Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1903-01-21

painted, no house ever built, no cloth ever woven, no clothing ever
 made, no steamship loom or motor ever produced, no improvement of
 any kind ever made except under the
 direction of the constructive faculty, : we can readily see that in no way can
 we help the world SO we'll as by wisely
 cultivating and directing this power
 in pupils. "
 Sketch. A number of years ago a
 few men met in Chicago to devise ways and means whereby better and
 more skilled lator might be obtain
 able; for since the decline of appren-
 ticeship in the United States labor has
 been less proficient. This meeting
 resulted eventually in the establish
 ment of the Chicago Manual Training
 High School, and now training schools
 are found all about us and the lend
 is not yet
 Some of the results achieved by in
 dustrial training are as follows:
 l. It teaches accuracy and exact
 ness to remarkable extent. If a boy
 is making box or putting part of
 a structure together, he soon realizes
 that anything even Is or 1-16 of an
 inch off prevents his parts from fit-
 ting together; and soon he will grow
 to the point where nothing satisfies
 except perfect accuracy.
 ,. Industrial training develops the
 will. The will is the executive fac
 ulty of the mind, and an active and virtuous will is one of the chief aims
 of education. As an example of what
 industrial training has done for those
 of weak will, l quote from the 1899
 Year Book of the State reformatory at
 Elmira, N. Y., an institution which
 gives and requires this training from
 all the convicts. Report of convict No. -S0S2:
 Received, March 27, 1897; age 2l;
 maximu sentence, 20 years. Italian;
 father an editor; was intractable at
 age of ten; accompanied his father
 to America; became rover, following
 petty thieving, saloon work, and lat | CT, driving on a canal boat
 First months fines, 1.70: second
 month, degraded for insubordination
 following three months, fines aver
 aged 5. B; sixth month, began man.
 ual training work, fines for next three
 months averaged S4. 46; for next five months, fines averaged S3.0S.
 ''In June, 1898, after ten months manual training treatment, he made perfect record. He was the next month restored to his original grade. For the next six months, the endavors to honest habits, enforced-as the work in tool processes does-to hon esty in detail and mental and muscu- lar control, bore fruit in we'll regu- lated habits. For the succeeding three months in 1899, each were per feet in all respects, and consecutive number S0S2 was graduated from man. ual training and returned as an assis- tant instructor in the department. He was paroled after the usual six months perfect standing. Reports from this man show him to be doing we'll"
 Added to the above report, is the | very pertinent observation that this | man, through the benefits of<manual | training treatment, and the operation | of the indeterminate sentence, served | only two years and four months of his | maximum commitment of twenty | years.
 Since its opening, this institution has received 9S65 inmates. Of the S542 discharged. 6910 have been par oled, and it is estimated that S6. per | cent of these were permanently re- formed. If manual training produces such marvellous results in full grown, abnormally weak men, who can esti- mate its power on the growing youth?';
 5. It helps many boys through the critical period of adolescence. At this age, from 14 to IS years, many boys are more or less lacking in self-direc- tlon and self respect. The fascination which Is born of realizing and seeing ones self really making something," of seeing 1t grow from a plain board into something truly useful and oft times ornamental, has great attrac- ton for most boys, especially the boy dull in literary work. It is the experience of several training teachers that often the dull boy in his literary studies Is accurate, precise, and quick in constructive work, while the boy alert in his books is slow to under stand or work out the ideas of the other. Think you the latter will fail to admire the boy whom he before re- garded yas stupid? And will not also the dull boy gain confidence in him self, thing he perhaps most needs?
 1. Industrial instruction creates re- spect for physical labor. As people and nations grow away from honest toll, they begin to decay. To have a slight knowledge of any art is but to appreciate the true artist; so the boy who can not do so well sees in the perfect product..how much will power. self control, Judgment, and real thought it embodies. Can he fail to admire such skill? This admiration he feels for the boy who can make perfect thing, tends in a very large measure to dispel the all too prevalent dea that one vocation is superior to and it teaches our youth that Ill work enthusiastically entered into md accurately accomplished is equal y honorable and meritorious.
 In the November number of the American School Board Journal, noticed indI trial training courses nave been adopted this fall at Salt Lake City; Beloit, Wis; Pittsburg, Pa. Peoria, III. Georgetown, Wash. Wis. {; Cincinnati, Ohio: md LaSalle, III. Some of these in he high school only, some throughout he grades; and with such the declara- Ion of Superintendent Cooley of Chi ago that he would have manual train ng in every grade from the kinder ,arten up.
 It is not to be understood that in- lustrial training is for boys alone, ut for girls as we'll. Domestic cience means to the training of our 'irls what industrial work does to 'ur boys; yet l would not debar ither, but rather encourage both, to judy both sciences. We include in IOmestic science; cooking, sewing, utting, and designing garments, hy- iene and chemistry of foods, and roper ventilation and modes of Iiv- ng.
 Colleges and universities have been ounded and endowed with hundreds f thousands of dollars in order to ducate our girls in Greek and Latin, psychology, and science, and grant hem degrees in literature and art. )ur daughters become we'll versed in d hese, but totally incapable of intel D lgently managing a home. While TT lany women are enter ing public po- Q ltlons and professions, yet never was II here time when the home and that Il 'hIch relates to 1t were so prominent d 7 before us. Every true woman ., nows and feels that the highest vo- atIon of woman is that of swifehood G nd motherhood, yet how inadequate sl pr its fulfillment is her preparation m 1 this line. She must know the art f, managing home, art of being i ousekeeper, laundress, seamstress, ol Ook, nurse, physician, comforter, u nd proprietress, any one of which W lOuld be glory enough for one per f; )n. u The fnnrth nroat educational n00a ct