The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-09
Lectures and Courses May bs Of
fered Through Medium Of Edu-
cationaI Committee Of Y.
m. CA.
PLAN IS SUCCESSFUL
Nineteen Cities Will be Enrolled
This Year, With Probably 1000
Men Taking These
Courses.

Edwin s. Shortess, field organizer
for the engineering extension depart.
ment of the Iowa state college at
Ames, is in Keokuk for two or three
days comforting with members OF the
educational committee OF the Y. NJ.
e. A., of which o. B. Towne is chair
man. The committee is considering
taking up some of the extension class
work offered by the state college.
and some of the lectures in the var
ious courses.
Last year sum OF $4,000 was set
aside for the trade school work
throughout the state. The idea was
to start classes in the different man
ufacturing centers OF the state. The
work is under the supervision and
direction of Professor Kenneth G.
perience In Wisconsin in this work.
Classes were organized In various
cities. and the letters from the manu-
facturers declare that the courses
have been beneficial to both the manu-
facturers and to the men.
The extension department organ
ICES the classes through some such
medium as the educational instltu-
lions or through the factory people.
A small tuition is charged for the rea-
son that 1t is held that II man pays
tuition he Is interested enough to
learn.
For Men on Job.
The courses offered are primarily
for the men on the job. While no one
is excluded, the statement is frankly
made that man not actually work
ing In the subject will get as much
value from the course as one who Is
actually at work on these same lines.
Nineteen towns are being organic
ed for the work this year. 1t is ex-
pected that 1000 men can be enrolled
from these places. Although the con-
ditfons of finances are somewhat I'M
certain, and this holds back some OF
the men, still the extension organic
ers feel that they Will have q good
representation for the course.
A meeting was held yesterday with
Mr.. Towne and others for the pur-
pose of talking over the extension
work. Lectures for shop men are civ
en- in one OF the courses, and these
are being considered Besides actual
technical features, the economic side
of the problems are taken up. These
lectures are all illustrated very fully,
and in the series on what the mechan-
ic should read is to be found five
foot shelf of books for the mechanic.
Federation lndorses II.
The Iowa State Federation OF La
Dor. through J. H. Streif, its president.
has indorsed the extension work plan
In a letter to Professor Smith at
Ames, he says:
Il am pleased to note that you are
again starting your work for the fall
period, and / hope that our organic.
ed labor people throughout the state
will lend you every assistance pos
sibIe in promoting the excellent work
you have In hand.
Your work was most heartily IN
dorsed at our 1914 convention OF the
Iowa State Federation Of Labor at
Davenport last June. 1t is an educa'
tfonal work in which we all are IN
terested and wish again to recon-
mend same to the trade unfonists OF
Iowa and urge that they take up the
question in the several localities and
assist in the establishment of classes
in cooperation with yourself and as
sociate workers"