The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-09

;, Second, is Senator Page
:. responsible therefore?
Re Taking up the first question, Senator
Q Pages answer would be- Vocational ed
n ucation is one of the most important
It pieces of constructive legislation now en-
$ gaging public attention
r Why? Because it opens up broad
9 educational policy which vitality and ia
E vorably 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 a measure
; which is designed to make into better citi-
zens the boys and girls Of to-day who will
constitute the citizenship of tomorrow"
On this question President Wilson
speaks, in the cleancut language for which
he is justly celebrated, as follows
There are two sides to the question of
preparation There is not merely mill
tary sde-there is an industrial side. And
i the ideal which have in mind is this, gen.
tlemen: We ought to have in this country
great system of industrial and vocational
education, under federal guidance and with
federal aid, in which a very large percent
age of the youth of this country will be
given training in the skful use and appli-
cation of the principles of science in ma
noeuvre and business.
Congressman James r. Mann, every
where recognized as the great Republican
leader of the present House Of Represent
ativeS, and the man who will, should the
administration change unquestionably 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 to-day, or for
that matter, before the people of the world
but particularly with u.s. We are going to
be in competition with other nations when
they do better than we, by instructing
their youth in the vocations.
Answering the second question: rs
Senator Page responsible for this legisla-
ton" the following fact is given as mat
ter of official record:
In 1911 the committee on agriculture
and forestry passed, without dissenting
vote, the following resolutions:
Resolved That Senator Page, as a sub
committee of one be instructed to CORE
interested in the purposes of the proposed
measure, and to report to the full commit
tee the result of his investigation, and to
submit a 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 resolu-
ton, Senator Page entered into a CORE
spondence with the leading educators of
his country, which became so extensive
hat the senator was compelled to devote
hereto the larger part of his vacation pc
'iod in the fall of 1911, and from that time
until the present, in season and out of sea-
on, night and day, the surplus energies of
Senator Page have been largely given to
his work. To him it has been labor of
owe. and he has incurred expenditures
With reference to this measure out of his
rivate means, not reimbursable by Con-
'ress, of more than $1,000.
That this great measure is regarded by
he national Senate as the child of Sena-
or Page is matter of general know-
dye, but as bearing upon this point, we
uote below from speeches delivered in
he United States Senate July 81, 1916.
Senator Smith, of Georgia, in discuss
lg the measure, said:
The responsibility for this measure
would have continued with Senator Page
rather than to have fallen to me, but for
the change which took place in the organi-
cation of the Senate three years ago. With
a Republican majority he was leading in
the work and | was helping him. Since
that time, as | am chairman of the commit
tee on education and labor the situation
is reversed just little but l am always
glad to stop at any time the opportunity is
presented to give the senator from Yer
mont every possible credit for his splendid