New Britain herald., 1922-12-29
DEVELOPING BRAINS
 AFTER DAYS WORK
Many Thousands Improve Minds
 by Correspondence Courses

New fork, Dec. 29,--ln an eHort to disclose the present status of in- dustrial education in this country. and to link the school with the workshop fin nationwide plan to provide in- struction for millions of workers, ex- perts have submitted reports to the annual meeting of the American So- ciety of Mechanical Engineers em- bodying the results of their surveys.
 Made under the auspices of the so- ciety's committee on education and training, the investigations were con- ducted by James A. Mover, of Bos- ton, director of university extension, Massachusetts department of educa- ton. and secretary of the National University Extension Association; Robert l.. Sackett. dean of engineer ing in Pennsylvania State college and Charles R. Richards, director of Cooper Union. New York.
 Industrial education has advanced in truly remarkable way and prom ises much for the future" said a statement summarizing the reports issued by the society's committee. More than 1o0.000 persons are study ing in trade extension courses in New York alone. and 325,000 are studying in federally aided vocational schools supported by appropriations of over s1S,0o0,000, according to the committee, which found that more than 4,000,000 students in the United States have completed correspondence courses.
 The committee suggests that each industry cooperate with the univer- sity-extension agency in it's state and secure for its employees the additional personal instruction furnished when correspondence instruction is applied for by groups, and the consequent formation of what are called exten- sion classes. The committee states its purpose to be "a coordination and simplification which may be sugges- tive of standard code of procedure in vocational training"
 President Ira N. Hollis, of the Worcester, Mass, Polytechnic Institu- tion, speaking of the extension and correspondence schools, said that the way to an education is being opened LID by these schools to thousands of men and women who have no money to go to college.
 Correspondence instruction lacks the contact among students that pro- notes discussion and supplies stimu- Jus for study, but it makes up for that in the serious purpose of every stu dent, and in what must be confessed is superior instruction" said pr. Hol- lis. "A correspondence school can afford to employ the very best talent in the country for preparing text books, and it can lend to the work a degree of technical skill that one cannot find in the average college The extension schools are usually connected with universities"
 What Developments Show.
 Developments during the last year, according to Dean Sackett, show that there is a growing national apprecia- ton of the need for apprentice train ing. Schools for bricklayers, steam filters, carpenters. electricians and others have, he said, succeeded nota- bly in San Francisco. The Industrial Association of that city now believes, he reported. that 1t can train men to be master craftsmen in 12 to IS months. In the past three to four years have been demanded.
 Both employers and unions are de- veloping industrial training in New York. A joint plan applied to wood- working apprentices is in operation, and plans are being made for the or ganization of training for plasterers, bricklayers and other trades as soon as practicable.
 This movement by the New York building congress has the support of financiers, contractors, and union labor and it has aroused widespread interest in the problem of supplying an adequate number of skilled me- chanics and artisans" said Dean Sackett.