The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-02-09
INDUSTRIAL PROMOTION MEET
AT INDIANAPOLIS
Great Many Subjects Will Be Discussed
BY Delegates to Convention Which
Convenes in That City February Fl
To "a; Chief Interest Centers Recent
Around Statewide Survey of Indiana
From Saturdays Daily.

! leaders ana nOLeQ ECONOMISTS lIouI
all parts of the Union will meet in
Indianapolis, on February 21-24,
| 1917, to attend the tenth annual con-
vention of the National Society for
the Promotion of Industrial Educa-
ton. The chief interest of the gath
ering centers around the statewide
survey which Indiana has been car
rying on for the past year, and which
will go down in history as the first
state to make a complete vocational
survey for the purpose of increasing
the productive efficiency of it's COM
monwealth.
In city, town and rural district, un-
usual questions have been asked
about the training that workers can
get on their jobs; about the extent
and uses of apprenticeship; about
| part-t time courses and evening
schools; to what extent the indus
tries may give special training which
they do not now provide and to what
extent the schools can be factor in
providing that training.
1t is already evident that the an
swering of these questions will show
| Indiana the kind of vocational edu
cation which the state will need and
| how ii best can he given. Out Of the
| findings Indiana expects to develop a
program of Vocational education that
will take several years to work out
| completely, but that will put Indiana
| in the forefront of American states.
The national value of this survey
| will be found in the suggestions
| which it will offer to other states,
cities and towns interested in pro-
viding practical education for their
| people.
Prominent Speakers On Program.
J In addition to the discussions on
| teh survey, prominent leaders in
manufacturing, labor and education
circles will discuss questions of deep
interest to all who believe that an
| important part of national prepared
ness is that which deals with the
promotion of the industrial efficiency
of its workers.
Mr.. w. F. Book, state director of
vocational work for Indiana, will
speak on the need for the Indiana
Surveys; Chas. H. Winslow, director
of the Indiana state survey, will take
part in the symposium of the find
ings and recommendations, as will
also DR.. Charles A. Prosser, director
of Dunwoody Industrial Institute,
Minneapolis, who will speak on
Trade and Educational Agreements;
Mrs. Lucinda w. Prince, director
department of education, National
Retail Dry Goods association, will
discuss Department Store Analyses
and Day Part time and Evening
Training Courses in Salesmanship.
Mrs. Mary Schenck Woolman, form
erly director of the Manhattan
Trade School for Girls and the de-
partment of Household Arts at
Teachers college, has been assigned
the topic, A Study of the Workers in
the Home and Courses of Training
for Home-making, while Miss Ade-
laide Steele Baylor, special agent
state board of education to super
wise domestic science in Indiana, will
speak on Trade and Industrial Work
for Girls and Women. The morning
session will close with a discussion
on the significance of the Indiana
polls Survey to the metal trades in
dustry.
Special problems suggested by the
Indiana Surveys will be discussed on
Thursday afternoon. Some of the
subjects which will be considered
are Vocational Education and the
Permit Worker, Vocational Educa-
Education and a. Reconstruct
ed Apprenticeship, Vocational Edu-
cation and the Coordination in Indus
try and Vocational Education and
Extension Work
The Annual Banquet.
The annual banquet this year
which will take place on Thursday
night will emphasize more particul-
arly the progress that has been made
in vocational education for the past
ten years and look toward the flu
ture. Hon. Charles A. .Bookwalter,
former mayor of Indianapolis, will
preside as postmaster, and among
other prominent Indiana citizens who
will speak at the dinner are w. l..
Bryan, president of the University of
Indiana, Winthrop E. Stone, presi-
dent Purdue university, Lafayette,
Mrs. Samuel E. Perkins, president
w omen CIuu,
apolis. Other speakers of national
reputation who have been asked to
speak On that OCCASION are Hon.
William c. Redfeld, secretary of
commerce and president of the Ma
tional Society for the Promotion of
Industrial Education, Mrs. Roy E.
Fletcher. chairman vocational educa-
ton and guidance committee of the
General Federation of Women's
clubs, Miss Laura Drake Gill and
Charles A. Prosser, director of Dun
woody Industrial Institute, Mime
apolis.
The Friday morning meeting of the
National Society for the Promotion
of Industrial Education will discuss
"The Permanently of Women in In
dustry," which will be treated by M.
Edith Campbell, director Schmidlapp
bureau for girls and women. Cincin-
natl; "The Two-Fold Problem of !,
Training Girls" by Mrs. Eva w.
White, director of the extended use
of the public schools of Boston. DR..
David Snedden, former commissioner
of education for Massachusetts, and
now professor of vocational educa-
ton at Teachers college, will speak
on Certain Constructive Proposals
Relative to the Education of Minors