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Show lOEIlG GIVEN IS flirj TUT Woman Tells Educators Economy Offsets High Cost of Living. Judicious spending and the use of more economical methods of household management man-agement were urged aa a means of offsetting off-setting the high cost of living by Miss Isabel Ely Lord of the Pratt institute, New York, in speaking before sixty home economics teachers and leaders at the educational conference at the UniversiLy of Utah yesterday. Miss Lord is director of the school of household science and art at the institute. She declared that school buildings, when not used for other purposes, should be utilized as centers for instructing women in household management and the preparation of food and clothing. The budget system of household accounting ac-counting and management was taken up at the meeting. George N. Child, state superintendent of public instruction, at the morning cession of the conference for part-time education stressed the importance of health and citizenship training in conjunction con-junction with the vocational education program. "Industrial Education in Utah" was the topic dlsciused by Benjamin W. Johnson of the federal board for vocational voca-tional education. lUscussions wore led by Superintendent Superintend-ent C. H. Skidmore of the Boxelder school district, and Professor L. R. Humphreys, Hum-phreys, head of the farmers' mechanical department of the Utah Agricultural college. Although this subject was not brought up at the meeting, Mr. Humphreys declared de-clared yesterday that the rapid development develop-ment of agricultural machinery is creating cre-ating an ever-widening field for farm mechanics. Utah schools are well supplied sup-plied with machinery and equipment, and there ib no need of students going east to study these subjects, he said. |