The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-21


 motion of Industrial Education meets
 in Atlanta today. It Is expected 10
 give new impetus to the movement
 for training the hands of the youth
 of America along with the training
 of their minds. This society was
 formed in 1906. and its moving spirits
 are America's leading workers Tn the
 realm of social betterment. You may
 teach a boy the principals of bicycle
 riding or skating until your head IS
 gray, but he can do neither until he
 has learned by actual experiences.
 This is the principal upon which the
 movement for the extension or indus"
 trial education is based.
 The sneakers of the Atlanta meeting of the country. Andrew Carnegie. | will include some of the leading lights
 who believes that an educated hand
 adds more wealth to the nation than an educated mind. but who wants , both together, will be there. Secre- tary Wilson of the Department of Agriculture. who believes that there l is more genuine progress in store Tor | the nation. through the teaching or as A science than through any other I agency. will have a say Jane Addah's
 who is "A ending her beautiful life Tn the uplifting of the underworld ana
 who believes that the best antldote | for poverty is to teach the young l how to do something with the hands will also be there. e9. s,gt,si. A sign of the times is the fact that the Department of Agriculture, can secure all the university graduates It
 wants for S1 900 q year, but when IL
 wants a man who has had an indus | trial or technical training it must | nay much more. Tho average brlck layer gets larger salary than the average college graduate under thirty | years of age The average machinist makes better wages than the average | book keeper Everywhere the man
 ,~lth hand training is getting the l advantage of him who lacks IT,
 Where the professions are over crowded. the industrial world IS begg- | ing for more men fitted for it's actlVl-
 ties. | nes most In the line of industrial edu' 1 cation just now is that for the teacn- l ing of agriculture in the puollc | schools of the rural districts. hiu
 is pending in Congress calling Tor
 concentrations for agricultural schools | Ir every Congressional District in the | TYptted States where there are at l least five farming counties. 1t Is said
 that this bill has good chance or
 being enacted into law! This would
 probably mean an annual out put or l so O0O well-trained farmers. These | young farmers would go out ana | teach their neighbors by example ana
 the ultimate result would De beyond 1 estimate. So great is the demand Tor
 general instructors who can teach aericuiture that many normal schools arc adding such course. and the limited States Bureau of Education l issued a pamphlet prepared by Pro lessor Bailey, whom President Roose- veft has appointed to head the com nnittee for catechising the farmers. This pamphlet discusses the question of training persons for the teaching of agriculture. and lays out the proper
 course of study
 Should all of the farmers of the United States become no better than l the best of those today there Is no telling where our progress would end The Department of Agriculture today can take any farm in the United states, which Is operated on the old fashioned, haphazard plan, and double | its crops by the application Of known gcientific methods Should the edu-
 cation of farmers sons and daughters In practical agriculture accomplish as much, 1t would mean that there would i be an increase of at least one-half
 in the annual value of the output of | the farm. or over four billion dollars I A year. It is probable that every rural schools will have a course in farming within a decade. The. con- solidated country school is gradually taking the place of the little red one that capped every hill a few years
 ago, and under tho new conditions agriculture can easily be added to the curriculm. It is not improbable that | the rural school of the future may have a little experimental farm at tAched to It. There arc already a l number of states in which the subject
 Is taught. and in all of these tho
 farmers are reported to be adopting
 the ideas learned by their children at
 school.
 No less important in tho industrial
 development of the future is the
 training which the city Is to have
 There are ten million children in the
 United States who need to be taught
 useful trades, and almost half of
 them might be described as "city
 children, If they were so taught
 vast, indeed, would be the money
 value of that training. James M.
 Dodge. president of the American
 Society of Mechanical Engineers. in
 an address on The Money Value of ! Technical Training," says in sub stance;
 If a young man Is put in a shop at the age of sixteen he will probably