Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-10-07
TRADE SCHOOL IS
latest {: VENTURE
STATE COLLEGE BEGINS COURSE
IN GENERAL MECHANICS
IN DIFFERENT CITIES.

Ames, Oct. 6.-This week Iowa state
college will open in Cedar Rapids its
first extension night trade school for
at Ames to get the technical training
they need to qualify themselves for
better Jobs That will be the inaug
nration of new extension work that
will In time take engineering educa.
ton into every industrial community
of Iowa just as the college has for
some years been carrying its agricul.
tural 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 Waterloo, then
later in all cities like Boone, MARSHALL
Town, Charles City, Mason City, Sioux
City, Fl Dodge, Council Bluffs, Dav
export, Burlington, Muscatine, Ottum.
wa, Des Motnes, Keokuk and where.
ever else mechanics and their employ.
ers will cooperate to make such
schools successful.
Will Adapt Courses.
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, mechanical drawing, shop math-
ematics and gas engines. The exten.
SION department will furnish the en-
rolled students with booklets and
leaflets containing practical instruc.
tons, practice work and exercises OF
various kinds, The extension depart
f1ent also furnishes local instructor
to conduct the classes in each case a
man Of both technical and practical
training who 10 fitted for that kind Of
work. In Cedar Rapids that local in:
structor will be A. A. Soth, assistant
engineer Of the Denning Motor Co., of
that city, and mechanical engineer
Ing graduate Of Iowa state college.
While he leads the classes, all written
exercises and examination papers are
sent to the college 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 trade school certi-
ncate. In Cedar Rapids the classes
will be held In the Y. M. G. A. build.
Ing.
Need Cooperation. 4.
AS far as possible, manufacturers
nre asked to cooperate by giving en-
rolled employees a half day of once a
week on full pay to allow them to at
tend day sessions instead Of night
classes. One morning or afternoon a
week would mean four hours in the
class room in 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 advantage. 1t sends
back to the employer boy or young
man who is clear headed and awake
and not one who is dulled by loss Of
sleep the night before. Moreover, the
half day off on pay gives a moral
stimulus that is worth many times
what the half days wages amount to.
Field Is Large. ... .-.
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,-
900 employees who depend upon the
skill of their hands for 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 him
self better artisan a chance to i'm
prove his skill, just as it owes 1t to the
young farmers of the state. They
can't come to the college for training,
Sc now we are going to take the col
lege to them. We are ready to 60 any
where that we are really wanted