Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-01-04

week. Very shortly she was earnil;
$40 week. Moreover, since the straw
sewing season is short, this girl had
learned to transfer to another branch
Of the sewing trade where she could
keep up her income. She had learned
how Industrial seasons vary. and how
one industry is busy while another Is
du!l.
TELEPHONE GIRLS MAKE coed WIVES.
remember a girl who for five years
before her marriage was an expert tele-
phone operator. Let US call her Net
tie K. Telephone exchange operators
are highly skilled workers, we'll treated
and well paid. and it is demonstrated
fact that they make good wives.
Nettie married happily and estab-
lfshed Il charming little home; but
when her second child was little more
than year old her husband met with
an accident which caused bis sudden
death. Nettie could have gone back to
the telephone service, but she did not,
because she wanted some kind of work
which would keep her at home at least
part Of the day. She became a rent
collector for one of the model tene-
ments on the upper East Side Of New
York. Her intelligence, independence,
and knowledge of human nature made
her value apparent and she had no diff.
ficulty In getting work. She lives in
one Of the model tenements whose
rents she collects, and she has ample
time to supervise the work of her little.
home and to see that her children are
we'll cared for.
A beginning in Industrial training
has been made in at least a dozen cities
In the United States. Trade high
schools. magnlflcently equipped. have.
been built In New York, Boston, Cleve-
land, Milwaukee, and elsewhere The
only mistake their founders have made
Is denying to girls the same oppor-
tunity to become skilled workers in
trades that they eagerly offer to bovs.
The training offered girls in every
city except New York is purely domes-
tic. 10 those girls whose Immediate
destiny is the home this training Is
Invaluable. But a great majority Of
girls have quite another destiny be-.
fore them. They must become wage
earners for period Of years. To deny
them trade training, to keep from them
the industrial intelligence which makes:
good worker in any department Of
usefulness, Is simply to doom them to-
the lowest rank Of industry, where ex-
plotted like animals, the fame Of life is
extinguished, the light Of the brain is
blown out, and the power to give hardy
children to the world Is rendered
naught.
Look at 1t from the purely CONNER.
cial point Of view, the point Of view Of
national supremacy In manufacturing.
The reply to Bismarck's inquiry in
1876 was: Our goods are cheap and
Wretched. France, our military in
ferior, Is our superior industrially."
OTHER COUNTRIES FOSTER TECHNICAL
SKILL IN INDUSTRIAL WORKERS.
The reason is that France for years
had been developing technical skill in
industrial workers, through schools at
first private, as our technical and trade
schools are at present, and later on
government schools. Following Ger
many's lead England began to take.
steps to dispute the Industrial suprem-
acy Of France. A crusade for indus
trial training swept over Europe
England established very complete
courses leading to physics, engineering,
textile engineering, wood carving, in
laying, metal chasing, enameling, en-
broiderhg, flower making, designing,
and industrial art. Most Of these
classes are free, and some Of them are
open to women. The general ignorance.
Of the English working classes, bow.
ever, operates as an obstacle to the
complete success of the trade training.
germany Is far ahead of England in
this regard. The German working class
Is fa1rly we'll educated, and is able to
take trade training intelligently. Ger
many has special schools for the educa.
ton Of forenen and bosses, as we'll az
technical classes for the average work.
or. It has schools for the textile
trades, schools for industrial art,
schools for dressmakine and millinery.
school for design, for bookkeeping.
seeaography, machine operating, en-
brotdeey and other trades, and occupa-
toos open to women. Its schools lead
In to mems trades are bewilderinx In
tholr 1umber and their perfection.
Belgium, swit.srland, France, swp-
den, even Italy have devsloped M,
DID systoms o6 trade and tooinhcal edp>
cation. Thsre y not 4 civGlDod CON-
try In the world With y NJ IN 4
vance Of the United Ota1ss IN - 4
gard. And thsse 10 ~ 4 counkl3 n
the world where nsss snoln0od -
trial opportunities are c4e4sd 10 wulnGA
than n tho United States.
Women mus work. Shall they WIZ
In tasks like these? Shall tAsy Wotk
% women, the most horrible figures z
pote1e1al motheys I ever beheld, wofk
all day leag In the packing hoasss q
ChoaGO3 SHAH they work in such IL
ousties, or shall We continue the rood
work already begun and make this q
nation Of skilled workingwouenp
Can We afford b have utisens born
Of brutalisod and degs1AA mothers?
Do we want the kind Of homes such
women are capable Of making? Would
1t not be better to acknowledge that
women are equally With men the work.
err Of the world, and give them the