A Plea and a Plan for Vocational Education By JOHN ALAPP Member of the National Commission on Vocational Education, Secretary and CARL H. MOTE With Introduction by HON. WILLIAM C. REDFIELD INDIANAPOLIS THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY PUBLISHERS 01-20-44 K B C We are as a people the Wasters of the World and are the Prodigal Son among the Nations. We save enormously every year but waste far more than we save. It seems to be in our national temperament almost to rejoice in the prodigality with which we expend our resources or in the happy carelessness with which we allow them to go unused. We do not confine ourselves, however, to wasting material things. We waste life as no others do. The annual toll of those who are killed and wounded by vehicles in the streets of New York alone would dim the records of many a sanguinary battlefield. Many a war has come, has run its bloody course and has ended without as many victims in killed and wounded as our industries show each year. There are among us excellent people quite disturbed over bloodshed in time of war who have little to say respecting the bloodshed in times of peace. It is true that "safety first" is becoming a familiar motto, but it is also true that the warning falls too often on heedless ears and that the daily sacrifice goes on. There are ways of wasting however, very sad ways of wasting indeed, which the above do not include. There is a way of killing the best in life while the body goes on living, and we have been sin 1001 |