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Show TEACHES BOYS TO MAKE STEAMERS laptist Missionary In Burma Develops De-velops Unique Industry Government Gov-ernment Helps in Education. "On the road to Maodalay, where the old flotilla lay," steam Istmches bnllt by the Burmese boys of a Baptist fission school are now making frequent fre-quent trips and the profits from their sale to the natives are helping In the establishment of practical Industrial education In that country. The ncv. Dr. O. A. Nichols Is tho man that Is directly responsible for this Industrial development. In far-off far-off Burma, on the actual soil ot old Knglaml, even though as Kipling snys, "there ain't no buses runnin rrom me bank to Mandalay," be secured a sawmill. saw-mill. It was in Basseln, one of the towns grouped about the numerous month of the Irawaddy, that the enterprise was begun. The Irawaddy Is the very river rpon which Mtndstsy Is built and up which ""the old flotilla" made Its way from Rsngooo, Rev. Dr.' Nichols Nich-ols weat to work jutjitBaptlat missionary mission-ary among the.Sgmw Karens, one ef the forty races la ceasaepotttam Buthss, coaduethig missionary school aloag ' the standard line. One day a British cosssilsatsoer vis aing the school ssksd way the bears were aot taught a trade Dr. Ntefcota made the tltae-hnnored missions ry' ax-ruse, ax-ruse, lack of funds to purchase eqaJp-men. eqaJp-men. " The commissioner, however, wss so well Impressed with the progress that the boys were making In their studies that he undertook to pat a doren of them In the government railway shops to study as machinists. Here the boy spent five years learning their trade and during that apprenticeship retain ed tholr membership In the mlss'.on church. This was the first step In the development of the Industrial edu cation Idea. The next was the pur chase of the sawmill. Incidentally the Northern Baptist 'Conventtou has grasped the slgnlfl' cance of Dr. Nichols' Idea, and In Its New World Movement program In eludes a project "to establish a trade school at Moulmeln and Introduce edu cation In the Industrial arts, for Indus trial Independence will make for the strength of Cbrlstlau society In India ss In America." |