Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-22
Would Reduce Illiterates.

Funds also are asked for the inyestiga-
ton of the education of adult illiterates
and the dissemination of Information as
70 the best methods of reducing the large
amount of illiteracy of adult population
in all parts of the country; for the in
vestigation OF school and home garden
ing in cities and manufacturing towns.
and for dissemination Of information as
TO how this important form OF industrial
education may be promoted by the CO.
operation of the school and the home;
for the investigation of home education
and the dissemination Of information as
10 the best methods OF early physical,
mental and moral education of children
in the home and the cooperation Of the
home and school for the education OF
children of school age; for a specialist
in educational theory and practice, to
serve as a director of Investigations IN
education, assisting national, state and
local committees and commissions and
making available for them the large col
lection of material in the library of the
bureau: for librarian and an assistant
editor, the first of which is needed for the
better care and use of the bureaus large
collection of books, pamphlets and re-
ports on education. and the second be-
cause of the large increase Of work in
the editorial department.
Translators Needed.
arc dShcu dlcO lOt Two
additional translators, and for a special
list and two assistants in foreign and do
mestic systems of education, all of which
are needed to enable the bureau to keep
the people of this country informed in re-
gard to the significant progress in edu.
cation in other countries. .e
For two additional collectors and com.
pliers of statistics. to enable the bureau
10 obtain prompt and accurate informA-
ton for its statistical reports; for neces-
sary additional clerks, copyists, laborers
and messengers: for an increase In APP
preparation for travelling expenses for the
commissioner and employees acting under
his direction. which Is necessary to en-.
able them to make first-hand investiga-
lions of educational conditions In differ
ent parts of the country, and to dissent
nate information by meeting with educa'
tional associations and other societies In
terested In education in different parts
OF the country for cooperative investi
cation and experiment In secondary ano
elementary education to enable the bu
reau TO carry on, with the help Of exper1
educators. important Investigations ant
definite experiments In education unde
scientific control; for an Increase of $40
in the appropriation for collecting stats
tics. etc. for which the present appro
priation Is inadequate.
Work In Alaska.
An increase of $4,000 in the appropria
ton for education in Alaska to enabl
the bureau TO provide education for all o
the Eskimos. Aleuts. Indians and othe
natives In this territory is asked. fer no
more than two-thirds OF whom II has we
been able to make adequate provision.
He also wants an appropriation o
$4,000 TO enable the Secretary of tn
Interior. In his discretion and under hi
direction. and with the advice and CO
operation of the public health service, Z
provide for the medical and sanitary re
lief OF the ESkfmos, Aleuts, Indians an
other natives of Alaska. for which Their
Is an imperative demand, and which
necessary not only to the life and healt
of the natives. but for the welfare Of tn
white settlers as well.
The various lump-sum appropriation
should be made available for persona
services in the District of Columbia an
elsewhere. without which the best result
cannot be had from the expenditure o
these funds, IL is held.