Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 30, 1887, Page 8

CHARITIES AND CORRECTION. Soveral Interesting Papers on Practical and Important Bubjeots, SOME PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS “The Reclamation of Children of “hildren,” by Rev. Mr. Dana— Child-Saving Work—Children of Bhinbone Alley. Yesterday Morning's Se n, The members of the conference of charitics and correction assembled yes- terday morning shortly after 9 o'clock. Congratulation were exchanged and all seemed pleased with the progress being made and with their Sunday spent in Omaha. There are a great many in at- tendance who were at the annual confer- ences for several years past, There is a notable vacaney in the Illi- nois delegation, which was filled by a distinguished American tourist, now in- specting the corrective institutions of Canada. When the conference dssem- bled in the senate chamber in St. Paul last year Warden McGarrigle, then of Chicago, made an eloquent address, in which he pictured the methods in use in the Cook county hospital. Dr. Arthur B. Ancker, city and county physician ot St. Paul and Rawsay county, says it would be unfur and unreasonable to expect McGarrigle to attend the conference this year, but if he had attended he could furnish a valuable fund of information on the apprehension and detention of the criminal classes. Bishops Whipple and Ireland, who were active participants in last year's discussions, were expected in Omaha, but have not as yet urpearud. Mrs. Dins- moor will especially remember Bishop Ireland, on account of the pleasant, yet earnest effort he made to have this year’s conference held in Raleigh. He did suc- .ceed by his splendid persuasive powers in convincing a good many waverin, delegates that it would be a great benefit to the country, on account of the moral effect, if the conference were heldin a southern state. Mrs. Dinsmoor took the stand and eloguently aavocated Omaha’s claims, and when a vote was taken a majority favored Omaha, Bishop Ireland then moved to make it unani- mous. A prominent and experienced delega m the treatment of vicious clas: Judge W. H. Murray, the corpor: counsel and city attorney of St. Paul. He, with P. H. Kelly and M. Doran, are the democratic triumvirate of Minnesota. Ignatius Donnelly, has time and again sought to overthrow them, but has as often been compelled to seek Nininger and the Baconian cipher to blunt the keenest of his injured feelings, on ac- count of his repeated discomnture. Judge Murray 18 accompanied by his wite, and both earnest workers in the cause of chariti and correction. Al- bert S. White, of Columbus, 0., is also a tireless worker in this field. His specialty is the treatment of youth, und his years of experience have well fitted him for his work. Nearly every delegate is a prominent individual and the as- semblage thus remarkably distin- guished. Several papers were read this {norning; among them being the follow- ng: Rev. W. McG. Dana, chairman of the committee, read the following paper: PREVENTIVE WORK, The great question of the hour for those in- tent upon making the world better and sav- ing the ymm‘( from joining the ereat army of criminals is this of preventive work. *‘An ounce of prevention Is worth a pound of ure.” and while there is much thatis heroie n the efforts we see made to rescue and re- form wrong-doers there is far more virtue and zood sense shown in endeavors to pre- vent wrong-doing. Inthe downward path which leads to a criminal life the first step is by far the most important, and {ust at this point 18 where the utmost etfort should be expended. From my observation during my recent visit to England, 1 was impressed ‘with the emphasis being put upon this sort of work. Its economy 18 now recognized as never before, which leads the state to assist such organized movements as aim to check crime at Its fountain head. Its hoperulness, too, is admitted, for you can more readily prevent than cure crime 1f you will begin soon enough, Its wisdom is also now more generally — acknowledged and 8 result work among the vuumi of every character is meeting with marked favor and generous support. An English grlsor. ofticial of large experience (Chaplain lay, of Preston prison, England) says “I am led to believe in respect to actual though undetected delinquency that 53 per cent first practised dishonesty when under fifteen . 4 per cent between fifteen and sixteen; 8 per centunder seventeen, elghteen or nine- teen: and 20 per cent under twenty. This would go to show that most criminals began on a career of dishonesty when under twenty oars of age, and more than half when under fteen. Preventive measures, therefore, ap- lied before these ages could alln*lg hope to exceedingly effective in aqunz the devel- opment of crime. 1n the early vart of our century the extent of juvenile criminality in Great Britain was uomemlng appalling. ‘Young people were systematically trained in vice, and were employed to operate where adults couli not. Even boys of twelve, four- teen and sixteen were sometimes hanged, and a noted instance of a child ni Leary ison record whocommenced at the age of eight by stealing apples, and, progressing through thefts of 'a minor kind, be- came at last the head of a gang and was at the age of thirteen sen- tenced to be hung, but got off with transportation tor life. ‘Chere were said to be 200 flash houses in London frequented by 6.000 boys and girls who had no_other occu- {mnon than that of thieving. Now lodk at he advance made. In 1516 when the popu- lation of London was under a million and a half there were in its prisons alone 8,000 1n- mates under twenty,half of these were under seventeen, some were nine and ten, and 1,000 of these children, so to speak, were convicted of felony. Now with a population in 1854 in Enzland and Wales of 27,000,000, there were at that date only 275 prisoners under sixteen, and 3,220 between sixteen and twen- ty-one. Eleven years after Howard published his “State of Prisons,” the Philanthropic society’s Farm school, now located at Red Hill, Surrey, was founded, I, e., 1753 or 1750 Fnglavd's prison. reformatory was es- tablished at Parkhurst in the 1sle of Wight and in 1849 there were about 700 )‘n\llllw‘('m()lls confined therein; on December 31, 1864, only fifty-eight when it closed, and since 1856 there have been no juveniles in any government convict establishment. The English author- ities make this distinction between a reform- atory and an industrial school: The first is a place of punishment for a convicted offender as aplace ot training, and receotion into a reformatory must be Proeefilud by a period of rison confinement of not lessthan ten days. 'he industrial school, on the other hand, is urely a preventive or training institution, rom which the conviction for certain crimes will exclude a ehild. Chaplain Horsley, a man of very extended experience and obser- vation, sald to his bistop when asked were the greatest hindrinees of religic on drinking; 2. The British parent; British employer; 4, Therespectabil church. It was a sad the second of these hindrances that = statistics showed that of = those sent home after serving theirtime in Feltham Industrial school, 25 per cent were speedily reconvicted, while of those otherwise pro- vided only 5 per cent went wrong, and the reformatory in Connecticut by itsown reports conforms tu this experience. Here are voth the forces of environment and heredity working disastrously on the children of parents who are themselves vicious or who make their homes anything but schools of virtue and abodes of safety. IHence in Engla growin: somewhat in our own countr: idea of transplanting the children of new homes wmeeting with greater favor. What show is tiere for the boy or girl whose howe is in the overcrowded tenement, where no vrineiple of modesty or even morality can be taught or observed, ‘The most eflective preveutive work therefor has regard to the nts as well as to Its immediate subjects, for free kinderartens have, it is found, a re- x influence on the home whence their pu: cowe. ‘They go back with new views of T'ne ity of the commentary on | cleanliness and ut once introduce new and better ideals of iife. Then when vou rise to manual and technical schools they tend to augment the breadwinning powers of those who avail of their advantages, and if our ed- ucational system can be made more practical by having grafted upon it manual training in its various forms, it will do far more than it has hitherto to fit you out for an upright, industrious life, 1 asked John Bright when at Rochdale last June whether he attributed the decrease of criminals in the United Kingdom solely to the superior prison sys- tem of his country, He said no, but rather to the Increase of the agencies for securing & good education for the once-neglected part of our population, as by “‘the board schools;’” to_the growing efficiency of the Sunday schools; to Bands of Hope; orphanages, and all those institutions that preventive work has called into existence. Along these lines we can operate eyen far more success- fully than heretofore. The report of manual training in common schools made to the New York board ot edncation declares that the leading purpose of such training in European countries s “to foster industrial skill and to produce specialists, artisans, in order to advance the interests which manufacturing nations have in do- mestic and foreign trade,” and adds, “it 18 admissible into our schools unl{ AS A means of general, not special education.” But I query if this is altogether correct. If manual training, general and spec would develop a greater respect and taste for manual labor, increase the aptitude and power for indus- trial life, then it has to do with the. preven- tion of pauperism ana crime, and if such training has not only disciplinary but utilic advantages, it surely ought to be adopted by the stata, and in this way better trained minds and enlarged bread-winning powers be secured for the rising generations, Immediately at the close of the Franco- German war, manual training was estab- lishied in all the elementary schools of 1'arls and the larger provineial cities. Apprentice- ship schools were also founded to supply the less general custom of apprenticeship, and provide a progressive system of workshop instruction combined with an elementary lit- erary education and extending over a period of three years., Pupils from these schools are competent at once to gain aliving as car- penters, locksmiths, painters,designers, etc., and to enter one of the highest technicals schools mnow 8o numerous in Krance to be trained as foremen, super- intendents, or engineers. By thus fostering and encouraging the highest industrial and artistic capabilities of the masses of the working classes France has ieasurably freed herself from tho curse of pauperism. The Austrian government relleves distress among the peasant women and girls in a cer- tain district not by nlnlng & fund to be doled out to them but by furnishing instructions in designing_and lace making in connection with the Vienna art school to large numbers of this class, ‘[hey returned home, became teachers of their friends and neighbors and a marked improvement in the condition of the people ensued and a new era of prosperity was by their own industry brought in. The poor were hepled to help them- selves by augmented skill and opportunity, The Now York report already referred to recommends the Introduction iuto the school curriculum of carpenter work or the use of wood-working tools for boys, modeling in clay for boys and girls, construction work in paper and pasteboard and other suitable ma- terial for boys and girls. Drawing toscale for boys and girls, sewlng for girls and also cooking. These branches they recommend to be taught in the regular grammar and rrlmnry school buildings, and time secured or them by certain exclusions from the studies now pursued in the various erades. In this way we will educate our youth to care for themselves and provide against their ina- bility to earn their own livelihood. This ac- complishes two things: It dignifies manual labor and trains every youth in the rudi- me at least, of some industrial calling. That forestalls the inefficiency which i3 so often the occasion of pauper- ism and the provocation of crime. 'The disciplinary influence of such training all our foremost educators recognize, while the utilitarian aspects have lonz been evident. ‘The influence of such an institution as_the Wilson Industrial school of New York reaches a class of children else neglected, and through them have homes been trans- formed and the character of family life been altered tor the better. It is the pushing of all schemes of moral and industrial educa- tion that is now demanded. Our modern philanthropy needs to become more and more instructive and comprehensive. We must not expend all our energies saving those who have rallen. We owe something to those who are on the edze of the precipice: some- thing to those who by timely guidance and wise training we can fit for a moral and use- ful life. As hilanthropists and re- formers ~ we ave much to do witn a1l those agencies which ro- mise to imbue the youth with noble ideas and strengthen them to resist the influences calculated to lead themn astray. Prisons are grand institutions and necessary, and we have yet much to learn in reference to how they shall be constructed and administered, but schools are grander which deal with young life before hopelessly warped and mastered by vicious propensities, The kin- dergartens, the kitchen garden, industrial and technical schools are the best investments society can make. Life is too precious to be wasted, and those born to alot of tempta- tion and frelehted from the start with every disadvantage call Joudest for our sympathy and help, and it is in redeeming such that we lessen the criminal class and make useful members of society of those who else would have become pensioners on 1ts charity, or the inmates of the penal institutions crime has made necessary, the subport of which, too, is & growing burden on the party politic. Ohila-Saving Work, Mrs. Fairbanks addressed the meeting as follows: Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Conference: The chairman of your committee on child-saving work must re- spectfully report as follow: One subject for the hour is expressed in two words: Child-saving work, ‘This suggests that all our chiidren are in danger. They must be rescued, for upon them depends the future well-being of our great commonwealth. The great body of children who have homes need saving as well as the comparmivcl{ small number who are homeless aud neglected. To save the average child from idle- ness, IFnomncc. sulruriug and crime is a field of labor so broad that 1t can justly be called the most impor age. The problem of how to *‘save the child and give the state the man” is far from being solved, though great advancement is being made in this direction through faithful, untiring, intelligent eflort, As to child-saving work, in its strict Mr. Letchmieh's able paper on *hildren of the State,”” presented conference two years ago, and ss Virginia Smith's excellent report of one year ago covers so much of the ground, and has been brought before you so recently, and so ably, that little now is left to be said, Of child-saving work there are but two diversions—the old, old—preventive and cure. Under the head of preventive work comes the causes of vice i chil- dren. Are they heredity, ignorance, in- temperange, poverty? Aad can the cure be found in compulsory education of an wdustral and moral nature, truant laws, custody of homeless children? We present for your -consideration a few short papers, whose authors write from large experience, und deep research, and then give what has been so much de- sired in our past lessons, plenty of time for the discussion of each special topic, as well as other subjects suggested buv not fully treated. One of our commitiee, Mrs, F. H Pierce, whose efforts on behalf of chil dren have been attended with remarka- ble success, gives us the following sug- westions, drawn from her experience of nineteen years in the children’s home of Davenport, In.: MRS, PIERCE'S REPORT, Davexrvorr, July 23,—The child saving work is to me the most important work of the age. Our hopes are in thechildren. Elevate, educate and christianize them, and the world would soon ba redeemed from the evils we are now struggling with, We would take courage when we would re- alize what universal attention is being given to the subject. The good people of the world are awakening to the impor- tance of the work, and many hearts are cryng out for wisdom to direct, *Who, in looking upon the face of an innocent babe, does not have an earnest desire that the young life develop into the pure and beautiful. The thought of hunianity comes at once to wind, god we t work of the wonder what may arise to contend with. The secrct of saving children, it seems to me, should begin with the mother many years before the birth of the child. Preparation for motherhood is so sa- cred, who can comprehend it? Should not all dnu“‘hurs be made sol- emnly familiar with this subject? Do 'we not as mothers fail to do our whole duty in this respect to ourown, and to those whom we might influence? Would that mothers could aroused to (ll'm fearful responsibilities of their posi- tion. 1t seoms to me that much can be ac- complished through friendly visiting. Many a mother not properly tra:ned herself would be glad to know of a bet- ter way of teaching her own little ones, and cheerfully consent to their going into school. I would gather every child_into the Sabbath school. Organize Bands of Hope, Sunbeams, Wide-Awakes, sewing schools, cnoking schools, ete. ‘‘Gather the children in." In a great variety of ways the better nature of children may be developed by coming in contact with pure minds, 1 often think how much talent lies dor- mant in children because we do not make the effort to reach it. We must get down to the mind of the child, put our- selves in their places, appreciate theiv condition, anticipate their wants, and gently lead them along. The power of control which we may have over them, should be a hidden power, Wisdom from above should direct. The homes of needy children (needy being used in its broadest sense), should be frequently visited, and the par- ents labored with, and after all natural means have failed, children removed into ood families so far as they can be se- cured. The greatest caution should prevail here. My experience teaches that most people who want to take children into their families, do it for their own sake and not for the child’s good. Many of the above class of children as well as the homeleless orphans need be taken to homes adapted to their con- dition and to fit them for such fami- lies as they should enter. These homes should most emphatically be conducted on the cottage plan, little families of from fifteen to twenty, with everything made as homelike as possible, children graded according to age and capacity and presided over by a good, motherly, Christian woman, whose duty it shall be to care for them as nearly as her own as possible. As soon as better homes and influences in families offer I would remove them to such, though many children are better off in mstitutions properly conducted than in families. It is usually only the better class and most attractive that are in demand. The crippled and uncomely are less liable to imposition in institutions than in families. In our experience of nineteen years in one home, we felt that 95 per cent. of all our children grew mto re- spectable citizens. I would make it un- lawful for any child to go to a poor house. Abhove all things I would emphasize personal work with children and young peovle. Numberless are those who have gone astray because of no one to lead them in a better way. This is particu- larly true of working girls. How many such are saying to-day ‘‘Nobody cares for me,” and the result is that mun{ warm hearted girls are going astray, A kind word to such at the right time wounld be like apples of gold 1n pictures of sil- ver. For such I would suggest pleasant places of resort, reading rooms, amuse- nts, ete.,and a hearty greeting as they visit these places. Organize them into societies such as Lend a Hand, or ‘“Ten times one is ten,” get them to work for each other, stimulate them to sympathy for each other, aud a feeling of responsi- bility for their ciass, and they can reach many that no one else can. Reclamation ot Children. It is beheved by the pioneers in this noble work, that home adoption has been a great factor in the saving of children, In Onio, where homes have been estab- lished long enough to test the matter by statistics, it has proved a blessing to both the child adopted and its foster par- ents. The earlier the child, who has been bornfamidst poverty and vice, can be secured, the more easily is the ob- jective point attained. So far as experience goes in the re- clamation of children, the indications are that a large majority of children who have been early domiciled 1n the several homes of the state, and eipeciallg in the Franklin county home, are sought for by those desiring to adopt them as their own, Though there is no special officer whose duty 1t is to huntout proper homes for the children, the appeal of the officers in charge to the citizens generally, to in- terest themselves in providing homes for those who have been fitted to enter them, has, of later years, been generally re- sponded to. It has been suggested that in older ana more populous centers than this, that there is a tendency to retain children in the institution, and that institution life is encouraged by those who have become personally interested in the children. The extent of this influence 1n older states and communities cannot well be ascertained with any degree of certainty. In the newer states, and especially in Ohio, such a tendency does not prevail. In this home there has not been the slightest indication of a desire upon the part of the children who have been prop- erly trained and educated, to remain in the institution, and one of the first duties of teachers and attendantsis to inspire in the minds of their charges, ideas of self- support and independence. bjection has been made by those de- siring children for adoption, to accept those whose parents, either of them, were criminals or paupers, believing that vi and crime are inherited. ‘The superficial student of history eyen, would have little if any doubt that such beliet 15 a popular delusion, A profound and patient investigator of this question says: *“The progress of the child is one of opportunity. It is improvement after birth; not of internal power, but of exte nal advantage. The child born in a civ- ilized land is not likely, as such, to be su- perior to one born among barbarians, and the difference which ensues between two acts of the children will be caused, so far as we know, solely by the pressure [Continucd on nd Page.) ——— REDUCED RATES To the Ninth International Medical Coungress to be held at Washington, D. C, Septem- ber 5th to 15th, 1887, ~ Ticket Agents of the Pennsyslvania Lines at both City and Depot ticket office, Chicago, IIl., will sell to delegates and their families who desire to attend the convention, eickets, Chicago to Washington for $17.50 each and will at the same time furnish on ap- plication a certificate in connection with the sale of each ticket entitling the hold er thereof to return passage at $5.85, or one third fare returning, inaking the rate $28.85 for the round trip. For particulars address C. W. ADAMS, Assistant General Passenger Agent, 65 Clark Street, First Harvest Excursion to Dakota. 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Dealers in city and country property of wil General information to new- comers freely given. » e SCIENTIFIC e i & WILK ly cured in anden Electri DREXEL & MAUL, (Successors to Jokn G, Jucobe.) Undertakers and Embalmers At the old stand, 1407 Farnam St. Orders by telegraph solicited and promptly. & tended to. Telephone No, k25, NANAN NN N NN NONINN/ | DRS. §. &D.DAVIES) N 1707 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo, Of the Missouri State Museum of Anatom: St. Louis, Mo., University College Hospi= tal, London, Giesen, Germany and New York. Having devoted their attention SPECIALLY TO THE TREATMENT Nervous, Chronic and Blood DISEASES, More especially those arising from impur- dence, invite all so suffering to correspond without delay. Diseases of infection and contagion cured sately and speedily with= out use of dangerous drugs. Patients whose cases have been neglected, badly treated or paonounded incurable, should not fail to write us concerning their symp= toms. All letters reccive immediate atw tention. JUST PUBLISHED, And will be mailed FREE to any address on receipt of one 2 cent stamp. “Practical Observations on Nervous Debility, and Physical Exhaustion,” to which is” added an “Essay on Marriage,” with important chapters on Diseases of the Reproductiv Organs, the whole forming a valuable med! ical treatise which should” be read by all young men, Address DRS. S, & D. DAVIESON, 1707 Olive St., 5t. Louis, Mo. Nebraska National Banlz,~ U. 8. DEPOSITORY, Cmaha, ITek. Paid up Capital..... Surplus H. W. Yates, President. Lewis 8. Reed, Vice-President. A. E. Touzalin, 2d Vice-President, Vi Hughes, Cashier, ORS: John 8. Colling Lewis 8. Reed . E. Touzalin, BANKING OFFICE: THE IRON BANK Cor, 12th and Farnam 5ts. A General Banking Business Transacte v - H-,n Mnn‘n: "c"am['!lBsA&K 56 DEVONSHIRE 8T, BOSTON. s, Water, R of Counties irresbondence olici LEAKY ROOFING, lnlty, Tin or Iron, Repaired And Painted, and guarantes of years. 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