The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-29
M4CHINE INDUSTRY
IS BEING STUDIED
Million or More School Boys and Girls of
All Grades Throughout the Nation
are Taking That Up and Also
Community Life.

Machine industry and community
life is the special theme for Dccembe
in he series of lessons on the war, Is
sued by the nitpd States bureau of ed
ucation department of the interior, anC
now being studied by million or more
schoolboys and girls Of all grade,
throughout the nation.
The bureaus series oi lessons On com.
munity and national life, a. they were
termed by President Wilson in his orgi.
NAL announcement TO the schools have
now reached their third issue October
! and November issues dealt with the or
ganization of modern industrial life as
compared with pioneer days, the effect OF
war ON commerce in nitrate, the war and
IaeroplaneS, production and wise con
/ sumption, and similar topics. The idea
/ OF teaching the principles of conserva
tion underlying successful prosecution of
the war originated with the food admin
istration. but the plan has now been
taken over by the bureau OF education.
Professor Charles II. Juda of the Uni
yersity of Chicago, with the assistance of
u corps Of writers in the various fields
il preparing these government texts for
the pupils in the elementary and high
schools,
What the Lessons are About.
Parents as we'll as pupils will be in
terested in the December lessons The
older high school students will learn of
the rise of the machine industry. from
the day of the hand loom and the spin
ming Jenny" through the changes
wrought by the industrial revolution, to
the large scale production, world mar
kets, and social problems of modern IL
dustry The various elements OF cost
IN factory operating. education a. en-
couraged by industry, the contribution
of the press, are also treated in this les
son for older pupils.
IN the section intended for the first !
class Of the high school and the upper
grades of the elementary school the sub |
jeet is how men made heat to work
The lesson reviews the use of animals, /
wind and water as sources of power
This is followed by accounts of Saw
arys pumping device. the first steam en-
9ne of 1905, Newcomer piston engine
# l705, Humphrey Potter's automatic
jumping engine and James Watts steam
'ngine, which replaced the alternating
leat and cold method Of earlier types
md telegraph are also described as ma
hines for overcoming space and their
,art in modern industry is emphasized
The work of women is considered, with
pecial reference to the change caused
~ the transfer Of production from home
o factory. Under the heading the
Of modern life" this sec
ION of the lessons compares modern
e l., ]
# the small village analvzes the large
BUSINESS corporation of the present dav.
nd suggests the need of new standards
i conduct and new point of contact be
ween human beings
For pupils in the intermediate grades
{ the elementary schools inventions
! the subject taken up. The roll Of in.
ention- is called from the simple traps
nd weapons OF primitive men to the
rinting aud telegraphy OF to-day Iron
nd steel are treated historically. and
he modern processes are described where.
y smelling is made easier and cheaper
nan ever before other lessons in this
sction have % do with the effects II
Iaehinery on rural life and patents
nd inventions Special attention Is
wen TO the farm tractor. which besides
$ use in increasing production. makes
,-sible the movement of heavy trench
an. and furnished the principle from
hieh have been developed he famous
auk," used by the British army in
rance
How the Lessons May Be Obtained.
The lessons in community and IA
anal life" are sold Ia schools at cost
I the government Ia All eight num-
n of each section viii b. issued. one
Imber appearing on he first of each
lcndsr month through Nav The gls
nmcut printing office i able TO furnish
e-e texts in large quantitirs tor school
z. the cost ~ quautitie. " a Thousand
more amounting t. less han . cent
month Tor each pupil. 81 eight cents for
E entire series
Servioeable Infant