The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-03

ting down the time or putting in addi-
tional work. The plan to result from
the survey is to standardize and sim
plify school work. The study of
grammar can be greatly simplified;
the text books are exa mined with
view to cutting out all that is beyond
the comprehension of the average
child and all that is non-essential. The
object of public education should be
to impart knowledge. inculcate right
habits and correct perspective, to
train the student to apply his knowl
edge to the affairs of life. to give him
skill and to implant right ideals.
Something of descriptive astronomy
ought to be taught in the common
| schools
1--WE boast of Kansas as an educa-
/ tional state. Out of the students en-
rolled in schools in this country, Kan
! sas furnishes 81 per cent; the cost of
! educating that per cent is per cent of
all the money paid for common
/ schools Our per cent of students in
! colleges and universities is 5 per cent
| of all such students in the country
| but our expenditures for that per
cent are only IL per cent; so we are
| not spending enough on our univer-
sites and colleges. If our system of
| education is subject to criticism, let us
] not blame the educators. who make
tremendous efforts for slight remun-
| Grafton"
! Mr.. Hopkins spoke on Education
From the Business Mans Point OF
| View" Education he said. lis the
means by which all problems of life
| are made easy. The practical man
asks if affairs in Europe are the re-
suit of our systems of church and
school, and how America can so edu-
cate its youth as to prevent in this
| country the terrors enacted across the
water Are our theories about educa-
1 ton wrong, and must they be revo1u-
| tionized to save US from perdition
The business man does not think that
| our schools should be turned into
workshops and our colleges into man.
ufacturies, and if we are overlooking
| the highest training of mind and soul
| America will follow Europe in its
night of war Our educators are alive
| to the relation of hygiene and educa-
| ton, and we have clinics established
| for the care of the health of the pu-
| pills. Our schools must turn out, not
only healthy children and children of
trained minds, but also children of
moral worth and integrity. Business
honesty is a greater asset to a firm
| than its capital and no business man
Of any standing will take young man
| into his office who has been guilty CT
using class office in school for per-
sona1 graft. The business world de-
mandS honest young people to do its
work. The business man wishes for
| his children advantages for culture
that perhaps he did not have. He
| stores his hcme with good books. and
the business man will be the last one
! to yield to that form of educational
training that leaves industrialism tri-
umphant''
Music for the afternoon meeting was
furnished by Miss Carolyn Lovewell,
who sang, accompanied by Miss Esther
/ Payne.
The civics and justice department
held meeting in the morning at
| which Mayor ]. E. House made an ad-
dress. He spoke of the need of CO.
! operation in all departments of the
city government, and the need of
money to conduct an administration
/ in the best way. He referred to the
recent tragedy in which a child was
killed by automobiles, and said that
the city was not furnishing enough
money to keep a sufficient number of
! policemen to prevent such accidents.
/ THE most effective way to prevent
4 speeding, he said, sis that every man
and woman who drives a car should
learn that car is dangerous ma
chine
i Miss Frances Brown of the State
Agricultural college, spoke to the
home economics department She gave
some statistics on the expenditures for
necessities and Injuries man with
Ian income of $500 year ordinarily
spends go per cent of it for food, shell
ter, clothing and incidentaIs; a per-
son with 1920 year income spends
rs per cent for necessities. She ad-
vised all housekeepers to distinguish
carefully between needs and wants and
to keep a strict accounting of ex-
penses. She said that rs per cent of
the men in the United States work for
less than $500 a year. ten million peo-
/ pie in this country are sunk in pow