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New-York tribune., 1918-09-08

by presenting short courses, sometimes
covering only few days, for women
who are totally unfamiliar with indus
trial conditions and are especially handi-
capped by sort Of terror of new ma
chimes.
If these women are sent directly into
factories as unskilled workers they are
often so appalled, by the noise and steady
hum of power machines that they turn
and flee before a day is over. IF, how
ever, they have learned even the rudi-
ments of operating machine and have
faced in mider form such as the school
offers the terrors Of a factory workshop,
they are in quite another frame Of mind
when they enter shop as students.
While this is an emergency rather than
an educational feature, it is q task of no
small Importance in making the adjust
ments between home and shop in this
present crisis.
The school has and will continue to
have trade extension department which
is careful and practical form Of voca
IiOiioi + I0IIlS l1ONi tflc upper
grades of the public schools who are con-
s'dering entering trade are encouraged
to come for set of tests designed to
show their aptitude for certain types of
work. These tests give each girl an op-
portunity to see which kind of work she
likes, and afford her adviser a way to
Gscover where her best chance of sue
cess hes-an economical scheme both
from the point Of view of the school, for
it decreases the number of girls who
wish to change their trades after few
weeks trial, and from the point of view
Of the girl, who is spared discourage
ment such as inevitably results from at
tempting what is too difficult, or other
wise unsuted to her abilities.
One of the great features of the school
has always been the health work. This.
Of course, will in the new building have
increased scope. Every girl in the school
undergoes thorough physical examina-
ton, and during her course care is taken
that any defects shall be remedied and
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08
By ELISABETH IRWIN
generous but somewhat quix-

TIME generous but somewhat quix-
otic offer of the Department of
Education to turn over to the
War Department the new building of
the Manhattan Trade School for Girls
for use as war hospital has fortunately
been refused. The reply Of the War De-
partment that at is not the policy of this
department to interfere with educational
procedure" is the statement of sane
and foresighted attitude.
1t seems obvious that in the present
industrial crisis no branch of education
can be of more Importance to city and
country than that which is preparing
girls and women to take their place in
the productive ranks
A committee of the British Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Science
which was appointed after the first year
of the war to investigate "the employ
ment of women in Great Britain owing
to war" made the following statement:
"One Of the most serious dangers re
vealed by the present crisis is declared
to be an insufficient supply of skilled
labor among women, which has empha-
sized the Importance of industrial train
ing both in its immediate and permanent
aspects"
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08
By JOSEPHINE BENNETT SCOTT

II MOVING human welfare to be the
EA greatest concern of society and
the state, we carelessly allow
man power, our greatest asset, to be
wasted--a ruthless sin that cannot be
propitiated by Hooverizng on food or
other Materials
Adolescence, the storm and stress
period of life, might be better understood
and appreciated if called the mo mans
land" of life. 1t is a time when the forces
of sin and virtue struggle hotly for the
possession of youth, and sometimes he is
in the possession of one and sometimes
of the other.
The adolescent boy is unlike the adult
in every element that goes to make up
the final state of maturity. He is not
like the child he has been and is abso-
lutely unlike the man he will be. so un-
like that they might be two different
people.
Though legally mature at twenty-one.
he is not physically mature until twenty
four but. strange to say, as material
for punishment he is supposed to be
mature at seven. 1t is typical of ado
lescence that desire for present pleasure
should be stronger than fear of future
punishment. The boy for whom there is
no one with time and foresight to ad-
minister iudclous doses Of adventure
may get into serious trouble. God help
the boy who at sixteen is a full grown
man III size, for his judgment and dis
cretlon are still embryonic and his desire
for adventure all out Of proportion.
1t IS fact that he is capable of az
complete change ten Gays after his six
teenth birthday as the small bow is ten
days before Christmas, but he is also
subject to sudden and serious relapses.
he may be alternately devil and q saint
When asked why he is so, he will stare
blankly and answer. ~ don't know" He
doesn't; only God does. 1t is truly the
supreme time of all tines "when a Teller
needs friend"
Too many of US are willing to run the
risk of licking working amount of
truth and general virtue" into our sons
but know that we must, in order to he
successful, make scientific studies of anv-
thing else we want to raise.
Fortunate is the child or dog whose
owner decides to know him. Starting
with his thoroughbred puppy at birth,
without knowledge or experience, he finds
that the puppy is blind. He might drown
him for that; but on consulting with
those who know about dogs, he learns the
blindness is temporary and refrains.
Then hardly has he quit boasting of his
perfectly good dog before he begins to
miss things-books, magazines, pipe and
slippers, in fact any small article left on
or near the floor. Again the inexperi-
enced man may feel that his dog is a
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08
Comment From Our Readers

To the Editor of The Tribune Institute.
In The Tribune of August 81 Mrs
Cora Haviland Carver protests against
the militant suffragists in Washington
She says that she believes in suffrage,
but is not affiliated with any party
Now, presumably, if Mrs. Carver ap-
proves of suffrage she does so because
she thinks II at it is a good thing either
for women or the country--or both
Faith without works is dead What
is Mrs Carver doing for this thing in
which she believes, but for which she
does not come forth under any banner
So far nothing that any one has done has
won the vote IN the Senate. 1t might be
that such woman as Mrs. Carver could
suggest the one thing necessary to bring
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08

give up ease and comfort and do what
their sons and brothers are doing abroad
proving their belief in democracv.3
There is no justice in mems DENYING
suffrage tc women. If there is let them
come honestly forth and give their true
reasons. Let them state what require
ments; and when they will give what
women, we think, have Won To the real
workers III the cause it is little less than
maddening to realize the possibility that
there may be a method Of converting our
Senate that we do not know and have
not tried. Come forth, Mrs. Carver and
our other critical sisters, and tell us how
you think the thing can be done, why
it isn't done and when you think it should
oe oohe' HARRIET J. COMsTOCK.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08
Children of the Shadow

boys and girls are living like wild ami
mais, keeping themselves alive on berries
and roots. 1t is not such stark horrors
as these that we are called upon to face:
but we cannot ignore the experience Of
England, and such meagre information
as comes from Germany. War has meant
worse than the slackening of school at
tendance and parental discipline there;
it has decreased child welfare work. sus
pended organized recreation, speeded up
wages for child workers, and forced upon
thousands of school children the respon-
sibilities of adults.
The result is abnormal Development
doubling of the number of crimes COM
mitted by children and an illiteracy
that threatens worse for the future.
While America is wondering about COM
pulsory military training bill is before
the English Parliament providing for
universal compulsory schooling up to
the age of fourteen, without exemptions.
and continuation schools for boys and
girls at work until they are eighteen 1t
carries an educational budget of more
than 81 100000 in excess of any educa-
tional budget ever before considered by
an English Parliament.
While the United States is exempting
child workers from educational REQUIRE
ments, permitting thousands Of boys and
girls to labor on Southern farms as
adult women are forbidden To labor in
New YORK factories, Europe is tighten
ing her hold, insisting more strongly
than ever on the need for child conser-
walton.
In 1917 in New York City alone the
Board Of Health reported twenty-one
out of every hundred school children con-
stantly hungry. The last census showed
100000 children between the ages of
ten and fifteen, inclusive, engaged in
gainful occupations.
Thousands upon thousands Of children
from three years upward are employed
IN the South and the West. working
twelve and fourteen hours, often bv lam
tern light. handling tons of beets daily,
sometimes picking over hundred
pounds of cotton a day. working and
suckering" tobacco from sun-up to sun
down. Three times the number of chill
dren engaged in manufacture are busy
IN the fields, and as they are practically
unschooled they are the children who
help to make up our normal quota Of
100000 illiterates.
1t is obvious that the only way to con-
serve the children is by keeping them at
work IN school, rather than on the farm
or IN the factory. II England after
three years Of war is strengthening her
education laws and France can keen I'M
her schools on the firing line. the United
States must be at least equally militant
to protect and conserve the coming ecn-
Grafton.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08
MIR. Mora's Poster

Editors Note: At the request Of the
Educational Dramatic League we are
glad to mention that the appealing pos
ter, Father Fights. Mother Works
Have You Time for Me?. which was
printed in connection with the article on
play schools in The Tribune of Sunday.
August II, was drawn especially for the
Educational Dramatic League by f. Luis
Mora as his contribution to the work of
the league in caring for the children of
the men in service during the summer
montha.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08

about success. Help instead of crjti-
clsm would be so much more vital, so
much more convincing of the writer's
good will
In England tho men have given their
women political freedom even in war time
why?
Are American women to be ignored
while other countries recognize in war
time the connection between home JUS
tee and foreign justice? II Mrs. Car
yer, and others like her, would give as
much time to the understanding of this
mighty movement and struggle for the
enfranchisement of women as they do to
almlcss criticism, they would see that
the women suffering and working for
this great cause are at least willino TO
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08
Trade" Includes a Lot
OF Occupations

While it is true that this school does
not prepare directly for the so-caled war
occupations. it does train girls for the
essential trades which are being left with
gaping holes by the exit of women into
the more romantic work of making muni-
tions. The demands Of the machine
operating trades are so great that at the
present rate the school feels discouraged
by its inability to supply them. 1t
could place every trained worker ten
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08
A World Safe for Bows

menace to society and should be put out
Of his way.
This time. if he goes back to the book
and makes an earnest study of this COM
plex period, he will learn that this. too. is
temporary. And it, knowing this. he
should still insist that the dog should be
destroyed, as we apparently destroy our
adolescent boys who overdo their mani
festations at this stage Of DEVELOPMENT,
he should be catalogued with the man
who cut off the tail of his tadpole be-
cause he was in a hurry for frog.
If, instead of depending on the "knot
hole that is said to be in the psychic
fence between men and boys or the
'heaven-sent gift of intuitionr that is
supposed to be given to women, grown
ups should supplement their memories Of
childhood impulses with intuition and
knowledge gained by observation, they
could help the adolescent boy and raise
the standard of future citizenship But
this mission must be carried out intel-
gently, lest it SAVIOR of morbid philan.
thropy-which is as fatal as the ele
plants tenderness when she ATTEMPTED to
mother the Young birds after having
stepped on their mother.
Stealing, one of the adolescent traits
that has been considered the most trouble
some, arises from an instinct, the desire
Tor property, which has been and still is
useful. 1t is often so spontaneous and
superficial as not to be really half as
dangerous as selfishness or cowardice or,
as we so fully realize to-day, disoyalty.
1t is certainly not proper, but at the
same time it's powerful natural"
College boys have "hooked" without
rhyme or reason, country boys have
"swiped' and only got the seat of their
pants busted; but when the city boy
takes anything it is called stealing. and
the punishment is out Of all proportion
to the inherent sin
Most of us have grown up to be fairly
honest. some of US to degree. And yet
Henry W. Beecher said that the man who
asserts he has "never stolen ANYTHING
0oSho W De watched, Tor he IS stealing
now
Beecher "swiped" from the government
at the Charlestovn Navy Yard when he
was nineteen. Even The most ignorant
of us know something of the long life Of
usefulness he led afterward.
Electrocuting an adolescent is an an
achronism in this modern world What
ever may have been its moral uses in the
past stages Of human development, there
is growing protest in the common con
science of the people Of to-day. and there
is no doubt that we Will soon wonder with
lncredulous amaZement how We ever per-
mltted this crime against the human race
to be legalzed
This drag on the moral progress OF
humanity must go. The public revolt
against the sixteen year-old Paul Chap
man in the deathhouse signifies that the
day of its abolition is not far of. Why
not now?
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08

fabric for gloves was the only acceptable
one. Now, American manufacturers are
making experiments with these materials,
and gloves will hereafter be made here.
The present school has offered hereto
fore one year of training. With the new
facilities there will be added a two-year
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08

TEN miles from the firing line in
France the children are going to
school. In district that had
been ravaged by shells and guns, that
was held by the Germans up to the bat
tie Of the Somme last spring, and has
been retaken by them since, the period
of French dominion was a period of re-
construction. To understand what that
york meant one must realize what a
xaY-torn country is like after evacuation
by the enemy.
The land was laid waste Houses were
looted and destroyed. The only build
ings left standing were the churches. and
even these were robbed Of their bells;
church bells make good metal for ord
nance. Yet in these SCARED and barren
places the people barely had roofs over
their heads before they were converting
wooden baraques into 'sMairie- Ecoles."
In March, 1918, only four out Of fifteen
villages did not boast a school. A letter
written little over month ago from
a member of the Smith College Unit
paints the picture:
The teacher collected all the children
there are in this little town in tiny
shed which had formerly been a wood
shed. There is but one window and the
entire furniture consists Of two tables,
four long benches, an old desk and one
blackboard But in this barren spot one
energetic teacher has held school for
children who for three years have had
no schooling at all
'The children Of Verlaines walk two
miles to Eppeville to a school which
opened in November Both of these vii
lagos are quite near the front and the
children haven't gone without their gas
masks a single day. The longer I stay
in the midst Of this hideous war the
moro I am convinced of the need of con-
serving the children; for if they are
sacrificed the future will indeed be black.
After seeing the way tho youth Of
France and England has been wiped out
we have to face the fact that the same
price win undoubtedly be demanded Of
us. The only hops is IN tho next gener-
alton, and I would gladly sacrifice much
to save it.
The Writing ON the Wall
All the children of the Western world
are to-day children Of the shadow, living
under the laundering clouds of war. Fam
inc, cold and orphanage are the portion
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08
Housekeeping AS
A Profession"

While the major part of each dav !.
spent in direct trade training. numh.r
OF academic and cultural courses are mar.
Of the regular curriculum. Jncidentau,
the so-called womanly arts are not o,.s
gether neglected. Laundry, COOKING
serving, mending and general bom.
sense are incidental to the life of II.
school. The summer home of the schoo,
where each girl spends six weeks durina
the spring and summer, is the scene ~
most Of these domestic lessons. Il 10 :.
no way considered a part of the trad.
training, but is offered as helpful back.
ground for every girls life.
The National Woman Suffrage Asso.
citation stands squarely on a platform of
equal pay for equal work Experience
has proved that the greatest difficulty ;n
the application of this principle lies IN
the comparatively deficient training q.
women for the trades. To make the
party's announced programme consistent
1T will be necessary to supplement the
campaign for equal pay by campaign
for equal opportunity in trade training
The obvious lack of facilities for trade
training throughout the state will there
fore no longer remain matter of indif
ference. The Manhattan Trade School in
its new building, when properly equipped
and in action. will not only fill its own
timely function, but should serve also as
a model for other schools of a similar
nature in the near future.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08

her general health built up. No y;r, !.
placed until everything possible has bs.s -
done to make her physically fit. Glass..
are insisted upon when necessary b.s
teeth are attended to, and advice ~,
training given in matters of hygiene. Th;.
work is not Of the cursory nature! tsa.
SO often characterizes health work W;s
whole year in which to concentrate ~"
the problem of each girl. very radio,
improvement, often OF lifelong NM.
tance, is frequently effected
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08
Manhattan Trade Schools New
Building

Manhattan Trade Schools New
Building
course. In addition there will also be a
number of short courses for older women
which will enable not only graduates but
any girl from a trade to come in off
seasons and learn second trade. Girls
who learn the more seasonal trades are
always advised to do this in order to pro
vide against periods of unemployment
The school has always made provision
on small scale for girls who wished to
return for this purpose.
You Learn the Job
Then You Get 1t
Another type Of short course, as we'll
as other work, is conducted in coopcra-
ton with the Federal Employment Blu
reau, which in addition to the schools
own placement department forms con
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08
Petition for the Life Of Paul CHAPMAN

lfs WHITMAN
of New
L being
and
C ycneas
of hCpmans
frc rmiann
o h Chapman
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08

Meeting link with industry. In placing
older women who are for the first time
entering the industrial world the Fed
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08
The Writing ON the Wall

All the children Of the Western world
are to day children Of the shadow, living
under the laundering clouds of war. Fam
inc, cold and orphanage are the portion
Of the children Of Europe. Around the
hills Of Palestine hordes Of orphaned
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08

.EN miles from the firing line in
France the children are going to
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1918-11-02
LA CAMPANA UNIDA
LAS QUOTAS DE LAS MUNICH
PALIDt.DES
Ell COMITE DE SAN JUAN.

Ell CONIITE DE SAN JUAN.
Sc ha comentado mucho ell entu-
siasmo conque Sc llev6 a cabo Ia
Asamblea que Sc celebr6 ell San
Juan ell martes. La noble actitud
de los delegados de las tres ciuda-
des que sufrieron mas debido a
los temblores de terra, quienes no
aceptaron la ayuda ofrecida por
San Juan, en- dividir sus Quotas,
nos ha causado muy buena i'm
preston.
Ell Comite de San Juan va esta
nombrado. Ell Alcalde r. Fl.
Todd, ha aceptado la presidencia.
Este comite y ell comite ejecutivo
de la Campana sigue. Los apor-
cionamientos de las municipalities
DIES y los nombres de los represen-
tativos.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1918-11-02

Ctras comisiones Sc mueven
actiyamente con el mismo fin be-
nGfico.
La generosidad dc Guayama "a
a ser pnesta, una vez mas, a prue,
ba.
-Hace va algiln tempo que Ia
ofcina de correos de este pueblo
psta sill cartero.
SPiensa el senior POSTMASTER"
continuar asi por mucho tempo? =?
-Uno de los barrios en- que Sc
ha in9crito mas ntmoro de reclu-
tas de 18 45 amos, ha sido el
barrio Guamani.
-El cine Americana dara mu;
en- brave, una 1unci6n a bencficio
de la Home Guard de este pne
bio.
Con- el fin de ingresar en- el
cuerpo dc estudiantes militares de
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1918-11-02
1 Total
c.. D. ELPHICK,
Consul Britanico.
LOS TERREMOTOS EN- Ell
OESTE Y LA REUNION DE LA
ASAMBLEA.

En- nuestra aspiration de infor
mar ampliamente al ptlblico acer-
ga del prop6sito sustentado de reu-
air la Asamblea Legislative, para
tratar de poner remedio, en- la ex-
tension mas grande possible, a los
anormes dailos causados por los
temblores de terra en- ell Oeste de
la Isla, y de la forma en- que debe
remediarse ell NAL, uno de nuestros
2edactores ha celebrado entrevis-
as, que empezaremos publican
desde ell lunes con los miembros
mas distinguidos de la Asamblea.
Para ese proximo dia, nos compla-
cemos en- anunciar la intervin
celebrada, acerca de tan importan-
te asunto, con ell Senador Lcdo.
Feli1, a quien hemos dado la pre-
ferencia por representa- la parte
de la Isla que mas ha sufrido con
los terremotos.
Y a las opiniones del seilor Fe-
lii, seguiran las del Presidente del
Senado, Lcdo. Barcel6, Y demas
altos miembros de 10 Legislature.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1918-11-02
eIgaiNO,TAS DE GUAYAMA

.9eConyccados per el senior Ramon
B.sAIartin, Sc reunieron, ell in
farmacia. de este, treinta y dos
smiemh..s de la Logia Union, de
lcsta, 5oirdad, con el fin de nombrar
una eomisi6n y arbitrar fondos
para las victimas de los terremotos.
Entire los concrrrentes Sc reu-
nieron 131 dolares, y la comision
guedo formada por los senores ii
guientes: don Eduardo Ne Cor
mick, don Y. A. Lopez Acos+a,
doctoraFrancis G.. Bruno, don Emf
'io.Rat'sta y Ell icenciado Ramon
B. Martin, nombrado tesorero.
La comisi6n dio comienzo su
trabajo seguidamente hizo mon
tar. la susaripci6n a SCI d0lares,
que fneron remitidos en- la logia
Soberana de Puerto Rico.