Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-05-30
INDUSTRIAL TRAINING.
rClinton Herald.

INDUSTRIAL TRAINING.
(Clinton Herald
The manual training exhibition at
the Made in Clinton" show lis a rev.
citation to most people 81 the kind OF
work being done in Clinton along that
line, by the boys and girls OF the pub
lie schools. The highest priced me-
chanics, in the best equipped factories
could do work very little better than Is
shown as the product-of Clinton young
people. I'm fact. II the chairs ana
tables made by the boys were placed
beside the best commercial output, few
people could tell which was which.
The public schools have shown what
they can do, and what BENEFITS they
can confer upon community, In the
departent Of manual training. Many
industrial problems may be solved by
the extension Of public school work IN
to other mechanical fields. Boys ana
girls VIII be iteed for renuneratlVe
work. the demand for skilled me-
chanics will be met, the average school
life Of young people will be heightened
with beneficial results to the indiVi-
duals concerned, and the United States
will be placed upon an equal 1ootins
with the countries Of Europe which
have been pioneers in the field OF in
dustrial training.
If Iowa had the greatest supply OF
skilled la Dor Of any state in the union,
If the schools were turning out boys
with a knowledge of mechanics. iron
working. printing, plumbing. gas and
steam fitting, automobile repairing,
shop work, would not work be found
for them at home? Would 1t not give
Iowa a great impetus as a manufac-
turing state?
Let the principle of state aid be
properly applied, to make industrial
training part Of the public school
system of the state, and Iowa will have
this supply of skilled labor, and the
prosperity of the state will be in
creased
WILL IOWA TAKE THE PRIZE?
Waterloo Tribune.J
In competition with thirty five ma
tions of the world what has Iowa to
Offer
First. Iowans must understand that
the Panama Pacific Exposition at
San Francisco is a world affair; next,
it Is a United States exposition. Civ
en- life and in!or sencnt by congress.
| The fact that the cxpositi On is to be
held in San francisco, Cal. is only in
c!dental
An exposition is. of certainty, an
immense affair when it can attract
the attention Of thirty-fI2 Of the
nations Of the world. 1t would be a
lamentablc thing if Iowa did not plan
10 enter contests for honors with
; these nations, and with the rest OF
| this country 2,
| The whole world Is going TO gather
at the Panama Pacific Exposition
that Is, representative persons Of all
the nations Of the world. They will car
~ the message of the greatness Of the
exposition and Of this country back to
the folks at home. What place will
Iowa take? What is the message they
will carry back about Iowa?
The varied departments open to com
petition offer great opportunities 70:
Iowa. What will Iowa show in the Fine
Arts in Education, in Social Economy
in Liberal Arts. In Manufacturing and
Varied Industries, in Mechanics. In
Transportation. in Live Stock. in Hor-
ticulture. in Mines. in Metallurgy?
Where does Iowa stand. measured
with the world in these things. rep
resenting as they do all that is i'm
portant in life-all that we work for
What will Iowa contribute to Fine
Arts. weighed against the worlds dis
! play? What in Live Stock-what ;r
all the things mentioned? Remain a.
home. dormant. and we will contribute
I nothing The state Of least illiteracS
J in the nation must be able to make 8