Newark post., 1922-11-29


open door with the sign reading
"Come in" both in colleges and uni
versities. To every professional man
and woman, the doctor, lawyer, the
preacher, the teacher and the engi-
neer, to all who wanted a finished |
education in any and all professions,
but this government waited for more
than 140 years Except in very few
local communities where far-seeing
people realized the Importance of
vocational training) to assist in estab-
fishing agricultural schools of less
than college grades to teach the man
or the woman, the boy or the girl how
to labor with their hands.
Our man power on the farm that
we thought was inexhaustible has
diminished from 70.5 per cent in 1880
to 1876 per cent in 1920.
When the Smith Hughes Act was
passed in 1917, the evidence in the
Congressional hearings was that only
one per cent of those engaged in agri-
culture were technically trained.
Think of 10,951 ,074 men and women
being engaged in one of its most i'm
portant pursuits, and only one per
cent of them technically or skillfully
trained, the other ninety-nine per cent
cropping in the dark. 1t is true that
this study was made in 1917, four
years ago. There has been a most
wonderful awakening since that time
under the Agricultural Department,
and through Vocational Education
under the Smith-Hughes Act.
The census of 1920 tells us that
there are 12,S12,701 men and women
engaged in manufacturing and its
allied interests.
When the Smith-Hughes Act was
passed in 1917, the evidence before
the Congressional Committee at that
time showed that only one per cent of
those people were technically or skill
fully trained. That meant that ninety
nine per cent of the 12,S12,701 people
engaged in manufacturing were un-
trained in their calling.
Can you realize how much greater
the income will be for a man who is
technically trained over one who is
unframed. There are 41,609,192 peo-
pie engaged in gainful occupations ir
this country. Suppose that an EN-
ploye technically trained could carr
ten cents a day more than one wht
was unframed. | think in many in
stances that his or her salary woult
be 100 per cent greater, but suppos
for argument sake, we place it at tel
cents a day, the minimum. Do yo'
realize how much that would add t
the daily payroll in this country?
would amount to l,919.20. Mu'
tiply that by three hundred workin
days in the year and you have adde
to your annual payroll 81 ,24S ,575,70l
Boys and Girls Leauing School
Sixty-four per cent of all the boy
and girls have left school before the
reach the eighth year grade. Why
it? Some on account of economic COZ
ditions, but the great majority of the
leave because they are tired of schoc
Some of them want to go to the farr
others to the shop, but there h;
never been, until recently, and TIL
only to limited degree, where Il
boy who wants to do anything exec
to be a professional man could find
place where he could receive tee
nical education for the calling that
had selected for his life's work.
Put Vocational Education in yo
school, play the cards above the tab
Let the boy or girl look over the fie
and see what he or she wants to
in the future and train that boy
that girl along the lines of his or h
wishes. If boy wants to be farm
train him to be farmer; if he wal
to be mechanic, train him to be
mechanic. If a girl wants to be
Hoiile Duliuer, Tram iiel W pe d iio
builder. If they want commerc
education, train them commercial
but do not force them out of school
the beginning of the eighth grade 6
send them out into the world untra
ed, because you have not got
things they want.