Delegates Return From Vocational Educa­tion Conference; S. L. Man Made Official. Good use is being found for al funag available, for vocational edu­cation work by practically ever} state in the United States, it was reported by several Utah educators on their return Friday from Los Angeles where they attended the meetings oC the American Voca­tional association. The meetings annually held un­der auspicies of the federal board for' vocational education were con- vened, in Los Angeles about th? same time. Utah was representee by 15 ol the 20 members who are affiliated with tlie American Vocational as­sociation. AmOng the delegates attending from Utah were I. U, Williamson, state director of vo­cational education; I. S. Noall, su­pervisor of part time education and education in trades industries; L. It. Humphreys, supervisor of agri­cultural education; Miss Jean Cox, supervisor in home .economics and Prof. Mosiah Hall, director of in­dustrial rehabilitation, all of whom represented the state superintendent's office at the meetings; Super­intendent. Francis Kirkham of Granite district; Prof. LeRoy Eg­bert and Alice Kewley of the Agri­cultural college; L. M. Gillilan, di­rector of part time education for Salt Lake City schools, and seven teachers engaged in vocational ed­ucation work- International In Scope. Nearly every state in the United States as well as some of the states of Canada, Hawaii and Mexico were represented at the meetings. The concensus of opinion of the conference was that federal funds Is for vocational education were in­dispensable for the promotion of vocational guidance in the several fields in which this movement has spread, Mr. Noall declared. A con­certed movement is now under way to have the federal endowment in­creased particularly in the fields of agriculture and home economics. The work in Utah is being kept fairly Well abreast of the times and in some fields particularly in the part time co-ordinating work this state is setting a leadership that is being followed by several other states, Mr. Noall. reported. Of .outstanding significance in this field is the decided trend to- ward alternating work and school instruction by placing each on a part time basis where two stu­dents hold down the same job and alternate in attending school class­es. Several hundred schoola throughout L!he country have been organized on this plan and in the opinion of the Utah dele­gates it offers some opportunities for advancement in Utah. Apprentice Work Grows Keen interest is also being tak- «n by vocational workers in ap­prentice training and some schools are successfully planning courses which give four hours of instruc­tion which precedes the appretice- ship by a period of practical and technical training which qualifies the student for profitable employ­ment when he starts employment in industry. A general feeling is entertained by vocational workers throughout the country that considerable re­lief may be effected in agriculture by intensive training in co-opera- tive movements for the common pooling of agricultural interests for buying, selling and handling agricultural commodities, Mr. Humpherys said- .It. was also felt that the biggest contribution in agriculture will be made by the schools in training the generation of rising farmers in the scientific pursuit of agriculture. This training it was believed could be bes9 accomplished through agri- rk Wih. slayer Ga. i A lighted ma. ped near the gai. Petersen, 1757 Eight. Thursday night, startea burned the garage, a chic and a coal shed, doing dama, timated by firemen amounting $100. cultural education work now under way. Mr. Humpherys was elected aa vice president of the national or­ganization representing agricultur­al eduction. He wis also placed on the legislative committee.