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Show uu "NO MORE DIVINITY IN STARS THAN IN HOEING POTATOES Salt Lake. Dec. 10. Before tlu ' Manufacturers Association of Utah at the Chamber of Commerce last nighr Ur John A. Widtsoe. president o! tho Utah Agricultural college, made a plra for Industrial education, declar Ing that It should be taken up in the grade schools and maintained through out the higher Institutions of learn Ing. He declared that all tasks r quired training aud that no one prj fesslon or trade had a greater dignlt than another. Dr. Widtsoe said that the only subjects which should be taught In school were those that tne child would need In life. "In time to come all the pcop'.e of the nation will be college graduates," gradu-ates," said Dr. Widtsoe "Must w not then as now eat. dress, have places pla-ces of shelter and methods of keep Ing clean' The old idea, and the Idea which prevails to some extent now that a man with a college degree cannot can-not take up one of the so-called common com-mon ta6ks Is leading the nation to civil strife. We must teach from the beginning that there Is dignity in so-colled common tasks. Just as in the professional tasks There Is no more divinity In look Ing at the stars or healing the sick than in hoeing a row of potatoes We must get the Idea of Industrial education edu-cation Into the grade schools and begin be-gin there to overcome some of the false Ideas which now prevail about tbe common tasks of life." Dr. Widtsoe concluded his eddreea 1 by seying that the establishment In Salt Lake of two high schools, one where Industrial education was taught and one where Greek and Lailn was to be taught, was nothing more pr lees thnn "one school for the masses and one school for the classes. One school for the toilers and one school for the aristocracy " Refreshments were served by the Women's Home Industry' association About ISO members of the association and their friends attended the meet Ing. oo |