From Mrs. Croly's Letter to Mrs. Burns, Relative to the Proposed
Industrial School for Girls


222 WEST 23RD STREET,
Feb. 28, 1900.

My dear Mrs. Burns:

There is only one point that I would have emphasized, and that I do
not find included in your otherwise excellent statement. It is the
moral influence of a training for self-support. Ignorance and idleness
lead to vice and crime; and a Technical Training School would do more
to remedy the Social Evil and raise the standard of morals than all
other influences combined. The fact that work is the great purifier is
what I wish could have been embodied in the plan presented.

Yours with real regard.
J.C.C.




From Izora Chandler