The Cordova daily times., 1920-09-29

TRAIN MEN TO
 MANAGE LARGE US. INDUSTRIES

NEW 1Ohh, oept. A5 \Uy ASSO- ciated Press).-A course in manage ment education" to provide a suffi- cient number of properly trained ex- ecutives for the industries of the United States is to be established in majority of the 620 American col leges, according to an announcement made to the Associated Press cores pondent here recently by Dr. Hollis Godfrey, president of the Drexel h. stitute, Philadelphia, formerly Con- missioner of the Advisory Commits sion of the Council of National De- fense.
 The plan, an OutgroWth of a con- vention attended by representatives of industry and colleges in Philadel- phia last March is backed by corpor- ations representing a capitalization of $26,000, 100000. It is the result, Dr. Godfrey said, of these two factors coming to a definite working agree 1llC1lI lO1 tHS III St tlluS IuIOuSu tue establishment of the Council of Man agement Education, an organization formed to "study mutual problems in order that the colleges may render the greatest possible service to the industry of the country"
 Dr. Godfrey, chairman of the new body, assisted by Samuel P. Capen, general director of the American Council on Education, representing the 620 American colleges, and Dr. Frederick c. Ferry, president of Ham, ilton college, are perfecting the plan which contemplates establishing prac- tical courses in the schools, assisting undergraduates and others to choose their life's work, by placing several thousand students and teachers in in- dustry during the summer months and by introducing the extension courses for men now in industry By the summer work, students will be enabled to defray their expenses at college, obtain an incight into Amer ican industry and enable the execu- lives to select future management men.
 The council of management educa- tion, which has been formed, it is said, to become "a clearing houes for all industrial and educational matters in the country, to promote the mu- tual understanding of the mutual pro- blems of industry and the college and to keep perpetual inventory of the educational needs of industry and of the ability of the colleges to meet these needs," has opened temporary offices in the Drexel building, Phila- delphia, until headquarters are furn- ished in Washington.
 An annual appropriation of $1OOOOO entirely borne by American industry, has been made to carry on it's work, which has been divided into two classes: First to determine the field of service which each college can cover, and, Second, to provide the college with all industrial data which may be utilized in forming under graduate courses for men cOntemplat- ing entering industry and in reading the management men already in in dustry through extension courses.
 All of the courses and scholastic recommendations, it was said, will be passed upon jointly by the council of management education and the American council on education bfeore being forwarded to the institutions of learning. Within one year, it is es- timated 100 colleges will have in- cluded the extension industrial cours- CSC and all will be provided with the industrial material upon which to base undergraduate work.
 The council, according to Dr. God frey, is the only war organization which has carried operations into time of peace. Nearly all of the ed ucators back of the movement served in the Council of National Defense. When the armistice was signed these men decided that the educational knowledge gained during the war at an expenditure of millions of dol lars should not be lost. Accordingly plans were set in motion to turn this information over to industry. A survey of the needs of industry was made under the auspices of the Tech nology clubs associated with the Massachusetts Institue of Technology
 In the most extensive industrial survey ever made, executives of 25O of the largest corporations in Amer ica agreed that increased production,