Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-04
|OP[N TRADE SCHOOLS
ENGINEERING EDUCATION OF.
FEREp IOWA MECHANICS ~
STATE COLLEGE.
OPEN NIGHT scHooL At
CEDAR RAPIDS NEXT WEEK
Engineering Extension Department to
Carry Work Into Every industrial
Center in stats-Ceurss Of Instruc.
ton to 40 Adapted to Need Of Stu.
dsnts-Rsaeh Other Cities Soon.

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Specia to Times Republican.
Ames. Oct. Next week Iowa State
College will open in Cedar Rapids its
first extension night trade school for
mechanics who can not come to the
college at Ames to get the technical
training they need to qualify them
selves for better jobs. That will be the
inauguration Of u new extensio.: work
that will in time take engineering ed
ucation into every Industrial COM
munity Of Iowa just as the college has
for some years been carrying its agri-
cultural educational work into every
rural community of the state. The
work at Cedar Rapids will perhaps be
followed soon by the establishment Of
another night trade school in Water
loo, then later in all cities like Boone.
Marshalltown. Charles City. Mason
City. Sioux City. Fort Dodge, Council
Bluffs. Davenport, Burlington. Musca-
tine. Ottumwa, Des Moi1es. Keokuk
and wherever else mechanics and their
employers win cooperate to make such
schools successful.
Instruction Adapted to Needs.
Instruction in these extension trade
schools will be adapted carefully to the
needs Of the men who enroll in the
courses. At Cedar Rapids the classes
will take up three lines of study, me-
chanical drawing. shop mathematics
and gas engines. The extension de-
partment will furnish the enrolled stu
dents with booklets and leaflets con-
tanning practical Instructions. practice
work and exercises Of various kinds.
The extension department also fur
ntshes q local instructor to conduct the
classes. in each case q man Of both
technical and practical training who is
fitted for that kind of work. In Cedar
Rapids that local instructor will be
A. A. Seth, assistant engineer OF the
Denning Motor Company CT that city.
and mechanical engineering graduate
of Iowa State College. While he leads
the classes, all written exercises and
examination papers are sent to the col
lege for criticism and marking. because
whenever night school student passes
up a piece of work successfully, he
gets credit for 1t in the two-year
courses at Ames and it counts toward
.
Rapids the classes will be held In the
Y. NJ. G. A. building.
Interest 1t WatsrIoo.
In Waterloo there Il much interest
in the movement for extension work
Recently X. G. Smith. director of en-
gineering extension, spent day or two
there in company with q. A. Wright
man, secretary Of the Iowa Manufac-
tat u Too hA NWN.
posed establishment of q night school
there for the benefit Of the many young
men employed in shops. Out Of this
visit came the arrangement for Oct. 8
of big mass meeting of Waterloo
manufacturers to hear more about the
subject Then both Messrs. Smith and
Wrightman and also ]. w. Perry, E. s.
Shortess and r. B. Dale. assistants to
Mr.. Smith, will explain fully the plans
of the extension work. It is expected
that the opening Of school there will
follow. Fort Dodge is interested, so are
Marshalltown, Boone, Charles City and
various other cities which have asked
for information. Not all Of them can
be given extension schools at once, but
as rapidly as possible the extension
work will be established there. Where
ever twelve or more students ask for
this kind of instruction, the college will
provide it.
Conduct corrsspondenes Courses.
These local night schools do not COM
prise all of the proposed work Of the
engineering extension department. It
will probably reach more men thru its
correspondence courses than in any
other way. The booklets and other
I tor hoinR
prepared for printing and within a
short time enrollments will be accepted.
AS far as possible. manufacturers are
asked to cooperate by giving enrolled
employees half day off once week on
full pay to allow them to attend day
sessions instead OF night classes. One
morning or afternoon week would
mean four hours in the class room: In
a years time that would be 20S hours.
enough to transform wholly the career
of any ambitious, capable young man.
The day session plan has this adj
vantage: Itssends back to the employer
q boy or young man who Ia clear head
ed and awake and not one who rs dulled
by loss of sleep the night before. More
over. the half day of on pay gives
moral stimulus that is worth many
times what the half days wages
amount to.
Broad Field For Action.
There is in Iowa a wonderful field
for this kind of work" says Mr.. Smith,
director. 81 find there are 5,52S factories
in the state with 61,000 employees who
depend upon the skill Of their hands for
a living. Then there are thousands Of
artisans who work as carpenters and
in other lines. The state owes to every
man in this great army who wants to
make himself better artisan chance
to improve his skill. just as it owes 1t
to the young farmers of the state. They
cant come to the college for training.
so now we are going to take the college
to them. We are ready to go anywhere
that we are really wanted"
Fall Festival at Trasr.
Special to es-Republican.
Traer. Oct. 4.-Traer is preparing
for one Of the greatest days in her
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