa, Diractor
The aim of the movement is to awaken
an interest among the people for the i'm
provement of the relationship between
capital and labor by system Of moder-
ate service insurance based on the risk
and wages of workmen exposed to dan
gerous parts of machinery and tools.
Thus far our industrialists have striven
for higher speed and increased efficiency
in the machine or tool. The whole wealth
of inventive genius has been lavished on
The machine, the thing, with little thought
for the protection of the worker, the
man. running it. No country can be in
the front rank of civilization until as