Show EDUCATOR RAPS I I- I UTAH'S LACK OF VOCATION WORK I I 1 Says Student Training 1 Remains in v 1 j Development Stage ta e J Utah educators concerned with 7 vocational education w were re told flatly flatly flat- flat V r ly Saturday that the needs of are not being filled V f The speaker was Stanley N N. Child chairman of the state tion survey committee who addressed addressed addressed ad- ad dressed the spring meeting of t the e H f Utah Vocational conference conference- at West high school The rhe needs of the people people- of Utah i iare are not hot being met by bv vo vocational education which whIch whIch-is is still in the development development de- de dei i stage Mr Child A. He asserted too much stress is t r bei being g pa placed ed on the professions professions' J and not enough on skilled lab labor r i rand r and other occupations Of 2000 high school graduates In Salt Lake City only go ga on to college What becomes of the other r he asked 5 A S Ii Studies Utahn's Needs t Mr Child said the state educational educational survey committee is making r 0 f fa a study of the needs of for A vocational education from the standpoints of what developments s sare are necessary and how much of a program the state can afford J- J Other speakers at the morning session included A. A Burgess Young assistant general manager of the the International Smelting and RefinIng Refining t s ing company and Walter Adams of of the Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe PIpe company Pointing to the huge payrolls of at the metal meta mining Industry in Utah Mr Young stressed the e of developing mining and metallurgical metallurgical metallurgical metal metal- courses in connection with the engineering schools of th the states state's universities Develop Mines lines Bureau The mining and metallurgical i of the tie university engineer engineer- in ini inZ station experiment itt station must be developed developed de- de J Jo toas as hi high h a degree as possible so so that that both the school t of mines and the he experiment station station sta sta- tion may mak make a definite contribution contribution contri contri- i to the continuance of the industry in Utah he he- declared Following u luncheon meeting at s noon in the Newhouse hotel the educators returned to West hi h school for a series of departmental I meetings At the luncheon Howard B B Gunderson state director of trades industries and distributive oc occupations occupations upa- upa j introduced the speakers speakers' Earl J. J Glade executive vice pr president president sl- sl dent of K S L Paul M. M Peterson president of the Utah Utah- State Federation Federation Feder Feder- I of Labor and Dr Homer J. J Smith professor c of f Industrial education education edu- edu i cation at the University of Minne- Minne MInnei i 1 sota sola J Dr Ix Smith who also addressed f the conference rence Friday night declared de de- dared two conditions are giving irise i rise to greater need for each school to have a faculty member who v spends his full time trying time trying to guide students toward their future work j First he said is a growing multiplicity of occupational types Second is a l lowering of f ability in inI inthe I the student body I The Jow lowering of ability he said does not mean the Individual Is less lessI I able than a generation ago but that a few years ago schools were for part of the children from part j of the homes and nd now are for nearly all the children from nearly nearly nearly near near- ly all the homes U j Studying Needs of Stats States s Youths Youths' S S 'S r rt t i 7 r S S s S'S S S 5 e I S i S TOLD OF NEED FOR FOK VOCATIONAL EDUCATION Howard B 13 B. B Gunderson left A A. A Burgess Young v 5 I A II IId 1 S d r Jt IIIi 1 |