The daily Alaskan., 1915-11-10

peuuN1uI CLOCK WIFI run thPLGOllJ WE
 find one who is helpless, and
 one who is at the mercy, at times,
 of others. He is akin to the
 girl who does not know button-
 hole from a tear, and whose black
 fried potatOes make some break the Second Commandment.
 The later architectural plans for public school buildings are including kitchen and worlToom. In the workroOm every student has his own bench, and suitable lot of tools. He is instructed in the care of tools, taught designing and drawing, how to follow a plan, and how to lay out his own work before a cut is made, as well as how to figure the cost OG his con templaCed article before he driYes a nail. And while of necessity he makes in course of time joints and special things he may never have occasion to use, he is made to- use his train and reasoning powers, and work progressively. Like the artist who mixed his pigments with braius," he knows what he is going to make, what it will look like when it is made, why he makes it, why it is made his pprticuIar way, and how much it will cost. The ne4tntss, finish, and utility of the article, and, in Alaska especially, the source of the raw material, eyi- dence the brain has worked through the hand. One cl the first facts connected | with manual training is, as a | means of economy. Who will doubt | Americans are in sore need of this master-art. A recent newspaper states: The first congress of thrift- ty folks was held at the Panama 1 Pacific exposition recently, and in the course of his address to the | delegates s. ". Strauss, Pres. of the American Society for Thrift, | gave tae American people these | facts to think oyer; Ac- cording to government statistics, 9S per cent of us live from day to day on our wages. A loss of en- ployment would mean Pauperism to all but two per cent of us. Of 2O,- 250,OOO families, less than 6,OOO,-l 900 own their own homes, 1l,0OO,- 900 being renters. There are S7S,- 79S,325 acres Of farm land in the United States, slightly oyer half of which are improved Discarded tin cans, kitchen utensils, etc, gathered | off dump heaps of large cities one year, produced material valued at Out of every 100 l who die 66 leave no property; of | the 84 who do, g leave more than $5,OOO worth, the balance less than $500 each. At the age of 65, 97 out of every 100 Of us, are partly CT wholly dependent on rela- tives or the public. School chil- dren by planting and cultiyating gar dens in back yards and vacant lots could add $2OO,OOO,OOO each year to the national wealth"
 The young man who has had manual training in his school yearsI does not need to send for cabinet maker or carpenter whenever there is a chair to be repaired Or shelf to adjust. Indeed, when he is preparing his own home, # his wife has been so fortunate as to par ticipate in the domestic science work of her school life, they will get morn pleasure in the making or simple box-furniture and con veniences covered with cretonne, etc., than in the buying of an oak dining room set twenty years 4aIer' Indeed, their mutual ability prac- ticed promptly in the development of their home will make the oak dining-room set possible ten years sooner.
 Prof. Park says in 'EducatLonal Woodworking:" "The importance of industrial work as a subject which helps to give definite ideas of the value of toll and the real worth of things that are made by the sweat of the brow cannot be overcstimated. The rich boy works along with the poor, each endeaTor- ing to produce something which w;I} express tangible results. Man ual training work to be valuable must be strenuous. Boys must be made to plane and saw and sweat. They must p1oduee shaV-