The course outlined is somewhat similar to the scheme of education given so successfully in Hampton Institute, Va., which is at once the pioneer and the ranking institution for the vocational training of primitive people. Their girls, while given very thorough industrial training are not given this training, however, with the idea of putting them into the trades. “The aim and purpose is primarily to develop homemakers, women who can go back to their homes in the rural districts and teach their people how to keep their homes clean and sanitary, how to care for their children and for the sick and aged, how to make and keep in repair their own clothing, and how to do the innumerable other things that should be done in a well-regulated home,” says the Commissioner of Labor in his report on Industrial Education.[3] Footnote 3: Twenty-fifth annual report of the Commissioner of Labor, 1910, p. 321. In this connection it is interesting to note that General Armstrong, the founder of Hampton, was the son of Hawaii’s first Commissioner of Education, whose reports advocated this same training for Hawaiians in the early missionary days. VOCATIONAL AND EMPLOYMENT BUREAU The establishment and intelligent conduct of a vocational employment bureau goes far to help a community secure a comprehensive grasp of its industrial situation. Such a bureau is most efficient when officially connected with the department of public instruction. It may, however, be conducted by an unofficial body, as in Cincinnati, where it is under the management of the Charlotte Schmidlapp Foundation, and in Boston, where it had its inception, and is still philanthropically managed. There must, however, be a sound Compulsory Attendance School Law on which to base it. Hawaii’s Law requiring school attendance of all children from six to seventeen years of age is admirable; but it is weakened by the proviso: “If when a child has reached the age of twelve years and has not completed the fourth grade of the primary school _he shall be eligible for instruction ONLY in an industrial school_.” While it is safe to assume that the child who has attended school from his sixth year until his twelfth, without reaching a higher grade than the fourth primary, should undoubtedly be trained for an industrial occupation; yet on the other hand the exemption from compulsory school attendance “if there is no school within four miles of a child’s home,” together with the known insufficient school accommodation in parts of the Hawaiian Islands makes it easily possible for hundreds of children to be prevented from entering school until their seventh or eighth year. In families who have come to Honolulu from rural districts, children have reached the age of ten without having been entered at school. It is obviously unfair, therefore, to deprive the child of an opportunity to receive an education because through no fault of his he may have been retarded in his studies.