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Show USTRIIL SCHOOL BUILDS ROADS Young Lao's Put to Work on Roads for Industrial Education. Highway engineers may in the future fu-ture look to the West Virginia Industrial Indus-trial school for practical road builders. The boys at Pruntytown nre being trained to All the need of practical men to operate road -building- machinery and to do the actual work of construction construc-tion which sometimes requires quite as much skill and experience as do the positions held by college bred engineers. engi-neers. , This unusual educational program was adopted so recently that a comprehensive com-prehensive report cannot yet be made, but reports made to tho National committee com-mittee on Prisons and Prison Labor indicate in-dicate that the program will be of the greatest benefit to the country and to the boys themselves. 1. To interest the boys in road building build-ing so that they will desire to follow the work when they are released from school. 2. To train them in the practical lino of knowing and doing good work, such as mixing and placing of concrete, con-crete, the laying and grouting of brick, ' running and operating machinery, all! of which requires considerable skill. 3. If they make good and become ex- I pert in the work, the State Road com- j mission will be in a position to recom- i mend them and find them employment ' after they are released. 1. While the boys are being trained, their labor will be a great help in the construction of the road planned thereby being of immediate benefit to tho community and state. At present 50 per cent of the grading grad-ing of a brick road on a concrete base from Fetterman to Pruntytown is being j done by boys. 1 |