Show SOCIETY'S DUTY IN TRAINING YOUTH POINTED OUT OUTI I 0 State and Nation Owe Each Child an Opportunity to Learn By F Francis rands W. W Kirkham State Director Vocational Education Out oo ot f the great world struggle nations nations na- na have been brought to realize reaUze more than ever before that they depend depend de- de pend upon the products ot of land labor and capital for existence The Tho paramount paramount para para- mount duty therefore of government Is to protect foster and develop develop- these develop these three sources of world wealth Labor is the primary source of wealth it directs and controls Ute tte products of land Wealth Yealth is often defined de- de fined ln d as the congealed or stored up product of labor as applied to land Thus the ef efficiency of labor and especially its intelligent control becomes becomes be- be comes the highest concern of govern govern- ment UTAH'S RECORD Has the state of Utah risen to its full responsibility toward this problem lem Certainly we have not been wholly negligent and we have done much more than many other states stales We Ve have laws controlling hours of labor in hazardous employment laws restricting restricting restrict restrict- ing the working hours ot of women and children and laws protecting the health of our citizens By law we Ne compel children to attend school twenty to thirty weeks each year until until un- un til they are 16 years ears of age or until they complete the work of I the eighth grade EFFICIENCY COURSES It is now proposed that the PUbliC schools I in Utah t be gl given a added responsibilities re- re bt egl I as the e most t available la public pubic institution to Increase and protect pro pro- the efficIency of adolescent youth Health's education and vocational pro pro-I traIning in addItion to merely giving I Information in formal and stereotyped courses of study are to be assumed by the schools I The national government has led In Inthis inthis this direction By the enactment ot of the I Smith Hughes act congress gives to the state money to aid and promote I vocational and part time time education I This money must be spent through the schools Children who have I left school to enter employment are areto I to be enrolled at t least hours a year In part time schools EDUCATION CABINET Two separate bills have been introduced introduced intro intro- this session in congress Both propose Ito to create creato a cabInet position for education and both propose to give money to the states for vocational education the elimination of illiteracy the Americanization of foreigners for health education and for the support of rural schools The nation cannot In self protection protection tion leave the educational standards and the health conditions of Its citIzens citizens citI- citI zens resIdents to local com com- munitie Likewise the state must see seeto seeto to It that all Its citizens have relatively relative relative- ly equal educational Out of the public school should come boys and girls not only learned in I standard courses of necessary Information information mation but trained in habits of health and industry and devoted and lo loyal al to the high ligh Ideals of the constitution of I the state and nation |