Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-07-03
Little q Or No Arrangement to
Coach Prospective Home
Builders, State Supervisor
Of Home Economics Re
ports.

Although there are 1917 16 women
IN North Dakota actively engaged in
home-making, there are only approx
imately Isis girls in the state now
receiving any training in that voca-
ton, according to a survey made pub
lie by Mrs. Mabel M. Hollis, state
supervisor of home economies, North
Dakota Agricultural college and su-
pervtsor of Smith-Hughes work in
North Dakota as related to home
economics.
Mrs. Hollis report says that a study
OF h 1920 census report showed
1870 women in North Dakota over
FL years OF age. n more than 80
per cent of this number were home
makers. In 1926 there were $4,000
girls of high school age in North Da-
kota and just $500 in high school,
leaving 5000 girls of high school
age not attending school. There are
147 classified high schools in North
Dakota. and 81 of them offer some
the length of courses ranging from
one-half to four years. The report
points out hat there is little or no
opportunity under this arrangement
for the 1o7.016 home-makers to Sc
cure instruction.
Makes Suggestions.
Answering a question which she
herself asks. How shall North Da-
kota meet her opportunity and obi
CATION in this regard?" Mrs. Hollis
Gays:
First, North Dakota should pro-
vide more short unit courses for the
older groups of girls and women (eve-
ming schools).
Second, North Dakota should pro-
vide for more part-time schools or
classes for girls out of school, but of
school age.
Third, North Dakota should pro-
vide courses of study in home-mak-
ing in every high school in the state
and two years of such work should be
required of every girl.
Fourth, North Dakota elementary
schools and junior high schools should
offer home-making instruction in the
sixth. seventh and eighth grades. since
a large majority of the girls leave
school before entering high school,
Teaching cooking and sewing do
not offer a broad enough education
o h home-makers, Mrs. Hollis de-
:cIares. The course Of study should
also include home management and
care Of children. The teachers
should be experienced in home activ-
tiles, trained in technical subjects to
be taught and trained in the presen-
tation OF their subject matter.
Expensive Course.
Home-making is an expensive
III to put into the schools. Mrs.
Hollis survey report says and 40
state has approached an adequate
program for home-making education
without appropriating money for fos-
:tering home economics teaching in
day schools n part-time schools.
MIS-. Hollis draws a comparison be-
tween the amount of money devoted
to agriculture and home-making and
points out from census figures that
there are one m one-eighth times
as many women engaged in home
making as there are men and women
farmers, while there is 10 times as
much spent per farmer as per home
maker for educating people in the
two vocations in North Dakota.
1T is not the purpose to show
that the state has appropriated a
cent too much for agriculture" the
report concludes. However, when
the state assumes an equal RESPONSE
bility in the education of home-mak-
ers n ag~riculturists, will it not
NEAR a new distinctive era of pros
perity and well-being? For if our civ
ilizatjon is built on agriculture. it is
built still more fundamentally on
homes. Let North Dakota continue
its generous support of agriculture,
but hasten the day when home-mak-
ing education will be one of this
great states principal projects"