The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-06-15
STATE Law CREATED IT
The commonwealth Recognized Need Of
Child Laborer to at Least Half
Day weekly Of Tuition
School Is Result


about the new building at the corner OF
DAYTON and Pleasant streets, in the
minds of people who haven't close
acquaintance with it. Very few have
much authentic knowledge about IT. 1t
would seem.
Most of us know it is the Continual
ton school, and that's nearly all we do
know. Ask the first person you meet on
the street what the school is for and
he will doubtless tell you it is to teach
boys trades.
Wrong, wrong, entirely wrong.
Listen to what David E. Scull says.
He is the energetic young director of
the school who is also, if one may in
dulge in metaphor which visit to
the building encourages the use of, the
motor power behind it. 1t is his tire
less efforts which have got the wheels
whirring busily, the children interested
in their work, ana the cooperation to
q great extent of the big employers OF
labor all Of which are vital to the best
results from the school.
Don't Teach Trades.
E'We don It try to teach trades here, !"
Mr.. Scull remarked. "Our aim is to
acquaint the pupils with the exactions
from the worker in the various voca-
tions and thus to give them enough in
formation to aid them to choose a trade
for which they will be mentally and
physically fitted.
Moreover, we try to inculcate
wholesome ambition in them. After a
pupil has learned enough about the
many trades into which he may go to
make an intelligent selection of his flu
ture life work, and, decides upon the
trade he intends adopting, we give him
special work that will aid in preparing
him for that trade.
In selecting trade we advise the
boy to take into careful account his
physical strength as well as his men
tality and manual skill 1t is foolish
for a weakling to go into an occupa
tion which will make extraordinarily
heavy demands upon his physique. Too
many boys choose, when unadvised,
without considering this factor of the
equation.
Offers Fine Chance.
''The school offers splendid oppor-
tunity for the individual to find him
self.
1t is true that great weakness in
our social organization has been the
lack of information supplied the boy
about to chose a vocation His lack
of knowledge is apt to be greater than
it was ten years ago, if he has to de-
pend upon getting the information from
the trade itself
Gates Guard Them.
"Under present conditions the oper-
atives in a given trade are kept seclud-
ed from the public by guarded gates
through which the boys may not pass
without much red tape. We, in the
continuation schools, try to supply in
formation regarding these trades which
in an earlier day the youngsters would
themselves have picked up. The visits
of the children would probably decrease
the efficiency of the operatives to some
extent, but we hope through co-opera-
tion with the factory owners to effect
an arrangement by which special visits
may be occasionally arranged"
Mr.. Scull is eager in his work and
has plan after plan for the betterment,
the development and the increase in
efficiency of the school which is so
largely an expression of his individu-
ality.
Young But Lively.
The Continuation school is one of the
youngest of the brothers and sisters of
the fine old American family of public
schools. But it is hardy, sturdy scion
of a family with splendid record and
1t promises to wax greater until it win
take its place in Importance and use
fulness with the best of them.
The building in which the local school
is housed stands at the corner Pleasant
and Dayton streets and from the out
side might masquerade as a factory.
1t is two stories high; occupies ground
space Of SO by 90 feet; it is of steel
and red brick construction; and it has
windows-yards and yards of them, and
they all are capable of swinging out so
there is no limit to the sunshine and
fresh air that can come in. To be ex-
act and quote the accurate Mr.. Scull
there are 2,458 square feet OF windows
IN the comparatively small building, so
there is no excuse for any worker IS eyes
being strained, because of poor light or
xor hlm to suffer for lack of fresh air.
Oceans Of Wheels and Things.
The equipment Of the factory in