Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1915-12-10
CALLS NO FIRE ESCAPES
INSANE NEGLECT"
There is Law for Everything Ex-
cept for the Protection of
Children.
WHAT IF SCHOOL BURNS UP?.
Talk About Supporting Foreign Mis-
sions While Schools Are Unpro-
tecied--- Who's to Blame?
Communicated.

Dear Editor: AT last the Evening
Capital has got around to the lack of
escapes in the High School and Gram
mar School of Annapolis. We have
expected it and prophesied there would
be something doing when it did. We
hope to see no issue of this valuable
organ without some notice Of this abb
solutely insane neglect on the part of
the proper authorities. It has been
discussed everywhere; it has come up
before the body that sits in solemn
state every month, the Civic League,
and several things proposed about it.
One was proposition from simple
minded woman ito set fire to these
buildings some time. have an object
lesson, just a small fire and see what
would happen, but it was objected that
fire was hard thing to get away, and
the supplemented person was remind
ed that there was the law against ar
son. Yes, there is a law against every
thing. there is law for everything, il
seems, except for protection, of little
children, the greatest asset OF peo-
pie. and the one in which there is the
most prodigal waste What if school
full burns up! There viii be others!
Women will see to that, but can any
one tell why women can't see to fire
escapes to a school "Oh, women
don't know anything about it; they
aren't capable of experimenting pub
lie buildings; they haven't any tools to
work with, but they know all about
schools in China and Japan, in Kobe,
Siam and in Africa" / don't think one
can better express what women do
know about than to quote Susan Wal
ton, a character in that most worthy
book "Co-Citizens," that has lately
been put before the reading public.
Susan gets the female portion of the
population of Jordontown, in Jordan
county, together and enlightens them.
She says: You do not know il. but
you women pay two-thirds of all the
money that goes TO support the church
You do that much towards building
churches. supporting officers, prel-
ates, pastors, missions,t the whole thing
and you are not allowed voice in de-
termining the way your money shall
be spent. You do the Lords wish, and
the men profit by it. You furnish
four-ffths of all the piety and your.
own children grow up in ignorance.
While you women are pinching and
scraping to, pay preachers and sup
port missions in foreign lands. appro-
priations for county schools have been
bitten into with outrageous expense
accounts. men have paid as much as
three hundred dollars year to cam
paign fund and some of them have re-
ceived as much as thousand dollars
for delivering this town in an cleo
ton. / want every woman here pres
ent to hold up her right hand if she
is willing to pledge herself never to
give another dollar to the support of
the church or to foreign missions until
her children haYe full sessions, the
best teachers and sanitary and safety
equipped school houses"
1t is reported that every right hand
went up and so would every hand in
Annapolis if some courageous, hard
headed, free-tongued Suson Walton
should come around and "dare the do
ing" In the meanwhile, dig away,
dear Capital Under much rubbage
you may turn up dollars and-sense.
ONE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS