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to Alaska Steamship Co.’s office.
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The energies of the United 8tates are being re-organlzed
and directed toward one purpose—winning the war. ‘g
Ellmllnatlon of non-essentials, saving of all commodities |i
needed by our big fighting machine and the cultivation of a
cheerful and helpful mental attitude are duties of the non- pj
fighting population. gi
“Silent Smith” typewriters may be found In every de
partment of the Government and In every Industry, doing j-j:
their part In the great struggle. They are conserving time,
labor and money.
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Factory and Home Office, 8YRACUSE, N. Y.
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URGES VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS
IN ALL PARTS OF ALASKA
Arthur H. Miller, superintendent of
native schools for this division, is a
strong advocate of vocational schools
throughout Alaska. Mr. Miller has
been in Cordova for several days, and
before leaving this morning for Cop
per Center to look after the Interior
natives, he furnished the Dally Times
with the following communication on
a subject which he considers of vital
Importance to Alaska:
We submit for your serious consid
eration the question whether our
neglect of vocational and industrial
training in our public schools has not
a vital bearing upon the most serious
problem confronting the American
people today, viz., the labor problem.
Who Is going to perform what is
now classed as the common task? We
can not all be proprietors or profes
sors.
Our efficient school system, amply
providing for scholastic training, has
overcrowded the professions, leaving
a large number of our high school, col
lege and university graduates with a
full cargo of class-room theories and
nothing to do but go West and hire
out as cowboys, farm hands or other
so-called common labor. They have a
head full of aspirations and varsity
lingo, but not even a handful of prac
tical knowledge of how to make their
living in the place circumstance lias
thrown them.
High school, college and university
atmosphere has offered them nothing
to give them either relish or fitness
for the farm or factory.
Many enter unnecessary occupa
tions or crowds into the “above com
mnn lahnr” inhu wharp PltllPr hrflin
or body sweat is unknown.
Perchance some become human
float, ride the brakebeams for a few
years, and finally make a hit writing
a Saturday Evening Post thriller of
“A True Story of My Life from Uni
versity to Adversity."
It is also worthy of note to observe
the large number of scientific jimmy
artists and safe-crackers that are col
lege men.
Then there is the remittance man,
not to mention the army of middle
men and curbstone brokers.
For the girls who graduate fro of
our schools there is the haven of mar
riage, but this precipitates from Phi
Betta Kappa to baking biscuits, which
also presents difficulties like the serv
ant girl problem, the living in apart
ments and taking your meals out, or
perchance attending the cooking dem
onstration at the department store.
What has this to do with the labor
problem? Very much. And If we
do pot solve this common labor prob
lem which we have reduced to the
class of despised occupations it is
likely to dissolve us.
If we can elevate the common task
to its proper place of importance we
shall have made much progress to
ward the goal.
That vocational education has a di
rect and important relation to labor
problems Is shown by the considera
tion given this subject by the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, as set forth
in reports at a meeting of that or
ganization In the year 1917 as fol
lows :
“Because the wage earners have
been taught by life that equal edu
cuuumti opportunities auapieu to wo
needs of all are a condition requisite
to equal economic opportunities, they
have been foremoBt in pressing de
mands for the incorporation of in
dustrial training and vocational
training as a part of our public school
Bystem.
“The old cultural ideals of educa
tion, dealing with the abstract only,
denied to the great majority of chil
dren an education adapted to their
minds and natures, and hence failed
to fit them for the duties and possi
bilities of the work of life. There
have come ideals of education that
toach out of life and work; that deal
with the concrete materials of en
vironment and the duties and activi
ties of life. This education seeks to
put into the lives appreciation of the
significance of service performed, an
appreciation that shall illuminate all
of work and life.”
Additional evidence of the need of
vocational training in our schools by
no less authority than the commis
sioner of education is found in ex
cerpts from his Letter No. 17, page 3,
for the year 1917, as follows:
“It seems even more certain now
than it did a year ago that the popu
lar demand will be irresistible that
vocational education be developed 1®
connection with, and a part of, the
public school system.”
To advocate a halt in the progress
of vocational education on the ground
that the way is beset with many dlf
Acuities is not becoming to those
who would elevate education to the
status of a profession.
There has been almost unprece
dented interest in the proposed fed
eral aid for vocational education. It
Is doubtful if any other educational
bill before congress ever attracted
an equal amount of popular attention
That the field of research for knowl
edge is Just as large and an lmpor
tant branch of science in which Lu
ther Burbank has studied as that pur
sued by Huxley, Spencer or Roent
Ken is quite evident.
Indeed, it appears logical that the
science of maximum production and
home economics, if studied to in
crease the supply for our temporal
needs, which is always a first con
sideration, would also produce the
maximum of efficiency for achieve
ment in physical, psychical or bio
logical science.
Agriculture has already had a hair
cut and is rapidly taking its proper
place among the other branches of
science.
Some have the conception of voca
tional education as the training of a
boy or girl in the operation of some
factory machine or other mechanical
process by means of a brief inten
sive course of instruction.
The idea is wrong. Vocational ed
ucation is not a substitute for a gen
eral or scholastic education, but a
necessary part of it and supplemen
tary to it.
A comprehensive vocational educa
tion must include the teaching of the
science of the industries and indus
trial pursuits, also their historic, eco
nomic and social bearings.
Any specific training for a useful
occupation, where marketable skill is
acquired, is also a positive asset.
All authorities seem agreed that
any tendency toward a dual system
of education should gd hand in hand.
All courses of study should be ad
ministered by the same board of edu
cation.
It is true industrial schools are ex
pensive, but it costs the public still
more to educate a surgeon or a law
yer or an engineer. Money expended
on an education is an investment
rather than an expense, and ignorance
is the most expensive of all.
As long ago as 1909 Samuel Gom
pers said: “Vocational education is.
a matter of national concern, and as
such should not be regarded as a pri
vate but a public function, controlled
by the public and at public expense.”
In these days of reconstruction,
when doubtless the nation will wisely
extend intensive development, includ
ing every modern convenience and ap
pliance throughout the rural sections
of the country, develop huge irriga
tion projects, build thousands of miles
of macadamized roads, greatly increas
ing the work to be done, it is the
opportune time to increase facilities
for the teaching of vocational and in
dustrial education in our schools. It *
is also a necessary and a safe in
vestment.
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Yarns. Sweaters and Socks
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Sheet Metal Works
J. A. COHRS, Prop.
Phones
Shop, 143 Res, 160—2-R.
General Sheet Metal Work,
Smokestacks, Boats and other
Tanks, sll sizes; Boat Flywheel
Pans, Garbage and Ash Cans.
REPAIR WORK DONE
TOKENS OF RESPECT
A well conducted funeral is a
token of respect to the deceased.
Our methods of conducting a
funeral have given us an oppor
tunity to serve you In a manner
that will command respect. We
are equipped to serve you sat
isfactorily.
K. E. HOLDEN PARLOR
Second Street, between
A and B Ave.
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Auntie Keating’s
Wee 1
Shop”
has outgrown its original
location, and has removed
into the
WILLIAMS BUILDING
First Street j
with a complete line of
Men’s, Women’s and Chil
dren’s Goods.
Come in and look my '
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