The Little River news., 1916-10-07

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 Fhe democratic spi"it which has al &kl reached education says that there srgst be equality oI opportunity in ssSa1oi work as wei, as in any other spo'E. What does this mean? It fs&ss2ns that all people must have that F&Saration to I've a life socially eff 7sssa9t To be socially efficient a man saESt be able fist of all to make Q esshng; second, ha must have pgepara. sassu to fulfill his civic obligations. sssS finally must be able to enjoy hls fs-ss2sre time. Note that in this philo- 'ssdsSssy economic efficiency comes first saa indeed why should it not? A sSxgn who is nable to make a living s--szsnot be good citizen. Poverty IS as1setly responsible for Q third of the esz7a2e in our land. In fact, O. the in Hasasss of the prisons of the United sS2tes as whole, 76 per cent have sss definite occupation On the other 'sszsd, those of Us who have followed eatr great reformatories of our land
 
 ,ess1a are taught 3 vocation along with aszxssss other thing Of lesser importance dSsss sometimes over S3 per cent go esNE mto the world and make good GEssEns. Nor is that all There are ia.r million people in the United Jsssas who have not enough 10 cat lss~ enough to wear nor g respectable pksre to live in for all the year. This 1z: girectly attributable to q lack or izSizing along lines that are neces- 11zsy. Now turning for a minute or txo to the second phase Of the ques- fssFE, that of good citizenship, we find t4set there is little done in the school tsp&1ing directly to the meeting of this ,8sr2and. A little text book civics, 4ssgsething about history, and there wss have it all. Civic righteousness s3ksmands healthy, mora! and inter ested person. Hygiene, community eSsEcs. history that shows the present as Gile background Of the past, ea-- gynt events; these are some of the tkhugs aemande1. Tha"e is scarcely :: sarn made looking directly to the assaiIder moral obligations of the con aUg citizen. Tn the enjoyment of les. vDe time there is needed good music, play, love for good literature, art rnd other things.
 Hut the case for vocational eduea- G5an does not have to be argued: f speaks for itsels. The means of ob. 6ainlng these ends is the trying oues- hur,. How is it to be done? Can It se done with the equipment we haye7 Glil it cost moHa money? Can we sset the peopl, interested? Along fssst what lines III we D?oceeds Now vocational education is broader than Nany people would think. Il includes euofessional edu; ion. home making, ,ssmmercial, industrial and agcical. aral
 Professional education is well careo Ssr in our count The universities 3roughout the 'aud prepare perscna .fG- law, the mini'.,sy. medicine, teach. rng or for whatever else one needs t Is said that kEaerica hes as good sMiyersities as has any country.
 The most important occupation oa f great majority Of the women of our .ss0ntry is home t4aking, yet up to 2 tw years ago tttcte was little if any. tEIGg done lookfHT directly 10 thfa zyrk. Of the cilIdfen that die an szsazingly large per cent die before Key reach the e.li of their first year. Assese deaths aso Dreyentabie in many >sasss If almoS, all women are to be esistresses of igracs sooner Or later, safd if they are to have the care ol a6Tldren they most certainly should JtaTe some sort C direct preparation s,F this work Nest model house. ufves" are very Wasteful. Many of sHese things could be corrected by means of a good course in Home Eco, Hoaics. It seems that if the kitchen sN to be made e!aee where drudgery aa not, somethins, Of the scientific and artistic side of cooking must be en. sllasized Sewing, of course, is need, su. for while clothes do not make the aiaa they certajpiy improve him in alany ways. | is said that if you take dirty "dowH-and-out9 and dress aim in respectanta clothes he will act saite differently Then again in sew. arg as in cooking, when the aim Is a 9ork of art dru1gary Is to Q large ex, gent lost. The home is tho consumer she ultimate consumer. Whatever en- sers the home is directly concerned with the woman. Is the food pure which she feeds her baby? Is the aiIk full of bacteria? Has tho water 5een thoroughly cared for? These are srme of the questions that the mother S asking. If she is conce:nel about sars ge things how vitally is her life goand up with the life Of the commun Hys again inc woman does most of ESe purchasing for the household And rsoS necessary it is that she know something about textiles. about pur- chasing, about supply and demand aud about all those things which de ssrmine the purchasing power of g
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