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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
different types of schools come into exist
ence, even in considerable number,
throughout the country solution of the
problem has just begun.
"For the great mass of those needing
industrial education the existing public
schools, elementary and secondary, must
furnish the facilities. They must rec
ognize that the great majorty of their
pupils must earn their living by their
handsandthey must undertake to give de
finite instruction and training for at least
the, beginnings of industrial efficiency.
"This broadening of purpose may find
.its realization through an. extension and
modification of the manual training work
.in the public schools. . Manual training
has been justified because of its value for
mental training, for cultural purposes,
and it may be fully justified on these
grounds, but it may.be so modified as to
give a very definite and varied line to
training absolutely necessary for the in
dividual who would become a skilled
workman in the industrial field without
in anv way lessening its value for cultural
purposes. It has been making rapid
progress in the public schools in 'recent'.,
years and has approved itself in the
public mind. It will occupy a still high
er place in the estimation of the public,
will be given better financial support
and more time in the school program,
when its scope is enlarged so that it may
directly serve industrial ends.
"Industrial education is important
for girls as well as for boys; not
only for the girls who are engaged in
industrial pursuits outside the home,
but for the girls who find their work
in the home. The woman is the side
partner with the man in the home as a
business organization. He furnishes the
funds for carrying on that organization,
she disburses them and must be trained
for efficiency in their proper use. No
development of industrial education will
be adequate that does not make as large
provisions for special training for girls
as it does for boys.
Our educational system is the result
of an evolutionary process. The de
mand for industrial education is a de
mand for a continuation of the evolu
tionary process to meet new conditions.
This type of education will appeal to
hundreds of thousands of youth who
now leave school because they do not
find in it that which appeals tc them, or
because its work doe not appeal to
their parents. It will hold them longer
in school and the more of this work
existing types of public schools can offer
the greater the gain, because side by
side with the new type of work the best
of the id d will be continued.'
THE COLOROF FLAMES.
You have often noticed the many tint
ed bars and bands that risein the shape
of "forked tongues of flames"' from wood
burning in the gate. It is ten to one,
however, that you never have thought to
figure on the caus of the variegated
hues presented by flames. To bring tlie
matter quickly to the point, we will
say that the many colors are the result
of combustion among the different ele
ments of the wood. The light blue is
from the hydrogen and the while from
the carbon; the violet is from the man
ganese, the red from the magnesia and
the yeliow from the soda, which are con
stituent parts of the wood.
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