The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-12-22
BUILDING ACCEPTED
e1An0Al Trinin9 New Part
OF the Public School
SystoA.

church Thursday evening and were
we'll attended. The high school
chorus, under the direction of Pro-
afessor Neupert, rendered several
selections aud received hearty APP
plause. On behalf of Mrs. Plum
mer, who presented the SI2 900
struc.ure to the schools of this city
as "A memorial to her late hush nd.
4 in honor of whom the school build
ing is named. w. L. Bush delivered
4 the following presentation address:
Ii the early part of this year. Mrs.
PluusIncr submitted to the Board OF Ed
ueat,ou of This city = proposition to erect
at her own expense, a building to be
sseu as manual training school build
ing and to be known as the Henry
| Plumrier School of Manual Training.
prov drd the hoard would agree to main
tain such school. The obj ct of the
donor was to establish permanent men,
orial TO a In.n who had been prominent
~ ItCi''ut'i WIN tuC Ntky Ios IciNN yNa'S
and TO make that memorial souie hing OF
prsc ical value to the city. After several
conferences. the details wcre agreed
upon and the fer formally acc pied b,
the board The work WAS immediately
taken up and the building is no~ pracli-
eally completed. or near enough, IT least,
to bs turned over to the Board If E luca
ton.
deem i, great honor to be requested
by Mrs Puumer to formally pr. sent 10
the oard OF Education this school buid
ing. deem It . great honor because by
this generous gift of Mrs. Piummer
Idabo Springs is placed from five TO ten
: year, in advance Of other cities Of this
size in school facilities.
Public sentiment in regard to education
10 rapidly changing. Before many years
the community that dos not provide for
industrial as we'll as literary training in
its school s, stem, will be far behind in
the march of progress. Educators
throughout the country are now advo-
eating the education of the hand and eve
as well as the brain. President Roose-
welt III his recent message to congress,
makes sweeping criticism OF the present
public school system, and strongly urges
the establishment of industrial training
schools can do no better than quote
few 5: :nences from from that able, and
in many respects remarkable state paper.
He says: ut is good thing to pro
vide certain number Of trained scholars
and students; but the education superin.
tended by the state must seek rather to
produce hundred good ctiz.ns than
merely one scholar, and i, must be turned
now and then from the class book to
the study of the great book of nature
itself" Again he says: "All students
now realize that education mus, seek to
train the executive powers of young peo
pie, and to confer more real significance
upon the phrase dignity Of labor"
He further says: at should be one of
our prime objects as a nation. SO
far as feasible, constantly TO work
toward putting the mechanic, the wage.
worker ~ro works with his hands, on a
higher plane of efficiency and reward, so
as to increase his effectiveness in the
economic world, aud the dignity, the
remuneration and the power of his posi-.
ton i'll the social world. Unfortunately
at present, the effect Of some Of The work
in the public schools is in exactly the
opposite direction. II boys and girls
are trained merely in literary accomp
lishments to the total exclusion of in
dustria!, manual and technical training,
the tendency is to unfit them for indus
trial work and to make them reluctant to
20 into it, or untitled to do we'll If they
do go irto 1t.''
Much more along the same lines is to
be found in the message. Sufficient,
however, has been quoted to show
plainly the more advanced ideas on edu.
cat OH 20 bear out my statement that the
estab, ishmeu; of this manual school here
has plactd our city in an advarced posi-
tiou in educational facilities. Under the
present system many a good Carpenter
machinist or blacksmith is spoile in the
mat my Of poor lawyer, doctor or nler.
chant.
Il is not expected that this manual
training school will graduate the boys
perfec; N any trade by any means. Its
object is ailier to teach them the use OF
tools and how to do things, also to fnd
their particular line Of work aud perfect
! theus=ises ii that.
In The domestic science department.
girls wtil be taught how to manage the
househo.d to secure the results with the
leass expense and effort. They will be