The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-09
FEDERAL AID FOR
STATE SCHOOLS
Congressman Davis Plan TO
Promote Industrial
Education.

Representative Charles r. Davis o.
Minnesota during the last session OF
/ Congress introduced a bill known as
House Bill 24757, the purpose of which
is to give Federal aid to industrial
education in the public schools of the
several states The following sections
of the bill give an idea of its purpose
and scope:
BE it enacted, etc, That there shall
be, and hereby is, annually appropri-
ated, out of any money in the Treas
ury not otherwise appropriated, to be
paid, as hereinafter provided, to each
State and Territory for the mainte-
nance of instruction in agriculture and
home economics in agricultural high
schools of secondary grade and in
struction in mechanic arts and home
economics in city high schools of sec
ondary grade, a sum of money equal
to 10 cents per capita of the population
of each State or Territory, respective
Y,
tional or State census, as shall be ap-
portioned by the Secretary of Agricul-
ture and estimated for in the annual
estimates submitted to Congress for
the Department of Agriculture: Pro-
vided, That the funds thus appropri-
ated shall be used only for instruc-
ton in agriculture, mechanic arts, and
home economies, and that all States
and Territories and all schools accept
funds with which to pay the cost of
providing the necessary lands and
buildings and of instruction in all gem
eral studies required to make we'll
rounded high school courses of study:
And provided further, That not less
than one-half of the sum thus appro-
priated to any State or Territory shall
be expended for instruction in agrieul-
ture and home economics in agricul-
State authority in rural communities,
and the number of such agricultural
high schools which shall be entitled to
receive the benefits of this act in any
one State or Territory shall not exceed
,ne school for each ten counties in that
State or Territory.
..Sec. 2. That there shall be. and
hereby is. annually appropriated, out
IF any money in the Treasury not !
otherwise appropriated, to be paid. as
hereinafter provided, to each State and
Territory for the maintenance of
branch agricultural experiment stations |
under the direction of the State agri-
cultural experiment stations now es-
tablished or which may hereafter be
established in accordance with the act /
Of Congress approved March z, 1862, the /
sum of $4,000 for each branch expert /
ment station already established by /
legislative enactment of the respective
States and Territories, or which shall !
be established in said States or Terri /
tories in connection with agricultural t
high schools as appropriated for by this I
act: Provided, That no State or Ter I
ritory shall be entitled to the benefits
Of section of this act until it's Legis- |
Iature shall by law provide for the es-
adjustment of such branch stations and |
shall provide annually for the equip
ment and maintenance of such branch /
stations a sum at least equivalent to
that appropriated annually to the State
Or Territory under section 2 of this act; |
and the sum paid to each State or Ter I
ritory under section of this act shall /
be applied only to paying the neces- /
sary expenses of conducting at such /
branch experiment stations expert /
ments bearing directly upon the agri- |
cultural industry of the United States, |
having due regard to the varying con-
ditions and needs of the respective |
States or Territories and the respective
agricultural regions therein
Congressman Davis has sent a COM |
TO the Advertiser explain |
ing why he introduced the bill and |
what he hopes to accomplish by it.
He says:
I'm this bill 1 have undertaken to