The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1910-07-07
Declares DR.. Brown, Com
missioner of Education,
in An Able Address.

7 BOSTON, Mass, July GA briel
outline of the course that viii be pur-
sued by the United states Bureau Of
Education in Its efforts to promote
education during the coming year,
and a tribute to the achievements OF
the late Dr. William Terrey Harris,
formerly in charge Of that work, were
the principal features OF an address
by DR.. Elmer E. Brown, the present
commissioner of Education. before
the National Education Association
in this city,
ut was an extraordinary legacy
that was left to the Bureau of Edu-
cation by Commissioner William Ter
rey Harris" declared DR., Brown.
The present administration of that
Office has no finer nor higher respon-
slbility than that of maintaining at
It's best the spirit and that tradition
which constitute that legacy"
.Dr. Brown referred to the lnstitu-
ton of new division for the pro-
motion OF methods Of school admins
tratlon and also of the use of spec
Ialists for improving the work of the
Immigrant colleges as additions that
had been made to the activities OF
the service under him. He pictured
the educational work being carried on
in Alaska as the most extensive ex-
pertinent of that kind in the world.
Such practice school presents
the white mans burden in its most
concrete form. with all Of the diff
culties and all of the inspiring OPP
portunlties presented by this world
education movement Of our time" he
added. There in Alaska the school
physician and the school nurse are
now going up and down, helping the
people in their sickness and teaching
them how to live clean and whole
some lives The girls are learning to
cook and to sew and to make good
homes. The boys are learning to
earn an honest livelihood under their
new conditions by new Industrial pur-
suits. by the raising of reindeer, by
improved fishing. gardening and the
use of common tools. They are
learning something of the white mans
wisdom and the white mans better
aims in life, which shall help them
in their new relations with the white
man as their neighbor and fellow la
borer."
To extend the influence of the bu-
reau and to strengthen 1t DR.. Brown
said close cooperation had been ar
ranged with the Library of Congress
and with the Bureau of the Census
The latter bureau. he said, is endeov-
orlng to obtain more clearly uniform
and comparable statistics concerning
state and city systems of education.
I'VE have now more reason thar
ever before to hope that the reproacr
which has lain against our school re-
ports, that they do not tell an In
telligent tale, is soon to be thing o
the past" declared DR.. Brown.
Speaking Of the functions of hi
bureau, DR. Brown continued:
.'The Improvement OF school at
tendance must go hand in hand VIII
the abatement of child labor and
numerous other undertakings for thu
general welfare Of childhood. 1t L
/ the business Of central office to cal
repeated attention to three relation
ships. and to help those who are a
work in neighborlng fields to worl
together FOR their common ends,
1--WE need to press home such IN
formation as will lead to the improve
ment of school buildings. In n coun
try which is spending s73.0oo.OOO
year for the construction, equipmen
aud repair Of It's buildings for schoo
nurnoses such information as woui'
lead TO the SAILING of only one pc
1 cent ON this expenditure would caus
an aggregate annual saving Of SEQ
ooO and the saving OF the health o
nrn,ls which can be accomplish,
through more bygenic construction
\ an incomparaniy EIe''
I'm a thousand ways the improve
ment Of health through education
mow under way. An agency which
through the gentle force Of clear in
formation can bring these ways int
nn,son and prevent the waste Of mis-
directed efforts will prove itself a ma
tional benefit.
industrial education, In Its thre
main forms of trade schools, school
~ housekeeping and schools for rur'
life. Is every day raising more cues
\ tions than any one yet can answer
7, ,s the business of such an office a
i ,ha nureau Of Education to overloo
1 his whole field and keep incessar
4 Inquiries under way, with a view
gndIns the hest answers to the mos
Urgent OF these questions so fast q
those answers become available
anv mart OF the world. But her
again ii is not information alone tina
! Il needed. Our new efforts at indus
trInl education are pulled this wa
ana that by inharmonIous aims an
conflicting Interests A national Of