South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-29
REPORT REVEALS
VOCATIONAL WORK
IN STATE SCHOOLS
Day and Evening Glasses Aim
to Give Young People Train
ing Which Fits Specifically
for Productive Work.
Special to The News-Times.


INDIANAPOLIS. Dec. 29.-That
marked progress has been made with
vocational education under the new
vocational education Jaw. written on
the statute books by the legislature of
1919, IS shown in the first annual re-
port on the work, prepared for the
legislature of 1915 and the state board
of education by DR.. w. +. Book, voca-
tiOnal education deputy TO Charles a.
GreathOuse, state superintendent of
public instruction, and just made pub
lie here.
The report, in brief, discusses the
situation as follows: Vocational educa-
ton, as provided for by the Indiana
law, and as IT is being developed by
the state board Of education. aims To
give TO the young people of the state
a kind of instruction and training
which will fit them specifically for pro-
ductive work in the shop, in the home
or on the farm. For this work new
departments and schools have been
provided, which aim to give as def
mite and efficient a vocational training
for those who desire to fit themselves
for profitable work in the skilled
trades and industries or for product
i've work on the farm, or for the bust
ness of hOme-making. as we are al
ready providing for the few young
men ana women OF the state. VINO de-
sire to fit themselves for the practice
of medicine or the professions Of
teaching, engineering and law. The
sole purpose of the vocational depart
ments and schools now being estab-
Dshed is 10 provide vocational training
for the more than SO per cent of our
young people who are at present not
being specially trained for profitable
and productive work
The report very clearly points out
that these special departments and
schools come as an extension or en-
iargement Of our present system of
schools, not as a substitute for or q
modification Of any part of our present
work
Three types of vocational schools
have been established. the aI-day
the evening and the part-time vOca-
tional schools. Fort Wayne South
Bend and Indianapolis have establish
ed, in cooperation with the state de-
partment. full-tiIne day vocational
schools. In these schools the entire
time is devoted to instruction designed
TO Mt specifically and on a high plane
for certain occupations taught i'm the
school
Operate Evening schools.
Anderson. Brookville Brazil. Green
castle. Hammond, Indianapolis.
Muncie. Richmond and South Bend
nave VI BdlllLtu ana are SutNCSSl ullA
operating evening vocational schools
for various trades and for hOme-mak-
Ing. These schools are designed TO
help workers over i years old. TO be
come more proficient in the skilled
occupations in which they are en-
gagged.
The following special courses Tor
trade workers have been organized i'm
these Centers since sept. L. 1914. when
the law went into effect: Vocational
classes for machine shop workers.
electrical workers. pattern makers,
carpenters. printers. foundry workers.
cement workers, drawing for various
special trades, and trade extension
courses for home workers (servants) /
In the evening schools FOR home-mak-
ing, the following lines of work have
been emphasized: Home sewing and
dressmaking, making chiidren'S
clothes, home coOkns home millinery,
home nursing home laundry work
and care and management OF the
home
A few communities have begun vo-
cational work for trade and home
workers on the part time plan, where
workers between the ages of L and
20 years come 10 school for two or
three afternoons q week TO get in
struction designed To make them more
efficient IN their chosen occupation.
me report SHOWS me mum Der OF cities
or communities that have begun Vo-
catlonal work. the number and kind |
OF departments and schools already /
organized. the number of vocational /
teachers employed and the number of
students enrolled in these vocational |
schools.
More than $500 students We're en-
rolled on Dec. 1. New departments
and schools are being organized as
fast as the necessary preliminary in
Vestigati0n can be made and the work 1
properly planned. Ii has been the
policy 10 try out various types OF
schools and 10 organize vocational |
work in various types OF communi- /
ties. Vocational work has been or 1
ganized in villages OF a few hundred /
inha bitants. as we'll as in the larser F.
industrial centers. No vocational /
school for agriculture have yet been /
organized
Occupations Classified.
The following occupations for men /
workers in the state, in the order Of I
their Importance. are set out as fol- !
lows: General agriculture. engaging I
20 per cent. Of all the workers in the /
Tlate; building. woodworking and /
metal trades, employing 29-s per cent