PRANG ART BOOKS

"THEORY AND PRACTICE OF COLOR"-By Bonnie E. Snow and Hugo B. Froehlich.

The most authoritative work on "Color" issued in this country. Illustrated with hand-painted "Color Charts" of great value. Large quarto. Price $4.00; by mail, $4.25.

"ART SIMPLIFIED" (Revised Edition) By Pedro J. Lemos and John T. Lemos.

A book of practical instruction in Art for advertisers, commercial artists, teachers and students. 22 full-page plates, 175 pages. Price $4.00; by mail, $4.25.

"LETTERING"-By Thomas Wood Stevens, of Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh.

The standard work on the subject of lettering for students, designers and artists. 110 full-page plates. Large quarto. Price, $3.00; by mail $3.25.

"CARTOONIST'S ART"-By J. Campbell Cory.

The secret of the art told by a successful cartoonist, with many examples of the work of other prominent artists. Price, postpaid, $2.00.

"PENCIL SKETCHING PORTFOLIOS, Nos. 1 and 2"-By George W. Koch.

Each containing 15 plates of beautiful pencil sketches, reproduced by the offset process. Gives examples of the progressive steps in the work. Portfolio No. 1, $1.00; Portfolio No. 2, $1.00. "FIRST LESSONS IN BATIK"-By Gertrude C. Lewis.

A practical handbook, giving full information for Batik dyeing and Tie-Dyeing on many different fabrics. Beautifully illustrated with cuts from original Javanese Batiks. Price $1.50; by mail, $1.60.

"PERMODELLO MODELING"-By Bonnie E. Snow and Hugo B. Froehlich.

Gives full directions for innumerable uses of "Permodello," the Permanent Modeling Clay, which "sets" like Concrete without firing. Beautifully illustrated. Price, $1.50; by mail, $1.60. "SPOONBILL PEN LETTERING TABLETS"-By J. O. Peter

son.

A tablet of exercises and drills for use with the "Spoonbill Pen" that makes lettering as easy as writing. Price per Tablet, $0.75; by mail, $0.85.

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sufficient sum should be provided for the purchase and installation of suitable shop and home-making equipment in two particular schools.

The committee recommended the introduction of a unit trade course in power machine operating in the public schools.

Industrial Work for Hand-Minded Pupils. A recent intelligence test conducted in the high school at Wellsburg, W. Va., has disclosed the fact that one-third of the boy students lack the mental ability to master the regular academic subjects. These students are of the hand-minded type and must be given more industrial work to take the place of the cultural subjects.

In order to partially meet this need and to overcome the lack of accommodations, it was decided to offer shop mathematics and household mechanics beginning with the semester in February. Later, it is planned to offer industrial history as a further effort to provide an industrialized course. These courses are offered in addition to those in woodwork and mechanical drawing.

Manual Training Building. A manual training building along modern shop lines is being erected this year at Marinette, Wis. The building which is 90 feet by 120 feet, is constructed of variegated art brick, tile and concrete. The construction of the roof is such that it will serve as a floor for the second story in case it may be necessary to provide more room. The building is a separate unit, located between the junior and senior high schools, and has the advantage of removing the noise and vibration of the shops from the other two units.

The building which is fireproof in character is designed to take care of 600 students. Inside walls consist of large window sashes extending two-thirds of the distance to the floor, while eight skylights admit an exceptional amount of light into the shops. Partitions have been designed to make them easily transferable to other locations in case it becomes necessary to enlarge any of the shops in the future. Provisions have been made for a large machine shop and tool room, forge room, automobile repair shop, three cabinet making rooms, mill room, carpentry shop, tin shop, finishing room, besides the main offices, recitation rooms and storage rooms. The work was supervised by Mr. G. W. Schefelker, director of manual arts and vocational education.

New Course. A course in automobile mechanics has been introduced at Waterloo, Ia. A second-hand Ford has been obtained for demonstration purposes. The shop is open for free work to any owner of a car who wishes to take advantage of the school shop. A printing department was opened last year with very successful results.

Vocational Education in Illinois. There were 1,940 students enrolled in vocational agriculture in 78 different high schools in Illinois during the year 1919-1920. During 1920-21 there were 2,667 students enrolled in vocational agriculture in 115 different high schools. This is an increase of 37 high schools conducting classes in vocational agriculture and an increase of 727 students receiving instruction in vocational agriculture. The total reimbursement to high schools for conducting classes in vocational agriculture during the year was $114,776, or an average of $998.06 per high school.

During 1920-21 vocational home economics classes were in operation in 131 high schools in the state. Of these 109 carried the work in the regular high school classes called "full-time" classes and nine offered it in "part-time" classes. The total reimbursement amounted to $120.193. Of this amount, seventeen per cent came from federal funds and 83 per cent from state funds.

Salaries of Teachers. A recent report of the State Education Department of Illinois shows that the average salary of 154 teachers of vocational home economics in 1921-22 was $1,577, an average increase of $100 over 1920-21. The median salary of these teachers was $1,610. It is also shown that 28 or eighteen per cent of these teachers were in their first year of teaching. Their median salary was $1,485.

Of 129 teachers in 1920-21, 75 or 57 per cent continued teaching vocational home economics this year.. The average yearly salary of these teachers was $1,613, an increase of $117 over last year but an increase of only $98 over the average of beginning teachers. This shows there is a large turn-over in home economics teachers. The change in personnel will no doubt always be large, but as far as possible, where teachers are successful, they should be urged to remain in their present positions.

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Easter Inspection Trip. Twenty-six members of the Graphica, the student organization of the printing and publishing department of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa., spent their Easter vacation on an extensive inspection trip. The party was absent from April 5th to the 15th on a tour which covered Springfield, Holyoke, New London, New ork City and Philadelphia.

High School Department Progresses. East River High School, Princeton, W. Va., has made rapid progress in the manual arts under the supervision of Mr. J. Louis Barger. A unique feature of the work this year is a class for girls, in which the course covers the use of tools, making of practice joints, weaving, basketry, carving, drawing and designing. The girls have shown much interest and are determined to do as good work as boys of their own age.

New Classes. The vocational department at El Paso, Tex., has recently formed classes in automobile mechanics and machine shop practice. The classes train boys for their trades and offer a foundation for an engineering course. The work is arranged on the cooperative plan, the student spending one-half day in the shop and the other half day in related academic work. Each boy makes out a daily time card showing the jobs he has worked on, and the time required on each job. These cards are later transferred to permanent record cards which are kept in a filing cabinet. The cards offer an accurate record of the student's progress and the instructor is able to tell how far the student has advanced in the trade.

An Economic Clamp. Mr. Henry Lacey, Instructor in Woodwork in the Middletown High School, Middletown, Conn., has found that a marine planking clamp is most useful in the manual training shop to perform the work usually done by expensive cabinet maker's clamps. The clamp is known as the Chute Planking Clamp, sells at a small fraction of the cost of the furniture maker's clamps, and can be as easily used as the latter.

A Revised Course of Study. The entire course of study for the Los Angeles schools is undertaking a revis

Mr. A. W. Siemers, director of the vocational school at Madison, Wis., has announced his resignation. Mr. Siemers will enter the business field in the near future.

Mr. A. M. Bleyer, direction of vocational education at Oshkosh, Wis., has been reelected for a two-year term. After this year Mr. Bleyer will receive additional compensation for his services as director of the evening schools.

Miss Constance McCorkle will take charge of the Vocational School for Girls at Birmingham, Ala., during the coming summer. Miss McCorkle has been engaged in Y. W. C. A. work for several years and has made a special study of conditions affecting girls in industrial plants.

Mr. Harold H. Coburn has resigned as Director of Industrial Arts at Wellesley Hills, Mass., to become purchasing agent and assistant to the president of the E. Van Worden Sheet Metal Co., Roxbury.

Mr. R. L. Stephenson has been appointed temporarily to fill the position vacated by Mr. Coburn.

Charles Henry Bradley, for 32 years superintendent of the farm and trades school, Thompson's Island, Boston, died at his home on January 30th. Mr. Bradley received his early education in the schools of Vermont and later went to Massachusetts as an instructor in the state primary school at Palmer. He became head of the farm and trades school in March, 1888 and under his direction the school became nationally known as a leader in its field. The first sloyd classes were formed there and he also established a meteorlogical observatory, which is now a cooperative station of the United States Weather Bureau. Mr. Bradley was given a degree of M. A. by Norwich University and since 1912 had been a trustee of that institution.