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   THE CHAIRMAN: A telegram shall certainly he sent and the
 matter shall be attended to at once.
   MRS. HENROTIN: There is one point in connection with Mrs.
 Evans' paper, in quoting from the great Chicago merchant. All
 sociologists tell uts that crime against property is increasing and
 crime against person decreasing. The gentleman who gave that
 opinion as to the average morality of his fellow merchants is a
 manl whose income runs so far tip into the millions that it staggers
 me, and I say that such a person is not a judge of his fellow-men.
 He stands in his great wealth so alone that he call not judge the
 social coiiditions on that account.
   MRS. HELLER (of Omaha): I wvish to add a little force to one
point that has been made that the public schools are the expres-
sioII of the public and are what the public want. Nothing caii be
done with the public school to produce better morals on the part
of children until the public demand it. This thing is only to be
recognized by the public, because we have at hand means which
will produce natural coiiditions for our children, and we can't
afford, and we have no right to tamper with the people's children
by giving them unnatural advantages. The moral question rests
there -it rests with the public, and only when the public recog-
Iize it can it be corrected.
   MRS. MILNER: I want to echo exactly the thoughts that
this lady has uittered and add that the women of this great
Federation have these things imi their hands, because they call
demand this new education, because they can call for the things
that will bring this renaissance of sociological reform. It is the
kindergarten methods carried on into the higher grades of school
work. Wheii we get those we will get what we need iii the
reform. Our children need to have self-respecting, iiidependent
thinking pressed into their minds. When they get that, they
will get honest and honorable thinking, and we shall have honest
and honorable iiien and women, and not until the people call for
this reform in our educatioii will it become a general reform.



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