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THE "STUTDAT' OKEGONIAN, ' PORTLAND.-' JT7VE 28, 1911. VOCATIONAL WORK PREPARES THE STUDENT FOR LATER LIFE 0. A. C. Plans to Meet Need of Boys and Girls by Offering Special Short Course in Many Important Lines. ' I5 if- ' y- 3 ' 5"- & ' " 7 $ V 4 1 aVv . 't ? Y " 1 if " h i all V i OrciciS'Gf. 5C. 1 '1 'A ' it - if II 5i sit 4; J- cj7n 'net you -to .1 5i " ' . (J A' -,1.1 f - ' 7 ddd a ' n . n or OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE, Corvallis. June 27 (Spe cial.) What is the value of a vo cational education? .This question is uppermost In the minds of thousands of young- people. Some two years ayo the Massachu setts Commission far Industrial and Technical Education made a study of about 2000 actual case a. Their investi gations, reduced to the individual, showed - interesting; results. Two boys, age 14, are interested in mechanics. One goes into the shop, the other Into a technical school. The boy In the shop starts at $4 a week and by the time he is 18 he is getting J7. At that age the other boy is leaving the school and starts to work, at $10 a week: At 20 years of age the shop-trained young man is getting 9.50 and the school-trained young man $15. Two years later records show that the shop trained man has increased his weekly wage to $11.60, while the technical graduate has jumped to $20 per week. . By-the time they have both reached their . twenty-fifth year the weekly wage of the technicaly graduate is $31, while the man who has learned his trade as an apprentice finds but $12.75 In his weekly pay envelope. . While the average Oregon boy who joes to work as a shop helper is a 2ltUe more fortunate In the matter of wages than is the Massachusetts ap ' prentice, yet the principle Is operative In both cases. Technical Education Pays. Accordingly, it is difficult, if not Im passible, to avoid the conclusion that from the financial standpoint a tech nical education pays. It carries other rewards, such as a right appreciation of the dignity of labor, a respect for productive industry rather than for un productive leisure, a high standard of living and a professional attitude for tradespeople. High school students the country over have come to see the trend of society In this direction and to recognize that vocational training Is the safety-valve which relieves some of the overcrowded professions. Consequently, every year in Increasing numbers young men are choosing the line of work for which their natural ability and Inclinations fit them and are demanding that the schools offer them at least a fundamen tal training in vocational subjects. This is not only true In Z.0 case of the boys who expect to specialize as electrical engineers, civil engineers, mechanical engineers and agricultur ists, but it la just as true that the still larger number who wish only general Instruction in a single phase of one of these subjects In order to prepare them selves for successful careers as elec tricians, surveyors, skilled mechanics or general farmers, are justified In ex pecting provision to be made for giv ing them preliminary training in their chosen fields. Likewise, the young women and girls ef the state have discovered that school training In domestic science and art is of Inestimable value whether they put the knowledge to immediate use as business women and bread-winners or as ' home-makers. Consequently, there i 'Is r 2 s 4 - - ZscjJ OS' is a general demand on their part for . v. in thAA hmnnhes as auuii mevtuvuvu .u . .. ' will meet the special requirements or gins ana women unuuia w ub.ww - - -years to college work. All .1..... young people who are beginning to reel tne aavantases ji wnuunai cation are directing their demands to . ij..i..i rn)U The college officials are constantly con- rrontea witn ine quetsnuii m " n&t JK li uv 1W v o " and women In the state who have left the public scnoois lor me iraow f industries, and have broken their con- . . 1 1 n,Av that it will be Impossible for them to return and get tne worK tutsy oeuu. There are constant petitions for help . . i. nAnnlA t! .mallar towns and the . rural districts of the state, wno are not wjliuu riatu schools prepared to give vocational training. The question Is what shall be done for these young men and women ? Practical Training Offered. The college has attempted to answer by. establishing several vocational courses designed to give practical training and useful information to the men and women who are unable to qualify for the regular degree courses or who cannot afford to devote the necessary time to complete a fuller training and earn a degree. This new service offers a vocational education to common school graduates and high 6Chool graduates who for any reason do not' take the regular college work and to men and women of ma turity who are desirous of changing vocations or wish better preparation so as to insure advancement. The student will be permitted to spe cialize in the vocational work, accord ing to his individual preference and qualifications. While It Is not the prt rtmrv aim to train foremen and super intendents, it is believed that students after completing the course and gain ing a few years of practical experience will be able to assume positions or re sponsibility or to go into business for themselves. . - Some Coarsen Are for Tear. The college shops are equipped with the latest approved machinery and are well adapted to carry on practical courses. This work Is open to those who have completed the eighth grade In the common schools or equivalent and are IS years of age or over. All who complete three years of this work and take other supplementary work outlined will be entitled to a diploma. Toung men of other tastes and aspi rations but of similar educational standing may select a one-year voca tional course In agriculture, a one-year course in dairying, two-year business course or the foresters' short course of five months. The one-year course in agriculture Is designed to meet the requirements of those who wish to take up agricul tural pursuits in Oregon and who feel that they can devote but a single year to study and preparation. Major stud ies pursued in this course ar agron omy, animal husbandry or horticul ture. That the prospective farmer may be capable of applying business methods to farm practice he will be required to take a supplementary .course in farm accounting: that he may learn to do as much of his own repairing as possible and care properly for ' his farm ma chinery he must also take a course in shop worki that he may. be acquainted with some of the important economic and social problems in which all pro gressive farmers are Interested he will have to take courses In rural economics and- sociology. The other vocational courses for men such as dairying, commerce and for estry have the same entrance r quirements as do the mechanic arts and agriculture courses and are out lined in the same practical way. The vocational classes in all sub jects except forestry will be organised when college opens next September. Bhort-course students of forestry begin their class work November 1 and con tinue until April 15. WOMAN SOLVES PROBLEM OF GOOD HOUSEKEEPING Discovery That Everything Was Out of Its Rightful Place and Home In Disorder Opens Eyes of Woman, Who Devises Plan to Correct it. The average woman who has not had to aaeume the whole reponsibllity of house keeping at any time during her unmarried career, even though she may know how to prepare a rood, palatable, tasty meal, on occasions, or to- make bar ewn ahlrtwaiata, or rearranse furniture artistically, finds herself, popularly speaking, "up against It" when she tackles the entire proposition of kepins all of the wheels of her own house hold running smoothly. Here are the ex periences of on hoasewnTe: WHEN I married I had been used to doing housework, but not to keeping house, having always worked where each had her- own de partment, and for years It was the hardest kind of work to keep things in order; so It was not long before the whole house was In a sad mlxup. Bureau drawers were running over, the ones to the sewing machine would not close, cr if they did happen to then something bunched up Inside and they would not open. And, although the pantry was not over-supplied, it was always so crowded that there was no room for anything: neither could one ever find anything. Indeed, the whole house began to remind ma of David Copperfield's at the time dear little Dora preHiili-.i, that, while they m-ere so crowded for spa. e that there was no room for anything, yet there always seemed to be plenty of room in which to lose IhlnKs." My little new spice cupboard had In it everything but spice. I found that out one day after looking for an hour after the nutmegs and giving it up and Ublng allspice Instead said allspl' e being, after a long search, found on the dishpan shelf reposing on a dis uced pancake griddle. I eventually found the nutmegs alt ting under the alnk beside the stove polish. About that time I began to sit up and take notice. Where was I to begin? So I Immediately set about to "straighten up." It took just one week to go over It all. Well, when the week was done. I could. If I liked, begin all over again. Well, after again "fitting up and taking notice" -1 gathered up a bis basket of mending, got needles, thread and scissors Every chance I had after, before anil In between doing my other work I mended Just mended. I didn't do much cleaning and dliln t straighten up other disarranged arti cles much. One day .towards the rlose of the week, I put all those mended clothes away In their places. Then for another week I did the other work about the same as usual, but no article of clothing that needed mending was neglected. I got so I enjoyed that part of the work, hitherto the most disliked and neglected of all. How true it Is that any unpleasant task well and faithfully performed soon becomes a pleasure'. I even openea tne urnwera times after all was put away and gased with pride on the clothes neatly folded with all the patches and darn ing so I could see them. It was not long before I failed to put .. I m.n4tnr fnr 1 in an my i"w did not pile up any more, as most of the clothing was now mnnin Then I began to turn my attention to the spice cupDoaro. i arpi inn . . i. I. . r r t f nr. cieanea up mi w " - "- -getting In the meantime the mending. wen. It la JUII m jmi - - - devised this revised method of doing my work. I Just began on one mini . ...... and kent it so nicely that everything else looked sick. But when I had taken up a secona. ri.n.rtm.nt t dl.1 not imru vi ... - . - - neglect the first, second or third. Tis a good pisn. my simer. cannot but depend lrlv .n forels" firms for wa rshlp rinul rtl ' I Inn "1 the supply uf matarlala. The reault l an atinuai expenditure 'f a ry lrs amount it has been estimated st as averase of 7.oO ooo on r"ntra-t placed ahri.ad. and those who hsve had authority to place these r.mlrncH hav been templed and have fall-n. The finding of the prnlimlnaiy e-ourt In the Mitsui rum a thst r-onimta-. slnns amounting to not less thxn lf0.. 000 found their wav Into th bands f( Vice-Admiral lliliumul", th-n fllrei tol of naval ronst ru.'tlon. Th olhfr tet are all of a piece with this. The Trusslan stt railways aro using !00 stores battery cars at lea cost than steam locomotives or gaso-llne-elertrit- cars. PIMPLES ON CHEEKS BACK AND ABBS Also Chest. Grew Larger, Festered and Came to Head. Itched Badly. Ashamed to Go Anywhere. Cut cura Soap and Ointment Cured. 71 IS Madison Ave.. Chiosjr. TIL "The trouble bogaa by having It! U pimples on , Biy bead and loan on ooe cheek. It spread oa the ot her eheefc. any chin. JAPAN'S CONTRACT LARGE Foreign Xavy Builders G-t PI(t Jobs for Ship Con st r net ion. TOKIU. June IT. .tspsil anplr's o maintain a first-class mivy. By renson of her own inadequate lesources. she reft bark, arms and rhset. plmpls T hs looked Ilk llitie red spot SI first snd In) they grew larger and re lrd sod rsxae tn a bs4. They Ifc-bed so ravLy Ua4 1 would srrslrh sod Sara than and mas theca shout tn times worse. My cloth- mi Irritated the breaking out oo ray body. I was ashamed to go snywhere. "I procured a "SP. a!ve, set era! creams. snd but none of shea bsJpad me. I was lust shout dlsnour ssed ss to what So do wbeo I tried Outtrurs ftoap sad Ointment and I was wvwrjoyed at the result. I gently smeared the Cutlcura Ointment oa the eflwted par, let It ipsjiata for s whit snd washed It off with hot water snd Cutlcurs op. I used tare raass of mtlcurs Roap sod two bote of Cuttrwa Ointment and tbey cured en ooMrsJy la little less than smooth snd s half." 'lndi Mlas Doris Wltteman. tt. M. I0'- A slcgl sot bath wit ruitrure " sad ntl anointing with Cutlrnr Olntmaet sr often sufficient to afford lmoe.1l ralW In th most distreaslos rs nf sal a! sralp diseases when all 1 ' throughout th world. IJharal each mailed fr. with .W p Shin . A4 dr pnt-ord Tuttrurs lT" T "-" rr-Mea who shave and shampoo wit Os Hcurs soap will find It bi ' WW's. A A