Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-05-19
DR.. EBY PREDICTS
EDUCATION CRISIS
WILL FOLLOW WAR
PROFESSOR IN UNIVERSITY OF
TEXAS ADDRESSES GRADS OF
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
BELIEVES UNITED STATES IS DUE
TO CARRY ON WORK THAT EU-
ROPE FORMERLY DID.

"The Coming Crisis IN American Edu-
cation" formed the chief topic in "A power
full speech to the graduates and an audi
ence that filed the Hinkley auditorium to
witness the commencement exercises of the
Brownsville high school last night. DIR.
Frederick Eby in charge of the school of
education of the University of Texas was
the speaker. DIR. j. l.. Workman, president
Of the board Of education in Brownsville,
introduced DIR. Ely.
The crisis, DIR. Eby predicted, will come
as a result of the war in Europe.
"For generations" DR.. Ely said, 'the
world has been flocking to Europe to OBJ
tain the best in higher education. Now
clinics are discontinued, laboratories
closed, class rooms deserted. Professors
laboriously trained to teach each one his
specially are being fed into the NAV of the
cannon, students who were in training to
take their places are being moved down
like ripened grain. After this cataclysmal
war Europe will have neither men nor
funds 10 20 on with the work of teaching
the world. Where can this burden-this
4 D1t>Stu buTutu- ldh, bui VII htNt hiit
States Of ours! The solemn duty Of carry
ing on this work must and will deyolye
upon Us"
"Americans do not realize what educa-
tion i'm this country MEANS he went ON.
Twenty millions of children being trained
in the same language, using the same text
books, studying the same subjects, pre-
scented in the same way-that l. why
America is one and indivisible In standing
for her national beliefs. | say, without
the slightest fear of being unable to prove
il to the satisfaction of anyone, that n
the public school system Of today had been
in the state Of development In 1850 that
it has reached today, there would never
have been IA civil war. Our great nation
working in harmony n We are now-what
a force for the right we hav within u.
What a thunderous message We can de-
liver 10 the world when the world l. again
ready To heedl But we need 10 consider
what this message shall be, toward what
end we shall bend our colossal forces,
what ideals We shall teach!"
DIR. Ely enumerated what he considers
our duty to teach, when We shall become
the intellectual clearing house of the
world. Religious liberty and federation.
democracy, industrial freedom, the rights
Of childhood and the American ideal Of
womanhood he discussed IN turn a. parts
of the message Of America 10 the world
al her gates after the PAM European war.
Some of DIR. Ehy'S telling sentences fol-
low:
Speaking 10 the -raduate: Il want to
say IL each II ypu Get \ right conception
Of Yourself. Get riyn; idca- concerning
your citizenship. Know Wat are your
rights in this world. and what people ex-
pect of YOU
~ man can be free in intellect and IN
will and vel can be distinctly religious and
piou,. | 10 not believe these things clash
..Wi~c old Garfield said three things were
necessary for democracy Justice, right
eousness and n public school system. We
need To revive our old doctrine of democ-
racy. Ii j. slipping away from u"
Il believe with Ill my heart that if VI
were Ia set aside ten millions of dollars 4
year and invite Chinese, japanese, Hin
dus and other peoples To send their young
men and young women To America To he
educated at our expense, none OF them
would in after years dare to draw the
sword against a.. That j. not insane
idealism, but business.
.~Everywhere we are giving young wom-
en- what il termed higher education. And
let me tell you that We educators are not
al All alarmed al what the result l. gong
10 be-. We have found out that, far from
being inferior to young men IN brain power,
Young women are really superior. Again,
more women than men are getting "A
higher education today. But this does not
alarm u. We know that we only need 10
educate the women and the women will
educate the men for u. Do you know
that a prominent woman's journal Is run
ming "A series of prize articles ON How
Made Nv Husband a Mani"
Referring to an education for motherhood,
he said. 1T i a harder thing 10 educate
a woman properly than 10 turn out a fin
ished man. A man needs one education, "A
in public respect by allying himself with
a Christian faith.
Tonight at 8 o'clock DIR. Mcclellan will
preach again at the tent auditorium. George