The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-06-18
VOCATIONAL
EDUCATION.

In the senate of the United Statel
there is pending a bill known as"Sen
ate Bill No. 3" entitled, "A bill t
cooperate with the states in encour
aging instruction in agriculture, the
trades and industries, and home eco
Monies In secondary schools; in main
tanning instruction in these vocational
subjects in State Normal Srhools: ~
maintaining extension departments IN
State Colleges of agriculture and me
chanic arts; and to appropriate
money and regulate its expenditure. .
This takes us back to the stormy
days of 1862 and we again recount the
struggle led by Vermont'5 son Hen.
Justin s. Morrill, for the establish.
ment of a system of State Agricultu-
raj Colleges. We also indulge in a
passing thought of the struggle of our
own State Agricultural College, and
rejoice in the thought that practically
every vestige of prejuice that existed
as to the propriety Of establishing
these schools has passed away. and
that the almost unanimous thought
throughout the nation is that they are
the best schools in the land. We also
indulge in the hope that all the strug.
giles Of the future, wherein our own
cchc.l ID involved, Wi, be for the
extern .on Of its curriculum and the
enlargement Of its field Of usefulness.
On the establishment OF these
schools and the extension of their
opportunities as outlined In the bill
now before congress, Senator Page of
Vermont recently spoke as follows:
mr.. President, If there is any act
upon our statute books to which the
| eople of this land have given their
most hearty approval it is the Morrill,
Act of 1862. Congress has reaffirmel
that approval a 'ain and again, first
by the Hatch Act of 1887, appropriate
ing $4,000 annually to each State for
experimental stations. then by the
second Morrill, Act of 1890, giving al
additional $4,000 annually to each
State for the benefit of the agricul.
tural Morrill, Act. II was again reaf-
firmed in 1906 by the Adams Act,
which doubled the appropriation un
der the Hatch At by giving an adj
tional $4,000 annually to each State
for these same agricultural colleges
and State experiment stations; and
no later than 1907 it was further re.
affirmed by what is known as the Mel
son amendment, offered by the distin'
guished senior Senator from Mime
sofa by which was added another
$4,000 per annum to the agricultural
college fund of each State. These
four appropriations supplemented the
original Morril Act by giving to ca, =.
State $4,000 per annum additional.
Remember that the original Morril
Act was passed in 1892. at time
when we We're in the throes of the
Civil War, and when the burdens OF
the Government were infinitely large
than they are today. We took Gun
new departure on these lines then a.
decided that the general welfare was
so dependent upon industrial and az
ricultural education that we might
well lead the way in that great work.
The new departure taken in voca
tional education in 1862 has worked
wonders in the way OF giving to the
country an army OF trained specialists
in agriculture, engineering, and home
economics. This skeleton army has
laid the foundation for the larger,
broader work which by this measure
we seek to accomplish. Without these
trained specialists We should be In
a condition OF unpreparedness which
would be absolutely deplorable. Al
IL is, we are now ready to go on with
the broader work; and the great
American people NO" ihsist 'ho' w
do go on with it in some such man
ner as is outlined by Senate bill No
3. now before us.
The nations Of the earth are nov
engaged in a race for commercial 81
premacy, and in that race today Ger
many is confessedly taking the lead
II is said that she annually exports
billion dollars worth of her product
and this fact is, in large measure, oW
ing to that other fact that she Is NOR
progressive in the matter of industr
al education than any other nation 4
the world. In Germany every boy
even to the sons OF the Emperor