Truth. [volume], September 09, 1905, Page 6, Image 6

About Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908

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li; ADDIHONA SOCIAL NJTES.
' The last of the summer hops at the
H r f? Fort was given Friday evening.
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H I , Frank Nilcs entertained Informally
H if'" at the Country club Wednesday after-
, noon.
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H Miss Vernon Little entertained at
HI If!,' a luncheon Thursday in honor of Miss
Hi ill ElsI RIter.
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H I Daughters of tho Confederacy will
H I meet on Saturday afternoon at 2:30 at
Hi I tno Kenyon hotel.
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H Mrs. William P. Cooper and children
Hil are at home after a two months' out-
HJ ! ing at Pharaoh's Glen.
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H Mrs. James H. Brown and children
Hi have returned from Brighton, where
H . they passed the summer.
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i. S. E. Zollinger, an old and highly-
'k respected newspaper man of Defiance,
i Iowa, stopped off for a day in the city
' early this week on his way homo from
' an extended trip to San Francisco,
', Portland and other Pacific coast
Mf points.
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HJ THE POINT OF VIEW.
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J ' ' , A. trade school for girls (such a
HJ r school as was not long ago estab-
HJ . lished in Boston), Is a venture more
HJ " significant than on tho surface ap-
HJj ' pears. Tho aim of the trade school
HJ is or should bo to furnish those
HJ ' novel things, specific knowledge and
HJ ' detailed practical information, to
HT - girls of tho working classes. And it
HJ I has been thought recently that it
HJ I would be a helpful move to enlist the
HJ ' Interest of some of the women's clubs
Hi f in tho enterprise.
HJ ' It is odd enough that a subject that
HJ is positively at the very root of na-
HJ tional life should be left so long and
HJ ' bo entirely as this one has in the do-
HJ main of sentimcntalism. There have
HJ hcen times when wo have all of us
J suspected that tho wholo feminine
HJ question was a good deal in the hands
HJi of the sentimentalists in America.
HJ ' But, in any case, it is assuredly so of
Hv I young women wago earners. The
HJ! young women, moro and more re-
HJi , moved from the domestic training,
HJi Rood or bad, which they might get
HJ' from living at home, and more and
HJ more tho creatures of the training of
HJ shops and offices, aro tho mothers of
HJ the majority of coming citizens. The
HJ notions they in turn bring into their
HJ homes, tho Ideas on which they nur-
HJ turo sons, are transmitted into the
HJ legislation of tho second generation.
HJ Wo ought to wish, then, that as many
HJ sensible and solid ingredients as pos
sible might enter into the character
building they receive. How much is
actually done to secure these sensible
and solid ingredients? Do we not do
a good deal, rather, to encourage tho
reverse?
The social position of the American
working girl is, to begin with, not tho
same as that of her father and broth
ers; the chivalry (mistaken or not) of
the American employer make3 it not
tho same. She Is the "young lady
who is doing thus and so"; her male
relative is "the man who has come to
see to tho job." Many things are de
veloped from that little germ of dif
ference. And it would not seem to bo
of much use to establish educational
foundations that wil give the truth of
things to girls if you do not also give
them the truth of life. That a very
large and very rapidly increasing por
tion of the female population should
chronically esteem itself as a little
finer than its male consanguinity is
not desirable. This, to bo sure, is a
big subject, and another story. The
point directly at issue is whether the
aid of the women's clubs would truly
further the efficiency of the girl's
trade schools?
In order that it should, it would be
necessary that the animating spirit of
women's clubs in relation to subjects
affecting working girls should be
practical purely, and not philanthro
pic. This is rarely the case. The sen
timental consideration almost always
obtrudes itself, in some form or oth
er. Women's clubs save themselves
existed too short a time, relatively,
and tho wholo movement they express
is too now, not to bo still, so to say,
In tho metaphysical rather than the
scientific stage. That all the practical
problems of women's lives must bo
solved practically, however, If they are
to bo solved at all, is something that
men aro moro apt to be able to see
than the sex itself.
If this Is not to be done, It is really
a vain confusion to bring up the prac
tical problems in any way. The trade
school, if it teaches respect for thor
oughness and single-minded devotion
to specialized efficiency, must also
teach subordination of tho personality,
of the sex the setting aside of privi
lege. Anything else Is illogical. Too
many forces in American life war
against this result so much so that
there is always a danger of any trade
school for girls degenerating Into es
sentially a "short-cut" school. In the
present day and generation short-cut
schools of all kinds may be indispen
sable; but we should do well frankly
to acknowledge, all the same, that as
agents of genuine intelectual and
moral growth, little can be claimed for
them. And there are those of us who
can't get away from the notion that
tho factor of moral lightness In every
form of education given to women is
oven moro of the necessary essence
than it Is in tho education given to
men; meaning by moral Tightness tho
perception of the just proportions and
values of things, human and spiritual.
A rather defective sense of their own
proportionate personal valuo is the
source of tho aesthetic effectiveness of
American young women of the ranks,
but perhaps also tho indirect source
of many economic follies and social
falacies that trouble us today. Scrib-ner's.
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General Traffic Manager A. J
Hughes of the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad was In Salt Lake from Den
ver for several days this week.
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J STREET SIDEWALKS.
Some years ago the courts decided
that certain property owners on J
street were the legal owners and en
titled to possession of part of what
was the publls street. They deralned
their title from the law which de
clares that ownership follows from
seven years undisputed possession.
The only way now the city can get
the property back so as to make the
street uniform is by condemnatt'on
proceedings and paying tho property
owners such an amount as tho court
may consider the fair value of the
strip. Before sidewalk or street pav
ing is done on J street, tho strip
3hould be restored to the street so as
to Insure uniformity in width of street
and sidewalk.
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AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE COM
MISSION. Governor Cutler has appointed a
commission to investigate the affairs
'of the Agricultural college and the
University of Utah, with tho particu
lar object in view of finding out
whether the former is an agricultural
college in reality or Is only sailing
under that name while in fact it Is
aping the functions of a university;
also to discover to what extent the
two Institutions are occupying the
same field of learning and to ascertain
if it is advisable for tho state to main
tain two Institutions to some extent
paralleling each other In their cours
es of instruction.
The commission has organized and
will get down to business very soon.
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PRIZE FIGHT UNSATISFACTORY,
The pilzo fight or glove contest or
whatever it may bo called, between
Schreck and Willo tho other night was
after tho usual manner of such func
tions In Salt Lake, unsatisfactory to
lovers of tho manly art. The mill
proceeded 10 rounds when it was
brought to an end by tho referee giv
ing the decision to Schreck on a foul
and declaring all bets off. Tho course
of the fight Indicated that SchreclH
was tho better man of the two. HJ
POLITICAL JOTS. 9
W. R. Hutchinson Is spoken of nuttH
extensively as a desirable camlldatM
for the office of city attorney. mH
Hutchinson is a lifelong RepubllcaiH
an able lawyer and a man of standinH
and character In tho communlt H
The ladles of tho American partM
are quite active in their work for thH
party already. In quite a number oH
the voting districts they are maklnH
a quiet canvass of the voters and u9
ing efforts to make converts. M
E .A. Hartensteln will be a candH
date on the Democratic ticket for reH
election to the city countil. CounciH
man Tuddenham's term expires thiH
year also but he is not anxious foH
another term which is rather a pitH
as Mr. Tuddenham is one of the verH
few sensible, honest, upright men lH
tho present council. H
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Carl Schmidt of the GreenowalH
Furniture company is very favorablH
mentioned as a candidate for the cltH
council on the Republican ticket. H
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DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S GOoH
RECORD. H
Fred Loofbourow is making an eH
cellent record In his capacity as disfl
trict attorney. His percentage of com
victions is very large and ho succeedB
ed In not a few cases where the diH
Acuities in the way made convIctloH
almost hopeless. Judge ArmstronH
does not fail to do ,111s duty in maklnH
the punishment lit the crime in caseS
where convictions have been had. ThH
history of the last term of the crinH
inal court was very satisfactory fofl
which considerable of the credit ifl
due to the juries which were confl
posed of men of common sense anfl
judgment. fl
TRUTH
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