Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-07
Chicago Educator Puts
Men Workers Into
Three Glasses.
LITTLE HELP FROM LAW
Industrial Training Suggested
for Semi i-COmpetent at
Vice Inquiry.

Chicago, IL, June Harry Pratt |
Judson, president O. the University of |
ident of the Central Trust company,
and A W. Harris, president of North
western university, testified today be-
fore the O'Hara commission. Most OF
the graduates enter business, said Jud-
scn, and were soon thereafter fnan-
/ cially able 10 marry.
| What becomes of the girl gradu-
ates?" asked O'Hara.
81 am happy to say most of them
marry" replied the educator. He said
school and college courses should be
| shortened in order TO start young men
and women On the serious business of
| life earlier.
O'Hara wanted to know whether the
law should provide a minimum wage
for minimum of efficiency. In re-
sponse, the witness arrayed workers
in three classes-efficient, semi-effi-
cient and inefficient.
THE efficient man will earn more
than any law can provide" said Jud-
son. He can take care Of himself.
Fer the semi-effcient we might pro
vide industrial training" He had no
remedy for the inefficient.
On a minimum wage, Judson said:
"You may provide minimum wage
which would give a man what he
needs; no law can provide a wage
which would give a man what he
wants"
WOULD DESTROY EFFICIENCY.
On the. aiestiQp of a minimum wage
law, Abbott said: 81 believe the es-
tablishment of a minimum wage In q
bank would be the most efficient meth
cd of destroying efficiency human in
genuity could devise"
Harris said every girl should be Civ.
en- rudiments of a business education.
He believed it to be the duty of a
! community to see that girl thrown
: on her own resources was able to live
respectfully He thought an inquiry
by the commission along this line le
. gitimate.
"E. H. Hartman left fortune OF
100000 .00O," remarked Harris, ''yet
for a rare individual who made whole
railroad systems more efficient and in
directly worked to the welfare of hun
dreds of thousands of working mer
Y and women"
MRS. YOUNG HELPFUL.
|. Following is the substance of the
, testimony of the witnesses heard yes
. terday in which is set forth informa
- ton offered by Mrs. Ella Flagg Young
S which Lieutenant Governor O'Hari
4 said was more helpful to the commits
r sion than that of any other witness
J. to date. A merchant asserted tina
L an empty stomach did not exist il
Chicago. Following is the gist of th
evidence:
Mrs. Young: "Inadequacy of wage
paid family heads, by shortening tn
supply of food to school children
a thereby weakens their bodies as min
supporters and lessons the mental an
y moral capacity and fiber of the chi
dren who are underfed. The time /
= not far distant when training
schools will be training the studen
as a tool for carving out his future
u rather than to train his capacity TO
ID storing up knowledge of what me
Y. have done in the past. 1t is our ide
10 TO change the com.hon ambition G
K. every boy to be president to an an
N bition TO be master in that line c
activity he finds himself best fitte
C. for Empty stomachs mean lessene
la ambition, blunted hope and made
al only train the youth how to do, bU
a they educate him TO direct the doin
L. with a quick. an active and apprec.a
to i've brain. They mean less loafert
" less lazy children, less human inc
foiency"
ROSENwALD LACKS FAITH.
Julius Rosenwald. president Scar
Rcebuck & Co: Il won't express an
opinion for the commission. don
p believe the commission is sincere;
!. have no faith in it; think it a bod
h OF sensation-seeking politicians"
James b. Forgan, president Fir!
~ National bank 1T is only by sue
careful study of the wage question g
your commission is making that
ne will be settled properly"
a Joseph Basch, vice president, Sieg
ed & Cooper: There is no such thing
of Chicago as the empty stomach. TT
on cost of living has increased only
n or Is per cent in IL years, not Il
he higher amount supposed.
nd Theodore ". Robinson, first VII
as president, Illinois Steel compan,
sx- We who have money spend II to gi'
in our children industrial education
technical schools after high scho