Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1916-08-11
What Important Piece of Constructive Legis
lation has Senator Page Introduced and Pushed
to a Successful Issue?"

Second, is Senator Page re-
sponsible therefor?
Takngup the first question, Senator Pages an
swer would be Vocational Education is one Of the
most important pieces Of constructive legislation now
engaging public attention.
Why ? because it opens up broad educa-
tonal policy which vitality and favoraby affects every
state county town, and school district in the United
States, and because it is a measure designed TO give
efficiency to every American boy and girl not only
in the workshop and on the farm, but in the home,
and it is measure which is designd to make into
better citizens the boys and girls Of today, who viii
constitute the citizenship OF tomorrow"
On this question President Wilson speaks, in the
cean-cut language for which he is Justly celebrated,
as follows.
There are two sides to the question of
preparation. There is not merely military
sde--there is an industrial side. And the
ideal which have in mind is this, gentle
men We ought to have in this country
great system of industrial and vocational
education, under Federal guidance and with
Federal aid, in which very large percent
age of the youth of this country will be
given training in the skillh use and appli-
cation OF the principles of science in man
euver and business.
Congressman James r. Mann, everywhere recog-
nized as the great Republican leader of the present
House Of Representatives, and the man who will,
should the administration change unquestionaby be
the next Speaker of the House says;
The subject of vocational education
think is one OF the most important subjects
before the American people today or, for
that matter, before the people Of the world,
but particularly with us. We are gong to
be in competition with other nations when
they do better than We by instructing their
youth in the vocatons.
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responsible for this legislation" the following fact is
given as a matter of official record:
In 1911 the Committee on Agriculture and For
estry passed, without dissenting VOTE the following
resolution:
Resolved that Senator Page, as a
subcommittee of one, be instructed to cor
respond with leading educators and Others
interested in the purposes of the proposed
measure, and to report to the full commit
tee the result of his investigation, and to
submit bill amended to conform to the
suggestions he may receive from such cor
respondence or any he might have to make.
Acting in conformity with this resolution, Sena-
tor Page entered into correspondence with the lead
ing educators of this country, which became so ex-
tensive that the Senator compelled to devote
thereto the larger part of his vacation period in the
fall of 1911, and from that time until the present. in
season and out Of season, night and day. the surplus
energies of Senator Page have been largely given to
this work. To him it has been labor Of love, and
he has incurred expenditures with reference to this
measure out of his private MEANS not rembursable
by Congress, of more than $1,000.
That this great measure is regarded by the Ma
tional Senate as the child of Senator Page matter
Of general knowledge, but as bearing upon this point
we quote below from speeches delivered in the Uni
ed States Senate July 81, 1916.
Senator Smith, of Georgia, in discussing the
measure, said:
The responsibility for this measure
would have continued with Senator Page
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