The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-06-21
SELECTED FROM LARGE LIST
Gratifying Progress ls Being Made BY
the Educational Forces In tho 10
lands - Excellent Opportunl-
ties for College Graduates.
BY GEORGE CLINTON.

bAOu Ol INC united SL8Le0 LQ1B COuu-
try, following the well-known course
Of English-speaking governments,
made preparations to send teachers
Into the new possessions. The Fill
pinos have shown that they desire ed
ucation above all things and the prog
ress that has been made there, it is
said. is nothing short Of wonderful.
Two hundred young men and wo-
men who have just been appointed as
teachers to augment the American
educational forces already in the Is
lands are graduates of the best uni
versities, colleges and normal schools,
and they come from nearly every Sec
ton Of the United States. They
wore selected from 4 larger eligible
list Of candidates than ever before ap-
piled for positions with tho insular
branch of the government.
Bureau Officials 0ratlfied.
The bureau officials in speaking Of
this matter of teachers and of tho
teaching work in the Philippine is
lands said;
more than eleven years Of our edu-
catdonal experiment there has demon
strated to those who have investiga-
ted the subject that, as noted edu-
Gator on his return from the Orient
said, the achievements of tho bureau
Of education in the Philippines make
a. bright and inspiring a chapter Of
history az was ever written and that
our insular service offers an excellent
opportunity for honest, energetic and
well-educated young men to render
most conspicuous service for the gov
eminent and for themselves"
1T is very gratifying to the officials
to know that there Is such an IN
creasing interest in it's insular pos
sessions and that 1t can depend upon
young, clear-brained and clear-mind-
ed men Of good education to enter Its
service and assist in the solution Of
some of the problems which daily con-
front 1t.
"Students and travellers in the ORR
ent in recent years have returned to
the United States with the report
that the east is to be the center Of the
greatest governmental activities of
the twentieth century, and our posi-
ton in the Philippines has made it
possible for those on the ground to
get an insight into these problems
and take very active part in their
solution in so far as the participation
by the United States government is
concerned. The development Of the
American public school system in the
Philippines, modified to meet local
conditions, has been a most remarka-
BILE one during the past ten years, yet
the opportunity for further growth Is
great"
Bulletins on Education.
Writing of government educational
matters, it might be said that the bu-
reau Of education is still actively at
work sending out bulletins of the
progress of education all over the
United States and making suggestions
for the betterment of conditions in re-
lation to the instruction of the young.
Never before in the history of the gov
eminent apparently has there been so
much energy put into the propaganda
of publicity of the educational needs
of the United States.
The government bureau of educa-
ton regards many things which are
not in books as being part of the
educational needs of the people. Re-
Gently it has given great attention to
means of keeping people on farms,
and in this connection quotation
from a bulletin Just issued will per-
haps give a clear idea of one of the
branches of endeavor of the govern
ment's educational authorities One
of the last bulletins Is as follows:
Free entertainments are given to
rural communities in Pike county,
Alabama, as part Of campaign to in
duce the people to stay on the land in
stead of abandoning their farms for
city life. This information has been
received by the United States bureau
Of education from E. M. Shackelford,
principal of the state normal school
at Troy, Pike county, Alabama, who
is at the head of the movement. Mr..
Shackelford writes:
I'm my opinion the exodus of the
younger generation from the country
to the town is at present the most
serious menace to our general well
fare. Good roads, motor cars, the tel
ephone and rural mail delivery are
improving rural conditions greatly,
but rural social life does not yet az
ford the opportunities for the COM
merce of ideas that an active, reading,
thinking public demands. Hence the
tendency to congregate in the centers
OF population, and hence this effect Of
ours to afford a few social opportuni-
ties through q course Of free enter
tainments.'"