The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-02-09
from Fourteen to Seventeen Years of
The Section Meetings.


Friday afternoon, February %, will
be devoted to a number of section
meetings where administrative and
technical problems which are live is
sues in the vocational education
movement will be taken up, such as
The Small Community Need for an
Industrial School, Industrial Shop
Methods, Efficiency Factors in Trade
Education; Types of Organization
for Training Teachers in Evening
Courses, Summer Courses and Full
Time Courses, Agricultural Educa-
ton and the Relation Between the
Teacher of Vocational Agriculture
and Other Agencies Dealing with the
Local Problems of Agricultural Edu-
cation. The Agricultural Program
will include the following speakers:
Professor G. l. Christie of Purdue
university, Lafayette, Ind, Professor
A. V. Storm, University Of Mime
sofa, st. Paul, l.. H. Dennis, director
agricultural education for Pennsyl-
vania, Professor w. H. French of the
University of Michigan, Lansing,
d With the passage of the vocational
Mich.
education bill providing federal
grants to the states for stimulating
vocational education, many states
will be faced with the problem as to
what legislative action a state has to
take in order to secure the benefit of
the national grants which are to be
provided. Mr.. John A. Lapp, director
bureau of legislative information,
who has given much time and study
to this question, will speak on Sat-
urday morning, February "a, on how
a state shall legislate for vocational
education in the light of Indiana's
experience and what is the bearing
of such legislation on the National
Child Labor and Vocational Educa-
ton Laws. Other topics to be con-
sidered at this session are The SEN
ior High School and Vocational Edu-
cation and the Junior High School
and Pra-vocational Education.
Speakers on the program for this
session are ]. T. Giles, Superintend-
ent of schools, Richmond, Ind, DR.
David Snedden, Teachers College,
Columbia university, New York;
Frank v. Thompson, assistant SUI
perintendent of schools, Boston,
Mass, and Milo H. Stuart, principal
of Indianapolis Industrial Institute.
Employment Managers Conference.
In connection with the annual con-
vention of the National Society for
the Promotion of Industrial Educa-
ton, and under the auspices of the
manufacturers division of the Indi-
annapolis Chamber of Commerce, a
conference of unusual interest to
merchants and manufacturers as
well as educators will be held on the
afternoon and evening of Wednes
day, February 81, just preceding the
convention of the national society.
The movement for employment
managers associations in various
cities as initiated largely by the ,vo-
eaton bureau of Boston, should in
terest all business men. To select
employees properly and to give them
proper chances to develop will help
solve such questions as the turnover
of the working force and preVentable
un employment.
Word has already been received
that some CT the most prominent
business men, scientific management
experts, and educators will be pres
ent to take part in the conference.
Some of the topics are: The New
Order in Business which Demands
and Brings Into Focus the Study of
Employment Problems; The New
Profession of Handling Men; Meth |
DDS Of Determining the Cost of the
Labor Turnover; Authority Which
Should be Given the Employment,
Manager; A Decreasing Labor Turn
over Through Vocational Training
for Workmen in Mercantile Esta- |
blishments; Employment Depart
ments from the Viewpoint of the