Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-12-05
Under Y. M. c.. A. System They
Study and Also Get Actual
Shop Training


livered By Jay A. rriee, assistant
executive. secretarv Of .he association,
at the annual meeting Of the Terri.
torial Teachers Association II the
Normal school Friday. He said:
Our cooperative trade schools were
opened last August in response 10 two
sorts of appeals that had been COM
ing to us. First from large numbers
of boys, Cant you help me get a job
What sort of job do you want ana
what can you do?' oh, ] can try most
ANYTHING is the answer which has a
dismal sound to enc who sees the
probable future of such a boy.
The other appeals were coming
from employers. Businessmen were
wanting, and are always wanting,
BOYS of ability to prepare for advance
ment in their stores and offices. Inc
local printing shops had come TO US
asking that we help them with their
apprentice problem.
Here was demand and supply
the problem consisted in getting them
together. Printers need workmen and
heads of business firms need trained
men for their ranks. Boys there
seem to be aplenty.
This has been our solution.
group Of 20 boys is enrolled in our
Printers Apprentice school. These
boys are divided into two groups. At
8 o'clock each morning one-half of our
printers go to work in the shops of
the city and the other half come to
classes at the association building.
THE one group will spend the
morning at work in the shop, learn
ing by doing the tasks assigned them
under direction of the shop foreman.
The boys in the classes study those
subjects which will enable them to
advance in their trade.
AT noon these boys exchange
places. The boys who have been in
classes during the morning exchange
stations with their partners who have
been at work in the shops. Thus
every boy spends half of each day at
academic study and half in shop study.
The scheme for the business boys is,
in general. identical with this These
boys alternate between offices and
classes.
"'Half-time' is misleading as ap-
piled to our schools While a boy goes
but half of each day to classes, that
half day is of four hours, and since
school is in session for % weeks each
year, our students actually attend
more hours than in public schools.
Here is the proposition as it pre-
sents itself to a boy. He can go to
school more than a full years hours
start learning a trade and clear the
first year about $135. He gets his
job the day he starts to school ana
studies to get advancement in. JOB
he is now at work at--not for one he
hopes to get some day after q course
of study is completed.
Our chief problems is in securing
enough suitable boys. Seventh ana
eighth grade boys are admitted. We
always have positions open for more
boys than we can secure.
81 am glad to have this opportunity
of telling you of our schools. You can
cooperate with us by sending to US
the boy who quits your schooi pc
cause he wants to or must go to Work
He is the boy we can help.
1--WE extend you an earnest invita-
ton to visit the association building
and see our schools in session.
so hearty has been the coopera-
ton of the shops and firms in this
plan that they pay the boys the reg
ular wages of full-time beginners.
Our students are thus given full pay
for half work They are paid to at
tend school! Employers recognize
the value of trained employees and are
willing to pay the bills in order to get
them. sEH
I'VE do not teach boys printing at
the Y, NJ. G. A. We do teach them
those subjects which will help them
become good printers. Printing, tech
meal phases OF this varied trade, the
boys learn in the shop under skilled
foreman. This We consider funda.
mental. An extensive investigation OF
the mainland corporation schools
maintained by great industries caused
MS 10 adopt their conclusion that
boys best learn q. trade when under
the actual working conditions OF that
trade. Our shops agree TO do their
part in training boys and we ma
that most of the foremen take a per-
sonaI interest in their apprentices:
Our business boys are given variety
Of practical experience in the Offices
in which they work They learn busi-
ness methods by seeing them IN
operation. They will. become ousi-
ness-like' by being 'business-like.
what do we teach the boys IN our
classes2 We are trying to give the
bows instruction which will be OF al
rect value to them in their trade
Take the printers, for instance, Ihes
need English, spelling. arithmetic,
elements of hygiene and an AWAKEN
Ing of interest in the big world. we
try to give this all direct relation
to the daily work. The material TOT
instruction is, in so far as possible
brought from the shops. We try TO
give it that practical relation to the
daily work of the boys which Will
HELM them sec its value and thereby
held their interest, English work IS
taken from the correcting of proof
sheets, from readings in printers
magazines and from written work OF
stbo bovs ahorys their daily work