The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-03-28
DR. HOWE tAUDS WORK OF
TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLS
Absolutely Necessary To Mod
ern Industrial Conditions"
Says Cleveland Educator

DR.. Charles S. Howe. for the past
% years president OF the Case School
i OF Applied Science, in Cleveland, came
10 Detroit, Thursday, to be the guest
of the educational committee OF the
Twentieth Century club at luncheon,
in The Century building and to give
a talk before the clubwomen and men
guests on Industrial education in
nigh schools" Dr. Howe is a ma
uonal figure in educational and civic
matters and has been honored In
every way possible by American and
British societies and associations in
terested in the things TO which DIR.
Howe has devoted his life.
Il do not believe in a college man
keeping himself In his business Office
as 4 tends TO fossilize him, so | well
come every opportunity to get out
into the world and rub shoulders and
exchange ideas with my fellow men
in all lines of endeavor," DR.. Howe
told The Times, Thursday morning.
In q brief talk, in the Hotel Point
chartrain
In my Detroit address will pre-
sent facts, born of experience, and
pictures OF actual results, in the work
of the technical high schools OF
Cleveland, which hope will prove
helpful in the conduct of schools along
similar lines which understand are
TO become a part OF Detroits educa-
tional system" he continued.
Il am a great believer in training
boys and girls to definite. useful.
practical occupations The boy or
girl who enters college for the pur-
pose of preparing for a profession Is
usually in position to carry out the
purpose financially and otherwise.
But what OF the poor boy or girl,
obliged TO leave school In the sixth
or eighth grades and go TO work sim
ply because If they remain in school
longer they will be acquiring book
knowledge only and no knowledge OF
a trade? II is for this latter class
that technical high schools are design
ed and there is no question but that
they are needed and appreciated as
shown by the results in those cities
where they have been established.
The first technical high school in
Cleveland was opened four years ago
with 600 in attendance. Today il has
ll.S42 pupils. and a second school has
I had TO be opened The technical high
schools do not interfere or affect the
other high schools in the slightest
( The training given In such schools IL
absolutely necessary to our modern
American industrial conditions. Fifty
or even 20 years ago we had the ap
premiership system to depend upor
for the training of skilled mechanics
and artisans, but with its passing we
have nothing left. The boy who has
been trained to a trade to the poin
where he commands good wages anC
fairly earns them never becomes tn,
disgTuntled citizen that is born in tht
ranks OF the poorly paid and untrain
ed laborer. All over America today
manufacturers and business men arr
crying for the man who knows how.
The High School of Commerce In
Cleveland was established for the
purpose OF training boys in the equip
ment necessary in business life and
TO make business profession as
much as the law or medicine OF
engineering.
Il know that the training given in
these technical schools inspires am
hilton and makes a boy a believer in
himself and in his own ability "a
make his way in the world. My def
milton OF success is not that given In
the dictionary | believe the success
full man 10 be the one who continually
does the very best he can and who
makes the ability he possesses count
every day in the year"
DR.. Howe spoke before large
gathering in the Century club. lie is
m easy, fluent speaker and interest
ing because he knows what he Is talk
ing about and presents his subject
matter I'm graceful, simple language
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