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Volume 9 April 21, 1911. Number 16 
VOCATIONAL TRAINING. 
The public is under an obligation 
to the two mistaken women who 
showed their folly by attacking Pres. 
Eliot and his views on vocational ed- 
ucation. It is not unlikely that their 
attack has given the sane views of 
Mr. Eliot a wider reading for the 
need of vocational training has been 
the need for generations and it is one 
of the signs of a progressive democ- 
racy when the public discovers a man 
of Dr. Eliot’s vision and outlook rec- 
ognizing and pleading for the new 
irovement within the schools. 
The state board of education re- 
ports in its seventieth annual record, 
on this very issue, “The most effec- 
tive agency in the intellectual develop- 
ment of a boy is not the study of 
books. It is experience in some form 
of productive industry. It is making 
something or doing something that 
has value in itself when it is done. 
Not only does he acquire skill of 
hand, but what is of much more im- 
portance, he gets an idea of the ele- 
ments involved in all productive proc- 
esses, namely, materials, labor and 
time; he gets some basis for esti- 
mating values in terms of cost; and. 
he acquires that quality which is the 
mark of the master workman,—power 
to see the end from the beginning, 
and to trace the line which connects 
the two. Feeble at first, but gaining 
strength as his work broadens, he ac- 
quires a comprehensive grasp that 
marks the thinker. ‘The idea is 
deep rooted that education consists of 
-» G. E. WILLMONTON ... 
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| -Attorney and Counsellor at Law- 
academic culture; that schools exist 
to promote this culture: and that the 
more elegant the school house is and 
the more artistic and beautiful it is 
made, the finer and the more impres- 
sive the culture which it presents and 
promotes. Marble and stucco, books, 
pictures, statuary and _ decorative 
plants are provided to cultivate and 
minister to the esthetic sense of chil- 
dren. The sense they do not culti- 
vate is a sense of the dignity of man- 
ual industry. A marble palace is a 
poor substitute for a shop or a piece 
of land. It may have its place in 
education, but its place is a subor- 
dinate and not an exclusive one.” 
The problem of vocational training 
must be met by the school superin- 
tendents and committees and as they 
work out their plans some must fail 
but they should have the sympathy 
and co-operation of the public. 
The erratic attacks of the two 
women at the hearing in Boston on 
the views of President Eliot would be 
unworthy of notice were it not for 
the fact that their attack is typical of 
the slumbering criticism which every 
devoted worker in the interests of 
our School System must meet. 
Usually the attack is not so open. 
The Town of Manchester should 
give to its superintendent, Mr. 
Mackin and the City of Beverly to its 
superintendent, Mr. Small, and the 
respective school committees, a free 
hand and loyal support while they 
work away at the problem of our 
republic. 
READING IN THE Home. 
There is nothing like good books 
and interesting magazines to give at- 
mosphere to a home. A bookless 
home is a cheerless home. Good lit- 
erature is as _ reasonable today as 
cheap reading matter and every home 
can spare something to feed the mind 
and elevate the soul. What a de- 
light there is before the fire place or 
in the warm corner in the home to 
take down a volume and be carried 
back an age and then permit the mind 
by its imagination to live over the 
scenes of the years that are gone. 
‘To spend an evening with Bacon, 
Dickens, Scott, Whittier, Longfellow, 
Tennyson or Shakespeare would be a 
delight. Yet the book gives us this 
pleasure at second hand it is true and 
yet not true. For doubtless we will 
find the worker less interesting than 
his work. Would we expect to find 
Shakespeare always as _ interesting 
Willmonton’s Agency 
SCHOOL AND UNION STS, MANCHESTER 
OLD SOUTABLDG,, BOSTON 
and inspiring as in the Merchant of 
Venice or Whittier always equal in 
charm and spirit to “Eternal Good- 
ness.” Yet a book is “embalmed” 
until it has been “resurrected” by a 
kindred spirit. It remains dead until 
such souls meet in the writer and- 
reader. Then there is life. The 
great thought of the ages awaits the 
happy meeting of kindred minds to 
make it live again. Some never have 
the mind opened to the wealth of hap- 
piness in the books of the world and 
some by disuse lose the happy soul 
inspiring faculty. Charles Darwin 
confesses that his close application to 
books had robbed him of his delight 
and desire for music. ‘The mental 
pleasure of good books must be ac- 
quired and then retained as a price- 
less possession. 
One book in the home is worth a 
hundred in the library. Every home 
builder, especially where there are 
children, should guard the home 
against ruinous reading matter and 
increase the parental influence by ju- 
diciously chosen books and __ papers. 
In these days of trained library ser- 
vice parents may obtain expert in- 
formation concerning books. 
The news journals are the most 
debauching influences. No paper 
should be brought into the home that 
children should not read. Vice, ra- 
pine, incest, in fact everything that 
is evil is exposed in coarse pictures 
and degrading reading matter. In 
this generation the cost can not be 
the reason, for it is possible to pur- 
chase each day a good daily paper for 
one cent and on Saturday for three 
cents a superior paper is issued than - 
can be purchased the next morning 
for five cents. 
The schools are doing much to 
awaken a better taste for reading in 
boys and girls. It is the parents’ 
privilege to increase or undo that in- 
fluence. It would be well for every 
parent to consider the influences of 
the papers and books in the home. 
Can you not spare a little out of the 
home funds for the growing boy and 
girl? What do you think the influ- 
ence of your daily paper upon that 
growing boy or girl is? 
Fire SrruatIon 
FARMS. 
Alderman Loring’s order for a 
new steamer for, the Beverly Farms 
fire department is now before the 
chief engineer of the city and the 
Mayor for consideration. The  de- 
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