Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-06
FOOTBALL RUINS
BEST IN YOUTH,
STATES JORDAN
Stanford President Says Future
Will Condemn Educators
for Not Ending Game
COMPARES IT TO PUGILISM
National Educational Association
Hears Address by Commits
Sioner of Education Brown
Associated Pressl

IAssociated Pressl
BOSTON, July 5.-Denouncing col
lege football as q combination of bru
tality and pugilism that appealed to
the love of the sordid, David Starr Jor-
dan, president of Leland Stanford uni
versity led in the discussion that fol-
lowed a report made today by the
committee on moral education in pub
lie schools to the national council of
education of the National Educational
association in convention here. He
added:
"Some day the college presidents and
school heads of the country will per-
haps be called cowardly and brutal be-
cause they did not put a stop to the
dangers of football, a sport that de-
stroys the best there Is in many
youth"
The game, he continued, aroused the
same love of the sordid that focused
the interest of the country in ring
away out in Nevada where a black
i, man and white man were pounding
each other yesterday.
NO NTELLIGENCE REQUIRED
mo intelligence is required in the
game of football" he asserted. Black
smiths and boilermakers can play the
game as well as men of the finer intel
lects; in fact, they are considered the
best raw material for the game"
President Jordan favored the substi-
tuition of the English game.
In most of the eighteen departmental
meetings of the convention today there
was at least one advocate of the intro
duction of the industrial training
and agriculture in the secondary
schools.
At the second meeting of the general
sessions of the association tonight
President James Y. Joiner delivered
his annual address.
He was followed by Commissioners or
Education Brown.
EXTOI.s LEGACY
ut was an extraordinary legacy that
was left to the bureau of education by
Commissioner William Terrey Harris"
declared DIR. Brown. "The present adj
ministration of that office has no finer
nor higher responsibility than that or
maintaining at its best the spirit and
the tradition which constitute that
legacy"
DR. Brown referred to the institution
of a new division for the promotion
of methods of school administration and
al-o of the use of specialists for i'm
proving the work of the land-grant
colleges as additions that had been
made to the activities of the service
under him. He pictured the education
al work being carried on in Alaska as
the most extensive experiment of that
kind in the world.
such a practice school presents the
white mans burden in les most con-
crete form, with all of the difficulties
and ell of the inspiring opportunities
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
ole nd xxyhn n
girls are learning to cook and to sew
and to make good homes.
LEARN TO EAN MONEY
"The boys are learning to earn an
honest livelihood under their new con-
ditions by new Industrial pursuits, by
the raising Of reindeer, by improved
Fishing, gardening and the use of COM
mon tools. They are learning some
thing of the white mans wisdom and
the white mans better aims OF life,
which shall help them in their new
relations with the white man as their
neighbor and fellow laborer."
To extend the influence of the bureau
and to strengthen 1t, DR.. Brown said
close cooperation had been arranged
with the library of congress and with
the bureau of the census. The latter
bureau, he said, is endeavoring to OBJ
tain more clearly uniform and COM
parable statistics concerning state and
city systems of education.
I'VE have now more reason than
ever before to hope that the reproach
which has lain against our school re-
ports, that they do not tell an intel
ligible tale, is soon to be a thing of
the past" declared DR.. Brown.
Speaking of the functions Of his
bureau, DR.. Brown continued:
CONDITIONS NECESSARY
J,,on M nf aff
dance must go hand In hand with the
abatement of child labor and numer-
Gus other undertakings for the gen.
eral walfare of childhood. 1t Is the
business of a central office to call re-
peated attention to three relationships,
and to help those who are at work
in neighboring fields to work together
for their common ends.
I'VE need to press home such infor-
nation as will lead to the improve
ment of school buildings. In coun-
try which is spending $73,000,O00 a year
for the construction, equipment and
repair of it's buildings for school pur-
poses, such information as would lead
to the saving of only one per cent on
this expenditure would cause an ag-
gregate annual saving of $730,000e and
the saving of the health of pupils
which can be accomplished through
more hygienic construction is an in
comparably greater concern.
'In a thousand ways the improve
ment of health through education is
now under way. An agency which,
through the gentle force of clear in
formation can bring these ways into
unison and prevent the waste of mis-
directed efforts will prove itself ma
tional benefit.
QUESTIONS RAISED
Industrial education, in it's three
main forms of trade schools, schools
of housekeeping and schools for rural
life, is every day raising more ques-
tions than anyone yet can answer. 1t
is the business of such an office as the
bureau of education to overlook this
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