Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-04-06


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Agriculture, AL b-'
Trade and Transporta-
tion, l44l al
Mining and Manufactur-
ing, .-N "a,
Personal, tradeless, etc, ga 20
These figures indicate that the lraue
less class of the population commit nint
times as much crime. according to then
numbers, as the Industrial classes, Una
is, that man without a Lraue Is Huit
times as liable to get into prison as
farmer, miner, merchant, conductor, etc
and they suggest some interesting fact:
as to the methods of releuyihs tHeSe
conditions of crime.
Problems of crime and lawlessness il
the population as a whole are not TO Ok
solved by the prison, the deformatofy
the juvenile court or any other system
which waits until the crime has beer
committed, they must be solved ny {
constructive system of education ana oc
eupation which develops normal men
trains hand and brain to skiliful labor
and self control, and influences the sou
for high ideals and right living
Thousands of boys get into crime be
cause they have not been directed into
any regular occupation, and it has beer
difficult to learn an attractive trade.
The work of the Elmira reformatory
is beautiful in its theory and results, but
it is applied at the wrong end of the con
victs lives. Let our boys have those
same opportunities before they get into
temptations of life and a large proper
ton of them will never go astray.
1t is well to have the industrial train
ing after criminal record, but mucf
better to have it before. Construct nor
NAL men with earning rover habits OF
work and good moral principles and il
will not be necessary to construct sc
many prisons and reformatories.
PAUPERIsM.
No social problem would be more
affected by an industrial system of edu
cation than pauperism. 1t would beal
pauper, his low efficiency, and lack of q
| regular constructive life. Many mar
is a pauper today whose only need was
an easy means of learning to do some
thing well whereby he could maintain
| reports in the North Atlantic Division
53.6 per r>cent. of all the paupers came
| from the class of common laborers an(
unframed servants. The statistics verif!
| the conclusions of observation The
| problem of all the dependent and delin
quent classes, little can be done for hin
when once he has reached a dependent
status.
This evil too must be met by a con
structive work for future generations
Habits of work and systematic accom-
pl1shment during youth are the only
cures for those pauperiZed by laZiness
and chaotic habits of life. Give the boy
| an earning power and there is little feal
| of this pauperiZation. There will OF
| course always be the unfortunate poor
and dependents but industrial education
will strike at the roots of the evil az
much as anything can.
CELEBACY. RACE SUICIDE. d.
VORCE.
| Celebacy, is unknown among savage
| tribes, and it is exceedingly rare among
and especially the Anglo Saxon American
| branch of it, is troubled with the cele-
| bacy of some of it's very best blood. This
| is an age of transftionaand movement OF
| population, and great hordes of young
| people without preparation for any spe.
| cialized form of work flock to the cities
Their desires and ideals are developeG
| far beyond their earning power and q
| considerable proportion of them never
develop enough efficiency to marry and
support a family, or. if they marry chill.
dren must be denied themselves OIL
strictly limited. Delayed earning power
expensive ideals and comfortable bach.
elor quarters all contribute to the cele.
bate tendencies Of the unframed class
In order to sustain, not to increase, the
present population every married couple
should on the average bring three chill
dren to maturity. But thousands OF
toupicS never ItdcH lHlS average because
of low efficiency and inability to provide
for normal family under city condi.
tions.
There are plenty of people ready to de-
clare that the Anglo Saxon blood of New
England is dying out and there are some
troublesome evidences that these asser.
tons may be true.
How far is a school system which stim.
ulates desires and high ideals. but does
not lead to economic efficiency, respon.
tfnp | Will
to answer this for himself.
Industrial and agricultural education
which would lead to an earlier efficiency
would help to overcome this weakness OF
the New England Anglo-SaXon, for unde,
1t the boy would develop a living income
at 20 and probably he ready to marry al
%. His income would increase more
rapidly than the unskilled boys and
finally rise to higher level. and he nat.
urallv would rear more children during
his youth and vigor and have more op.
portunity for fellowship with them after
they grew up. The children would per-
haps be stronger, and the whole course OF
life of both parent and child would be
more natural by the development of ar
earlier efficiency through a we'll planned
school system.
On the other hand the tradeless un-
skilled boy often wastes years of his life
patton, he drives team a while. then be-
comes motorman a few years, and
finally lands in store or on the railroad
He is obliged to put off marriage until
the late twenties or thirtes and some
times gives it up altogether His chill
dren must be fewer and he loses much
of the joy of companionship with them
after they have matured.
The early earning power makes an
early marriage and prevents years of
wandering, irresponsible. and sometimes
disspated life of bachelors. The most of
the crime is committed before the age of
25, and three-quarters of it is committed
by those who are without industrial
training and regular occupation. Indus
trial training and early marriage are
almost sure preventives for the dis
sipations and lawlessness of early man
hood. Era
Married men are less liable to COM
nit crime than bachelors. and any infiu-
ence which makes possible early mar
riages and wholesome families in youth
full years, helps solve nearly every social
problem.
The unframed and unsteady bacheior
is dangerous element. and Industrial
education aims directly at his elimination
by the most desirable process.
CARE OF THE AGED.
There is much said in TINS nav annnt
old age pensions and some OF the EURO,
pean countries have adopted splendid
systems for protecting the aseu IL ...e
fear of starvation and the degradation
of charity
But, the finest nossibla kind 80 an I'D
age pension is three or four healthy chill
dren well trained for efficient -
moan mora than paoa1 ticket for the