Omaha daily bee., 1913-12-05
CRAFT FOR VOCATION BUREAU
Says Boys Have No Means of Wisely
Choosing Their Work,
THEY OUGHT TO BE ASSISTED
superintendent of schools, Talking
TO Mothers Club, Asks for Free
Municipal Bureau of BUS
iness Information.

Establishment OF a municipal bureau OF
vocational guidance. which would. with
out expense, furnish boys and girls COM
plete Information about all businesses
and occupations in the city. was recon-
mended by E. u. Graft, superintendent
of public schools, I'm an address TO the
Mothers club of the. Monmouth park
, school district IN the school auditorium
yesterday afternoon.
What chance has the boy or girl
after looking over the wide field of
commercialism and industriallsm to
make a wise choice of occupation?" ?"
asked Superintendent Graft. What
chance would you have? What kind OF
business can boy go into in this town?
That's what we ought to know and the
boys ought to be given the fullest in
formation about the business they in
tend to follow.
1--WE are inclined to shunt the boy into
the easiest groove and there he will
find himself, often after he has grown
gray. without any opportunity to ad-
vance. no chance of promotion, his wages
in no way proportionate to his qualifi-
cations.
How Can He ChooseF
Because there is no method by which
boy can wisely choose the kind OF
work he wants to do / believe a vo-
cational guidance bureau is necessary
and should be established. There a boy
about TO enter into commercial work
could learn what kind OF factories there
are in the town. what kinds Of business
the number of business and factory
operatives. the chances for promotion.
the qualifications necessary to be sue
cessful in any particular business
Business generally is done behind
locked doors. The employees i'm these busi-
nesses are recruited from men who know
nothing about the actual work and who
find it entirely different from what they
imagined. 1t would be OF inestimable
value II they knew"
Superintendent Graft spoke OF the
modern trend toward organized instruc-
tion, showing how the school had grad
ually usurped the prerogatives Of the
home until now the child is taught
cooking, sewing. how to work and how
TO play" I'm institutions. For this reason
he urged the necessity of parents, in
order TO keep acquainted with the
progress of education. to cooperate with
school authorities by the organization Of
mothers clubs or similar organizations.
Miss Edith Tubitt. city librarian. ad-
dressed the club. She said the children
ought to be encouraged to buy books. for
It is better to own few good books
than to rent many. She said:
Il regret 70 say that some patrons of
the library read many books but re-
member little or nothing OF what they
read. The children ought to be taught
to think about what they read and they
ought to be helped in choosing good
books to read
THE Jews and the Italians seem to
instinctively select the best books to
read"
Miss TobiJt spoke with regret OF the
large number of magazines purchased
and said one or two lOc magazines each
month ought to be sufficient and that
the remainder Of the money usually spent
for MAGAZINES should be expended for
good books.
Referring to the circulating Libraries
Miss Tobitt commended the idea Of
book wagons In the country, which
supply a large number of people with
reading matter and could supply many
more II the wagons were more numerous
This was the first meeting Of the Mon
mouth Park Mothers club, as II has just
been organized.