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INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION. 
Ph Ilip Emerson of Lyn» Gave Talk Before Man- 
chester Woman's Club. 
Tuesday afternoon Phillip Emerson, 
principal of the Cobett Grammar school 
of Lynn, gavean address on Industrial 
Education in the Public Schools, before 
the Manchester Woman’s Club. Mr. 
Emerson spoke in part as follows: 
“* Industrial education, what does it 
mean to you as you think of it this after- 
noon? Not simply education in a period of 
industry, but taken in the broader sense an 
education which shall fit this period in 
which we live, an education which shall 
send forth our boys and girls into the 
world fitted to their walk in life. We 
must think of the change which has 
taken place. Only in this way can we 
appreciite the problem of the p.esent day 
school. 
‘“When our fathers came here and 
settled these shores, great stress was laid 
on the religious side of school. Reading 
and writing were the fundamentals and 
training forthe ministry was characteristic 
of colleges But they did not come here 
for religious reasons alone, and as arith- 
metic was needed it was added. ‘They 
thought thoroughness in arithmetic led to 
success in later life. As the Indians 
were driven back the people settled far- 
ther back in the country on farms. ‘The 
schools were then in districts. 
*“ When later the factories called the 
youth back to the city another change in 
the schools was made. About 1820 the 
schools began to show gteat advance- 
ment. The farmers in those days were 
manufacturers in their smallway. Now, 
everything comes from outside factories. 
In those days the material education car- 
ried on tn the schools was that which 
would supplement that of the home. 
Today industries have left the home and 
gone to the large factories. But the chil- 
dren are stil in the home. Hence the 
change in the needs of the school. In 
my boyhood my older brother and sister 
went to singing school, but now a music 
teacher comes to the school. In the 
High school in my time, came the first 
labratory work. In the Normal school 
at Bridgewater, while I was there, came 
the first manual training work. Today 
many of these changes have become es- 
tablished in our schools. Industrial train- 
ing or education means to all of ussome- 
thing more than the mere broadening of 
our minds. 
‘“T’o the women’s clubs is due much 
of the praise for the changes happening 
in our schools today. Industrial educa- 
tion means a fitting for the trade that the 
boy or girl is to take up. The boy used 
to learn the trade of his father.’’ 
Mr. Emerson here spoke of the ap- 
prentice system, illustrating his efforts to 
start a trade school in Lynn. ‘‘ A trade 
school,’’ saidhe, ‘‘is necessary to train 
the boy not only torun a certain machine, 
but to give him a broader idea and knowl- 
edge of the entire trade which he takes 
up. 
** The trade school that would benefit 
Manchester would be an Agricultural 
High School which would train the pupils 
in such work as would be needed for 
work on the estates around. A study of 
botany, chemistry, physics, geometry and 
algebra as far as they would apply to tak- 
ing care of an estate, would be needed. 
A mechanical trade school is what~we 
need in Lynn. In any trade school that 
is established you want to remember its 
place in the educational school. We 
have high schools and colleges. What 
is a general education in high school be- 
comes a professional education in college. 
The boy who leaves half way up ts very 
narrowly fitted ina narrow way fora nar- 
row life. 
*“We teach a general education and 
we stop here. The most definite educa- 
tion comes in the industrialschool. The 
knowledge of life that we get can not be 
extended over the whole field of material 
effo t. The wisest way to deal with this 
problem is not to give a narrow training 
by books alone. Make them accurate 
with tools, in making things accurate in 
manual training. The broader we make 
the training, the better we train the child 
for life. We are too limited in our 
school life.’’ 
At the close of the address a piano solo 
was rendered by Miss Dora M. Mar- 
shall. “Tea was served by the hostess 
Mrs. William W. Hoare. 
Mrs. Frank Knight and Mrs. Frank 
Andrews were elected delegates to the 
State Federation meeting to be held at the 
Park Street church, Boston, at 10 a. m., 
Feb. 1. 
It has been decided to have the meet- 
ings of Feb. 15 and March 15, open 
meetings. Guest night will be observed 
Wednesday eve., Feb. 2. An enter- 
tainment and buffet lunch will be parts of 
the program. 
Foresters Installed. 
The officers of Fr. Shahan court, No. 
220, M. C. O. F., of Manchester, 
were installed on “Thursday evening of 
Jast week, at Carpenters’ hall by Dist. 
Dep. High Chief Ranger John F. Riley 
of Gloucester and staff. The officers 
installed were: John Gillis, chief ranger; 
James Gallagher, vice chief ranger; H. 
McEachern, rec. secy. ; John Baker, fin. 
secy.; Henry O. Bohaker, treas.; John 
Holloran, senior conductor; Mrs. Mary 
Coughlin, junior con.; Miss Margaret 
O’Neil, inside sentinel; Annie Gillis, 
outside sent. 
After the installation exercises a boun- 
tiful collation was served and an excel- 
lent entertainment was provided. 
Breeze Subscription $2.00 a year 
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TT FR 
Col. W. D. Sohier Talks on Road 
Building. . 
In a recent talk at New Bedford Col. 
W. D. Sohier of the state highway com- 
mission gave valuable pointers regarding 
the building and preservation of high- 
ways. He stated, what we have all 
come to realize, that the modern pro- 
blem of road-building arises from auto- 
mobile travel. Onsome of our roads, 
he said, 99 per cent. of the travel is by 
automobile, and 1100 of these machines 
pass over them ina day. ‘The trouble 
is not so much the suction from the auto- 
mobile as it is the backward push result- 
ing from the high speed and weight of 
the machines. Macadam roads are not 
built for this kind of pressure; they are 
meant to stand the pressure from the 
horses’ hoofs and from the wheels pass- 
ing straight down onthem. Col. Sohier 
estimated that by sanding the old roads 
they can be made to stand 200 automo- 
biles a day without any bituminous bind- 
ing. He spoke of the relative value of 
these bindings, saying that asphaltic oil 
has been found much superior to tar. 
In applying the covering of asphaltic oil, 
Col. Sohier said that the roads are clean- 
ed thoroughly of all loose sand so that 
oil may get down into the stones. The 
covering of the road is spread during a 
period of three weeks. The oil is a 
heavy oil, put on hot. In all the state 
commission has covered 126 miles last 
year with this sort of covering. The 
cost has been about $500 a mile for the 
full width of the state highway. The 
speaker described the spraying machines 
used in England in spreading the tar over 
the roads. The tar is heated in the 
machine and is forced through very fine 
nozzles. Some of these English ma- 
chines have been brought into the state 
and used with both tar and oil. The 
state commission, said Col. Sohier is 
waiting to see if these service coatings 
will not do the work. “The most expen- 
sive way to keep a road in ‘order and lay 
dust, said the speaker, is by the use of 
water. Almost any dust layers are more 
economical than water. Dustoline, oil 
emulsion, or calcium chloride is much 
better than water. 
Ne Stes. 
A meeting of the North Shore Horti- 
cultural society will be held this evening, 
Jan..21, at 7.30 o'clock at Lee’s hall, 
Manchester. Charles H. Totty of Mad- 
ison, N. J., will be the speaker. The 
subject will be Chrysanthemums. 
The committee in charge of the annual 
banquet of the society are perfecting the 
details for the event, which will take 
place at the Town hall on Thursday 
evening, Feb. 3. A dance and enter- 
tainment will follow the banquet. 
I have just put in a stock of mail boxes 
and letter plates. D. T. Beaton. adv. 
