This school has been in connection with the apprentice employees at the local railroad shops. Our community is enthusiastic over this type of education and believes that it fulfills a real need. Consequently, at a meeting of our club held on April 23, the members unanimously indorsed Mr. Culvert's request that the club urge you to use your efforts in securing the continuance of the present plan of Federal aid for trade and industrial education and the extension of same if possible.

Respectfully yours,

OWEN D. SPEER, Secretary.

KIWANIS CLUB,

Mr. C. M. MILLER,

Helena, Mont., April 16, 1930.

State Director Vocational Education, Topeka, Kans. DEAR SIR: The Helena Montana Kiwanis Club respectfully recommends that the bill now pending in Congress to appropriate three million additional funds for trade, industry, and commercial education under the Smith-Hughes Act be passed by Congress so as to make it possible to extend our vocational training program. Respectfully,

SIR: The Kiwanis clubs have emphasized as their main objective vocational guidance and training. We have realized that the ultimate end of guidance is retaining and placement. Much has been done in this direction through the Federal cooperation with the States in granting aid to local communities for vocational training, but the amount of aid now granted is not sufficient to develop training in many of the major occupations in industry and comLerce. Additional Federal aid as proposed in H. R. 10821, the Capper-Reed vocational bill, would greatly benefit all industrial and commercial centers in providing training in these fields.

Another of the main objectives of Kiwanis is the giving of intelligent aid to underprivileged children. We believe that the most intelligent aid that can be given is the kind of training that would enable the young man to be self-supporting and to have self-respect. The kind of training that should be given is that training which has been promoted by the Federal Board for Vocational Education. An additional training of this kind will be a great benefit to society.

For these reasons we urge a favorable report on the Capper Reed vocational bill which proposes the appropriation of the additional funds to carry on this work.

Yours very truly,

CHARLES M. TWINING, President.

EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

MARYLAND STATE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION,

Baltimore, May 5, 1930.

Hon. DANIEL A. REED,

Chairman House Committee on Education,

House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.

DEAR SIR: The Maryland Vocational Education Association is extremely interested in the Capper-Reed vocational education bill (H. R. 10821).

The provisions of the new bill have been studied carefully and conform to our specific needs in Baltimore and throughout the State of Maryland.

Our

program at the present time is seriously handicapped by the lack of funds, and we are unable, therefore, to provide adequately for the full-time types of work, to say nothing of our inability to meet the needs of thousands of working youths and adults in this State.

We wish to go on record as being heartily in favor of the Capper-Reed bill.
Assuring you of our hearty appreciation, I am, cordially yours,
CLYDE B. EDGEWORTH,

President Maryland Vocational Education Association.

Hon. DANIEL A. REED,

PENNSYLVANIA VOCATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
West Chester, April 11, 1930.

House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.

DEAR SIR: The Pennsylvania Vocational Association is very much interested in the Capper-Reed vocational bill (H. R. 10821 and S. 3969) providing additional Federal funds to the several States.

The leaders in vocational education, including the executive committee of this association, wish to emphasize the fact that the primary purpose, in desiring additional Federal money is one of promotion.

Additional types of work, particularly for employed workers, need financial support. This is especially apparent during this period of unemployment. Men are interested in training for new positions brought about by the changes in industry. They also recognize the need for skilled training so as to more nearly guarantee the possibility of continued employment.

Local districts and the State will likely continue to meet the present expense of operating a program established thus far. A large number of the districts will not be in a position to establish new and needed types of training at this time nor in the near future without the aid of Federal funds.

There are almost unlimited possibilities in vocational education as a means of retraining men who are out of work so that they might fill new positions which are constantly created by the changes that are taking place in industry. Frequently judges and heads of correctional and penal institutions have referred, in public statements, to the lack of proper facilities for vocational schools as a means of preventing delinquency and crime.

Additional Federal funds will also make it possible to establish and main. tain service to employed wage earners rather than disproportionate service to school children on a high school level.

Remarkable progress has been made in vocational education throughout the United States since 1917, but the stimulus given thus far has not been sufficient to meet the industrial and economic needs of America. It may be of interest to note that there are fewer trade schools in the entire United States than in the little German Kingdom of Bavaria, which has a population slightly larger than that of New York City.

MARGARET F. GLOSSNER, President.

Hon. DANIEL A. REED,

CHICAGO FEDERATION OF MEN TEACHERS,
Chicago, May 4, 1930.

House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.

DEAR SIR: In behalf of the men teachers of the Chicago Public Schools I with to congratulate you upon your interest in vocational education as shown by your introduction in the House of Representatives of House bill 10821, known now as the Capper-Reed bill.

We think the bill is worthy of the support of all intelligent citizens, and we urge you to persist in your efforts to have it enacted into law.

Respectively yours,

JAMES A. MEADE.

SACRAMENTO, CALIF., May 1, 1930.

Hon. DANIEL A. REED,

House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.

MY DEAR CONGRESSMAN: Business needs and conditions have changed rapidly during the last 20 years. Commercial education has not kept pace with the

rapidly developing needs of business organization and administration, therefore there exists a great gap between the needs of business for trained workers and the actual product of our organized classes in commercial education. Yours very truly,

CALIFORNIA COMMERCIAL TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION,
NORTHERN SECTION,

By F. J. PRIBBLE, President.

Hon. DANIEL A. REED,

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., April 15, 1930.

Chairman Committee on Education, House of Representatives,

Washington, D. C.

DEAR MR. REED: As president of the Missouri Vocational Association, I am writing you in the interest of several public schools in this State desiring to install vocational training but can not do so because of lack of funds. We are unable to reimburse any additional schools other than what we now have, and many calls come to this office for this practical work. I am sure that with the record made by the Smith-Hughes funds and the enormous expansion of this work that this additional subsidy provided for in H. R. 10821, is needed very much in this State. Therefore, in the name of the school districts applying for and requesting additional funds, I respectfully urge the passage of this measure. Yours very truly,

GEO. W. REAVIS, President Missouri Vocational Association.

PUEBLO, COLO., May 6, 1930.

Hon. DANIEL REED,

Chairman House Committee on Education, Washington, D. C. Colorado Education Association, 8,000 members, favors H. R. 10821 for more federated aid for vocational education.

The Western Industrial Education Association, representing industrial executives, labor, and industrial educators in the 11 Western States, unanimously indorse the Reed-Capper vocational education bill.

GEO. S. SANDERS, President.

NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., May 5, 1930.

Hon. DANIEL A. REED,

Chairman Committee on Education,

House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.

MY DEAR MR. REED: The executive committee of the New York State Vocational Association desire to submit their indorsement of the Capper-Reed vocational education bill (H. R. 10821).

We feel that the provisions contained in this bill are particularly important and necessary at this time. We also request that every effort be made to insure its passage for the following reasons:

(a) The experience of the past 13 years since the passage of the SmithHughes Act indicates that the policy of Federal subsidy to encourage and foster the provision of vocational education is fundamentally sound.

(b) There is an increasing need throughout the country for specific training along occupational lines for adult workers. Such educational service can be provided under public control and support more efficiently and economically than by any other method.

(c) The policy of referring problems of occupational training to the public schools is rapidly increasing among industrial employers. The development

of programs for apprentice training and foreman training indicate the possibility in this field. The Capper-Reed Act would greatly increase the scope of such service.

(d) Due to apecialization and mechanization in the commercial field there is need for the provision of specialized training along occupational lines comparable with that in the industrial field.

We therefore request your assistance in securing the passage of the CapperReed Act.

Sincerely yours,

WM. J. SMALL

(For the Executive Committee New York Vocational Association).

CHICAGO, ILL., May 5, 1930.

Hon. DANIEL A. REED,

Chairman of Committee on Education,

House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.:

Executive committee of Illinois Vocational Association in special meeting to-day approve, indorse, and advocate passage of vocational education bill, H. R. 10821. Our association is the largest State association of persons interested in vocational education in the United States, and our executive committee consists of William J. Bogan, superintendent of schools, Chicago; Arthur B. Mays, professor of industrial education, University of Illinois; Albert F. Siepert, dean Bradley Polytechnic Institute, Peoria; Albert W. Evans, principal Tilden Technical High School, Chicago; Drew W. Castle, director of vocational education, Joliet High School; L. Day Peery, instructor in drafting, Chicago Continuation School. These men have the interests of vocational education at heart and are eminently qualified to speak for Illinois on this subject. URBAN G. WILLIS, Secretary.

LABOR ORGANIZATIONS

RESOLUTION BY ATLANTA FEDERATION OF LABOR

Whereas public vocational education in the occupations in which all our citizens earn their livings is one of the greatest problems facing the economic life of the nation, and

Whereas citizens thoroughly trained for efficiently earning their livings in their respective occupations is the nation's most fundamental bulwark against inefficient production, low wages, underconsumption of goods, unemployment and the distressing evils that follow in its wake, and

Whereas American organized labor has always stood shoulder to shoulder with all advocates of better public education, particularly vocational education as comprehended and administered under the Smith-Hughes Act, and

Whereas additional Federal funds are needed to further encourage the States and communities to further develop this type of vocational training so vital to our whole nation: Therefore be it

Resolved, That the Atlanta Federation of Labor, meeting at Atlanta, Ga., April 9, 1930, heartily indorses the Capper-Reed vocational education bill (S. 3969 and H. R. 10821); that this resolution be spread upon the minutes of this meeting and that copies of this resolution be sent to Senator Arthur Capper and Hon. Daniel A. Reed; and be it further

Resolved, That copies of this resolution be sent to Senator William J. Harris, Senator Walter F. George, Hon. Malcolm C. Tarver, and Hon. Robert Ramspeck, with our respectful request that they convey our sentiments to the hearings on this bill.

Hon. DANIEL A. REED,

BRICKLAYERS' UNION No. 4,
Kansas City, Mo., April 30, 1930.

Chairman Committee on Education,

House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.

MY DEAR SIR: At the regular meeting of the bricklayers' organization in this city last night, one of our members asked for, and was granted permission to

present for our consideration a copy of the Capper-Reed vocational education bill (H. R. 10821).

As a result, the following committee was appointed to write urging that you attend the hearing of the House Educational Committee when this bill is considered on May 7.

We consider this bill of the utmost importance, and respectfully urge your attendance and support at the above hearing if possible.

Very respectfully,

O. B. BERIS,

WM. VITT,

Hon. DANIEL A. REED,

WALTER S. SHORNICK.

KENOSHA, Wis., April 30, 1930.

House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. DEAR MR. REED: It will be appreciated by the people of this community if you will use your untiring efforts to have the bill, H. R. 10821, become a law. The aid that we may receive from this bill will be beneficial in helping to train further the tradesmen in the knowledge of their crafts, and to help train other men who will need to change their occupation, due to changes in industrial conditions.

Yours sincerely,

W. H. BYRNE,

Representative of Building Trades Council.

DENVER, COLO., May 6, 1930.

Hon. DANIEL A. REED,

Chairman Committee on Education,

House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.:

On behalf of the Locomotive Enginemen in the States of Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah we congratulate you upon the measure before the House Committee on Education providing for an increase in appropriation for vocational education purposes and have urged our Representatives to support same. The proposed increase is vital to the continuation of vocational training in this section of the country.

A. J. CHIPMAN, General Chairman
Board of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen,
Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad.

GEORGIA STATE FEDERATION OF LABOR

Whereas the Capper-Reed vocational education bill (H. R. 10821) would amplify the funds received by all the States of the Union for trade and industrial education under practically the same conditions as the Smith-Hughes Act of 1917, and

Whereas one of the most basic preventive and relief measures for low wages, unemployment, poverty, and crime is a citizenry thoroughly trained in the occupations of their choice, and

Whereas the Georgia State Federation, in common with the entire American trade-union movement, has always advocated fair and adequate public vocational education, and

Whereas State and local school funds necessary to extend this much needed form of education for wage-earning people are at present lacking; be it

Resolved, That the Georgia State Federation of Labor meeting at Waycross, Ga., April 16, 1930, heartily indorse the Capper-Reed vocational education bill; and be it further

Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be transmitted to Senator Arthur Capper and to Hon. Daniel A. Reed; and be it further

Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be transmitted to Senator William J. Harris, Senator Walter F. George, Hon. Charles G. Edwards, Hon. E. E. Cox, Hon. Charles R. Crisp, Hon. William C. Wright, Hon. Robert Ramspeck, Hon. Samuel Rutherford, Hon. Malcolm C. Tarver, Hon. Charles H. Brand, Hon.