"  It  is  a  bill  which  will  lend  very  great  aid  to  a  measure  now
occupying  the  chief  place  of  attention  among  the  educators  of
our  country."

Mrs.   L.   L.   Blankenburg,  vice  president  General   Federation   of
Women's  Clubs,  Philadelphia,  writes:

"  Senator  Page,  you  recognize  the  fact  that  women  are  not
your  constituents,  except  in  six  of  the  Western  States,  and  that
pur  wishes  do  not  have  much  weight  with  Congress,  but  if  there
is  sufficient  publicity  given  to  this  bill  I  believe  club  women
will  use  such  influence  as  they  can  command  to  secure  its
passage."

Thomas  F.  Hunt,  Pennsylvania  State  College  of  Agriculture,  says :

"For  a  number  of  years  I  have  been  deeply  interested  in  the
movement  for  the  introduction  of  industrial  training  in  the
secondary  schools  of  this  country,  as  expressed  in  your  bill.  I
believe  it  to  be  one  of  the  most  far-reaching  movements  for  the
progress  of  this  country  that  has  been  before  Congress  in  many
years."

The  editor  of  the  Tobacco  World,  of  Philadelphia,  says :

"Have  given  the  bill  hearty  indorsement  in  editorial."
The  Times,  McKeesport,  says :

"A  conference  on  Senator  Page's  vocational  bill  is  to  be  held
in  Washington,  beginning  with  to-morrow.  This  measure  is
intended  to  provide  a  course  of  studies  for  the  rising  genera-
tion which  is  not  now  afforded  in  all  of  the  public  schools,  and
if  the  bill  goes  through  Congress  and  becomes  a  national  law
its  results  should  be  very  beneficial.  This  bill  as  an  educa-
tional idea  far  transcends  in  importance  all  the  political  sparring
of  the  session  just  opened,  for  it  reaches  down  to  the  child  upon
whose  life  and  efficiency  national  life  and  efficiency  depend.
