The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-10-28
STATE SUPPORT FOR
POOR PUPILS
UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR pao.
POSES PLAN FOR EpucA-
TON FOR ALL.
N Address to Club Women Of Seattle
on Child Labor Law He Advocates
Provision for Some Measure Of Edu.
cation for All Young Citizens.

nave to be taken out Of school to sup.
port themselves or parent was ad-
vocated by DR.. ]. Allen Smith, head Of
the department of political economy at
the University Of Washington, in an
address on the "Child Labor Law" to
5OO parents at meeting in the Broad.
way high school, under the auspices Of
the Seattle Women's Club.
NO state that recognizes a certain
minimum of education as necessary
for all its citizens should exempt any
child from the operation of its compul-
sorry education law because of power
IT," he said. 1T is the duty of every
enlightened, democratic community to
provide some measure of educational
opportunity for all its young citizens.
Burden Belongs to State.
When child under IA may be
taken out of school merely because its
labor is needed for its own support or
the support of its parents, we are
placing burden upon that child which
the state itself should assume. OF
course, the reason for such an exemp-
ton is that we. as taxpayers. wish to
escape the small financial burden that
would be involved In keeping depen-
dent children in school.
mo burden should be placed upon
children of the dependent class which
the law protects other children
against. A discrimination such as this,
which operates to the disadvantage of
the weak or the unfortunate. instead Of
helping them to become independent,
tends to make dependence permanent"
A precedent was set by the school
board when it authorized the use Of
the high school for the purpose Of the
1t was an effort on the
part of the clubwomen to bring
the parents and citizens to closer
realization of the work being done by
the educational authorities of the city
and state. The conservation of the
child was the topic of the evening.
Supt. Cooper Speaks.
Deploring the law that requires the
educational authorities to release de-
linquent and backward children after
the age of fifteen, Superintendent OF
Public Schools Frank B. Cooper urged
the necessity of an institution or volun-
tary association that would find To-
cation and environment for the boy af-
ter he is released to keep him free OF
ENHANCEMENT so that the good work
done in the parental school shall not
be nullified' and the last state be worse
than the first.
Supt. Cooper told of the exceptional
service for exceptional children done
in the schools.
Scores so-caIIed Good Citizens.
Rev. ]. D. o. Powers, of the Boyl-
ston Avenue Unitarian church, in his
address on Conservation and Recla-
nation of Moral and Spiritual Re-
sources" scored the so-called good
citizens who fail to take their burden
of civic cares.
. 1T seems that vice and crime are
not confined to the red light district"
he said. at seems as If immortality in
tests practically every phase of civic
life today. 1t spells all our achieve
ments mentally. All our civilization
will go to shipwreck, as all the other
civilizations of the past have gone, I'M
less a sterner morality becomes gen.
eral.
MEN and women in beautiful homes
on the hills are responsible for the
vice in the slums. Christian manhood
needs awakening"
Mrs. F. C. Stevens, president Of the
club, presided. The meeting was in
charge of Mrs. A. r. Manca.