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Prof. Shaler has a significant paper in the January issue of the Atlantic, entitled "The Athletic Problem in Education...
...first place it is necessery to understand the problem. In works among the poor, the influence of the Catholic church is most important. The work of the church is admirable, but its ideas of civilization are different from ours, and if more than amusement or manual training is attempted, the priest is sure to interfere. In the next place, work among the lowest class is of little benefit without a lifelong experience. Amiable feelings are held in contempt by these people, and unless there is some real work to be done, some common ground for both, friendly sentiments are useless...
...shops demand study. Many societies have been formed whose members are pledged never to buy in large shops. The error here should be explained. The cause of longer hours in small shops the movement to buy only before six o'clock, these, too, await investigation. More than all, the problem of the surplus unskilled sewing women calls out for remedies. Facts are wanted to show that the idea, that cheap living reduces wages, is a fiction. Are employers forced to take advantage of the over-supply of labor, and would wages fall if attempts were made to save...
...Theodore Roosevelt contributes an article on "The Immigration Problem." While the article contains little that is new on the subject and is not noteworthy for the force of its suggestions, it is animated by a spirit sooner or later to be adopted by all true Americans. The almost universally accepted modifications of the doctrine of the Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal" are fully upheld in the assertion that our country is not to be thought of as merely an asylum for the pporessed. The duty of selfpreservation is the central idea of the article...
Best general reference: Desty's Federal Constitution, pp 279-288, 326-333; Bump's Notes of Constitutional Decisions, pp 369-381; Pomeroy's Constitutional Law, pp 174-183; E. C. Walthell, The Race Problem in the South, in Cong. Record...