Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-07
RICHMOND BEHIND
Other CITIES IN
SCHOOL SUPPORT.
Spends So Cents for This
Purpose, Where Other
r Towns Spend 81.
INDUSTRIAL SURVEY
REVEALS CONDITIONS
s----.---- - 6,
Makes Accurate Report on Voca-
tional Status@of City's Army
of Employees.
WORKERS. LACK EDUCATION
woRKERs LACK EDUoATIoN
investigators Find That Lack of
Training Keeps Down Adult
Wage Scnle.

a.s. 49, la-5- NuHC otuiCs u
Richmond spends more generously.
than forty other American cities OF Its
sizo for highways and sanitation, about.
as much aa the average for police and
fire protection. but less than almost
any other city for the support OF It's
, public schools. It's expenditure for this
purpose lis little more than onc-half
that appropriated By other cities Of
this class. n
This IL the finding OF the survey OF
Industrial. educational and vocational
conditions In this city. undertaken in.
May by the National Society for the
Promotion OF Industrial Education.
Tho Investigation WAC the Most thor
oush going that has ever been under
taken I'm au American city. and the
Information that tho investigators
gathered Will be placed before tho
Thuraday morning, when 1T Will meet
for tho second day OF Its annual con-
ventton.
HAS BEEN IN. PRGGREss ~
FOR SEVERAL MONTHS
Tho, survey was conducted under tho
generai direction OF DR.. Leonard L.
Ayres, director OF the division or edu-
cation OF tho Russell Sage Foundation,
New York. and chairman OF tho gem
eral survey committee. In ;mmedI-
ate charge. as director, with hcadruar.
ters In this city for several monthe,
was Charles II. Winslow, expert for
vocational educstion for the United
States Bureau or Labor Statistics.
In undertaking the survey, the so
cIety had these chief aims in View:
To prove the necessity of knowl-
ecdBe OF Industrial and school cond.-
tions In tho making OF q program for
industrial education In city.
To show the kind OF Tactsr about In
dustry and about the schools which
need to be gathered.
70 develop proper method FOR
studying the industriais and the schools
for purposesS Of Industrial educut.ou.t5S =
t,. To. SECURE tho see- St,crati6n OK nas
= tiopal and local. nntlir I and priynec
8 aseneteg !1 Are NAL fnar soS SO typo
10 make tho annual !. convention q,
the natio9alssoctety most helpful to q
city Interested lin proyidinr practical
education for It's: people.
3IAsS OF MATERIAL
s COMPLIED NJ INVESTIGATORS
The mass OF material compiled By
the workers. tnsthe Richmond survey
carries a Complete answer to ques-
uohs the investisators get themselves
the task of sanswerinE. II has been
embodied In sths form OF a printed re-
port and supplied TO the members OF
the society.,s On Thursday IT VIII be
the central featI,r re.of tho Nationul So
ciety's Convention proceedings. The
morning session w.ll bei devoted to n
discussion OF the hiiiings, and tho ,ar-
ternoon session to "a consideration OF
the several recommendations that the
survey Will mako for the Improvement
OF conditions in Richmond.
Tho scope OF the aui.reS included a
study OF los occupations, o. which
thirty sresin the metal tradet twenty
six In the printing trndea, thi4ty-flve in
The building and woodworking trades
Eighteen In the tobacco industry, be-
sides tho department stores, 3'hese oc-
cupations represent more than Nc, 300
~orkerE. - f.}
Interviews %ere held with employers
and groups OF employers ,tosex plain the
purpose OF the survey There were also
numerous int. rvleus with Individual
workers. and groups OF workers at their,
places of em ployment. Individual schc.
dulles were secured from sos workers,
ZACH representing q personal confer
once OF about twenty minutes All
lndings based on Tho date collected
were submitted to employers and
workers. for criticism and approval.
MUST BE ADAPTED
TO COMMUNITY LIFE,
vocational training "a local and
not a general iaBuc." said Alvin b. Dodd,
assistant secretasy Of tho National So
ciety for the Promotion OF Industrial
Education. ut the Jefferson Hotel last
Z night. Ut must bo> adapted In it's con
tent and method, as.weli as IN its or
gan!zation and administration to the
social and educational needs of the
community. Hence the need OF sur
vcy making a careful analysis OF theao
s conditions before any system OF voca-
tional training Is undertaken KS
s The Richmond survey is attracting
tho attention OF the educational world,
IN nm haf
he made represent tho effort OF the
general survey committee to auggest
tho best program, OF which IL is capable
for the development OF vocational
training in'the ligh. of given conditions
as shown by actual Investigation
More than IN ynost cities, tho inves-
tlgators found, Richmond's people stay
in ono plnce and stick to ono job In
this 1t differs from typical American
communities. According to the IN
formation gathered by the school sur
avey, ninc-tenths OF Richmonds school
children and moro than ave-sixths of
their fathers were born either In tho
city Of Richmond or In tho State OF
Virginia. Most cities os similar size
have far moro migratory populations.
DO NOT WANDER.
FRoal JOn TO JOB
The investigation further revealed
that the young people OF tho city are
! not roVers rom 3oDs TOY 1ob. After they
leave school and go to work, there is
comparatively infreauent shifting from
position to position, and O consider
able portion Of what docs take place
occurs during the first year. .,s -
These facts appear to Eip dicate that
Z 'f present conditions maintain In the
future, Richmond may safely train "a
larger proportion OF her children .for.
future participation fl 3her local indus
tries than would be wiBeitn{ the nyerape
city. 8 Sfs. y rs s 8 3. " &,
8 The Study OF the occupations OF the
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