The Prescott daily news., 1916-06-30

or Education. University of
 Arkansas.
 The democratic spirit which has af last reached education says that there must be equality of opportunity in school work as well as in any other work. What does this mean? It means that all people must have that preparation to live a life socially eff nclent. To be socially efficient a man must be able first of all to make a living; second. he must have Drensrs. ton to fulfill his civic obligations. and finally must be able to enjoy nIs leisure time. Note that in this pbilo. sophy economic efficiency comes first. And indeed why should it not? A man who is unable to make a living cannot be a good citizen. Poverty is directly responsible for a third of the crime Tn our land. In fact, of the in- mates Of the prisons of the United states as a whole. 76 per cent have no definite occupation. On the other hand, those of us who have followed the great reformatories of our land know that when these young crimi nais are taught vocation along with some other thing of lesser importance that sometimes over S3 per cent go out into the world and make gooo citizens Nor is that all. There are ten million people in the United States who have not enough to eat nor enough to wear, nor respectable place to live in for all the year This Is directly attributable to a lack ot training along lines that are neces. sary. Now turning for a minute or two to the second phase of the ques- ton, that of good citizenship we find that there is little done in the school looking directly to the meeting of this demand. A little text book civics something about history, and there you have it all. Civic righteousness demands healthy, moral and inter ested person. Hygiene, community .civics, history that shows the present cn the background of the past. cur rent events; these are some of the
 
 turn made looking directly 10 the broader moral obligations of the com. ing citizen. In the enjoyment of leis. ure time there is needed good music play, a love for good literature, sr. and other things
 But the case for vocational educa. uon does not have to he argued if speaks for itself The means of oh. fainlng these ends is the trying oues- ton. How is it to be done? Can 1T be done with the equipment we have- Will it cost more money? Can We get the people interested? Along just what lines will We proceed? Now. vocational education is broader than many people would think. It includes professional education, home making commercial, industrial and apr,cul- tUral.
 Professional education is well careo for in our country. The universities throughout the land prepare persons for law. the ministry medicine, teach. ing or for whatever else one needs II is said that America has as good universities as has any country.
 The most important occupation of a great majority of the women of our country is home making, yet up 10 a few years ago there was little If any thing done looking directly 10 this work Of the children that die an amazingly large per cent die before they reach the end of their first year. These deaths are preventable in many cases. If almost all women are to be mistresses of homes sooner or later and if they are to have the care Of children they most certainly should have some sort of direct preparation for this work Most model house wives" are very wasteful Many of these things could be corrected by means of good course in Home Eco, monies. It seems that if the kitchen is to be made a place where drudgerv is not. something of the scientific and artistic side of cooking must be em- phasized. Sewing, of course, is need ed, for while clothes do not make the man they certainly improve him in many ways. It is said that if you take a dirty "down-and-out" and dress him in respectable clothes he will act quite differently Then again in sew ing as in cooking, when the aim is q v,orL 0f art dr11dParv Tc tp a Ioroo cx,