The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-11-08
AN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.
Considerable Interest 10 Behalf oil Inc
Proposition Being Awakened
PROBABLE COMBINATION Of MOVEMENTS
sccretnr, Forrest of the ChiefS OIL
Police Union in RcceiP' "
ter 10 that Eject.

NJ NJ 7 Forrest. chief clerk IN the loo"l
police department who IS alsc Secretary VI
the city Marshals and Chiefs of Ponce 'ii'on
of Texas. is in receipt of an interesuns NV
ter from V. W. Grubbs, publisher oil 'he
creenyille Headlight, and chairman Oh tne
state committee of Industrial education Inc
Iotter Is in reference to the proposition 10 es-
t,h,isb State industrial training school Tor
incorrlgible children, which was 50 'no'
oughly discussed at the annual inee''ns VI
the city Marshals aud Cnleis Oh Fo'iee
union held in Houston last June.
The letter is as follows. ,>.,.r,ort
MIR. Forrest, Cnlet Cleih' lo'iNN
Houston, Texas, .., Il, Tho
Dear sIi: note with satisfaction IN me
Post a reference to your WORK III law M
an industrial school Tor wayWaru 10y cb,ef
long since 1 had a conference WIN N i,,
kea OF Fort Worth on the supJect anu sub
pcsted that our committee Wolh o9'eni
IN secure appropriate legslauohi uV. Vn.y
Tor TIE benent OF the ncorilsIoiy, Wy i to'
Mi cIusses oil our people, in the line OF NJ
dustrial or manual training. he assuIeu nj
that the idea met his unquailneG app u'e a.
and | can see nothing at an III thS W. vs.
vigorous CO. operation. ! uuuerstouu til"' ~
et'ort would be made at Waco 10 get thc
ctate democratic convention to take tue
matter up. but ] was unable TO hlu any VI
your committee and did mol leel au1hoi ~ ~
| 10 look after that important feature oil tne
| educational reform movement Nnlch Is INV
| nm in the State Had the matter been calleu
| suecigltv to the attention oil the coihIhltVeo
| on platform and resolutions am pula
| sure IL would have been tayorably reporteu
as was the proposition to estapnSn , q s Sta,s
Industrial collese. The work OF the oUd'e
| committee OF industrial education, OF WIZ II
have the honor to be chairman, Is no'
! cornned to any particular phase or depat :
! men. of Industrial training, but is lnteldeu
~. hon no
plicstion to all classes Of our people we
Fare doing our best to awaken pubic sehu-
ment to the necessity OF reforming our s9 .
tenn oil education to the end thal ~ may
couduce to the preparation and quallhGauon
of our boys and girls for prohtaDle INDUSTRY
rather than TOR the overcrowded professions
and for the enjoyment Of elegant ana re-
fined ldlehess. There is no CONNECT "nat-
) ever between the objects and purposes o.
our organization and those which are actu'
ating your association and ! sincerely nope
that ali friends OF industrial education VII
line up ia solid phalanN in the campals.
which is now being waseqI II " 'G nr,h Ien''i
3 Yours, etc. " W. Gtuops'
The state committee on industrial edu
cation, nearly a year ago issued circula
letter IN behalf Of the movement IL mas !
hand, ana the letter Is still being circulated
4 This circular letter is as follows;
Greenyie Texas. November ~, 1870
the 7th CAY of April last ne State commit
industrial eQuldtlVl Was p4tdlllNN
ia the hall of the house 81 represeh'alN.
a. Austin Texas. II is composed Of cnali
, man ana one member for eacn OF the thlIlS
one senatorial districts. 1t x alLoEe 9t
non partisan, all parties and political snapl
- of COMPLEXION being fairly represented u
K promnenl member, of such party orEani@,
Il tons. The resolutions providing lor sal
q committee directed that the appo linen
T. should be made in that way TO the end IN
l. the committee should not Je charger VII
is quite probable that the necessity Tor u
organization was made apparent by the eei
:. eral discussion by the press ana the poop
of the State. of recently proposed leglSU
ton looking TO the establishment OF ndu
IL rial colleges and manual training srhoo
for both sexes, having in view more pra
:, ii,al and concrete system of popular educ
ton than we now have in the STATE. II
A. believed that while our system OF educ
ton is perhaps fully abreast Win, II n
superior. to those OF other states OF I
d. South n is yet incomplete and defective
that il practically ignores the necessity
ie manual as well as Intellectual and nor
rs training and development. 1t is believed
many who have given special thought to !
hit subiect Of education that more aAenli
I'd should he given to the practical applicant
ee Of the principles now theoretically taught
cur schools and colleges and that our you
I of both sexes should be trained for industr
h. as well as professional and literary pursul
be II is the purpose OF the state committee
industrial education to begin at once an
-. ganizcd and active campaign in favor OF
~ educational reform on the hdes above in
r. Gated nv impressing by al 1ro9er and legi
Us mate methods, uron tho public mind su
lis necessity. and couuteractinE those social d
ordinations against the industrial class
which have done so much 10 impede tn
progress in the attainment of that in,
lectual and social advancement and recog
IN ton essential to respectable citizenship.
w. is expected that each Committeeman will
ie what ne can in the wav of calling public
no iention - tho purpose Of the moveul
ed through the medium OF the press, public
ne dresses and otherwise, and that every {
Ter who feels an interest in the work will g
mt tribute to the fullest extent OF his Tor h
ability and influence TO the success Of
,. movement Respectfully,
BIS V w Grubhs,
at Chairman State com1nitte,