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s V:»:awfl:iw * e e s %, e ',,-a:i * 'A ,...;&"\'7 ':;:-tfifliy d e ile P Kok d e .. > :».'a'""h G | cswd aaith ~man 1t n mscc im T _ | (~~ srows "with. The way to ~ the [¥ A{' | 1 M W '; [ | gf essions > 4 "'wmm pgthway' JAVULL 1 ILD UILUREL: 4* / -- | | _ he said, while there was no educational ~UADNNIIRDM | bywey to the trades. He had nothing SAYS MB" 1A IMUUU i. | to say of manual training schools ex-- j t dntindhnere cepting that which was good, yet the + s pras ty ' manual training schools had not "fur-- T ut toaed * |_ nished. with keener intelligence recruits is £ for the hundred and one trades" upou Speech on Industrial Education _ wnien industrial life depended. The $ s trade councils would give sympathy and In the Leglslature, even dxrvc._tmn and guidance towards , 4 schools which he was suggesting. -- Con-- on on on ty 4.4 tinuing, he said the establishment of trade schools in many centres of On-- tario would be productive of great DEBATE HAS COMMENCED- good. In Massachusetts he pointed out that the school term was as 78 to 43 etluseniene o o 1. when compared with the remainder-- of t the Statess It was no coincidence, ho | j $ added, that the industrial progress : Mr- C- N' Sm|th on the PrOb- that State was so mark('d.I 'I'l)e pp';'.. x f ; le of Massachusetts had an earni lems in Northern Ontario. fower 'of $88 33 [ or Rapita more wiuih the average of the other States. Many + * States were also giving serious consid-- $ ; eration to these problems of trade Many Suggestions From ex--Minister sohnolsi Even the Union could not a : a + . _ meet the competition of Switzerland in of Education For Vocational Idu cortain lines rl)f industry, and the sulc- cation--Mr, Smith Tells Where a r-e.ssl of the latter country was due in . R R rdber r a_. iarge measure to the industrial Provincial -- Gratuity -- Went--The schools. ., 'The. school life of F'\Vitzerl:;nd Horse the Misister of Agriculture _ was related to every trade in that coun-- try. Hought: For Serious Thought. ies oo mar reammmmmentens > ; In the report of the Minister of Edu-- f cation in 1906 it was stated thai in the In an hour's speech, full of lucid and -- rural schools in the first reader there practical suggestions. along the lines of were 9(_3.000 scholars, in the second read-- industrial or vocational education, Hon. °* hbalf that number, and in the fifth Richard Harcourt held the closest atten ;(*adm only O.n("-tonth that numl.mr. This, s f % e argued, was a fact for serious con-- tion of the Legislature yesterday After" g5igeration, It meant that the boyvs noon. The former Minister of Educa-- and girls left school at ten and ,.]c'.;." tion was the Liberal speaker to lead in years of age, and drifted from one posi-- the debate on the address in reply to tion to anoth.or. _ _ The Industrial School the speech from the throne. HMe dealt lt('nOlf }:_he "I"J'f'l'"l't at that age, and only with the question mentioned, but j°PS Dim under the care of the State, 8 C AAERCIOHL 4 in op | dearning a trade. -- He asked the Pro-- he dealt with it exhaustively. Mr. E. vifing to do the same thing, instead of WV. McGarry (North Renfrew) followed, reaving these children "rudderiess on and he made particular mention of Pro-- life's occean'" to bring indi¥erent cargoes vincial rights. However, it x'vmalnu.'d for hothe. Tf the 'p'rofessinnal nien woere Mr..C. N, Smith (mault Ste. Marie) to misfits they could turn to nothing else remind the House that the administra-- at present. and. therefore, he asked that _ _tion of the Whitney Government had not evcrl"yv boy be given a chance with an béen without error. With the receipts Industrial School. of cash from the sale of Cobalt Lake and T T e from the Dominion grant Mr. Smith felt,| A . German Lesson, ; that the intimated surplus of half a mil-- i A German deputation which had visit-- tion was insufficient. At the expense of ' ed the United States at the time of the Hon. Mr. Monteith the member . for g St. Louis Exposition had reported that Rault Ste. Marie humorausly told of the j Germany hbad nothing to fear from 1 he Minister of Agriculture purchasing . a ' United States in industrial competition. horse for $1,500 for the Guelph Agrient-- { The reason given was that there was in tural College, it afterwards being ascer-- | the United States an entire absence of tained that the horse was blind. | avétematic instruction in craftsmanship. Another incident pathetic in its nature l fivon the Federal authorities:shoul col-- was touched upon by Mr. Smith, in | cern themselves with technical education, which he blamed the Government for al-- | added Mr. Harcourt, but that there lowing a gratuity for a faithful Provin-- might be no useless overlapping a Gov-- cial servant to go wrong. He also ac ernment grant might be made to the eused the Administration of stealing pol-- different Provinces for the purpose. He icies, and--in general dealt with New On-- | ) " ed the Federal Government would see tario problems.. William Jennings Bry-- | itapwav clear to carry out such a plan, an was an interested anditor during a )/ and he ventured to say that the domes-- portion of the debate, which will be Ned 'tic otborfs would increase. five fold in sumed to--day : f | a single year. _ While he was .}lim%tt'l' Not to be Critical. f ' of Education he had tried to begin along Hon. Mr. Harcourt said he pm'po.;od 'fhf's'e" lines, and he hoped the present : to make a suggestion and not a critical | Minister would follow on. | speech, limiting his observations to edt--~ | Apout Provincial Rights. > | cational matters referred to in .th.c | _ Mr. T. W. McGarry (South Renfrew) speech from the .. throne,. .'There were | first drew attention to the change in the many ways, he continned. in \vl_uch :1'}0 | at'tvi'hldo' n'f the prncédin" :-'pml:r'r. who Sogislature ""*?','Tt \u(*ic m":t::e" ]I:(ll :\:I !harl in the course of the hour not at («ntmnal.purpO_»vN, T no ( & pen-- -- tacked the Govermment, but had offered _ heard him carp at.educational expen Es o l " he hod gen-- Hiff diture. _ The time had come for im-- . Suggestions. Hé reminded t?"_)"'_{'g'},'fl(@ parting technical education or paving tleman that it was but three yeats ies the way for it. His plea was for one the Goverrment had h'--"'}f m P'"',"r'vm" phase of technical education, since there the Premfier had promised that °f o was not much concern now about" ths _ child should have a good education ..r'l s higher grades in Ontario. Hepleaded : a good teacher. This was rez: ".5_-7"('21 for: industrial or 'vocational education _ tural country, said Mr. MceGarry, *"}'*_ which brought the schools into closer . not a manufacturing country. At t":, touch with the masses or the wage present time a lecturer was .gm!:.; earners. His plea, he continued, was . throughout the Province endea\'ormg C for, the monotechnie schools, helping aill _ get the schools to adopt dnmemf wageearners engaged in a particular science and manual training. Mr. Me-- trade. t ; _ Garry then launched into the question t } * of Provincial rights. The Federal auth: A Primrose Path. éf orities, he added, wore endeavoring to The speaker then turned attention to _ take away the control of railways from what had been done for' professional | _ Ontario incorporated under the laws of _education, saying that it had been gen--' {his Province., The Federal anthoritics