The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-03

sales agency it is intended that the eovernment shall keep in touch with these industrial centers and communi- cate to them up to date information relative to patterns and standards de- msnded by the foreign market.
 This institution has already been established with an attendance of ap- proximately 15o women. The difficulties l Incident to the opening of the new l school have been overcome, and, judg- ing from the work now being per- formed, the outlook for success is very bright"
 Athletics
 The athletic programme of the bu- reau has found general acceptance among the masses of the people of the islands. At the beginning of the year there remained much to be done in pro vlding better playground and athletic Facilities, in providing a more effective or ganization and such an extension of athletic activities as would bring a far larger percentage of people within their influence. The plan of the bureau as it relates to athletics is as follows:
 The director of education exercises general control over the entire sys- tenn and delegates such authority as may be necessary to division superin- lendents and teachers. The smallest organization provided for Is the ath- letie club of the school; the schools Of district may be organized Into a union and all or the districts of a province into a league. Clubs, unions, and leagues are organized when the di- vision superintendent believes they are necessary. Associations are inter-pro- vincial in nature and their formation under approved constitutions is ob- ligatory in every case where inter- provincial contests are to be held. All general meets. such as those that have been held in connection with the Phil trpine carnival, are under the control of the director of education acting through authorized representatives. An advisory board consisting of superin- tendents and teachers is appointed by the director; the functions of this board are purely advisory"
 It Is confidently expected by the di- rector that as soon as the introduction of the playground and group games be- come general, at least so per cent of the school children will participate in athletics
 Industrial Education
 The industrial programme Is being promoted constantly through the me- dium of provincial industrial super visors, inspectors and instructors from the travelling corps of the general of flee, various publications. bulletins aud correspondence. through industrial ex- hibits, through the appointment of pen sionados to receive training along such lines, and by means of the special courses offered in the Philippine for nal school and the Philippine School of Arts and Trades.
 Such satisfactory progress Is to be reported as to convince the director fla nfh hn1c stantlally correct. On entering the school the pupil must immediately take Up as part of each days work cer- tain manual exercises in the nature of play work at first, but which gradually leads up to the regular industrial courses provided in the advanced pri- mary and in the intermediate grades. Special courses in farming, house. keeping and household arts, trade work and business are offered for those pupils who desire to do more indus trial work than that prescribed in the general intermediate course. These spe- cial industrial courses are replacing the general course In many interme- date schools. Already Al schools are giving the farming course, 54 are giv- ing the housekeeping course, 35 are giving the trade course 42 the teach ing course and one the business course as compared with total of 199 con drcting the general course.
 It is at once evident, with require rients so definitely fixed for industrial work in the schools, the great majority of the pupils who are enrolled must be engaged in some branch of this work. An examination of the figures included among the statistical tables of this report will show that Of tho total enrolment of 33,740 boys and l3S,S42 girls during the month of Feb ruary, 1912, Gan average month) 216,- 290 boys and 125,203 girls-91 per cent of the entire monthly enrollment- were dong some form of industrial W ork. More specifically, 1t will be found that 13,210 boys were taking manual training and trade work, 97,167 boys were engaged in school gardening and farming, 15,4S5 girls were also engaged in garden work, and 165, ,450 boys and eS,194 girls were taking up various lines which go under the general cap ton of minor industries. It will be noted that 79.3S2 girls were pursuing the subject of housekeeping and house. hold arts Further in that connection Il will be found that in the subject of lacemaking alone 16,439 girls were re- ceiving instruction: in embroidery 12,- SS9, and in cooking 476S. There were 22,9s5 boys and 7709 girls making hats in the Industrial classes, 40,264 pupils
 
 art of baslSetry.
 From another point of view 63.067 pupils engaged in school gardening cul- tlvated 3046 school gardens and 24,6S2 home gardens during the year 1919 pupils were enrolled in the regular trade school classes; 1263 in regular trade cources in other schools, and 1860 in the shops operated fin connection with provincial and other intermediate schools Tn addition to the above, 10,356 pupils were taking work in 236 pri- mary wood working shops conducted in connection with municipal primary schools in all pants of the islands.
 The foregoing Is a statement of facts. The time for discussion of experiments being made and for argument as to the correctness of policies being followed Is past The figures offered must stand for what they are worth. However, there is one criterion by which tha success of system can be judged and N hich cannot find an adequate space here; f. e.. the place which the in- dustrial instruction of the public schools has in the estimation of the people. The carnival exhibits of the Last few years have been succession of surprises. The exhibit of February, 1912, was successful to such an extent as to guarantee the approval of the rublic, official and non official, both American and Filipino. This exhibit awakened unusual interest on the part of Manila merchants, particularly Ger man and English houses in the possi- bilities for extension of certain lines of school industrial work.
 As plans along these lines develop the problems to be solved assume more dennjnite and tangible form A year