The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-05-05
Meeting at Commercial Club
Rooms Tomorrow TO Talk
on Vocational Training In
Stitution.
COUNTY MAY TAKE
ADVANTAGE OF LAW
Agricultural Committee of
Board of Education in Fa-
vor of Securing Expert for
County.

A meeting of representatives OF or
ganizations interested in the forma-
ton of a vocational training high
school in Wayne county, will be held
tomorrow morning in the Commercial
club rooms. II is proposed to establish
under the acts of 1918, a high school,
for the advancement of the teaching
of agricultural and Industrial work in
the county. For the site of the school
a lease on tract of ground contain
ing forty acres has been obtained The
ground is located on the Sutton farm
between Richmond and Centerville
and it is proposed to teach practical
methods of tillage, farming and indus
trial work
Representatives from the school
board, board of works, Commercial
club, township trustees, and others
will be present at the meeting. II is
necessary to act quickly on the matter
if any thing is done this year as the
new act authorizes the establishment
of but thirty such schools the first year
The schools may be established and
maintained from the school funds or
from an additional tax levy not ex-
ceedIng ten cents per 500 of taxable
property. 1t is provided that the in
struction offered shall be less than col
lege grade and that it shall be design
ed to meet the requirements of per-
sons between the ages of ii years and
20 years. Evening classes for persons
ever IL years of age are allowed
Recent acts provide that elementary
agricultural instruction be given I'm the
town and township schools and that
this work be required for admission
into a vocational high school. Depart
ments similar to the vocational school
may be established in the other
schools of the country.
Committees Report.
The agricultural committee of the
Wayne county bard of education this
morning reported that, in the opinion
Of the members of the committee, IL
would be advisable for Wayne county
to take advantage of the law recently
enacted by the state legislature rela-
tive to maintaining an expert in the
county to have charge of the agri-
cultural department of the schools and
to render what assistance possible to
farmers. Other members of the board
agreed with the committee, and ii was
unanimously decided that the plan of
the committee for raising the money
should Immediately be put into oper-
alton.
According to the new law an expert
agricultural work in the Wayne county
schools, providing that certain sum
is raised among the various township
to show that the county is in SYM
pathy with the movement.
The duties of the official will be nu-
merous. He will analyze soil and rec
ommend fertilizers for any persons
who may desire. The expert is rec
commended by the county board of ed
ucation and the state board, and is
appointed by Purdue university.
1t was regretted by the officials that
the corn school of two years ago has
not been maintained The excellent
work done that year has greatly in
creased the efficiency OF the farms
even to this day, according to Secre-
tary Jordan, of the Commercial Club.
The work was under the supervision
of Mr.. Jordan and Stephen Kuth, and
was financed by r. G.. Leeds.
To Raise Money.
The various townships in the coun-
ty will raise the following subscrip-
tions among the farmers: Wayne,
$50; jackson, s55; Boston. s25: Web
ster, SIS; Washington. $50; Center.
s35; Abingdon, SIS; Dalton. SIS; Har-
rison. SIS; Franklin. $50; Greene, $50:
New Warden, $50; Perry, $50. and JEFF
ferson $50 The county council shall
then appropriate $500. and the state
81, 900.
Five years ago a committee COM
posed of L. S. Bowman. now county
auditor, and Will K Chessman. was
appointed 20 frame a law similar TO
the one which was passed, an was un-
successful in having IL enacted at that
time.
tits believed that this plan will do
much toward making farms in this
vicinity more productive. Wayne
county farms are expected to become
more valuable as a result of the &C
ton on the part of the officials. Sew
eral public spirited citizens have sig
nified their intention of assisting in
raising the required money.
Bishop Reelected.
George Bishop was reelected truant
officer. He has been engaged in the
work for the last ten years He was
asked to reconsider his resignation
which he handed to the trustees last
month. His re-appointment was made
after he announced that he would