Show BUSINESS MAN TELLS TEACHERS WHAT MODERN INDUSTRY MOST NEEDS NEES Superintendent of Midvale Smelter Gives Opinion on What Schools Should Do One of the most interesting meetings of ot the tho N. N E E. A. A for tho the teachers teachers and public was held yesterday afternoon in Assembly hall hail hal It I was wa a Joint session of tho the departments of ot secondary education edu cation and science Instruction The Tue department department de do- caton committees arranged with I. I L. L D. D Anderson J superintendent of the this United States StateR Mining Milling R Refining Re no- fining company at Midvale to deliver deliveran delver delveran an address from tho standpoint of ot a aman aman n man In ordinary life Tho The subject of or Mr Andersons Anderson's address was What Do Dothe tho the Industries Require Ho lie said in part To say slY what tho the Industries require of ot the tho public schools would be bo to Jar largely large large- ely e- e ly hy catalogue their present magnificent achievements In the roco recognition of ot those accomplishments tho tue effort will willbe willbo wil be bo to mention menton Just a a. a a few things s on which emphasis olem seems desirable In a paper b by F F. F J. J of ot Connecticut Con Coil given before the tho American Society So So- cloty of Engineers on Industrial In Iii Education there IH is voiced a 0 feeling which has line become quite strong among business men and that that Is that tat courses of study aro being laid out b by Instructors who see only one side of ot tho the educational problem and with wih one ono result resul that of ot formulating a common h I. I r lA 1 1 ftp rn mIni U Ol 01 HUU o H cu u. u n. n w on COUlD and requiring both boys and girls to carr carry requirinG on the tho work re regardless of ot tho the needs of the individual for a moro more specific specific ape ape- training in order to earn a ln J living I am sun told toM that over 55 5 per c cent nt of at school children attend school in towns of 2000 and less populatiOnS population Under such circumstances distinct vocational training for the greater numb number or of school chool children is somewhat difficult But 1 Is it difficult to correlate school schoolwork schoolwork schoolwork work to I life work to let tho examples given givon the children bo be truly examples of or the things tho they aro are likely to meet not mere mero abstract life and in everyday e difficulty of ot The common d dead ad wood public school graduates in ii applying life their teaching to tho the affairs of would seem Beem to bo be tho tIme result resul of this lack aek of ot correlation that Is la third point of or appeal The ho the children to find help tho the schools I the their true vocations ons to assist into square in ill getting square pars increasing tendency to tomake tomake tomako The make mako holes holes tho the public school chool system simply feeder to tho thin universities threatens a tho the efficiency of or nil all its work The great groat greot 11 school majority of children chilt ce ceasing graduation long before beCore high school of OF interrupted inter Inter- start work with Ith a sense 0 an nn i education Herein Heroin lies les the valtie value value val val- ue tie of manual training domestic science ci- ci ence once art urt work music In giving tile the I A AO h ann hann an aim tu what vocation they may ma J be fitted for Fourthly tho time great need of or the da day dayIs Is for tor disciplined skilled work ork The vast numbers of ot skied unskilled casual workers seeking blindly a wa way ahead and following every vagary of ot political economy are arc those who fall fail rai to realize that is 19 largo large for tor all al whose lives hives are a constant training a constant constant constant con con- stant l es perfecting of themselves in their work Oftentimes an employer Is 19 in actual distress because no one of or his own employees Is fit tit to take tho the now place and some ono one has hat to be trained for It Men Mcm sote are aro coming to bo be rated moro more It and more for what the they are arc worth orth and less for their Influence than ever before This Is tho the Ideal that we want ant antto to Instill into the tile minds of ot our boys bors and gi girls ri s. s Lastly if it training In adaptability could be given the coming coaling generation it would bo be armed with wih a largo large help to success Man Many and man many a man of wonderful mind Blind and ability Is held back by his failure to work and pull pul with wIh his lila ns associates Discordant elements ele ole ments are the bugbear of ot all aU branches of ot Industry Other addresses wore were given by Willlam Will Will- 1 tam lam B. B Owen principal of ot the tile Chicago Normal school and Earnest 0 O. O Holland Holand superintendent of ot schools at Luls Louisville K Ky Both addresses brought out the lack Inck of or vocational training in modern schools |