Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-07-17 | Page 6 | Prevailing Opinions

Prevailing Opinions Comment of tha American Pri Vocational Training Study President Roosevelt's advisory committee on education is preparing prepar-ing a study on vocational training train-ing which it regards as a most important aid to cutting down relief rolls by reducing the numbers num-bers of unskilled workers. The depression has unquestionably unquestion-ably demonstrated the necessity for better distribution of our working forces. At the same time it has destroyed many of the opportunities op-portunities that once were open to young persons to acquire specialized spe-cialized training. Vocational training, train-ing, therefore, provides something quit as essential to the well-being of the individual as the general expansion of employment It also gives men and women better opportunities op-portunities te engage in congenial occupations. Our facilities for providing such training are at present severely limited. Te improve and expand tbe inadequate ayatems now in existence without wasting money is a difficult task. The president's committee will have a wide field of investigation to cover, if it confines itself to this an subject sub-ject of vocational guidance. It is likely to dissipate energy, and it will certainly waste valuable , tuns, if forced to expand its study , ' to include the relationship of the federal government to local educational edu-cational systems. This latter subject sub-ject involves constitutional and political issues as well as purely educational matters, snd ought to be left for later consideration. Washington Post. For Thir Own Safety The type of highway accident most In the news now is, not the one in which a pedestrian is the victim, though a fearful number of pedestrians are killed from week to week, but the one in which motorists are wiped out or mangled. Hundreds of people have died in uch ways sine the first of January, Janu-ary, and theassand have been hurt, largely because somebody els was reckless, criminally careless care-less or drunk. The biggest single trouble is excessive speed, especially at night "When will motorists wske up to the fact that they must obey traffic traf-fic regulationa and the rule of reason and be satisfied with few- . er milea per hour for their own sake, to save their own lives? Faribault News. I. ' nay r-vr Cur To broadcast report of a "cure" for bay fever and asthma is, in a way, to engage in wholesale cruelty. cru-elty. There are hundreds of thousands, thou-sands, if not millions, of sufferers from the conditions grouped under un-der those heads in whom false hopes msy be raised, for, In the reliable testimony of physicians who have devoted years to study of the problem, there is no such cure, nor is there likely to be any general remedy found. Portland medical authorities particularly familiar with hay fever and asthma assert that tha story in the current news from Boston of an alleged new cure electrical Ionization and coating of the nasal passages with copper in reality contains nothing new. whatever. The idea was advanced years ago, has been revived from time to time, and has been widely experimented with, and uniformly uniform-ly reported by honest practitioners practition-ers as not only ineffective for the purpose offered, but as having definitely dangerous possibilities as well. Portland Oregon isn.