Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-06-02
INTRODUCTION OF MANUAL TRAINING IN SALEM PUBLIC
SCHOOLS.

The Salem public schools have through their enteprlSng
board of education taken up the problem Introducing man
ua training and industrial arts as part OF the educauona
system of the public schools,
They have adopted deliberate program, having begun
last fall with free-tand drawing in all the first eight GRADES
large display of the work done by the children was made
for two days at the schools and an exhibit sent 10 the Se
atte fair
The remarkable feature of the work was that was done
without heapng up the cost of additional textbooks on the
parents
II was not show work got up for an exhibit but the actual
work done by the average child Of the average Citizen
This work was also done with the teachers and most OF
them will take up class work once week In tree-hand
drawing and learn to do the work and also teach it.
II Is programmed 10 introduce clay modelling in the lower
grades and needewok in the SIXTH, seventh and eg't1
grades for the girls,
This is made necessary il the boys in those grades are 10
take up woodworking and that is the present intention
City Superintendent Powers and Supervisor OF Industrial
Arts Geo Schreber have gone 10 Portland to look over the
work done there
At Portland manual training has been introduced in the
ward schools and school Of trades has been established
II Is moi the intention to copy what is being done there
but TO learn what is being undertaken and how SUCCESSFUL
Il has been,
teacher of drawing and needework is 10 be employed to
carry on the instruction from where il has been left at the
end of this year.
The industrial work will be started in plain and practical
way in each OF the schools probably with some elementary
tools like saws, planes, chISeS, squares and augurS
Each workshop in the schools will have work bench to
start with and is the intention to make more OF neSe ana
Saw-hoESeS and other articles needed,
The educational side of the work will not be overlooked
and those who have taste tor onamentaon VIII nave
chance to crafty that as soon as ready tor it.
Manual training will probably be made compulsory IN he
SIXTH seventh and eighth grades and viii be optional IN the
high school grades
The woodworking will be confined at first TO preparation
of materials plain joints ard making things OF ordinary USE
such as laying good plank sidewalk making repairs ahou!
the buildings or simple articles OF equipment needed ABOUT
the school house, such as chalk boxes, eTaSeS IepdS
broken desks, putting IN broken enceS doors ana WINDOWS
Supervisor Schneider will probably not use any text-toOks
as he has used none In drawing
Manual training as an educational factor mas come 10 stay
and Il is no longer to be treated as TAD.
Il fundamental elemental OF basic educalona Value
and because OF this IS dlSpaclqg present systems STEMS.
II is believed with manual training more efficient BOY OF
Girl can be turned out OF school at the end OF SIX years man
is produced now with eight years OF purely BOOK knoweage
Prof. H. W. WaTdrp, manual training teacher al the Ash
land State Normal School, has just been placed at the head
Of the industrial department OF the San benardno hgh
school, ..u. r.,
children for university entry, who by nature should be m
structed how to work with their hands
Our girls we crowd through the schools and prepare mem
for store ghs completely ignoring what they by nature are
SUperntendent Conrad at San BenardlnO says that the
high school, as al present conducted IS on entirely wrong
basis and he advocated the chalge WHICH WIN WaNe d
school OF technology l,.
school work Is wrong Out we 90 agree mat ldiua uam
ng with the high school will produce better results IN cIt-
zenShlp. -, an,
With manual training for boys and girls there viii be
reduction in athletics which now the only vent or pys-
cal exuberance. 49,, on..
that manual training has basic educatona value,
bow or glh may know all about algebra, latln geom,
e and geography and yet be as helpless as child about
use of their hands toward making living
and is onnohnteS 10 learn how TO do those things cor
actk and accuratey which they must do AL their lives IN