Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-07
BURNETT FOR LOOD SCHOOLS


Lead Burkett.
the manual vocations and in homemaking.
In the agricultural committee they have
therefore agreed to recommend for passage
a most comprehensive MEASURE. The COM
mittee in 1907 gave the state agricultural
colleges $4,000 each or 81, 10000 with which
to prepare teachers for agriculture, the
trades and industries and home economics.
They now propose to give the state normal
schools like sum. or thus devote practi-
cally 100000 OF federal money, I'm CO.
operation with the states in preparing
teachers in these vocational subjects. The
third item OF these appropriations gives
100000 annually to be used in teaching
agriculture and home economics I'm about
400 agricultural high schools or one in each
ten counties. These agricultural high
schools are to be fashioned after the course
OF study in the agricultural high school
course at tho state university at Lincoln.
The fourth item provides SL0OO,0)O for
branch experiment stations at these state
district agricultural high schools. The
fifth item provides 100000 to pay for in
structlou In the trades and industries, home
economics and agriculture in the city pub
lie high schools Tho sixth item provides
81 100000 with which the state college Of
agriculture and mechanic arts will carry in
struction to the adult farmers and indus
trial workers Of the state. This will help
to enlarge tho farmers Institutes, to carry
out demonstration farming, to carry out
correspondence courses and otherwise to
carry the new knowledge constantly arts
ing in agriculture and home economies and
the Industries of the people OF the state.
Besides giving the University Of Nebraska
s25. 600 TO prepare teachers in mechanic arts
and home economies It would give to Ne
braska TO be divided among her normal
schools about as much more. II would
give the state $4,000 or more to be used in
teaching agriculture and home economics
in eight or ten agricultural high schools
throughout the state, and It would give op-
proximately 10000 to be used for branch
experiment stations at these state district
agricultural schools 1t would also give
the state university twenty or thirty thous'
and dollars for college extension work and
would give the public high schools of the
state approximately $4,000 to teach tine
trades and industries. home economics and
agriculture in these schools. Senator Burk
ttts idea in preparing the teachers fol
these vocational subjects before the work
Of the secondary schools is established Is
carried out in the vocational education bill
which provides that the normal schools
and agricultural colleges shall begin al
once the preparation OF teachers I'm these
technical subjects while the secondary
schools will start their work along these
lines three years later. This will not only
give the states time to prepare the teach
ers, but IL will also give the state and cities
time to secure lands and erect and equiI
buildings for these new lines OF education.
| 1t is believed that nothing has ever beer
| suggested which will so effectively bnnl
the state college and the state norma
schools down from their scholastic elevation
to be useful to the people in the manua
vocations as this bill Business men frs
/ saw the wisdom of this class of legislation
but now educators are everywhere speak
/ ing in It's favor.
| The new vocational education bill wal
placed by the agricultural committee, o
which Senator Burkett is a member, or
| the calendar in the senate with the recon
mendatlon for its passage only a few day.
before the close of the last session o
congress. This insures that It will be giveI
consideration in the next session OF con
| gress and no doubt Senator Burkett anC
| others Interested in the measure will pres
| for it's early passage The same bill is als
/ In the house Of representatives ready 10
| consideration.