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SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1914.
PUBLICITY OR PRISON REFORM
■ The controversy between Attorney
General McReynolds and Solicitor
Folk of the Interstate Comment;
Commission over calling Mr. Mellon
to testify before the commission
arose over the question whether -it
were preferable to let a prominent
participant in the New Haven scandal
win immunity from personal punish
ment by making a clean breast of
the whole story of mismanagement
for the moral effect upon future bus
iness.
Attorney tienerai juciieyuuius re
lieved that the Department of Jus
tice would be able to get all the facts
and use them in the criminal prose
cution of Mr. Mellen and others. So
licitor Folk believed that the public
ity of all .the inside details of the
New Haven would have a more last
ing and saluutary effect than a long
drawn code. Mr. Mellen admitted on
the witness stand that he had been
the "goat,” even a willing one, and
Solicitor Folk took the position that
it was better to use Mr. Mellen as
an instrument for acquainting the
public with all the facts, leaving the
criminal prosecutions, if there are to
be any, to be dTected against "The
Men Higher Up.”
The common warrant of this view
is that these misbehaviors Ipf big
business have so long been classified
among the venial crimes that are
condoned when they succeed, and
condemned only when they fail. That
view still prevails so far in public
opinion, that it is almost impossible
to get a jury conviction of men
brought to personal trial for corpor
ate offenses. It is much easier to
warn investors, stockholders, lend
ers and directors so as to make such
operations harder in the future.
A better warrant is the puzzling
lassitude of congress in strengthen
ing the power of the Interstate Com
merce Commission to supervise all
railroad financing and to require com
plete publicity of administrative as
well as operating accounting. Pub
licity that would sting congress into
this protection for the future would
be worth more to the public than
the conviction and sentence of many
railroad officials. Even without new
legislation the effects are likely to
be such as to bring about permanent
reform.—Ex.
THE ARMY IN ALASKA.
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In the development of Alaska the
army of the United States has played
no small part. The spell and the
lure of the great northland brought
to these shores the pioneers of an
early days to travel over a trailless
expanse of land. Forbidding and ter
rible in its majesty stood Alaska,
seeming to defy the puny efforts of
man to tame it or to uncover its re
sources of mineral wealth. Following
the tap of the prospector's hammer
came the march of soldier’s of Uncle
Sam. As the world wondered at the
news of Alaska’s wealth and the years
told the story of Fairbanks and of
Nome, of Iditarod and Valdez, the
men of the army of the United States
developed and maintained through
different portions of the territory a
system of government roads and
trails, of which we are justly proud.
No longer do we have to watch the
distant horizon for the sight of the
steamboat bringing the news of the
world outside, but the United States
army cable brings us the news with
each returning day. Over the hills
and through the passes stretch the
government roads and trails; from
town to town and under seas the ca
ble binds us to each other and the
outside world.. We appreciate the
army. We Alaskans know that midst,
the cannons road and the rattle of
the musketry the soldier can main
tain the honor of Old Glory, but we
Alaskans also know that in the si
lence of the north, on trail or on tele
graph line* he can still render a great
service, to his counutry in the nobler
arts of peace.
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Even when they move in the best
circles some people are always try
ing to square themselves.
MOST NEEDFUL
KINO OFTRAMING
Elementary Schooling Is Mora
Practical Titan Specialization.
STRIKING FACTS REVEALED.
Sags Foundation Educators Report
Results of Investigation In Twenty
eight American Cities—Find That
About Half the Boys Will Leave
Home Cities to Earn Livelihoods.
With a view of determining how to
fit school courses to the needs of pupils
after leaving school, the division of ed
ucation of the Sage foundation has
made a study of all boys of thirteen
years of age in the public schools of
twenty-eight American cities. One
hnlf of the thirteen-year-old boys in
the public schools are in grades of the
first six years of the elementary
schools, and that age wus fixed upon
for the purposes of the investigation as
being the last year of compulsory
school attendance. The results of the
investigation are reported by Director
Leonard P. Ayres in the Elementary
Schoolteacher.
One of the first facts learned about
the thirteen-year-old pupils was that
they were scattered through all grades
of the school course from kindergarten
to the last year of high school. More
significant still, it was found that half
of them were in the sixth grade or be
low. This fact was regarded as Im
portant, since in general the children
who drop out of school earliest are
those who are retarded seriously and
are found in the lower grades at ad
vanced ages. These are the boys who
must leave school soon to go to work
with an educational preparation inade
quate to fit them for the ranks of in
dustry with profit eltlier to themselves
or the community.
“Another point brought out by this
investigation,” says the report, “was
that there is a wide range of conditions
in the various cities. In those making
the poorest showing scarcely one in
ten of these thirteen-year-old boys was
in the seventh grade or above, while
in the cities ut the other end of the
list eight boys out of every ten were
In sight of completing the common
school course.
General Schooling More Important.
"The lesson in these figures is that
in many cities the problem of securing
a reasonably complete elementary
schooling for all the children is far
more pressing than that of instituting
specialized industrial training.
“The next set of data obtained gives
the birthplaces of these boys and their
fathers. The inquiry showed that only
about one father in six is now living
in the city of his birth, and that among
the boys only a few more than one-half
are now living where they were born.
These facts are significant because it
is often urged that the schools should
develop courses of industrial training
that will directly prepare the children
to enter the local industries. But if
present conditions maintain in the fu
ture the great majority of adults are
not going to work in the same com
munities in which they receive their
schooling.”
The occupations of the fathers were
studied in the hope that they might
furnish a sort of index as to the life
work that the. young people ■ now' in
the schools muy be expected to choose.
“One surprising fact shown by the
returns,” the report says, “is that only
about one-balf of these men are found
in tbe industries of transformation,
whlcb Include the building trades and
all classes of manufacturing. This is
important, because plans for inaugu
rating systems of vocational training
are commonly based on the proposi
tion that a large majority of the young
people in our city schools will find their
life work in these Industries.
Professional Workers In the Load.
“More of these men are engaged in
professional, work than are engaged in
unskilled labor. The group of man
agers, superintendents and proprietors
Is practically as lurge as that made up
of semiskilled laborers. The mental
workers constitute more than one-third
of all the workers.
“In American cities of 50,000 popula
tion and above there are twenty ‘con
stant occupations’ in which the num
ber of workingmen is everywhere at
least equal to one for each thousand
of population, and seven ’constant oc
cupations’ In which the number of
women workers is at least equal to one
In each 1,000 population.
“®ther conditions being equal, voca
tional education aud vocational guid
ance may well consider favoring ‘con
stant occupations’ over, -localized ones."
BURN SILK BEFORE BUYING.
University Course Telle How-to Tell if
Fabrio U Pure.
Why did your last year’s silk split
and crack?
Because It ftas adulterated.
You might have tested It-easily be
fore purchasing nod saved both monef
and worry.
A piece of silk and & match are all
you need for the test Light the match
and .apply it to the fabric--- If it holds
Its shape the silk Is adulterated with
some of the various minerals So used.
If It runs together In s puffy mass the
silk Is pure. ‘ • 1 n. '
This is one' of the tests given in tbs
new correspondence course in fabrics
offered by the extension division at the
University of Wisconsin.
STATE A PARTNER
IN MOTHERHOOD
Plan Which 30,000 English
Working Women Are Urging.
A BIG BOON FOR THE POOR.
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Would Put a Bounty on Births and In
sure the Best of Medical Care -For
Parent and Child—Women Sanitary
Inspectors and Health Visitors Are
Reducing Infant Mortality.
Describing the national maternity
policy which 30,(XX) working women
are urging upon the English govern
ment the London Times says:
The policy proposed by the Women's
Co-operutive guild, briefly stated, is to
link up the state with the home and
the municipality In a health service
which shall secure that all maternity
care and the care of children up to
school age shall be organized under
one authority — namely, the public
health authority.
It would place within the reach of
working women-all the aids which sci
ence and common sense show to be
necessary to safeguard the health of
mother and child. It would become
the agency on behalf of the state for
administering the maternity and preg
nancy sickness benefits, and these
would be so augmented as to be the
right of all mothers whose income was
under the $800 limit
Cash For Every Child Born.
The guild suggests that a graut
equivalent to a sum of $40 for every
child born should be made by the state.
Under the guild’s scheme there would
be a local public health maternity de
partment which would evolve a sys
tem of maternity centers out of the
infant consultations now in existence.
There are now bands of woman san
itary inspectors and health visitors
who give advice as to the health of
persons in the home and to whose val
uable work the lessening of. infant
death rates is mainly due.
Advice in the homes has naturally
led to further developments. Milk
depots have been .started in various
districts. And, most encouraging of
all, In about fifty towns municipalities
are acting as pioneers in the establish
ment of municipal infant consultations.
In Bradford two voluntary “schools
for mothers”—an unfortunate name, as
the important features of such institu
tions are skilled advice and treatment
suited to individual cases—have beeu
taken over by the municipality.
About 500 infants are seen and
weighed weekly, individual diets are
prescribed and dried milk, foods, emul
sions, etc., supplied. A woman doctor,
with a staff of nurses and assistants,
presides over the work. A large new
building is nearly completed, which
will provide a milk depot, infant con
sultations and an observation ward.
Birmingham’s Fight For Babies.
In Birmingham the part of the town
showing the highest infant mortality
has been divided into five districts, in
each of which two rooms form a mu
nicipal consulting center for mothers
and Infants, attended by a woman doc
tor. A municipal health visitor also
visits in the homes to see that the di
rections are properly carried out.
In Sheffield infant consultations are
held during five afternoons in the
week, and a paid doctor and his wife,
not on the municipal staff, are employ
ed. Dried milk is sold at cost price,
and. patterns .of infant clothes are sold
at a penny.
BLUEJACKETS AS EDITORS.
Man of th# Arkansas 8ing Praiaaa of
8hlp In Print.
Tbe enlisted men of tbe super-Dread
nought Arkansas bare Issued the first
of the navy's annuals, a finely Illustrat
ed book. The contributors are' the
1,000 bluejackets and marines who
make up the enlisted personnel of tbe
great ship.
The book con talus stories of the
achievements of the big fighter. In
her first year she was chosen for spe
cial duties, such ns taking President
Taft tQ and from Panama, and being
special escort of tbe Brazilian battle
ship Minas Geraes. bearing Brazil’s
foreign minister. Dr. Muller. Then fol
low tbe story of how the Arkansas
broke the coaling record when she took
on board 587 tons of coal In an hour;
her speed runs when off Rockland, Me.,
when she made nearly twenty-two
knots an hour, and the story of how
tbe men of No. 4 of tbe six big twelve
Inch turrets broke tbe world’s record
nt target practice.
The annual also tells all about the
athletic prowess of the sailors of the
Arkansas. Her baseball team won
eight games and lost one in tbe New
port series, and her basketball team
won tbe championship of tbe Dread
nought division of tbe Atlantic fleet
•" "Wool Mad* to Look Lika P«r.
Wool which makes' up to resemble
fur is’a new idea being shown ih Lon
don. The wool‘ does not look any dif
ferent from ordinary wooL bat after
the garment is made when it is-brush
ed vigorously a furry surface appears.
Hard brushes are sold with the .furry
wool skeins. A manufacture* states
that after washing tbe garments retain
their furry appearance. Wool Is grow
ing deatet. fcayrtbe London Dally Mlr
tor. one reason for this being the huge
Quantities that go Into the American
markets.
Cleaning Up
We are cleaning up the following
lines, at greatly reduced prices, to
make room for new stock.
We are offering Ladies’ Raincoats, Auto-coats and
Capes, which were selling for $6.00 and $6.50, for
$1.50.
Men's fancy Cravenette rain-proof coats, for
merly sold for $15 to $20, now selling at $10.
Men's High-Top Shoes in Standard
makes at greatly reduced prices.
This is'an opportunity you should not miss.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKER1LLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
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