Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1921-01-20
TO BE TRAINED
FOR BUSINESS
Educators Plan Extensive In
structon for Youth.
WILL MAP COURSE OF STUDY
Regional Committees > Act in Twelve
Districts With National Bureau of
charlottesville Purpose Is to Lay
the Foundation on Which Ur l-fs.
ties May Build Courses for Future
Observation-Disclosures Investigations
Planned.

Plans for more extensive business
training and commercial education in
the secondary and higher educational
institutions over the country are to be
worked out by committees named at II
regional conferences recently held at
strategic points In each of the II eco
homie regions into which the country
has heen divided by the bureau of edu-
cation.
The conferences were called by Com
missioner of Education ClaXton and
were presided over by Glen Levin
Swiggett, specialist in charge of com.
mercial education OF the bureau of ed
ucatiOn. The first was held at Column
bia. S. c., and the last at Philadelphia
Other conferences were held at Knox"
Vile, San Francisco. New Orleans.
Seattle, Denver, Kansas City, Chicago.
Pittsburgh, Minneapolis and Boston.
Educators Interested.
The regional committees include, in
addition to the state superintendent OF
public instruction of each state, many
Of the executives of universities and
colleges, university deans of commerce
and education and superintendent of
schools In the larger cities.
Doctor Swiggett says the task of the
regional committees will be "to plan
and construct. in cooperation with the
bureau of education. a better articu-
lated and co-Ordinated course of studs
In preparation for business and coz
merce that will not only give to nusi-
ness, as the need presents itself, boys
and girls trained for the more elemen-
tary tyres of business service, more or
less routine il. character, hut will
early lay the foundation with proper
sequence In those subjects upon which
the universities must build their
courses for further training and edu'
cation In the major fields of CONNER.
cial production and distribution. OF
finance and of foreign. public and so.
cial service.
1.-THE immediate task Of each state
and regional committee" Doctor Swig,
,ett continued, "is to ascertain by In.
vestigation and survey those major
ypeS In productive and diStributiNe
business for which state and region
may have real economic advantages:
20 determine and select those which
have the greatest need for the largest
number of the trained product OF
schools and colleges; to decide upon
hose business operations for which
schools and colleges can best train
md then to construct course ot
study for secondary and higher institu
lions which shall best meet known
state and regional business needs as
well as be in accord with sound edll-
ratiOnal practice.
Factors Involved.
1.-THE volume Of and cost in manu-
featuring depends largely upon eco
nOmic locations. There Is naturally IN
vOlved, therefore, the most advanta-
geous use Of the following factors
materials, labor, capital and transpor-
alton. In order that the business |
training program Of a state or region
have the value of permanency. these
committees must first determine ny
investigation and survey whether the
selected types of commercial produc-
ton and distribution for which train
ing courses are to be built show In
their development the largest possible
and freest use of these four factors;
whether the industrial and commercial
development of a region has been due
to fortmtous or economic causes"