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Show I CANADA WILL OPEN TECHNICAL SCHOOLS j MINNEAPOLIS. Minn.. Feb. 11 jj Canada has Just completed an educa-I educa-I , tional program whrrehy $4,000,000 iff. will be spent annually In training 1 boys and glib, for industry who are unablo to attend higher schools, I. i W. GUI. director for technical educa-j educa-j tion for Canada, said In an address before the seventh annual convention i ij of tho vocational education association ' of tho middle west here. ' 1 The federal government will pro-M pro-M . Md- SI mi ,,f t),. IH,,1 .,,r (I,., provincial and municipal governments j will provide tho bal UlCC, Mr. Gil said. 'j i "Sixty per cent of the boys and glrls of Canada attend school until they arc fourteen years old." Mr. rjill said, "but only 20 per cent of theSi ntc-r high school. Of this 20 per cent only 8 per cent are graduated and i only ono or two out of 200 a'tcml unl-J verslty." The technical schools which arc be-.1 ; lng rapidly established all over the; dominion are Intended. Mr. QUI CX-I T-dalned. to Increase the production, to! Improve the mental and moral stand-! stand-! ard and to develop tho nation. |