The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-01-28

get the cotton from America so cheap
The senator stated that in Germany,
the military department was using
wood fibre as a substitute for cotton,
80 that the prevention of cotton COM
ing into Germany had no effect on the
war whatever. The British pretended
that this was a war measure 1t was
really O. measure to benefit the Eng
fish cotton manuf2 cturer.
Minneapolis. Mimi, January 90
Vocational education in it's relation
to its sponsors, to trades unions,
merchants, manufacturers and their
employees and how best to deal with
the technical problems of the subject
are to be discussed at the ninth an
nual convention of the National So
ciety For the Promotion of Industrial
Education which began here today.
Social welfare workers, employers,
union labor officials and educators
will take part in the discussions
which will last through three days.
This morning was given over to
registration and informal gatherings
Of members of the association and to
visits to various educational and in
dustrial institutions of the city. A
miscellaneous list of subjects was on
the program for this afternoon and
banquet will be held this evening.
Among today's speakers and their
subjects are:
THE Future Of Vocational Educa-
ton" David Snedden, commissioner
of educat ion for Massachusetts;
Trade Union Indeals and Vocational
Education" Mrs. Sarah Colby, New
York. secretary of the United Textile
Workers of America; ''Co-operation
Between Home Economics and Indus
trial Education" Dean Sarah Arnold.
Simmons college, Boston; THE De-
partment Store as Training School,"
Mrs. Lucinda w. Prince, Simmons
college; "Short Unit Courses in the
Girls Trade School, Helen R. Hid
reth, director of the Worcester, Mass.
Girls Trade School.
Tomorrow the convention is to de-
vote the entire morning to discus
sion of reports on the Minneapolis
Survey" a work undertaken by the
association at the request of local
educational and industrial interests
to determine the types and scope OF
the schools needed to give this city
an effective system of Industrial edu-
cation. 1t has been understood that
upon the result of this survey, which
has been in progress since May I,
1915, would depend largely the uses
to which would be put a trust fund
OF more than 100000 created by
the will of William H. Dunwoody for
purposes of industrial education.
The survey was divided roughly in
to two sections. One dealt with the
schools and sought to discover why a
certain number of children went to
work, why others were retarded in
their studies, what educational facil-
tiles could be provided for those who
left school, the possibilities of even
ing schools and in general the place
that vocational training should have
among the children of the city.
The second section studies indus
trial plants and sought to learn
whether there were any general
classes of skilled employment capable
OF the theoretical training, whether
such training could best be impaired
by continuous or part time schooling,
whether there was danger of over
stocking the labor market with
skilled workers and similar questions
Friday afternoon the convention
will split into groups for sectional
meetings, there being nine such on
the program. In the evening there
will be general session to consider
the training of teachers for vocation
al education. Some of the broader
aspects of the associations work will
be discussed Saturday morning and
the annual business meeting will wind
up the convention in the afternoon
st. Paul, Mimi, January 20.-That
the business of the state university il.
being managed in very slipshod and
unbusiness- like manner was charg.
made today by Andrew Fritz. state
business examiner of the state eff
cheney and economy commission. HI
recommends that the finances of the
university be handled wholly apart