THE SMITH-HUGHES ACT 1 



THIS act is quite similar in some of its features to the Agricul- 

 tural Act of 1914. There is the same provision for continuing 

 and increasing appropriations, beginning with $1,700,000 in 

 1917, and rising to $7,200,000 in 1925. The available money will 

 be distributed among all states which agree to contribute sums 

 equal to their allotments and to conform to the terms of the act. 

 The appropriation provides for the creation of three distinct 

 funds, viz., (1) for paying salaries of teachers, supervisors or 

 directors of agricultural subjects; (2) for paying the salaries of 

 teachers of trade, home economics and industrial subjects, and 

 (3) for training the teachers and others mentioned under (1) 

 and (2). The basis of distribution among the states is rural 

 population under (1), urban population under (2), and total 

 population under (3). A state may accept benefits under one or 

 more of these funds, as it prefers. 



The act creates a Federal Board of Vocational Education, 

 consisting of the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce and La- 

 bor, the United States Commissioner of Education, and three 

 other members, to be appointed by the President, of whom one 

 is to represent manufacturing and commercial interests, one agri- 

 cultural interests, and one labor interests. The board, besides 

 administering the act and supervising the work in the several 

 states, will carry out investigations of various kinds relating 

 to vocational education, cooperating, so far as may be advisable, 

 with the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Com- 

 merce and the Bureau of Education. 



i Adapted from "The Smith-Hughes Act for Vocational Education," 

 Scientific American, p. 130, N. Y., Aug. 25, 1917. 



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