The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-19
To EDUCATE NATIVES
ELABORATE PLANS of FILIPINo
COMMISSION.
COMPLETE PLAN OUTLINED.
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INsTRUC~
TION ESTABLISHED.

If the Plan He Carried Out the File
ipinOs Will Have a Better Systems
of Education Than Many American
States-EnRIish Language to he
Made Basis of Public Instruction..
One Thousand Trained Teachers to-
BE Secured from United States ae
$75 to 800 Per MOnth-Priestm
May Teach Three Times a Week.
/ Washington. March 1S-Quite a number
of the acts of the Philippine commission,
as promulgated by the military authori.
ties in the islands. have been received
at the War Department.
One of the most important-that for es.
tablishing a department of public In
struction in the islands-already has been
briefly reported by cable from Manila. 1t
provides for a general department. OF
public instruction with a central office at
Manila under the direction of general
superintendent to be appointed by tho
commission at salary of 5000 per an
mum. Schools are to be established in
every pueblo in the archipelago where
practicable. and those already establish-
ed shall be reorganized where necessary.
The salaries of the division superintend-
ents and teachers and the curricula for
primary. secondary and other public
schools are to be established by the SUI
perintendent lie is also to exercise gem
oral supervision over the entire departs
ment There are to be ten school divis.
ions in the archipelago, each with a d-
vision superintendent and there is to ba
superior advisory board composed OF
the general superintendent and four mem
bers to be appointed by the Philippine
commission who shall consider the gem
eral subject of education in the islands,
and make regulations. etc.
According to the terms Of the act. tho
English language as soon as practicable,
shall be made the basis of all pubic in
struction, and soldiers may be detailed as
instructors until replaced by trained teach>
ers.
To Obtain Teachers Here.
Authority Ia given to the general SUI
perintendent to obtain from the United
States 1000 trained teachers at salaries of
not less than SIS. nor more than $40 per
month, the exact salary to be fixed ace
cording to the efficiency Of the teacher.
other person shall teach or criticise the
doctrines of any church. religious sect
or denomination, or shall attempt 20 in
fiuenoe the pupils for or against any
church or religious sect in any public
school"
Vocation OF this section is made punish4
abe by summary dismissal from the pub-
lie service. II is provided however, thas
1t may be lawful for the priest or minister
OF The pueblo where the school is situated
to teach religion for one-half hour, three
times a week In the school building to
pupils whose parents desire It. But IL the
priest, minister or religious teacher use
this opportunity for the purpose of arous-
ing dieloyalty to the United States, or OF
discouraging the attendance of pupils, or
interfering with the discipline of schools"
the division superintendent may forbid
such offending priest from entering the
school building thereafter.
Normal School mt Manila.
The act also prouvides for q normal
schol at Manila for the education OF ma
tives In the science OF teaching. 1t ap-
propriates $4,000 for school buildings:
$220.0O0 for textbooks and other supplies
for the current calendar year: SIS, 900 for
the normal school, $4,000 for the organi-
zation and maintenance OF a trade school
in Manila, and the same sum for a school
OF agriculture.
Among the other acts is one declaring
all persons in arms against the authority
OF the United States in the Philippine
Islands. and all persons aiding or abet-
ting them on April !, 1901. or thereafter,
ineligible to hold any office OF honor, trust
or profit in the Philippine Islands.
Another act provides for the free admis-
sion into the islands OF all supplies and
materials for the use of the army or navy
or of the insular government. Still an
other act regulates the hours OF labor.
II provides that the heads of departments
and offices in the Philippine civil service
shall require Of all employees OF whatever
grade or class, not less than six hours
OF labor each day. not including the time
for lunch. and exclusive OF Sundays and
public holidays.