The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-05
THE DEMOCRATS
TAKE A.L CREDIT
TO THEMSELVES
Champ Clark Declares They
Will Reduce Tariff to q
Revenue Basis y
EXPECT TO WlN HRCIDN Dy
VIRTUE Of REPUBLICAN TROUBLE


Strictly . Dehocratic Victory and
b That Party Belongs the Credit,
Declares minority House Leader.
Boston, July So u. outline Of
the course that Wills .h.>d. by
the United States bure1Ns -
tion in its efforts to promots> 80
ton during the coming year. a61nS
tribute to the achievements of tho
late Dr.. William Torrey Harris, for
merly In charge Of that work, were
the principal features Of an address
by DIR. Elmer d. Brown, the present
commissioner Of edacation, before
the National Education association in
this city today.
ut was an extraordinary legacy
that was left to the bureau Of educa-
ton by Commissioner William Ter
rey Harris" declared DR.. Brown.
"The present administration Of that
ONCE has no finer nor higher respon-
sibility than that of maintaining at
its BEST the spirit and that tradition
which constitute that legacy.
DR.. Brown referred to the institu-
tion Of new division for the pro-
motion Of methods of school adminis-
tration and also Of the use Of special
lists for improving the work Of the
land-grant colleges a. additions that
had been made to the activities Of the
service under him. He pictured the
educational work being carried on in
Alaska - the most extensive expert
ment Of that kind in the world.
Such practice school presents
the white mans burden in its most
concrete form, with all Of the difficult
ties and all Of the inspiring oppor-
tunties presented by this world edu-
cation movement Of our time, he ad-
! ded. There in Alaska the school
!. physician and the school nurse are
!. nov going up. and down, helping the
people in their sickness and teaching
them how TO- 3ltya 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
pursuits, by the raising Of reindeer,
by improved fishing, gardening and
the use. of common TOOLS. They are
learning something Of the white
mans wi5dom and the white mans
betteI aims in life, which shall help
them in their new relations with the
white man as their neighb0r and fel-
low laborer."
To extend the influence Of the bu-
reau and to strengthen it 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, 10 endeav-
oring to obtain more clearly uniform
and comparable statistics concerning
state and city systems Of education.
I'VE have now more reason than
ever before to hope that the re-
proach which has lain against our
school reports, that they do not tell
an intelligible tale, is soon to be q
thing Of the past" declared DR..
Brown. f
Bureau Functions
Speaking of the functions of this
bureau, DR.. Brown continued:
"The improvement Of school at
tendance must 60 hand In hand with
the abatement Of child labor and nu-
merous other undertakings for the
general welfare Of childhood. It is
the business of a central Office to call
repeated attention to three relation
ships, and to he3p those who are
ct work in neighboring fields to work
together for their common ends.
1--WE need to press home such in
formation a. win lead to the i'm
provement of school buildings. In q
country which 10 spending $7300O,-
900 q year for the construction.
equipment and repair of its buildings
for school purposes, such informa-
ton 40 would lead to the saving Of
only One per cent on this expenditure
would cause an aggregate annual saw
ing Of $730,000 and the saving Of the
health Of pupils which can be ac-
complished through more hygienic
construction is an incomparably
greater concern.
"In a thousand ways the improve
ment Of health through education 10
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 Q ma
tional benefit.
Industrial education, In its three
main forms Of trade schools, schools
OF Housekeeping and schools FOR rural
life, 10 every day raising more ques-
tions than any one yet can answer.
It 10 the business Of such an ofice
O. the bureau of education to over
look this whole field and keep inces-
SAINT Inquiries under way, with view
to finding the best answers to the
most urgent Of those questions so
fast % those answers become avail.
able In any part of the world. But
here again 1t 10 not information alone
that IL needed. Our new efforts at
Industrial education are pulled this
way and that by inharmonious aims
and conflicting interests. A national
once, concerned with these things,
must make the constant endeavor to
Isrsuadp those discordaut forces into