Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-21
Study on Company Time.

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ing on company time; at Bridgeport.
companies likewise have been sending
their apprentices to the Y. NJ. c. A three
/ mornings week on company time, ana
results are easily evident.
| cooperative school arrangement with
a score or more of large manufacturing
| concerns at Detroit puts group OF APP
prentices in the Y. NJ. G. A. school in the
| daytime during one week and into the
shop the next, alternating with another
group. At Chicago building trades APP
prentices have had special classes. The
| Cotton Belt road OF the southwest ike
wise has its apprentices in training at
the Y. NJ. c. A. at Pine Bluff, Ark. Typo
graphical apprentices at Houston, Tex,
are specially trained at the Y. M c. A.
with the hearty approval and support OF
the union. At Evansville. ILL.,, the build
| ing trades unions have heartily Endorsed
the classes for apprentices.
Similar schools for apprentices and men
in the industries in the northwest Pacific
states are popular and successful, and
| are Endorsed by both unions and employ
ers. At many other points the Y. NJ. G..
A. is similarly giving apprentices the
special training they need to fill in the
big gaps between their school and shop
experience. About half of the 10000
students enrolled by the Y. NJ. G. AS in
their various day and night schools about
the country are industrial and technical
/ workers.
Training Professional Accountants.
| In Washington there is not the same
demand for trade-training apprenticeship
| arrangements as yet which would justify
| the Y. NJ. G.. A. in. establishing "A full
| fiedged trade school. There is hope that
friends of this important auxiliary to in
| dustrial growth may see the way clear
| to provide funds for the endowment OF
! such department of instruction. Mean
while the Washington u. NJ. G.. A. for
years has been doing an important work
| in education by providing courses in
| commercial, mechanical and preparatory
| subjects. and enabling a vast number of
federal employees. resident in Washington.
l 10 prepare themselves for greater useful
| ness in governmental work or other oc-
i equations.
Last year the effort in this direction
was carried into the field of training pro-
\ fessional accountants and the Washing
/ ton School Of Accountancy, as conducted
4 by the Young Mems Christian Associa-
| ton, is looked upon by prominent federal
/ officers as an invaluable adjunct to the
educational service of the community, 10
| the extent that 1T is developing efficiency
| in the statistical, cost and general ac-
| counting operations of many departments
/ Auditor Tweedale of the District DR.
| Powers of the census bureau and Assist
i ail oeoi ceaiy nays oI the Agricultural
| Department have been among those who
| have commended the accountancy in
| struction of the Y. NJ. c. A. Institute "a
| the clerks in the service. To the extent
| that such educational work of the Y M
{. A. is adding to the efficiency OF the
| government employe in his service as an
| accountant, statistician or expert in costs
it may be looked upon as an advanced
type of apprenticeship leading to skin in
| all that relates TO accounting, auditing
| and practical systematizing.
| What is true of the government cIarLS
is equally true of the bank employees
| trust company workers and real estate
/ experts. The Y. VI. c. A. vocation al
courses are aiming to add to the daily
| theory and practice which will make him
more valuable to his company and there.
| by also to himself