The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-05-01
Local Manufactures Appoint
ed by Governor, in Accord
ance With New Vocational
Training Law.
ANOTHER APPOINTEE'
MAY COME TO CITY
Rumor That Henry G. Brown
of Lebanon, Will be New
Superintendent of Rich
mond City Schools.

Pettis A. Reid, Democrat, prominent
local wire fence manufacturer; Henry
G. Brown, Progressive, superintendent
of the Lebanon city schools, and Will
liam Dodson, Democrat, secretary of
the Bricklayers, Masons and Plaster
ers' International Union of America,
were selected yesterday by Governor
Ralston to serve on the state board
of education in compliance with the
new vocational training law.
The Richmond board of education,
it is understood, has conferred with
Mr.. Brown in regard to the local school
superintendency, which Office will be
vacated soon by the resignation of
Prof. T. Abbott Mott. In case Mr..
Brown comes to this city, Richmond
will have three representatives upon
the state board of education in Robert
l., Kelly, president of Earlham college;
Mr.. Reid and Mr.. Brown.
Mr.. Brown Is one of the best known
educators in the state. He has been
at the head of the Lebanon schools
for the past eight years, and last week
was appointed to serve another year
in the same capacity. 1t is not known
whether he will be secured for the
school superintendency here or not
Mr.. Brown is a graduate of Chicago
university.
Pettis Reid was appointed for term
of four years, Mr.. Brown for term
of three years, and Mr.. Dodson for
term of two years. Manford Liven-
good, of Veedersburg, superintendent
of the Fountain county schools, be-
comes a member of the state board as
the successor of Jesse c. Webb, super
intendent of the Johnson county
schools, whose term of four years
ended today. Mr. Livengood's term is
for four years.
Opposed to "Rook Trust"
The Progressive member of the
board is said to be strongly opposed
to the "book trust" and is said to
have gained the ill feeling of that or
ganization while acting as member
of the text book committee named by
the City and Town Superintendents'
Association.
The new members of the board were
appointed in accordance with the vo-
cational law recently enacted by the
state legislature. The law provides
that the three new members of the
board are to be three citizens actively
Interested in and of sympathy with
vocational training, one of whom shall
be representative Of employees and
one Of employers"
Mr.. Reid was named as a represent
ative of employers. He is a member
OF the Elliott & Reid company MANN
facturers of wire fence, in this city.
He was the Democratic nominee for
mayor at the last city election, and is
vice president of the Commercial club
Former Governor Marshall appointed
Mr. Reid representative of Indiana to
the conference of the National Asso-
citation for the Promotion of Indus
trial Education held at Milwaukee, and
since that time he has been a mem
ber Of the association.
Besides augmenting the membership
of the board. the vocational act pro-
vides for the appointment by the state
superintendent of public instruction of
a deputy superintendent to have
charge of industrial and domestic sci
ence education. The state superin-
tendent will also cooperate with Pur-
due university in the appointment of
some perscl actively connected with
the agricultural extension work there
as an agent in supervising agricultural
education. who shall serve in a dual
capacity and an assistant at Purdue
university. No selections for these
places have as yet been made.