St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-08-09
First, is the Walton
al Education Bill, a
eryirnpOrtsf piece
of cO11structf legls-
latiOn?
Second, is enatOr
Page resp nslble
therefor?

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therefor?
Taking up the first ques Senator Pages
answer would be: 'VOcaal Educauon Is
one of the most important rs or constructive
legislation now engaging puf attention.
Why9 Because it opelp broad edu-
cationa policy which vital md favoraply al
fects every state, county, 2, and school CnS-
trict in the United StatesId because II Is
measure designed to giv@iciency to every
American boy and girl, nPnly In the WORK
shop and ON the farm, but he nome, ana II Is
measure which is desigIto make INTO pet
ter citizens the boys and gIof today, VINO Will
constitute the citizenship Tomorrow
On this question Presid Wilson speaks, IN
the clean-cut language (which ne IS justly
celebrated as follows:
There are two sidto the question OF
nrenaratiOn There mot merely a mill
tary side-there is al dustrlal size: Anu
the ideal which | hai in mind is tins, gen
+lemen. We oupht have in this country
great system of inktrial and Vocatonal
education under FeAl guidance and with
Federal aid in Wild very large percent
age of the youth dhis country will be
piven training in tfskillful use and APP
plication of the pciples of science In
maneuver and busiE.
Congressman JamesL Mann, everywhere
recognized as the great publican leader of the
present House Of Reprhtatives, and the man
who will, should the adhstratiOn change I'M
questionably be the ne1Speaker OF the house
says:
The subject of bcational education l
think is one of theioSt important subjects
before the America people today, or, for
that matter, beforhe people of the world,
but particularly WI us. We are going to
be in competition It'll other nations when
they do better thaNe, by instructing their
youth in the vOcatAS.
Answering the seco1I question, ''Is Senator
Page responsible for is Legislation" the fol-
lowing fact is given matter of Official
record:
In 1911 the Commiee on Agriculture and
Forestry passed. with(t dissenting vote, the
following resolution:
Resolved, ThatSena Page, as a sub
committee of onelbe instructed to CORES
pond with leadinaeducators and others in
terested in the opposes of the proposed
measure, and tOtepOrt to the full COM
mittee the resultbf his investigation, and
to submit bill attended, to conform to the
suggestions he my receive from such cor
reSpondence or liv he might have to make.
<ACILlS III conformity WIFI IHlS I6SOIulAOA'
Senator Page entered into a correspondence
with the leading educators of this country, which
became so extensive that the Senator was COM
PEELED to devote thereto the large part OF his
vacation period in the fall of 1911, and from that
time until the present. in season and out OF sea-
son, night and day, the surplus energies OF
Senator Page have been largely given to tins
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 relm-
bursabe by Congress, of more than $1,000
That this great measure is regarded by the
National Senate as the child of Senator Page is
a matter of general knowledge, but as bearing
upon this point, we quote below from speeches
delivered in the United States Senate July 81,
1916.
Senator Smith, of Georgia, in discussing the
said:
The responsibility for this measure would p
have continued with Senator Page rather
than to have fallen to me, but for the
change which took place in the organization
OF the Senate three years ago. With Re
publican majority he was leading in the
work and l was helping him. Since that
time as L am Chairman of the Committee
on Education and Labor, the situation is
reversed Just little, but I am always glad
to stop at any time the opportunity is pre-