Show PUBLIC TRADE SCHOOL FOR THE CHILDREN chicago jan 23 reasoning that the public trado school will attract and hold the child that it will deop him from the successive stages of reluctance luc tance truancy and delinquency and that its final product will bo a working class contented self conn dent and honestly ambitious dr emil G hirsch addressing the convention of the national society for the promotion 0 industrial education pry dietel dieted that the installation of such a system nationally will mean the moral salvation of the american people the speaker bewailed the fact that in the present school system the idea of imparting and acquiring information is always in the foreground that the appeal Is to the head and only incidentally ci to the heart mrs anna carlin spencer of the new york city society for ethical culture attacked what sho called fallacies relative to the industrial education of girls she asserted that while the number of girls at any one time employed in industrial pursuits is comparatively small the actual number entering such occupation in a given number of years Is large the apparent discrepancy lying in the fact that few continue in their vocation more than four years the speaker argued that the act that their work merely is temporary was the strongest reason for seeing that they were placed in the best situations possible for their development she insisted that the farst aim of the trade school should be the giving of cultural education with boys a knowledge of agriculture arid of girls the knowledge of house arts in speaking of the industrial school as a part of the public school system charles F perry director of the public schoola of trades of milwaukee suggested that the use of tobacco should be forbidden absolutely to the students of such an institution the general criticism of trade schools offered by milton president pre eident of the morton companies worcester mass was that they are schools with a shop attachment when they should be hops with a school attachment |