The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-01-25
Measure Will Promote Vo-
cational Education Between
States and Nation.
HE ASKS EQUITABLE
MONEY DISTRIBUTION
Congressman Quotes Letter
From W. S. Dearm ont of
Cape Normal School.

Ho" penulhg III congress providing for
the promotion of vocational education
By cooperation between the Govern
ment and the various States. The
Congressional Record, which contains
q copy Of recent speech by Mr.. Rus
sell, indicates that he has won much
support from his colleagues.
His amendment provides for an
equitable distribution of the fund
within the various States, so far as it
may be possible and practicable by the
board controlling the expenditures"
The measure has been urged by
educators in every State. Prof. w. S.
beaumont of the Normal School, wrote
Mr.. Russell letter, indorsing the bill.
Mr.. Russell's speech. in part, follows:
q have offered this amendment as
friend Of the bill, and its purpose
is to try to make more specific and. if
possible, more certain the fair diStribu-
ton Of the benefits of the measure
that are intended by its author and
friends.
Assuming that this bill becomes q
law and that its provisions are accept
ed by all of the As States of the Union,
and that the funds as herein provided
are distributed among the States as
proposed, the State of Missouri, from
which come, Will, it is estimated, re-
ceive in ten years S1,553,9SO. This
sum when duplicated by the State will
amount to $3,107, $50.
According to the latest information
/ have been able to obtain We have
in Missouri 923.963 children of school
age and 1913 public schools and 584
public high schools. OF course, it will
not be possible for every pupil in the
State to receive his or her share OF
the proposed appropriation, nor will
ii be possible for every public school
in the State 70 receive its proportion
ate share Of this fund, as the average
annual amount to the average public
school would be only about $31 per
annum, which would be so reduced in
amount as to be OF little value if dis
tributed in that way, but the average
annual rate to the high schools of the
State if equally distributed would
amount to 1892 per annum. So that it
seems to me that it will probably be
desirable to expend this fund in the
Normal schools, the high schools, and
such of the other public schools as are
prepared to give instructions in the
branches provided for in the bill, but
in any event it can and ought to be so
distributed as to reach every section
Of the State and to be helpful to all
the boys and girls of every quarter of
the country who are striving for or
DESTROYS of obtaining vocational train
ing along the lines proposed.
There is a controversy going OF
now in my State as to how the money
appropriated under the road law we
passed shall be divided. There are
some people in that State who now
favor expanding it all on a few roads,
and many people in other parts of the
State are afraid they may not get
their share. 1t seems to me that it
will be entirely proper for this Con-
gress to express its feeling as to how
the money should be expended.
81 congratulate the author of this
bill for his good intentions that led
him to prepare and to introduce it, and
likewise l commend the several men,
bers of the Committee on Education
who have participated in perfecting
and reporting it to the House for its
consideration. Its purposes are praise
worthy, and hope and believe its
practical operation will be very use
ful to a great many individuals, and
OF great benefit to the country at
large.
after being called upon at the last
session of this Congress to vote for
more man 100000 to sustain the
military ann Of the Government, in
Guiding pensions for service in past
wars, and since observing the invita-
ton contained in the estimates now
submitted to the vote Of this session
for more than $685., 10000 for military
purposes, amounting together to more
than $1,735 100000 in the two sessions
of the Sixty-fourth Congress, it is with
a feeling Of genuine pleasure and a
delightful relief to be given the OPP
portunity today to vote for an appro
rriation like this without associating
with It's expenditure the contemplation
Of bloodshed, misery and death.
"This bill proposes within the next