Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-08
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N@As 0OOABt. btGutt secretary
the State Board of Education, who will
speak tomorrow at Pittsburgh befora
the schoolmasters on industrial edu;
cation, has just finished tour of hall
q dozen cities for study of their methi
ods or industrial education and
Americanization. DIR. Becht has beep
giving special attention to the latteg
subject in an effort to secure some
system whereby the employers and
lnculcate citizenship ideas in aliens.
Dr, Becht in the course of his tour
visited Kansas City, Chicago and st.
Louis and then went to Gary, where
no made special investigation into the
industrial education system, but
found out that PENNSYLVANIA was ap-
plying systems practically the same
to its industrial and educational prob
lens. However, few of the cities Of
Tered any new plan for Americaniza-
uon and the secretary is getting
round to the point where he thinks
that it will be up to the employer TO
develop individuality of the worker to
a greater extent. ITO my mind" said
he, we have not yet gotten to the
point where we have practical
AUGMENTATION plan. 1t has to be
worked out with regard to environ
ment, employment racial and other
traits. Some very intensive study
must be given to the foreigner to find
out how to get him genuinely inter-
ested In American institutions" The
state Board of Education has been
making study of Americanization
problems for months and it is the
hope to launch some new ideas in
places to be selected because of local
conditions and also to observe the
working out of plans in various places
where the enterprise of employers
has been eXerted to give the foreign
erS attractive places in which to live.
In this connection it is interesting
TO note what the bulletin of the State
department of Agriculture has to
say: Garden plots for employees OF
large corporations is to be one of the
chlef factors this summer in helping
to keep down the cost of living for
the working classes, according to IN
formation which has reached this de-
partment. One of the largest cor
porations in Easton is planning to
turn over to it's employees sixty acres
OF land laid out in garden plots and
mas asked the services of one of the
Iarm advisers of the Department of
agriculture to make an analysis of
the soils, recommend the proper fer
tlllzer to use, the method of cultivat-
ing 1t, and also to advise what are the
pest vegetables to plant. There are
over 200 employees and if each man
should attempt to try his hand at
gardening about one-eighth of an
acre will be allotted, plenty of room
for vegetable garden. In many sec
uons OF the State available plots of
ground are being sought for gardens
TINS summer and there will be more
nome growing so that there will not
De so much dependence on shipped
ana canned produce"
Major S. McP. Rutherford, of the
eleventh cavalry, who was here for a
short furlough, left yesterday for Chi
cago, where he will be assistant to the
auJutant general of the Central De-
partment with headquarters in Chi
cago. Major Rutherford recently re-
turned from Mexico. where his regi-
ment was part of the expedition.
Adjutant General Thomas ]. Stew
art has written good many orders
and been the author of considerable
military literature, but the fact is not
generally known that the chief of
stan of the Pennsylvania militia has
been consulting editor to a poet.
1t seems that Captain Jack Crawford.
the poet-scout who died short time
ago, was a great friend of the Adju-
tant General. They came from the
same part of the State and had been
friends for years. When Captain Jack
came this way he always visited the
General and the two would sit up un-
| vi oii NUTS VI the talking over
things and discussing affairs all over
the land. When the Captain would
evolve one of his poems he would
send a copy to the General with a,
note about like this: Dear Tom:
Look this over" The General relig-
iously read all the poetry and il is
suspected fired some of it back. Every
time Crawford issued a volume he al
ways sent presentation COPY to his
Harrisburg friend.
Francis ]. Torrance president of the
state Board OF Public Charities has
stirred up the animals in several sec
tons of the State by his advocacy of
the. bill to place county prisons in
charge of boards of prison inspectors
instead of sheriffs as is the case in
many counties. 1t seems that the de-
sire in number of counties is to
have the sheriff continue his tradi-
tional duty as keeper of prisoners and
instead of men not desiring to live in
| prisons they rather covet the Job.
| The bill is now pending in the Legis-
lature and would provide that Courts
of common pleas appoint inspectors
and the inspectors would then name
wardens as is the case in Dauphin
! and number of other counties 1t
seems from statements made recently
that the warden plan has worked very
satisfactorily in most counties where
| tried.