Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-12-11
BOYS SHOULD BE
TRAINED FOR
LIES WORK
VOCATIONAL WORK NEEDED
Schools Should Be Adapted
More to This End


address Before National Society for
Promotion of Industrial Education.)
The Page-Wilson bill has received
countrywide Endorsement and support
because the need for vocational educa-
ton is great Our national prosperity
Is at stake. The battles of the future
between nations will be fought in the
markets of the world. That nation will
triumph with all that it's success will
mean to the happiness and welfare of
its citizenship which is able to put the
greatest amount of brains and skill in
to what it produces. Our Interstate
and foreign commerce are being
threatened by the commercial prestige
which Germany has already won as
the result of policy of training its
workers, begun by the far-seeing Bis
marcks more than half century ago.
France, England and even far-off ia
pan, profiting by the success of the
Fatherland. are now establishing ma
tional systems vocational education.
The American workingman is today
the most intelligent in the world, but
he lacks training. When he has the
preparation, such as Germany gives
her workers, he is easily the most
skilled, most productive, most re-
sourceful. Since the schools have as
yet assumed no further responsibility
for those who go to work, the youth
must get the rest of his education i'll
an industrial organization which no
logger is able or willing to train its
own workers.
Large-scale production, extreme d.
vision of labor and the all-conquering
march of the machine have practically
driven out the apprenticeship system
through which in simpler age, Young
helpers were taught the art and the
mysteries of craft The journeynen
and artisan have given away 20 an
army of machine workers, knowing
nothing about the business beyond
their narrow and limited tasks
The age of science and invention Las
brought in its wake great body of
related knowledge necessary as a to3'
in trade to the highest success of the
mechanic, which the shop never did
give and never will be able to give
properly with out cooperation and
help of the schools.
Our natural resources are being rap
idly wasted and will continue to be Sc
wasted until a system of practical
training is set up which will prepare
those who toll on farm and in home
and shop to use the riches of soil aid
forest and mine intelligently. Oar
richer asset of human labor is being
constantly wasted until the American
people make their great public school
system more democratic by extending
its service through vocational educa-
ton to reach and meet the real ne : Is
of our neglected workers, so that all
the children of all the people may be
trained in all kinds of ways.
With constantly increasing demand
upon our industries for more and bet
ter goods, the supply of trained work
ers is, relatively at least, diminishing.
The product of our factories is being
restricted in quantity and quality, if
not actually diminished. High prices
are due in part to inefficient labor and
low profits to industry to the same
cause
With farming area practically sta
tionary, rapidly increasing popula-
ton and an agricultural class whose
ability to meet the demands for larger
is relatively diminishing,
our national appetite has outgrowfl
both our national larder and our ma
tional pocketbook There is no rem
edy for the high price of the food sup
ply save more productive agricul-
ture What is needed now is the Fed |
eral encouragement, which will get
information down into the mind and
hand of the man who actually does
the farming. In the era of high prices
for farm commodities is with us to
stay, there is no remedy save the edu- |
cation of working class which is able |
to earn and to be rewarded by a bet |
ter wage and enable us with better
paid workmen to maintain ourselves
In the worlds market.
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