Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-08-09

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therefor!
Taking up the first question, Senator
Pages answer would be: educational Edu.
cation is one of the most important pieces Of
constructive legislation now engaging pub
lie attention.
Why? because it opens up a broad
Educational policy which vitality and favor
ably affects every state, county, town, and
school district in the United States, and be-
cause it is a measure designed to give etficl-
ency to every American boy and girl, not
only in the workshop and on the farm, but
in the home, and it is measure which is
designed to make into better citizens the
boys and girls of today, who will constitute
the citizenship of tomorrow"
On this question President Wilson speaks,
in the clean-cut language for which he is
Justly celebrated, as follows:
There are two sides to the question
of preparation. There is not merely
military side-there is an industrial
side. And the ideal which [ have in
mind is this, gentlemen: We ought to
have in this county a great system of
industrial and vocational education, un-
der Federal guidance and with Fed
eral cid, in which very large percent
age of the youth Of this country will be
given training in the skillul use and
application of the princi pies of science
in maneuver and business.
Congressman James r. Mann, every
where Recognized as the great Republican
leader of the present House Of Representa-
tives, and the man who WI, 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 peo-
pie of the world, but particr arly with
us. We are going to be in competition
with other nations when they do better
than we, by restricting their youth in
the vOCatiUns
Answering the second question, els Sen
ator Page responsible for this legislation,
the following fact Is given as matter Of Of
fetal record:
In 1917 the Committee on Agriculture
and Forestry passed, without a dissenting
vote the following resolution;
RESOLVED, that Senator Page, as
subcommittee OF one, be 1nStI acted to
correspond with leading educators and
others interested in the purposes Of the
proposed measure, and to report to the
tull committee the result Of his investi-
CATION, and to submit to bill emendod
TO conform to the suggestions he may
receive from such correspondence Or
any he might have to make.
Acting in conformity with this resolution,
Senator Page entered into a core pondence
with the leading educators Of this country,s
which became 20 extensive that the Senator
was compelled to devote thereto the larger
part of his vacation period in the fall of
1911 and from that time until the present,
IN season and out Of season, night and day,
the surplus energies of Senator Page have
largely been given to this 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 reimbursabe
by Congress, OF more than $4,000.
That this great measure is regarded by
the National Senate as the child of Senator
Page is matter of general knowledge, but
as bearing upon this point, we quote below
from speeches delivered in the United States
Senate July 3l,ssl916.