Show educator discovers vocation guidance slighted by SC schools 1 NEW YORK only 8 per cent of the public high schools to in the united states provide educational counselors or vocational guidance officers on an tull lull time or more than half t time 1 m 0 according to a recent study br clarence E lovejoy ot of columbia university for every high school pupils in this country there is only one faculty adviser he says cays parents should howl vocally and write letters to their local newspapers if they live in cities which are lax in providing vocational guidance and educational counseling if the school board has not a appropriated funds for these activities or if the school superintendents or principals are not supplying them to the taxpaying residents it is time to bring pressure high school boys and girls need advice as well as information in selecting their colleges mr lovejoy declares they look to their principals and teachers for this guidance most high schools either shirk chirk giving advice or they give bad advice which is worse than none at all educational counseling whether to in high schools or colleges means talking with students and parents planning students 4 programs approving or advising changes change examining unsatisfactory progress pro gres Oc discussing fields field of specialization iza izat tion lm is three feet rise to feet of length wherever curves have been necessary the road has been banked to accommodate high speeds test runs have shown a speed of miles an hour as not dangerous the superhighway cost and was financed by a grant of from the and in revenue bonds bond S p purchased ur by the tolls a are r e to be charged 1 SO tor for passenger automobiles but the highway will in time pay for itself and then become a free road part of the states highway system built in two years fears less than two years have been required to complete this ideal speedway although previous a attempts t to span the mountains mountain go back to the early during that time more than a score oratte ol 01 attempts apts were made first surveys for a railroad were authorized by the pennsylvania legislature in 1837 but it was not until 1854 that that body empowered a company to raise funds and chartered the Marys marksville marysville ville landisville Landis ville and broad top railroad in 1859 the name of the proposed railroad wase was changed hanged by legislative enactment to the ambitious title pennsylvania pacific railroad which was retained until 1863 when it was again changed to the south pennsylvania railroad or south penn as it was popularly called the project was revived and am dropped several times during the next 20 years but beyond keeping the charter alive little was done until 1883 when william H vanderbilt took over the company then in that roaring decade of the when probably one fifth of the nations present railroad mileage was constructed the old south penn right of way now followed by the turnpike became the battleground of financial titans the great greatest eat of all south penn ventures began in new york in 1883 when the pennsylvania railroad threatened to enter into competition with the new york central by building a parallel line up the west shore of the hudson river in retaliation william H vanderbilt new mew york central chief and onetime one time associate of J P morgan organ organized izeda a company to build the south penn road paralleling the pennsylvania rail roads lines in its home state carnegie a backer the biggest backer was andrew carnegie pittsburgh steel king who contributed carnegie welcomed the new line tor for he had fought the pennsy unsuccessfully tor for years to win lower rates tor for transporting his pittsburgh steel to the seaboard what do you think of it it carnegie asked vanderbilt 1 I think so well of it that I 1 and my friends will raise as our subscription carnegie replied all right said vanderbilt ill put in another forty millions million s in stocks and bonds were floated bought eagerly by the public vanderbilt organized thi the american construction company and then gave it the cor contracts tracts surveys were resumed wider under the direction of oliver W barnes engl |