Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-03-01
MANUAL TRAINING
IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Strongly Advocat-
ed By Prof. Ed
mund J. Vert
I'm INTERESTING LECTURE
Leading Educator Says twill
Solve Future Problems
In New Mexico.

THAT the best elementary and sec
ondary education for New Mexico and
the one which will best prepare its
youth for the changes which will in
evitably come, is one in which fully
half Of the time of the school period
Is given to the knowledge OF and a
training in the industries"
The foregoing is brief outline OF
an exceedingly interesting lecture de-
liyered at the High School last even-
ing by Professor Edmund J. Vert,
president of the New Mexico Normal
University at Las Vegas. The lecture
was under the auspices Of the Wom-
ans Board of Trade and Library AS
sociation. Professor Vert deserved a
larger audience than that which greet
ed him. He took for his subject THE
New Mexico of Tomorrow" and spoke
in part as follows:
THE real motive power in human
life, the real force which brings things
to pass, the thing which is truly prac-
tical, is the imagery which fills the
minds Of men, the picture which
arouses their enthusiasm, the visions
which aspire them to effort.
"The final judgment men form of a
people Is not based upon Its beautiful
wares, its cunning contrivances, its
/ treasures in material things, but up
on its ideals of conduct and Its ideals
Of destiny which shape the purposes
and activities of men,
Thus has it been with the develop
ment Of the resources of nature and
the discoveries and inventions which
have been benefit to mankind. A
vague notion has developed into q
definite ideal and thus into conylc-
ton in an individual. This ideal has
spread to many persons and this
vision In the minds of many has
spread to the whole. In this manner
have commonwealths been founded !;
the resources of the soil developed; I;
great cities built; lines of transpor-
tations established. Thus will 1t be
In the New Mexico of tomorrow.
"Her large native population and
the people that are coming to her
plains and valleys from the southern
states Of the east, together with those
coming from the north and east, COM
bine to make cosmopolitan popula.
ton. They are the people who with
ideals of the future are to make New
Mexico what today she is not.
Vast Resources Assure Prosperity.
Though New Mexico has remained
comparatively isolated for more than
three hundred years the time has
come when she must join the process
sion. If New Mexico were without re
sources in rock, or in soil, or In eli
mate. her tomorrow might give us lit
tie concern, for she would have little
that would be Of value to mankind;
but the actual condition of things is
otherwise.
III under the present crude meth
DDS of management she can produce
in a single year $44,00O,O0O in live
stock, when less extravagant ant
more productive methods are employ
ed she can produce a much larger
amount. If by using but small pari
of her moisture and that when en-
ploying unscientific methods she car
produce s1S,00O,000 a year in farm
products and $350,0O0 In vegetable
products, when better methods are
employed, as they surely will be, still
greater returns will be secured Il
In 1905, when the vast coal fields were
just being discovered, 1,672,000 tons
Of coal were taken from her mines
what may We not expect ten years
hence when fields larger than the larg
est in the east are developed. 1t IL
these things that make the tomorrow
of New Mexico bright and hopeful
History has repeated itself in ou
TERRITORY as # has done elsewhere
Education Must Solve Future Prob
lems
"The question then. is. .Hov shal,
New Mexico nrenare her peonle fo,
the assumntion Of the responsibilit,e,
Tins forced mon them and from
which nv no hnman device can the,
escaneY
"For An answer to thesa question,
with trua An,erican hab,+ ~ mind =.
turn H. education and tha schools
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