Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-02-27
WOULD CONNECT
boy AND JOB

Connect the Boy and the Job was
The slogan adopted b. a number OF
prominent citizens ana members o:
tie board OF education, who are inter.
ested in the furtheranee OF Industrial
and vocational training in the pGO;:c
schools OF the Territory. at a meeting
held yesterday afternoon in the rooms
o! the board of education. In oTder
10 secure the necessary cooperation,
It was decided 10 ask the legislature
for an appropriation providing for the
engaging of a vocational guidance ex-
pert from the mainland to assist IN
the training of boys and girls for the
occupations which they intend to make
their life work.
The meeting yesterday afternoon
grew out of a similar meeting held
during the last session of commission
erS OF education. when committee
composed of Emil A. Berndt, Vaughan
MacCaughey, Edgar Wood, w. L. How
ard ard r. M Cross visited the meet
ing and asked for the cooperation and
advice of the board in carrying out
their plans to broaden the scope of in
dustrial and vocational training In the
public schools of the territory. Ii
has now been planned to resume the
task CT collecting data as to the posi-
tions which are open in the various
lines of business to the boys and girls
of Honolulu, what qualifications are
necessary and, if possible, what sal
cries would be paid. Out of this it is
expected will develop a system waere-
by the boys and girls will spend a part
Of their time in school and part in
learning a trade
With regard 10 asking the legisia-
ture for an appropriation, this meas
ire will provide for z vocational ex-
pert who will come here from the
mainland. and also for two trained in
structors TO work on each island. who
will cooperate with the principals and
teachers Of the various schools in the
work of instructing the pupils in agri-
culture, manual training, and other IN
dustries. In time, it is believed, the
establishment of vocational tra;k:lE
schools viii grow out of this plan.
Upon a resolution presented by the
citizens committee at the meeting
yesterday, Chairman Harrington, of the
DCdi VI W do d0hC0 ~
arrange a hearing en- the matter be-
fore the committees on education in
the house and senate, Ed Towse also
being asked to bring the plan to the
attention of the Legislative committee
of the chamber of commerce and the
merchants association. The appropri-
alton which will be asked for Will be
sufficient to cover only two years.
during which time the work will be
started on a solid basis. In this way
the next legislature will be able to see
what work has been accomplished in
fitting the boy to the job and the job
to the bov. and for educating the girl
so that she may earn an honest liyeli-
hood.
Besides Commissioners Harrington
and Smith and Superintendent Willis
T. Pope, who represented the board o..
education, those present at the meet
ing we're Emil A. Berndt. Ed Towss,
Edgar Wood, Vaughan MacCaughel.
Inspector Gibson, r. NJ Cross, l. M.
Cox and A.. E. Larimer, who repre-
sented the different organizations and
citizens interested in the furtherance
of vocational and Industrial training
in the public schools of the territory,