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Title: Industrial Education Magazine
Year: 1910 (1910s)
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Publisher: Peoria
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ve Board of Education a new account wastraining does not get them very far. opened up called Profits of Vocational Our Smith-Hughes machine shop faced Department. This fund is drawn upon a temptation to give specialized training by the Department to build up its tech- when local merchants tendered us orders nical library. for hardware which would almost induce This year these merchants called upon an instructor to leave the school to start us to furnish still more goods. We told a commercial shop. We appreciated the them to give us their orders, which they danger of this temptation, and keeping it did. We were astounded to receive from in mind, developed our machine shop one dealer an order for over 6000 pieces, work to fit for useful employment, to Of course we were unable to accept any be practical, to be profitable (a minor such orders, but we were pleased to have consideration), so it does not compete them because they gave proof of the con- PUTTING OVER MACHINE SHOP EDUCATION 355
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Screwdrivers, Machinists Clamps and Jack-screws, Made by Smith-Hughes Students, Bellingham, Washington 356 MANUAL TRAINING MAGAZINE fidence that our largest firms have in ourability to train boys to produce merchant-able goods. These orders were then takento the machine shop and pruned in ac-cordance with the number of studentstaking the course, the units of the courseof study, and the products of our localshops and factories. We wished to ac-cept only such orders as we were reason-ably sure we could fill. We looked theorders over carefully, and eliminated allthose items which were being suppliedto those merchants from local labor. Weanalyzed the tool processes necessary tomake the articles and estimated the num- ber of each that would give the desiredtraining in each unit of the course. Fromthis information we itemized orders thatwould give us the desired results. Giv-ing the dealers a frank explanation of oursituation, we asked them if they would bewilling to accept the lists as red

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