W. T. RAWLEIGH TRADE SCHOOL BEGINS WORK
W. T. RAWLEIGH TRADE SCHOOL BEGINS WORK New Idea in Vocational Has Enrollment of 30 Young M e n from .Workers" Homes STUDENTS WILL BE SELF-SUPPORTING Course Will Combine Textbook Work With Shop...
...This was amply demonstrated in last week's Senatorial primaries when the following candidates for Senator, indorsed by executives of the Standard Railroad Labor Organizations and vigorously supported by railroad workers, overwhelmed their opponents: Michigan—Sen...
...Class room instruction will be along the lines that will make possible its co-ordination with the practical work of the course...
...YES, WE'RE HAPPY (From Labor) There is no such a thing as a "labor vole...
...Courses will consist of mathematics, English, commercial geography, vocational civics, and shop . practice...
...This plan will make it possible for I orphans, the sons of widows, or boys from large families who cannot afford to send their sons to school to secure a splendid four year course and fit themselves for an cccupation...
...The location of the school is on the mam floor of the main manufacturing plant, where rooms have been completely made over for the school...
...On the occasion of the opening of the trade school, Mr...
...Special emphasis will be laid on the theory that education is no substitute for hard work...
...William...
...school...
...Louisiana —Gov...
...Scholarships amounting to more than S2.000 for each boy will be given during the four year training period, and this amount will include $2 per month thrift money which will be deposited in a bank to the credit of each student...
...The school has a potential capacity of 120 students at the present time, and additional students will be received when proper arrangements can be made for their instruction...
...Rawlelgh received the following telegram from Henry Ford, "I am extending my congratulations and good wishes on the founding of the Rawieigh trad...
...Cole Blease who, after hi"raying the cotton mill workers, voted for the confirmation of Parker...
...His opponent, former Gov...
...South Carolina- F<<rmcr Congressman James F. Byrnes retired Sen...
...W. T. RAWLEIGH TRADE SCHOOL BEGINS WORK New Idea in Vocational Has Enrollment of 30 Young M e n from .Workers" Homes STUDENTS WILL BE SELF-SUPPORTING Course Will Combine Textbook Work With Shop Practice for Practical Training (Special to The Capital Times) FREEPORT, 111.—The Rawlelgh trade school, with an initial enrollment of 30 young men, opened last week and began in this city an educational development that has aroused wide in| teres...
...The belief is held by Mr...
...All of the students that make up the first group to be given the advantage of the new trade school have demonstrated an eagerness to get the utmost out of the opportunities that will be given them...
...John M. Slaton...
...The Rawieigh trade school will combine textjxiok instruction with actual shop practice and will follow out the modern, dynamic idea in education of "learning by doing...
...Georgia—Sen...
...Rawlelgh has long been interested in vocational education for boys...
...You are assisting in pioneering a utilitarian program of education so much In need today...
...W. T. Rawlelgh, founder of the school, is head of the W. T. Rawlelgh Company of Freeport, a large industrial and manufacturing organization...
...one of the worst reactionaries jin the Senate, in a spectacular contest...
...One of the outstanding features, of the new school is the fact that students will be able to be self-supporting while obtaining their education and training...
...Colorado—Edward P. Costigan won the Democratic nomination, polling more votes than his two rivals combined...
...They will be in daily touch with manufacturing processes and methods, and will be given the chance to study production machinery and its efficient uses...
...the political cynics to the contrary notwithstanding...
...James Couzens, Progressive, defeated former Gov...
...Rawieigh has made many contributions to civic and industrial betterment, and the founding of this new school with its advanced ideas in the training of young men is the result of nearly 20 years of planning...
...Harris won the Democratic nomination and another term in the Senate by an almost unprecedented majority...
...condemned Harris for voting against Pnrker and endeavored to make that the mniii Issue...
...Modern fixtures have been provided in an effort to make the school as up-to-date as possible in every respect...
...A locker room with showers has been equipped, and a reception lobby for students has been provided...
...Rawieigh and his associates, is acting as supervisor of the Rawkigh school, and the students will i be given shop instructions under the | directions of technicians of the Rawlelgh plants...
...The first year course will be along general lines to allow the stu\ dents to decide what kind of work they desire to specialize in...
...Ransdell...
...In subsequent year?, they will be given special training in the trade of their choice...
...Chase Osborn, reactionary, ror the Republican nomination by a majority which probably will reach 250,000...
...The purpose of the new school is to provide vocational training to students from the homes of working men who have not sufficient means to send I their children to institutions of higher learning, and at the same time allow its students to earn their maintenance and a small salary while taking its courses of study...
...Hjs Republican opponent will be George H. Shaw, attorney for the Power Trust...
...Rawieigh and the heads of the new school that the student comes from many schools of higher education with his head full of theory that he is unable to turn to practical account, and the courses of study in the Rawieigh institution are so planned that every student will not only be forfeited with the fundamentals of education but will also have the specialized training and actual shop practice to fit them for the vocations that will be their life work...
...Huey P. Long debated Sen...
...among educators, employers, and working men in all parts of the country...
...His election is assured...
...H. H. Overby, formerly head of the Ford trade at Detroit, which was studied by Mr...
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