Excerpt from Vocational Education
Mr. President, I approach the discussion of this vocational-education bill with many misgivings and doubts as to the course I should pursue.
I am not unmindful of the limited time which Senators have to spare from the consideration of other important problems now being considered by Congress, and I would be especially considerate of their wishes that I condense what I have to say to the minimum.
On the other hand, here is a bill the importance of which has grown upon me until I feel that Senators should have a fairly good idea of what it purposes to accomplish.
Mr. President, this is a great public question; a question which affects the welfare not only of our boys and girls but of the mature vocational workers, including the home makers of the United States, as has no other which has been before Congress for more than half a century; a question which is engaging the best thought of eminent publicists and educators from one end of the country to the other - indeed, throughout the civilized world. It is a question which the American people have come to believe directly affects the economic conditions of the country in a degree little, if any, less than the largest of our large economic problems. It is a question which will, in my judgment, settle in great measure the quality of our citizenship in the generation upon which we are now entering. It is a question which will profoundly affect the cost of our food supply as well as the amount which our workers may earn with which to meet that higher cost of living which is upon us. It is a question which involves appropriations from the National Treasury aggregating nearly $15,000,000 annually. On a problem of this magnitude I believe Senators should not be heard to say that they are too busy with their other duties to give the matter proper consideration.
They will find on returning home that the question of vocational education is the subject of sermons in churches; of earnest discussions in granges and other farmers' associations; that it is regarded as a burning and vital question among labor organizations and manufacturing and trades associations; and is, of course, the subject of special consideration among those connected with our institutions of learning everywhere, from the elementary schools up to the universities, from one end of our country to the other.
Mr. President, I believe this is one of the most important measures before this Congress, and so believing I am sure Senators will forgive me for urging upon them something more than a perfunctory examination of its provisions.
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