Table E shows the replies from employers to questions in regard to various types of industrial schools. In Chapter III are given the returns from the officers of labor unions in the State in regard to two of these schools.

The answers of the different industrial groups to the question, "Would the efficiency and future opportunities of your employees be increased if they were given a training between the ages of 14 and 16 in a general industrial or preparatory trade school which aims to give a knowledge of materials, shop mathematics and fundamental industrial methods and some ideas of industrial organization, but does not teach a special trade?" are as follows:

The sequence of the groups in the order in which this type of school is favored is, machine and metal manufactures, building trades, wood manufactures, printing and paper manufactures, glass manufactures, textile industries, clothing trades, leather manufactures, confectionery. It is to be noted that it is the skilled trades that pronounce most strongly in favor of this type of school.

The replies of secretaries of the labor unions of the State to the question "Do you favor a public industrial or preparatory trade school, which should endeavor to reach boys and girls between 14 and 16, that now leave the common school in very large numbers before graduation? Such a school would not teach a trade, but would give a wide acquaintance with materials and fundamental industrial processes together with drawing and shop mathematics, with the object of giving a better preparation for

entering the industries at 16 and better opportunities for subsequent advancement," are as follows:

From the fact that this type of school is largely in the discussion stage and only beginning to appear in practical form, it is possible that the exact character of the institution in view was not fully understood by all employers or by all labor representatives replying. Care, however, was taken in framing the question to bring out the fact that the school is not intended to teach a special trade but is aimed to prepare those below 16 years of age to enter the industries at greater advantage, and this point seems to have been generally appreciated by those sending replies.

The question of the development of such schools is not only one of the foremost educational problems before the country to-day, but it is a question that is being increasingly recognized as having great practical bearing upon the whole problem of training for the industries. It is being appreciated more and more that one of the chief problems of training for the industries is to lead boys and girls of 16 toward the industries with awakened sympathies and ambition for industrial careers, with some knowledge of industrial quantities, and with some conception of what the industries have to offer them.

In any broad view of the subject it would appear that industrial education under public auspices should have at least two aims in view: one to assist the boy and girl to meet the immediate de