The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-11-15

would throw an additional supply of
skilled labor on the market, Compel
ing with them in their own field. But
manual training most emphatically
does not educate for trades, any more
than the present high school educates
for professions. Our purpose is to
make education, both manual and lit
erary, more general and less specific
than it now is. The high school gives
training to the intellectual powers of
the students, thus imparting facility
for further intellectual preparation. It
thus happens that a young man or
woman who follows some purely intel
Iectual calling, receives in the high
school training which prepares him
to more easily enter his profession.
Why should not the same school give
facility to those faculties that the
masses need in their callings2 The
state pays out its money for a better
citizenship. On the principal that the
hungry citizen is always dangerous
citizen, it is one of the duties of the
public school to so educate young men
and young women that they may bet
, ter earn livelihood.
Manual training is done in such
great variety in the various schools of
our country that the cost is a very
variable quantity. In order to get at
this question for ourselves, we must
FIRST determine definitely what we
want If we desire to make me-
chanics, we should want course of
study to compass everything pertain
ing to the subject; for, reasoning from
this standpoint, if carpentry is good,
then is forge and machine work
equally good and no less indispen-
sable. And so we could not fairly
educate for one trade to the neglect of
another. But if we seek rather the
well balanced training that rounds
out the students mental equipment
and furnishes general manual facility,
we shall be able to accomplish our
purpose with very simple course of
study, requiring likewise very little
equipment. Bench work, turning,
carving and forgework' thus become
parallel in their educative value, any
one serving its purpose as we'll as any
of the others. The very simplest plan,
including the essential benefits with
out elaborate outlay, is to institute a
course in plain joinery in wood work
and accompany it with an elementary
course in mechanical drawing. Ac-
cording to estimates secured from the
st. Paul. Mechanic Arts High school,
from the University of Minnesota and
from various compiled statistics, the
approximate cost for fitting up wood
working laboratory with tools and
benches for 90 students will be $500,
Citing for steam heating and raw
material additionally. The raw ma
terial for wood work is estimated by
Prof. Weitbrecht to be less than 81 q
year per student. According to the
same authority an efficient teacher
capable of teaching mechanical draw.
ing and conducting shop-work may
be had for 800 year. Thus, after
starting, $500 will easily cover all run
ming expenses. Reckoning on last
years school expenditure, this means
an outlay of 3 per cent more money
than last year.
Puts light in the eye, tints thu
cheeks with natures vermillion,
loosens the tension of life, brushes
cobwebs from your brain. That's wha
Rocky Mountain Tea does. 35c. J
G. Thro.
The street force has been reduced t,
two teams and the sidewalk repai
men. A great deal of work has beel
done on the streets the past season
and the money in the road fund i
nearly exhausted. However, tn
money has in the main been we
spent, and Mankato's streets are i
much better condition than they wer
. a year ago.
Identifying methods that injure til
3 skin and health are dangerous. E
i. beautiful without discomfort by tai
8 ing Rocky Mountain Tea. Sunshir
faces follow it's use. 25c. J. G. Thr,
} A pension has been granted t
| e