The evening world. Newspaper, May 17, 1911, Page 4

0 SYSTEM "ISCRTIED AS ' ufacturers’ Association It Is Inadequate. , Lambasts John Mitchell for Opposing Trade Schools. A national plan of industrial educa: | {ion which’ will develop in the Amer+ joan youth not only a love for work, but the highest efficiency, was warmly ad-| Yooated by the National Manufacter+ re’ Association, which is meeting to- y at the Waldorf-Astoria, ‘The com- Mon school system in vogue throughout {he United States came in for severe @riticism, and the abandonment by the) State of the child at fourteen years of | was denounced as dangerous to the of the land. "We are just coming to see a new! tAationship between our methods and {tutions on the one hand and our bank account on the other,” said H, Miles of Racine, Wis., who read the or of the Committee on Industrial lucation. “We have not been the brains and human efficiency the nation. For Better Citizenship. There is a mighty discontent among classes of society which makes us } ughtful. The prosperity and pos- ibly the very existence of the State depends upon the intelligence, charac- ter and efficiency of its citizenship. e duty of the State in this direction as great toward the least eMfictent of children within their abilities as rd the brightest and most hope- | fie our common school sy: js about $450.000,000 an: A mitted to an internation experts it would be found to rest upon theories and: not upon ities—upon dreams of thingn as might be, not upon actualities ly 12 per cent. of the ch’ employed under sixteen years of are in a position to learn @ trade. femainder are employed at taska detri- 91 to both mind and character, un- ig them to learn a trade and ulti- ly joining the ranks of unskilled Miles suggested that the solu- of the problem was in continuing @ education of the child after four- on by manual training courses iff the ands of skilled workmen in various trades, | Anthony Ittner of St. Louls took ad- tage of the discussion of this ques lon to lambast the trades untons. He charged them with opposing the trades schools and practically shutting shops to apprentices, He Attacks Mitchell. “The sainted John Mitchell, Vice President of the un-American Federa- jon of Labor,” he sald, as the hall ag with applause, “is opposed to ‘ade schools because they mean the | development of an American class of | Workmen who will have nothing to,do With this despotic organization, The graduates of the New York Trade School, in spite of J. P. Morgan's $00,000 ndowment, are worse off than gradu- tes of reformatories, because thelr di- Bloma is the bar einister which shuts them out of the shops. “The men who submit to the closed Shop contract are particep-criminis to the outrage that is being perpetrated @gainet our youth. The man who Is ting under a closed-shop contract ih the unions is the man whose shop ought to be blown up, not th the Los Angeles Times, which @ {ree and independent Ame eltl- zen, Uniess we can open our shops to Our youths, our trade-schools will be novavail to us." Croker Telle Why He Quit. Former Chiet Croker told the manu- facturers that the Asch Buildin drove him from the Department fighting fires for twenty-nine y “The sight was too much for m he sald. “I made up my mind t these horrors could be prevented. I find the fault ts with the manufactur ers, who look to the almighty dollar rather than to the protection of | I, could take you through the sweat shops and show you the appalling con- ditions under which the poor ha’ work. I could never understand man who has to go to a shop to work | does not reveive the same protection ap the man who digs into his pocket to buy theatre ti So mployers put in fire ex and let them rust; » and to this ts due per cent, of the fires in the city-—the cellar-fires so dreaded by the uniformed force.” COSTLY FALURE H. E. Miles Tells National Man- Anthony Ittner of St. Louis) startin in .|for the defense, sat kets and use them for | ‘BOGART ADMITS HIS GUILT I Indicted Vice-President of the United Company Changes Plea in Court To-Day. } UNIONISM IS ATTACKED, | At the conctuston of the morning ses- Wilson | sion of the trial of Col. C. ©. and five other officers of the United Telegraph Co. before Judge United States Circuit Court | to-day, former District-Attorney Jerome | moved on behalf of his client, Samuel |S. Bogart, vice-president of the United | Wireless and one of the indicted men, | for permission to change his plea of | not gullty and enter @ plea of guilty’ to the charge of misuse of the mails. ‘Dhe plea was recorded. Mr. Jerome did not appear at the opening of the court and the trial went on without him, There was a big crowd on hand in expectation that Mr. Jerome would enter @ plea of guilty ¢or his client, ‘The first witness called was Lillian B. Chase of Bangor, Me. Before she was sworn John B. Stanchfield of counsel for the defense asked that the Court direct the jury to disregard the stories printed in the morning newspapers. Judge Mar nad not read in the that the defendant, Bogart, was going to plead guilty. “I join with counsel for the defense in asking that the jurors be direeted to disregard this item of news." said United Btates District-Attorney Henry A. Wise. W. Bourke Cochran, also of Counsel Wireless “We were all familiar wih the rumor some time before this morning.” ‘Then the trial went on. The defendant, Bo- gart, seemingly took no interest in the proceedings. Shortly before noon Mr. Jerome ap- peared and whispered to Mr, Bogart. He then walked to Mr. Stanchfleld and the other counsel and exchanged greet- ings, changing his plee immediately bert J. Beveridge of Indiana arrived if New York yesterday with his wife ani children and put up at the Waldorf, en route to Europe. WRELESS CSE | province of THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, MAY NODIX SPEECH ~ FOR HIS BOY, SO RE BANS SoHOOL | Up-State Man Forbids Son to Repeat Governor’s Talk on Conservation. ALBANY, May 17.—Rather than have part of Gov. Dix's rvation, W. C, Carr of Watervilet took his boy out of school and permitted himself to be the compulsory education law In preparing the programme for Ar- bor Day, the teachers used « syllabus containing speeches sent out by the State Educational Deparunent. Among the se- fections wae @ epeech by ex-Gov. Hughes and Gov, Dix's conservation speach. In apportioning the speeches to the pupils young Carr received a portion of the Dix speech. Me told his father that he waa required to learn part of a speech by Gov. Dix to recite on Arbor Day. Mr. Carr is @ Republican and he not only refused vo let his boy learn the from school on Arbor Day. authorities complained and Mr. Carr was taken before the Recorder yester- day, He told the authorities that he had enfored the boy In a school at Green Inland and sentence was suspended, caeneeneeviifomemanens FORTY THOUSAND HOMELESS BY GREAT MANCHURIA FIRE. HARBIN, Manchuria, May 17.—Forty thousand persons at Kirin are home- less as @ consequence of the recent conflagration in that city. The money loss is estimated at 000,000, Four thousand shops, fi banks and $,387 other buildings were destroyed, Reports from Peking told of a de- structive fire at Kirin on May 9% but telegraph communtcation to this remote Manchurian town was interrupted and few details of the fire were known. Kirin is the capital of the Manchurian Kirin, 270 miles west of Viadivostock, and has a population of | $0,000, haled to court on a charge of violating | FALLSHEADLONG | ON HATCHET EGE ~INVESSELS HOLD | Ambulance Surgeon Rescuer Finds Capt. Smith Impinged, Feet Upward. The membern of the crew of the big barge Coenties, tled up at Pidgeon street, Long Island City, were #0 com. pletely held in the grip of supersti- | tlous terror to-day when their captain, Anthony John Smith, fell through @ |hatchway to the bottom of the hold, | that they refused to go to his aid, be-| Heving him dead. Capt. Smith, who tm fifty-#ix years o14, had been puttering argund. ¢! Geck with tchet making *niif8r re- pairs, The vensel had just discharged & cargo at the New York Sugar Refin- ing Company's big refinery. While near @ hatchway Capt. Smith lost his bal- ‘ance and plunged headlong, with a shriek, into the black darkness of the hold, Crew Feared to Go Down. Several of the crew witnessed the accident. They peered down the hatch- way, but could not see the captain, None made a move to go to his rescue, but all fled from the vessel and notified @ man on the pier, who turned in an ambulance call to St. John’s Hospital. Because of the distance of the hospital from the pler it was nearly half an hour before the ambulance, in charge | of Dr. MacTiernan, arrived. The doc- tor sized up matters quickly and asked how he could reach the bottom of the| hold. | “We might rig up a boatswain's! cha} said one of the crew. i} “Well, rig it up, then, and be quick jabout it,” called out the surgeon as he | stripped off his coat. “A fine body of |men you are, to be sure. That man| may be dead, but there's a chance that | he may be allve and I'm going down to get him." Hatchet Split Skull. When he reached the bottom, Capt. Smith was found standing on his head, | his body leaning up against a post. | good, honest, square-deal lay testimonials. 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