Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-02-12
CONFERENCE IS HELD
.:.'0!N40cAT|ONAL TRAINING
Dir. P.kP. Claxton. United States
! commissioner of Education, Here
- to Meet School Heads.
PROPOSES pART-TnlE PLAN
Outlines Scheme for Those Forced
to Work to Put in Part Time in
School, and Part Time in Their
$t,sFarious Forms of Employment.

.Qf the utmost Importance is plan
which with the official sanction Of the
City School Board supported by the
people OF Richmond will probably be
tried out in Richmond with tho open
inG, OF the schools for the fall term.
This plan Is ono which had its in
SeptIon in Washington. where govern
ment# officials are crarcly concerned
about the large number Of boys and
girls OF high school aGc who have been
forced to leave school since the var
began because tn" men Of the family
were fighting for the colors or III train
ing camps
The United States. being q progress
sive. nation, IS fully coCnizant Of the
curse Of Ignorance. and IL is 10 combat
this effect OF The war that Or. y. t.
Claxton, United states Commissioner or
Eduea tion; {. +. Holder. OF the United
States Department OF Labor ard Fed
eral board for vocational education:
Or. w. T Bawdcn. srccialist in indus
trial education of thc United states
Bureau of Education. and Mr.. Bunker.
specialist IN high school education also
OF the United states Department of
Education, came down from Washing
ton yesterday TO hold conference
with Richmond sciioo! officials and
representatives OF the trade orSaniza-
tionS of the city.
Reprcseuting the Central Trades and
IS. Greenway and Mr.. Shepherd. w :.
Rhoads and Mr. LauEhton represented
Miller. & Rhoads. employing great
number of saicspcoplc OF high school
age. NTr. Ewing represented the thcsa-
pcake and Ohio Railway system. and
&c Corley the retail merchants ana
the. Richmond Chamber of Commerce
IT W, Duke was present from the
Mechanics Institute.
W. Floyd Ecams. chairman OF tho
School Board. presided at the meeting
and the sneakers were introduced by
Dr. r.. G. Chandler superintchdent OF
the city. schools Other members OF the
schoo, hoard present were: W. c. Cot
trell. r. n. Long, Roland II. 'hiidfcE'
DIR, Clifton NJ. Miller and Jetcr Jones
,.Of the administration officials oil ,he
city schools there were present nesidcs
Dr.. Chandler. A. II. VIM. J. n. Einford.
w Fl. Macco James c. llarwood and
C. p wahlford
DIR, CLAXTON EXPLAINS
Et@- IT'S PIitT-EIME PLAN
DR., Ctayton nNpla ined at length his
part-tinc hSn-school scheme whitN
IL carried out, will mean the orEahi"a-
tfon of a high school on the basis @.
forty eight weeks. so aojustco MA
twenty-four weeks will be devoted /"
study and recitation and twcnty-Lour
weeks to profitable employment. It i
hoped that All commercial and indus
trial enterprises OF Richmond, inc!ud-
ing banks and stores. will co-opera'"
in this matter. The plan is somewha
as follows:
If /. store needs ten persons it will
DO arranged so that ten will I've in the
store for two consecutive weeks AMI
ten in the schools for two consecutive
weeks. AT the end OF two weeks time
the ten IN the store Will so to school
and the ten in school will report 10 the
store.
If bank needs three persons in
clerical help. arrangements viii! he
made TO have six assigned TO the bank,
three alternating, with three others OH
a two-week plan.
II this part-tir'c h;Eh-school scheme
can be carried out IL will mean that
every pupil In school organized or
the forty-eight weeks basis will re-
celYe twertyfour weeks Of study and
twenty-four weeks of profitable en-
ployment.
The attitude of large employers OF
Southtu labor was presented by MIR
Rhoads. and short talks were made by
other representative men present II
Is. conceded. of course. that school OF
ficials, labor organizations. employer;
and the young people themselves arc
most intimately concerned IN tho work
ing out OF this scheme
Men: pcrS OF the school Board eX.
pressed their irdivid,sl apprpval OF ;he
plan, but no oific!s .act;on has We;
been. taken in regard 70 Il. 1t is be-
iieved by those who hav" made a study
OF the subject in relation 10 the gray.
aty Of the situation, which is for,int.
young people OF high-school age To
leave schoo! to seek rerlurerative en-,
pfoymcnt that this plan. II found teas.
ible. will go a long way toward com
bHtt!nS the present tendency T. sac.
Ilhce. .aead emic training TO yocationaI
eSpericpCe