Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-02-14
CONDITION IS pEPLoREo
BY GOVERNMENT EXPERT
Report Of sur'au Of Edaeatio" Shows
Enormous Increase in Amount. Of
Money Spent for Schools and Teaen.
srs-salarie. Of Teachers Larger
Some Tendencies Depiorsd.
Especial Correspondence

;ieoi u tHe world VIII rail- to see evil
dences of movement which can no
(, be matched from the records Of. tn,
! past. declares DR.. Fletcher B. DTass
lar OF the United States bureau Of edu
cation. In report on educational pro.
gress for the first decade of this cen
fury. The report, has just been isstlet
by the, bureau for free distribution
Greece and Rome in the days of theil
/; greatest advances knew naught O
fschooi buildings as they exist today
i Far more money is invested in public
SCHOOL, property than was required, tc
maintain all the machinery of our fed
eral government in 1910.
/ But let US not boast Of good works
! and forget those useless expenses o,
+. Our so-called enlightened civilization
We spend each year for purposes
which .All reason and scientific investi-
cation condemn as harmful enough
smoney to duplicate all our school build
ings and have millions of dollars left
for providing worthy Fairgrounds for
children"
Enormous Sums for Education.
/! In proof OF the assertion that the
people Of the United States are MAX
ing unparalleled expenditures for edu-
cation, spr. Dresslar cites statistics col
lected by the bureau Of education
which show that "the total income
from all sources for the common
schools has increased from $c19.765, 9ss
in 1900 to $4o3.e47,2ss in 1909.
This is truly a remarkable show
ing" DR.. Dresslar continues. "the
school population has increased only
in the neighborhood Of IL per cent,
while the total income for common
schools has increased more than 80
per cent
LAS Indicated above. the large item
in this increase is, the income from To-
cal taxation. This fact adds great sig
nificance to these figures: for not only
does II emphasize. as already tndi-
Gated. the willingness Of the people to
support taeir common schools in an
/ irlE:e date and direct way. out it
should furnish a striking object les
son. to those states which are yet
afraid. apparently. to trust the peo-
pie with power to tax themselves for
thef adequate support Of their commoa
schools.
Those states which still persist in
preventing sthe people from exercising
the right to local taxation for school
purposes are surely out Of line with
the democratic faith so strikingly
shown by these figures. Whatever
qualmss may arise at times on account
OF civic, inefficiency in other lines OF
endeayor. it js plain that the, Ameri-
can people believe in the education OF
their own pockets.
Almost q Billion invested.
AS further indication Of the large
increase during the decade Of Ameri-
cas- investment in education. DR..
Dressiar notes that the total value OF
all school property has increased from
$3.50. 00o.0 900 in 1900 to the enormous
sum of s96s. 100000 in 1909. Great out
lays. have also been necessitated by
the increases In teachers salaries.
whose monthly wage has risen about
IS per cent for the men and 2S per
cent for the women.
In view. of the fact also that the
schoo, term has heightened from 1913
DAYS in 1900 to 1853 days in 1909. the
teachers. who are paid by the month,
hare had a further actual increase in
saiaey, andsat the same time have been
able 70 Increase their educational eiiec-
; likeness in this particular alone by
some 3 per cent.
psereaso in Men Teachers.
Among the deplorable factors in the
. e5,,eatfnnRi} trend rs the relative elm
nation OF men teachers from the pub
! liz schools. This elimination "has been
going on steadily and rapidly since
1897 In the first decade OF this cen
fury the proportion dropped from thir-
ty men in. each 100 teachers to only
! about twenty-one in the hundred, a
decrease Of nearly 80 per cent In ten
years Discussing these figures. DR..
| Dressiar said there is no doubt that
| II is unwise to intrust so important a
matter as the teaching OF boys and
/ girls. 81. largely to women: but the
! facts are ,sknown and have been TOT
many years. and yet the hoped for
/ change docs not come.
( y Prefer Seeing to Hearing.
l. Another rcgrettable circumstance In
our educational development Is the
slight attention given to those finer
/ instincts Of our nature expressed IN
! poetry. music. and art" Especially Is
/ this true OF instruction in music. THE
/ American people" says DR.. Dresslar
are eye minded. and moving pictures
| seem to suit their desires better than
: music In some way the people should
4 be taught to hear the sishi'icah y.
! THINGS. OF life as we'll az to see them.
\ DR.. Dresslar also takes up the ur-
| gent need and almost universal de-
mand for vocational training. In this
| &C INJECTION, he says: I'VE must not give
up outsendeavor to create in this coun-
try high Standards Of general culture
/ but; we must MAKE OUR educational
wdtas function more efficiently in the
| common daties Of life Our big prob
| lem III sthat OF creating a. democracy
which VIII not be limited largely te
mediocrity"
'HAWLEN HElas FRIGHTENED.
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fiF.sr .peiirt' Cameron Rsa;'y 10. in Pos.
\ iii -. I; session Of Will.
! New York. Feb. 1.-THE heirs 0.
IEdtyinsR.s Haw1ey. according to a rep.
resentatives intimate with their affairs
iarea in a. spaii;;c Cog sssssr II. ward and
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