The New York herald., 1921-10-09
100000 TRAINING
FOR BUSINESS LIFE
a
Public and Private Schools
and Colleges Specialize
i'll Foreign Trade.
BANKERS SEND HELP
Manufacturers and Mer-
chants Assist in Making
s Curricula Practical.
10 YEAR COURSE OFFERED
One New York Institution Has
Nearly 5000 Such Stu
dents Enrolled.
Special Despatch 10 THE NEW YoKK HERALD
New York Herald Bureau,
Washington, ID. c., Oct g.

Washington. ID. G.. Oct. s.
Ncro ssan 100000 young men ane
women a.e seeking specia. training
FOR foreign trade and general business
careers in public and private schools
and colleges throughout the United
States. according to reports to the
Bureau of Education
Preparation for business life through
carefully prepared courses of stury in
educational institutions specializing
in the work is appealing more each
year to individuals who hope TO achieve
lasting success, according to officials
Of the Federal Bureau. The number
who attend business schools and col
leEes is increasing at the rate of 25,-
600 students year
Training for Business.
Colleges and schools in all parts of the
country are extending their courses to be
OF greater service in preparation of stu
dents for business life. Bankers. manu-
facturers and men whose Importance ie
large in business circles are lending their
assistance to the Federal Government
the courses more practical.
Training in business is being given in
two-thirds ofSthe State colleges and uni
versities, according to the reports No the
Bureau of Education. These State insti-
tutions are those which have established
special schools giving training exclu-
sively in Industrial and business pur-
suits. The number OF such special
schools is increasing each year.
With the facilities already In exist
ence 1t now Is possible for young man
or woman to specialize in business train
ing Immediately after leaving the eighth
grade and to continue the work through
college. That amounts to eight years of
specialized training for commercial and
manufacturing pursuits and Is equal to
that accorded in the professions like
medicine and law.
Foreign trade offers unusual oppor-
ttinities for success in all its phases dur
ing the next five or six years in the for
cign trade field. 1t is believed The
United States, with it's enormous war
born merchant marine, is on the road to
becoming the. worlds greatest maritime
nation. ~
I'm Public Schools.
Nearly 5000 public schools, exclusive
of State universities. are giving special
courses in industrial and commercial
subjects. A very large majority of them
are organized To teach no other branch
OF work. Their enrolment is about 800. :
600. according to reports to the Bureau
Of Education. Another group Of 300.0 900
students is at work in private schools
and institutions. while the number at
tending business schools maintained by
corporations and religious organizations
Is about 100000.
Colleges offering advanced business
courses have an enrolment totalling
10000. The enrolment is increasing
each month.
Elementary courses are offered by
public schools. Through business high
schools students who cannot attend coll
lege are offered thus the opportunity to
go to work well equipped. BY means of
the schools maintained by private indi-
vlduals and by big concerns these same
students can continue their studies at
night and win advancement while gain
ing first hand knowledge OF conditions
In the business world.
Nine Thousand I'm One College.
Colleges Offering training in account
ancy and factory administration are at
tracting thousands Of students in New
York, Philad elphia and Boston. One
New York institution now has nearly
10000 students enrolled in business
courses, another has 5000 and a third
1000.
The growth OF the school specializing
IN business training is shown by the
fact that five years ago the number OF
students taking such subjects in colleges
did not exceed $1,000. Now three COL
leges in New York alone have an en-
rolment of more than that number.
The total of all students attending
universities giving business courses has
Increased zoo per cent in five years, IL
Is pointed out.
DR.. a. S. Swlggett OF the Bureau OF
Education 10 chairman OF a COMMITTEES
OF fftcen TO win cooperation OF practical
business men in encouraging extension
of business training. Men of large af-
fairs In all sections OF the United States
are enrolled on advisory committees OF
100.
The committee devised for students OF
foreign trade p special course now being
used In several large colleges This
course would require ten years 70 com
plete for the student beginning IL iust
after leaving the grade schools. IL in
cludes special training in languages.
geography. social customs and manners.
as well as practical drill In actual prob
lcrns OF foreign trade. DR.. Swiggett ex-
Dlaincd:
The course Is intended 10 III the
American going into foreign trade 10
compete on an equal plane with the
trained men of Europe. Too often
In the past the American business
man has found It impossible TO do
large lNoiness abroad because he
knew littN OF his customers except
their business needs He found II
Impossible TO gain and hold their
interest and friendship in business
way because he did not know them
or understand them. We are trying
10 turn out a salesman who can go
into his foreign territory and feel
at home IN the unfamiliar atnos.
prcres. Such q business man must
have n very large store Of general
Information lie must be able 20
talk 60 customers about THINGS aside
from HIS business and his wares.
Tie ten year course is being revised
on the basis OF it's actual trial for the
last several months. Meanwhile the
Bureau OF Education Is doing It's utmost
"a eocosIraQo tho cxfenafor ~ t,,,tro..