Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-07-18 | Page 8 | Praises B. Y. U. for Vocational Training Francis Kirkham Argues in Favor of Twelve Months' School Year

PRAISES B, 1 U. FOR Francis Kirkham Argues in Favor of Twelve Months' School Year. Special to The Tribune. PROVO, July 17. In an address before the students of the Brigham Young university uni-versity Thursday morning, Vocational Director Francis Kirkham complimented the school on the advanced position It had always taken on vocational training. It had been the first school tn the United States, he eaid, to give a oour6 In ao-mestic ao-mestic science. . Director Kirkham reviewed the .educa-tlonal .educa-tlonal situation In the state, especially In regard to vocational work and character building. Ho mad a plea for support oi the proposed state constitutional amendment amend-ment providing a state apportionment oi 25 per capita for the school children, tie aiso urged that Utah should stand for a twelve-month school year. All the time need not bo spent in tne schoolroom, he said, but the children should be under educational supervision. At present a boy might, or Instance, pe restrained from smoking six months in tne year and make up for lost time by doing double work the other six months, perhaps per-haps the twelve-month school year couia not be made successful In other states, but he thought It could be In Utah. The scheme, it was asserted, would give a better opportunity for the development develop-ment of Industry ana character. He would make these qualifications necessary for graduation from the state schools. President George H. Brimhall expressed his approval of the advanced educational attitude taken by the state. He 'bought the state should demand that the boys and girls be not unnecussarlly ignorant idle or 111. And the stahdards applied to the boy should be applied to the man. He would have no man elected to omce who did not measure up to the standards stand-ards prescribed for t'he boy.