Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-06-11
MUCH DONE UNDER
SMITH-HUGHES ACT
In Less Than Ten Months After Law Passed Every
State n Union Had Formally Accepted
It's Provisions.

solved. tno: undo, the teacher-,rain-
ing plan proposed under the law
nearly 10000 teachers were cinplovcd
IN the Preferably aided voca ,iunal
ycho"iS last year as compared with
NAN mat number three years ago,
ana more than $4,000 pcrsons ara
IN training today TO teach vocational
courses AZ compared with less than
200 in the FIRST year OF the opera
tion ot N. act
Future Of the Uonrd.
OF course. the Federal Board has
han us bumps even In this field OF
secondary vocational training, where
~ mas been most successful The
educational forces Of tho country
di@covcred when 4, Was MOO lato
mat they had allowed se1rra ,e
FEDERAL educational agency TO he
SO. up when progress called for a
nnifylnG OF All Federal educational
activities They found also. cha, In
avoiding the lackadaisical method OF
previous Federal grants for schools
th"y mad set up lIttle NOR. m,
'hinery and given Il NH" more con
troll !" tho Federal AUTHORITY than
they intended
TWO years ago a, salt Lake Ci,y
49, sN"'a'lldl FshIid' ION AESDClHf la n
recorded itself as against certain A.
,itudes and powers Of tho Federal
Bohrd OF Vocational F.ducation. i
rath"r extensive inquiry among ron
r"s"ntative educatiOna! people though
out tho United States by tho EVEN.
f"st last year showed. however. that
except for an occasional individual
thcr" was general satisfaction win
the results az the Smith Hughes act.
h0-5o Plan Attacked.
Recently the hf,y-h:ty plan Of tho
vocational education act has in mar
t!cular been tho subject of attack M
longer AK" than last month. FOR OK
ample. at tho meeting OF tho Depart
m"nt Of Superintendent ot tho Ma
tional Education Association I'm cuI-
caEo. Professor Alexander Inglis. of
harvard, and Director Samuel Paul
'"pcn. of tho American Council uc
Education. launched q drive agairs,
II. Ihey were utterly unable 10 NOV.
u" school sUp"rintcndcntS. however
"h" believe in vocational training ~
IN" typ" encouraged by the Federal
act ANA do not, FOR tn. most part oh
jsct TO the principle Of moderate
amounts Of Federal aid 10 the States.
t' course, the supcrIntcndcuts OF
schools. and practically everybody
else in education. except few Of
the old r"gim" In the universities. be-
lev. in Federal aid for tho general
education as well as vocational and
they anticipate that sooner or later
Federal department Of education
VIII be created. when tho Federal
Board OF Vocational Education
VIII be merged into the department
But In the meantime an honest in
|estiRation OF the work done by Inc
Federal Board for Vocational Educa-
ton In the feld for which IL was Gre
ated VIII conpe! the admiration OF
the most skeptical. Under IL the
States and local communities have on
tered into a tremendous program for
voca t!ondl training in agriculture.
t-nde. aud industry. home economics.
part time continuation schooling. and
commerce, and In the training of
teachers for this work. The Federal
government has already done a sob
In cooperating with the States in
Tocationa! training that VIII Offset It's
failures in some other activities.
With the recent transfer OF soldier
ehabllitation 10 a separate organiza-
ton says John j. Tircrt United
States Commissioner Of Education
I'VE can hope for steady progress
in vocational education throughout
the nation. The Federal act has had
significant effect upon the progress
Of vocational education"