Show HOME MAKING VAlUES TOLD Miss Jean Cox Writes of Part Time Work In the Vocational Education magazine magazine magazine mag mag- azine the national organ for the National Society for Vocational Education n Is an editorial by Miss Jean Cox of the state department of education for tor Utah in which In part she says The iThe present financial depression will be a means of or converting to tho public need and value of home homemaking homemaking homemaking making instruction The development development develop develop- ment meat of part time time education for adult women and girls will Interlock interlock interlock inter Inter- lock the aims ains of the home and the department Home making depart depatt- departments departments ments will be made clearing houses where women as well as girls will receive help In adjusting the individual individual indi indi- vidual to home and comm community activities ac ac- ac- ac The average girl taught the use of personal accounts and budgets will wUl be a willing part time adult student to get additional help from the school when making o out t her own family scale of ot expenditures The Tho girls trained in Intelligent choice will get greater satisfaction for money expended and also have havea a better appreciation of values Training In child care will give hera lera her ler a workable Ideal of parents parent's I Miss Cox quotes Charles R. R Allen AUen of the federal board who at a teachers' teachers meeting in Detroit declared declared de de- de- de dared that Home economics people people peo pee plo have not flot realized d their whole possibilities They have taught the girl how to make good biscuits when the problem is to teach her how to raise a family of five or six children on an income of 1000 a year ear Miss Cox then asks the question Is Mr Allen AUen right Have the teachers been en so engulfed by de details details details de- de tails that they have lost the perspective perspective perspective per per- on the larger volume Has the major emphasis In house plannIng planning planning plan plan- ning and house furnishing been been- given gi to standards attained by the average family after twenty years I of careful saving rather than to the sensible standard of the lower in income income income in- in I come of the less experienced worker Have too many food courses given too much emphasis on the choice rare rare rare-or or Imported food rather than the definite help on twenty ways of or serving potatoes Then without answering the question question question ques ques- tion she calls upon all to give their reaction with concrete illustrations to prove the case |