The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1914-07-15
70 FIT MILLIONS
FOR THEIR WORK
State Grants Are Urged For
Vocational Education.
$1,000, 600 TO TAKE UP PLAN

Comm ission on National Aid Asks That
as Starter and Would Increase
Amount to S7ooo,ooo a Year-Three
Types Of Schools Projected For the
More Common Occupations.
According to the report of the com.
mission on national aid for vocational
education. appointed by the president.
and of which Senator Iluke Smith was
chairman, Of more than 2J,OOO00O
workers in agriculture and industry
fewer than ! per cent have had AIDE
quate preparation for their jobs. NH.
lions Of persons between the ages of
fourteen and eighteen years" the re-
port continues. are not in school hav-
ing left to enter the ranks of the
breadwnners About half of these
are children under sixteen years OF age,
the large majority of whom left school
before completing their elementary ed
ucation and are handicapped by lack
of schooling either for successful wage
earning or for intelligent citizenship.
"As u solution of the problem con
fronting the milton. vocational training
is needed to conserve aud develop our
natural resources. To prevent waste of
human labor. 10 provide u substitute
for the Old apprenticeship. to increase
wage earning power and to meet the
increasing demand for trained work
ers
b,itial Appropriation OF S1,50O,OOU.
ITO stimulate the movement for No-
catiuual education the commission rec
ommcndS the distribution of national
grants among the states. In lis Dill
to congress it provides for an appro-
priation Of Sl.5GU.UUO for 1913 to be
Increased yearly thereafter, according
to IA graduated scale. until the maxi
mum annual appropriation of $1,000
600 is reached in 1924. This money is
to be used under certain conditions for
the training of teachers for vocational
subjects aud for the paying of salaries
Of vocational teachers.
"The kind of vocational education
which is most needed at the present
is that which is designed to prepare
workers for the more common Occupa-
tons in which the great mass of our
people find useful employment" CON
tinues the report Vocational train.
ing to be most effective and thorough
going should be restricted TO persons
over fourteen years of age who have
laid the foundations of general edu
cation in the elementary schools"
For Three Types of Schools.
The commission has proposed that
the grants shah be used i'm three diff
ferent types of schools all day, part
time and evening schools or these
schools the report says: The results
which may be expected from the all
day industrial schools are the retention
In school longer OF boys and girls who
leave because of their lack of interest.
wiser choice of vocation because of
an opportunity to test ability and TO
discover likes and dslikes. greater Ger.
tainty of success in Il vocation because
of the development of Il more definite
purpose in life and of an increased in
dustriaI intelligence, of an insight into
fundamental principles of trade. the
acquisition of sufficient skill to shorten
the period of apprenticeship and "A
greater readiness TO profit by part
time or evening instruction for the
sake of future advancement or promo
ton.
Part time schools may provide,
among other things, for trade extern
sion for the next step within given
industry. trade preparation courses for
boys and girls employed in occupation
where advancement is dependent upon
increased specific and general intrlli-
gence, and home economic courses for
girls who are employed in any line of
Industry