The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-09

give direction to the manifest deter
mination Of the American people to
turn the further development of our
public education in part towards tech
meal and economic lines.
s.Durine the last twenty years public
schools of secondary or high school
grade have made very rapid growth,
showing that as our people increase in
wealth larger numbers want education
of a grade higher than that provided
in the primary schools. Since only
mart of those attending high schools
are needed in the professions, it is
clear that a large number of young
men attending these schools must enter
agriculture and mechanic Industries,
arts and trades, and no fact is more
apparent than that a portion of our
high school work for girls should be
directed toward home-making.
This bill contemplates building up
a large class of people trained in high
school courses, combining industrial
and general education. With patrons
and teachers from such schools, our
urinary schools will be able to carry
agriculture, manual training and home
economics subjects into the primary,
rural and city schools. This bill will
do much to bring all classes of primary
schools to higher standards of scholar
ship. as well as to give their courses
more of a practical bearing. This Sec
ondary education will also encourage
self selection on the part of pupils, en-
abling them to better choose for them
selves those lines of endeayor in which
their ability and interest will enable
them best to succeed. In this way this
industrial education will provide for
our colleges and universities students
better fitted for the several lines of
higher education and for the more or
less technical vocations to which these
collegiate and university courses lead.
s'Not many of our States have sue
ceeded in properly financing and de-
veloping our primary schools, especial
" those in the rural communities. It
would seem that at this juncture the
State treasures of most States have
more than they can do to meet the
coming demands for better primary
schools As the Federal appropriation
for State agricultural and mechanical
colleges and experiment stations has
induced the States to invest money |
along the lines of industrial education
and research, so an additional appro-
priatfon as contemplated in this bill |
would do much to encourage the States
to make larger appropriations for the
and general phase of our pub |
lie system.
1.-The Federal appropriations, turning
over to the States funds for agricul-
nj
state experiment stations, have been
= means of decentralizing and of /
building up local institutions of which
he States are proud. Because it will
carry relatively large sum of money
% be administered by the States, this
1ilI will do even more TO magnify local
than has the system of
State colleges and experiment stations.
rhe peculiar reason for raising money
or the purposes of the bill is that the
Federal government can initiate in
very district in each State popular
,ducation relating to the industries and
lone making, encouraging the States
o do far more for themselves than
hey will do without this fund. 1t is
lot interference with States; it is not
merely aid to the States. It is coopera-
ion with the States. they to manage
he new enterprises. 1t is not new law
n form, principle or object. 1t is
merely another supplement to the Land
Grant Act of 1862 which established
state education and research in agri-
ulture and in the mechanic arts, as
-lready supplemented by the Hatch
Act of 1887, the Morrill, Act of 1889,
he Adams Act of 1905 and the Nelson
Act of 1907.