Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-25
DAUPHIN SCHOOL
WORK PRAISED
Steelton and Williamstown
Have Started to Improve Con-
tinuation Schools

Steelton, Williamstown and Will
liams township are given praise by
Director Millard B. King, director of
industrial education of the State De-
! partment of Public Instruction, for
the work they have done in the last
year to advance vocational education.
The report of the director is very COM
! preh ensive.
Steelton, he says, installed a manual
training department, consisting of two
carpentry shops, one in the high
school and the other in q grammar
equipped and it is planned to add
more during the coming year.
AS to Williamstown and the town
ship he says that they cons olidated
their industrial schools for continual
ton purposes, installed equipment
Tor teaching cookery to girls employed
In the silk mills and attending the
| school. An instructor in mining arith-
metic and mining law was employed
for boys.
Up the Valley
Chambersburg introduced into it's
| school system day and evening in
| dustrial school giving an opportunity
for instruction in the manipulative
phase as well as the functioning in
formational phase of the woodwork
| ing trades, which are the dominant in
dustrial activities of the community
The day industrial course is organized
as a four years course to teach the
cabinetmakers' trade. The shops and
drawing rooms will be located in a
wo-story brick school house remodel
ed for the purpose.
Superintendent Wanner, of York,
has arranged to introduce into the
high school four-year household
Tn To-
evening school was opened. In this
school instruction is given to anthra-
cite coal mine operatives in such sub
lects that are directly helpful to them
in their daily work.
In the new high school building now
under construction in Lebanon, a lib
eral amount of space will be provided
for industrial work. There will be
shops for carpentry, wood-turning
machine shop practice, two stock
rooms, mechanical drawing and a
free-hand drawing room. For the
girls there will be a sewing room,
kitchen, dining room, bedroom and
freehand drawing room.
The Carlisle School Board has full
, ly equipped forge room with down
draft forges and other necessary tools
Among some of the schools men
toned as having achieved notable re-
suits are those in Philadelphia, where
some instances for continuation
schools and where the girls of the Will
liam Penn high school designed and
made dresses and exhibited them in
the school building with figures show
ing the cost less than custom made.
In West Chester pupils in the manual
training schools attended to repairs
of school buildings and those in New
Kensington designed and made en-
gines. In Warren, and other places
the girls cooked lunches for them
selves and those who had to work and
in Shamimin 1t is stated that girls
who were married soon after com.
pleting the course have been able sue
cessfully to manage their own homes
as a result of the vocational instruc-
ton" In domestic arts and kindred
branches. In Dunmore music instruc-
ton led to Community songfests."
Johnstown boys made $4,000 worth
of wood work.
The report deals with the last school
year and In addition to giving expe-
rience makes the suggestion that there
should be federal aid for vocational
education. Manufacturers who had
to readjust working schedules to meet
the educational demands and school
people who underwent the hardships
due to overcrowded rooms and lack of
funds are commended.
Thirty eight districts in twenty
four counties maintained 80 house
hold arts and 35 industrial schools
with over 10000 students. Sixty-three
districts had manual training in the
grades and rs in high schools. To
teach this line in Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh alone 225 teachers are re-
quired. One hundred districts organ
lied and maintained continuation
schools the first six months of this
year with 32,946 children between
fourteen and sixteen years of age en-
rolled and $40 teachers. In this
connection Mr.. King says: I'm view
of the fact that no one text could be
found which was entirely suited to the
needs of the pupils and that few, if
any, teachers had had experience in
teaching in a continuation school. a
very good beginning has been made.
Variable vocational instruction IT
is reported will be established In more
districts this winter and will enrich
the curriculum.