v1 o o liLb UMAtlA ftLiNDAl Biib: DtiLtiMBiuK 14, lUJd. TRAINIKG HAND AND HEAD Defects in Present System of Public School Education. TRADE SCHOOLS A NECESSITY Mlaie West Wortullr Backward In . ProTldtna Pacllltlts for rmc tlcal Life Work of Children, Addressing the convention of the Stato Teachers' association, when In session last month, President J3. Holovtchlner of the Omaha Board of Education spoke In part aa follows: "America Is one of the countries where compulsory education Is a fixed law, and there Is no going back on It, never. It anything, we are going- further In the matter and are prolonging and widening the compulsion, fixing the minimum of school attendance at a higher age. "But how Is our law enforced? Do we lire up to tho tetter of tho law as the framers Intended us to doT let us an alysa and see. "We havo in the United States about 2r.,W.KO children of school ago. Of this number SO.OQO.OOO. or fO per cont, are en rolled In the public and prlvaUj schools. Of these only H.OM.000, or 68 per cent, are In dally attendance. In other words, Jl.OOO.000 children, or it per cent; art either Incapacitated from attending schools or neglectfully miming In the streets, Instead of attending classes. These figures are not fictitious, but of ficial. They are given out by tho United States commissioner of education. j "In Germany leas than 3 per cent of the total number of children are not In schools, and .01 per cent are Illegally kept away from school. In England and AVaJes, conditions are as deplorable as In the United Btate. Out of M.000.000, J ,100,080. or 15 per cent, are attending neither day nor night schools. The re ports from Canada show no better con dltlons. The compulsory education law Is net rigidly enforced. "But the expenditure of the vast amount of money for educational pur poses Is constantly going on, no matter whether we have the full quota of chil dren la schools or not The United States In JM9 spent JW3.000.06O for education of chlMrcn In our elementary schools. la the Money Waste T "New let us see what wo achieve for the vaat fortune spent by the taxpayers for the education of tho children In the seoowtary schools or high schools. From statistics, we gather that Jn America no more than 70 per cent aro entering our secondary or high schools. About 80 per cent are lost, strayed and not found after graduating from tho grades. Now why do we lose so many children from our terimary schools? Ib it the fault of our educational system, or are there other causes responsible for the deplorable slate of affalrs7 "I think that after studying the condi tion -we must admit that both the educa tional system and other-Influences ' are responsible for (he conditions prevailing. "But economic- conditions in the country are such that It ! not the lack of pro fessionals from which we aro suffering, but we are short of hands to conduct our Industrlee which ara growing enormously. There is a famine of skilled mechanics of every variety, aad tho few that wo hare are not proficient enough to com pt Willi the foreign skilled mechanic. The development of our Industries, thee creating of high grade productive enter prises, demand Intelligent workers In large numbers, and where are we to oW tain them? The growing Interest, ana the Inereasing Hterature on vocational train ing, Indicates a new attitude in the train In of our youth. Oae-Thlril Untrained. Tho 70 per cent of our children who graduate from our publto schools, and are entering the academic high school are well provided for future demands. But how about the 30 per cent who do not continue their education, and are tost to the community because they are either not fit for academic work,- or hare no de sire or means to continue the academie education for which the high nchool Is Preparing them? It Is evident that we must provide some vehicle by which to give them the kind of Instruction they most require and which will meet the eeonotHlc"cT5ndltloha W8"tnUt devise a plan whereby the work in the elementary sohools shall be to train the hand ss welt as the mind. In order to meet this re quirement, manual training was Installed. But Is It a complete success? Does It remedy conditions? Do we have a better attendance? Do more children attend school on fewer drop out? I am sorry to say the results are not such as to brag about I nver was enthused with the manual training course as It Is taught In our graded schools. I was always of the Impression that the results hardly Justified tho expenditures. "We first found manual training In stalled In our high school and from there It sort of drifted Into the grade schools. In the high school, manual training was introduced as a by-play, sort of a di version from the drudgery of the classi cal or Intellectual studies, 'or aa a stim ulus In the Intellectual efforts of the boy and girl, without regard to the In dustrial end of It, and In) such status It is doomed to failure. As Superintend ent Maxwell of New York says: The attempt to neparato manual training from Industrial training would prove n, dismal failure.' "Through manual training we ore able to discover those who have any aptitude for mechanical pursuits, and separato them from those who are Inclined to other vocations. Two different and dis tinct types of schools and schooling aro needed. The academlo where general ed ucation Is given with the ultimate view of preparing the boy or girl for profer- sloriat career, and the Industrial, techni cal, mechanical, trade school, or call It what you may, for the purpose or giving tho boy a training that will fit him to enter life with something to make him a bread-winner, a productive and self supporting cltlsen aa soon as he leaves school. Mnual training, which waa intro duced In our schools a decade and a half ago, had this ultimate training In view, but like any other Innovation It had to bo experimented with, and go througn the process of evolution by stages until the scheme has gradually perfected and developed Itself Into a system which stands out prominently In our educa tional world today In the form of vo cational schools. The evolutionary stages haa y no means easy or smooth sailing; even to day the minds and views of educators are by no means unanimous aa to tho ultimate plans of Industrial training. Nerdfal Helps. "Which academlo courses should be of fered the boys, how to divide tho nerlods. what methods to apply, the length of the school day, all these things should' be left to the educators, or su perintendent cf Instruction In each local ity. We will bump up against the same obstacle as wo do In the grade school, although not to such an extent, and that Is- truanco or dropping out before tho completion of tho course. Laws will have to be provided to pronimi snops irum taking In boys before they are through with school, or labor unions should re fuse the boy admission to the ranks ot the union, unless ho has a certificate ot his completion in tho vocational school. "Some fear Is expressed that technical or trade schools will In a measure lead to tho absndontng of the academlo work. I think there Is absolutely no occasion for alarm. In thp first place, academlo work should never be excluded. On tho contrary, It 'should be Insisted upon, only la a different way. These schools should net be looked upon as a refuge, or as an asylum for mentally deficient. Brains are aa necessary for trade work aa for professionals, and ladustrlal students should be cultured as welt as students In academlo high schools. As President El liot said: 'If a man practice black smithing studiously, or agriculture thoughtfully, he Is getting oulture.' "DoMbt has also been expressed as to securing pupils for these' schools. I think Now going on Christmas Fair of the Churches in th court of th BEE BUILDING "Mere beautiful and larger than ever before" is tho expression of all who have seen tho bazaar in progress. Tho hoantifully and tastefully decorated Court is thronged daily with visitors who aro finding many pleasing bargains in fancy goods, linenB, hand made wearing apparel and other usoful and ornamental Christmas offerings, whilo tho homo cooking and tho candies aro boyond description. Have you seen it? Just think, 28 churches are interested in this an nual event. Tho ladies need your help and encourage ment and you can find relief from tho cares of further Christmas shopping in the many suggestions to bo found here. Nw and complete stocks every two days. Tke churches selling Monday and Tuesday: XXBXSEHOS nunBin . &Uteran Jar. Clare BnUls. 28 Sa Taylor vr am (sttoWWU VressyUriam. . . JCrs. Matthsw Xtlltr. 4143 Qrant. .W.6013 , 6eas Otaa ot Social SsKUauutUca V. Bacaaaaa. 1330 So. 34ta. .JE. 30 6e4at Park Cfeafregatlonal. .Mrs, Thompson, 3311 Auts Ave. . W. 3131 All are welcome that all such doubt will be dispelled by Investigating the number of technical schools now In existence and the growing demand for them all over this country and the world at large. On my recent visit to the east for the purpose of In vestigating the technical high schools. 1 was astounded to find the number ot technical sohools In operation, and the additional number In the course of con struction. In Chicago they are adding two gigantic technical high schools to the number already established. The same condition I found In Buffalo, Detroit and Cleveland. In the latter city, Industrial education Is at Its senlth. No city in the United States Is doing as much for In dustrial education as Cleveland, and tho demand Is growing to such an extent there, that the new West Technical High school, which Is only two years old, finds Itself Inadequate to accommodate the ap plicants. fllarna of the Times. Take our own little Industrial school here In Omaha, which Is only an ex periment We fitted up a school with two rooms for about twenty deficient boys. Forty normal boys have nlrnutv applied, and next year I venture to say -TO will, knock at Uie door of our little Industrial school house, and this little school Is not a high school cither. It is Intended for boys up to and including the eighth grade. I predict that If Omaha should establish n. torhnl today, we would have 1,000 pupils In It at the end of Its first year. Our academic High school and the High School of Com- merce tono up about iO per cent of all tho children who graduate from thn 1a. mentary schools. Sixty per cent are lost to us and a good mnnv of the Co nr renf would flock to a technical high school, It we had one. They havo no desire to enter the academic high school, do not relish our commercial courses, and would undoubtedly take to trades, If tho oppor tunlty were offered them In a public technical high school. 'Technical high schools are needed In this country and are needed badly. Ger many. Which runkn tilvhor than e nv other country In the world for Its schools, universities, academies, etc., Is also lead ing wun its industrial schools. It Is' abundantly supplied with thetn. and lis mechanics nm rmimlAA , t. n .1 for their skill, culture and Intelligence in Sweden, industrial or technical edu cation Is likewise a prominent feature. and Its mochanlcs rank among tho high est In tho old world. No wonder that the foreign mechanic Is riven rrfnrni In this country before the American. i think wo In Nebraska are a good many years behind In this branch of education for our bnvs nnit irlrl. Cnm. paring Omaha and Nebraska with other ciuos ana states in the union, we find that tho east and tho extreme west aro full of technical schools, with hardly a City of any IraDortnncn th rinnn nni mv. at least one technical high nchool.- But the middle west, and especially Nebrnska, Is painfully neglectful In this branch of epucauon. Modtil Teelinlrnl Sellout. "The Cleveiond Technical High school In my Judgment Is tho model of any technical schools I have seen. The pre dominant Idea Is to train boys for tho Industrial end of it, and girls to make them good housewives, Intelligent mothors and usoful women. The courso In the Clevelnnd Tcohntcal High school for girls Is elaborate. Tho girls aro taught house keeping, to sweep, clean and make beds. Laundries ot the modern type are estab lished where the girls are taught to wash scientifically, Beforo she Is put to the washtub, she must take one-halt year In chemistry, so as not to ruin the clothes, as It Is done In our steam laundries. Cooking Is also taught scientifically. Sew ing, dressmaking, millinery- work, etc., are the chief subjects ot the training. The buy pupils are specialized In pattern making, cabinet making, forging, foun dry, machine shop, drafting, machine de sign, architectural drawing, structural drawing, electrical construction, chemis try, printing, designing, applied art, au tomobile repairing and agriculture. "Now, I am no educator; I make no pretense to being one; In fact, I am a physician by profession, but knowing the value ot education In tho struggle for life, I am vitally Interested In tho ad vancement of education In this country. I would like to tee this land ot ours lead the world Mi education, aa It does In other matters, and If In the capacity of a member ot the Board of Education I nan do my little part to help It along, my mission will havo been ful filled. "It Is up to us as members ot the Board of Education to Insist that modern and up-to-date methods be applied In our schools, to give our young genera tion alt the opportunities and chances of making good, honorable. Intelligent and self-supporting cltlsens. No expense should be spared to make our schools and educational Institutions models to which the world would point as exam plea. Our schools today are of the high est type, so acknowledged by foreign educators, who are visiting our shores from time to time. But we must not rest content because our schools are on a high plane. There Is room for Im provement We are behind and far out. distanced In vocational education In our publla schools. This kind ot education lis holding the center ot the stage Just I now all over' the world. "Wo In Nebraska must get In the game or wo will be outdistanced, out played and left behind. Can we afford It? Can we let the procession go by? I Nebraska boasts of being one of the states where Illiteracy Is at the lowes ebb, having less Illiterates than any stats in the union. Can we afford to lag In Industrial education? It Is up to us as members ot the Board of Education to meet this problem in all seriousness and ! sincerity and remedy what Is today the ; most deficient feature of our educational j system. The young generation Is de I msndlng It of us and we must give heed i to that demand. We must establish I technical schools in Nebraska and keep aoreast or tne times." desert alive with serpents, ghosts and hideous monsters and swayed by Intoler able heat and thirst Every people pick ing out their own hell the type ot place that seemed to them the most un pleasant, and It was but natural that the Egyptian hell should have been a desert thirsty, hot and snake-strewn. The Hindus also preached a monster filled hell paved with glowing coals as beset with pits of bubbling, boiling oIL A 'bed of fire and food consisting of mol ten metal were side features of this. In Assyria It was believed the souls of sinners lived on dry dust In a black cav ern and sometimes flitted back to earth as vampires. The Chinese believed there were no less than six hells of varying horrors. On the red-hot floor of one of these crawled deadly scorpions. The Greeks and Bomans told of a dark, gloomy place far under the earth, where sinners performed var ious wearisome feats, such as baling out the sea with a sieve or forever rolling a huge rock up hill, etc Old Omar Khayyam waa apparently al most tho only man of ancient days to voice so modern a theory as "My soul returned to me and answered, 'I myself am heaven and belli' " The Scandinavians feared an Icebound, pitch black region where wolves ravened and serpents stung. The ancient Hebrew writers declared hell was m.000,000 times as large as this earth surely a commo dious and roomy dwelling place for a whole worldful of sinners, and arranged with the expectation of a large popula tion. The early English bcllved in a hell al ternately horribly hot and bitter cold and this before Chicago's climate was known. The Moslems, through tho Koran, are told of a hell full of "flameless smoke and smokeless flame," whose Inmates shall bo dragged Into hell by their fore locks and their feet and there shall bo cut out for them garments of fire." These are but a few of the more vivid and lurid conceptions of a place ot tor ment for evildoers. With huch horrors over before them, It is a wonder all the world's Inhabitants were not scared into goodness centuries ago. New Tork World. With the Home Builders Trust Company Has Many Eelations The trust company and Its relations is a subject concerning which a book could bo written. It is surprising, howovor, that there are no toxtbooks devoted to this subject. A trust company Is a body corporate, personifying alt that Is ideal in man-of confidence. Integrity, Justice, honesty and reliability. Primarily its ro tation Is 4o tho confidence ot man; and, secondarily to execute the commissions confided in It, for a reasonable profit. Trust companies aro the creatures of modern statutes. Thoy supply a want that has oxisted from the early ages. Since tho time that man first began to ac cumulate property desire to create trusts or to handle his property through tho agenay of another, ho" has been de pendent upon his friends, until tho trust company was created by law. In the olden days It a man desired to placo bin prop erty In trust for another or to bequeath his property for tho benefit of some per son and not preserve the original Invest ment Intact, or otherwise- handle his prop erty by means ot a trustee, it became necessary for him to select some friend or relation In whom he placed sufficient confidence. Frequently this confidence waa misplaced; the friend was not al ways worthy of trust then, too, the friend' dies, thereby vacating the trust and requiring the appointment ot a suc cessor through other means. In other In stances the friend would misapply the fund,- appropriating them to his own, use, and otherwise betray his trust; and the property having been wasted, the pur poses of tho trust Imposed upon him would fall, and the friend not being financially responsible, tho property thus entrusted to htm might never be recov ered. In a sense the trust company Is an In corporated friend, stripped, as nearly and carefully as rigid law can, of the possi bility ot tho betrayal of the trust or tho loss of the property entrusted to It Thus It Is that the state of Nebraska, through the wisdom ot Its lawmakers, has safe guarded the Interest of the man who places his confidence In a trust company, not alone by doublo reliability upon the stock owned by the stockholders In such a company, but by frequent audita of the company's condition by the state auditor; and, too, by defining by law, specifically and plainly, the powtrs, duties and obit gutlons to this class of corporations. TIMELY REAL ESTATE GOSSIP Horn Clears $10,000 in Two and One-Half Years. ON OLD PAT FORD PROPERTY Many Investors In Omaha Have Bendy Money, lint All Are' on the I.nokont for Soft Snaps. I OMAHA. NEBRASKA. K I MELTING POT OR ICE HOUSE Ouerr Ideas Reirardlnir Tempernturo of Place ot Future Pun-Ishment. Many tribes or nations since the world began havo had no religious idea at all of a heaven. But there Is, perhaps, a well-defined, not to say lurid, notion of hell. And these ideas of hell ot hades, ot sheoL'of the place of punishment are as aried aa the names It goes by. Apart from the theory ot a burning pit if brimstone full ot Tomltlng, screaming souls, who must burn forever, there have been dozens of others. Oddly enough, people who live In south ern countries have always Inclined to a belief In a red-hot hell, while among the Eskimos and other Arctic races the no on ot hell Is a place of utter and un "ellsved cold, where persons who have lth difficulty fought off cold throughout heir mortal Uvea must endure horrible, cy chills throughout all eternity. In ancient Egypt hell was painted u a GIVING THE LAWYERS A RUN Pittsburgh Churches Asked to Disci pline Members Who Take Liquor Cases, Bev. George W. Shelton, chairman of the Union committee on temperance ot the Protestant churches ot the Pitts burgh district, sent letters to Ihe minis ters of 415 churches asking them to have the church law on the subject of liquor selling enforced against lawyers. The letters was read from the pulpits of tho great majority ot these' churches Sun day morning. lawyers, who represent saloon keepers In their applications for licenses and who are members ot churches may be de prived of their membership. It Is pro posed that the church law shall be en forced, and at least half a dozen promi nent members ot the bar are likely to be "churched'1 unless they consent to retrain from this kind of practice. It la proposed to deal gently with them at first, and It they wish to avoid the notoriety ot a ohurch trial, all they will have to do will be to give their word to keep out of license court. It was not generally known until the present religious upheaval Inaugurated Just how far tho church law goes In Its outlawry of the liquor business. Accord ing to the discipline of the Presbyterian church any member who signs en appli cation for license, gives a bond for a liquor dealer, owns stock In a .brewery or distillery, or as attorney represents a liquor dealer In securing a license. may be disciplined. A case haa recently been decided by the general assembly, the highest authority ot the Presbyterian church. In which a member appealed agaust his church session tor not doing lis duty in this respect and waa sus tained, and the Presbytery having Juris diction of the matter Instructed to have It attended to. Pittsburgh Dispatch. Serious Iace rations and wounds are healed, without dangar ot blood poisoning, by Buckltn's Arnica Salve, the healing wonder. Only 25c For sale by your druggist Advertisement The safety of Investment In real estate In Omaha's business districts is nowhere perhaps better Illustrated than In the i case of Nathan Horn, who two and aj half years ngo bought ot Harry Wolf the I old Pat Ford property at Tenth and , Davenport streets for $16,000. When Wolf i appeared for luncheon at the meeting of the Real Estate exchange that day and told ot the deal the members accused him of being a sinner for selling property i so high to his own personal friend. i "Where do you expect to go when you d'.e?" they nrked him. "Hov can you do ' Uose things to your own friends?" I Horn had confidence in Omaha prop erty and ho held tight That was Just two and one-half years ago. In the ; meantime property has Increased In value. . Hie wholesale district has beep filling up more and more. Tho produce commission houses became crowded for rcom. Then came tho day when Horn turned the property well. The Jerpe Commission company needed ground for a new location. In casting about It found this property and wanted It It had tho money and was willing to pay the prlco. It did not take long. And when the deal was closed Horn had cleared $8,000 on the sale, to say nothing of the $2,000 he had received In rent In something over two years. Investor Out far Hnnps, "Everybody Is looking for a snap In real estato Just now," said a real estate dealer. 'Thcro Is scarcely a snap to be had In the city. X find any amount ot buyers who have from $1,000 to $18,000 of ready money to Invest, but they still aro hard to make a deal with because they are looking for snaps. They find plenty of property that Is worth tho money, but they hold back, for they are looking for something that Is worth a great deal more than Is nsked for It They are all looking for something that will clear thorn a few thousand In a year or two." This In the complaint of a great many real estato men at the present time. They hold that money Jiaa been mado so readily in Omaha real estato In tho last fow years and In fact for a considerable time, that many buyers aro In the field, but that they are more and more beginning to look for a sure snap, ono about which there cannot bo tho shallow of a doubt The fact that a few of the bolder spirits in the past years have made large sums of money by plunging In and taking a chance lias fired the Imaginations of a lot of other would-bo speculators who havo not quite tho kidney of a real plunger, and consequently would like to liavn someono sell them a place ana give a guaranteo of sudden Increase with tho deed. nnon Jt Carmlchael announce that Mnntelalr. the new addition which they aro gottlng ready for the market be tween Cuming and Hamilton ana iwn-ty-nlnth and Thirty-third streets, Is now iinveioned sufficiently so that an Intel ligent Idea can be formed ot what It will look like when entirely iinisnea. Over 200,000 yards of earth have been moved, transforming the old Crelghton farm Into a beautiful addition. Tho work being done on this addition is along the lines approved by the Clvlo Improvement league, which Is that all property and streets bo put to grade when platted so that purchasers will be assured when buying that no changes ot grade will bo mado later, resulting In damage to their property. Reasonable restrictions as to cost ot houses, etc, will bo placed on the entire addition, thus assuring all purchasers of a high class neighborhood. At the same time there Is to be a wide range or prices for the lots, so that those with limited means also will be eligible. Cement walks are to be laid In nil streets, A part of these are now In. A comnleto system of city water and sewer Is now being Installed throughout the entire tract Every lot will have sewer, water and cement walks without future special taxes to the buyer. 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