The Washington times., 1918-09-05


dents, State councils of defense appro-
priated money for the conduct OF the
campaign, and offered the machinery
OF their organizations to carry the
message of the educators to the last
child. Clubs and societies and fedora
tions of professional. commercial.
social enlisted in the cause.
The press, the pulpit, the platform
were all requisitioned. Letters were
sent to 100000 clergymen. Thousands
of them have formally enlisted in the
campaign. Speaking campaigns have
/ been set up in a number of the States,
attractive posters have been put up,
community suppers are being given.
and the country sbeing canvassed.
Millions Of pages of literature have
been sent out from the Washington
and the various State headquarters.
The leaders of public opinion and the
instrumentalities Of publicity. press,
pulpit, platform, stage are making
the people think training-the nation
is catching the spirit. 1t recognizes
the need of trained men and women
for war and peace.
New Training Corps.
Then to give final punch TO the
campaign and guarantee eminent
success came the revised announce
I
| ing the conditions for induction into
the students army training corps.
Young men who were planning to
go to college were advised by the
military authorities to carry out their
plans and were assured that those
who were accepted by the process
of voluntary induction into the
Students Army Training Corps
would be rated as in active service
and would receive the pay Of privates
The Government will make con-
tracts with the colleges designated
/ for this work, of which there are
That the colleges will be full Of
students this fall is assured. That
the students will work as they have
never worked before is guaranteed
since possible commissions and i'm
portant governmental posts as ex-
perts will be persuading them to high
endeavor.
But this is by no means the only
phase of the work of the American
Council of Education. 1t has a COM
mittee on international educational
relations which is planning great
movements of educational reciprocity
between the United States and the
allies. Already the Association Of
American Colleges has carried
" a
plan to place 1873 French young
women in institutions of higher
learning the coming year. These
French girls have been chosen by a
committee of Americans and French
in Paris and the girls will set sail
for America in a few days.
They will arrive in New York and
be sent to the colleges and univer-
stiles throughout the country. The
French government has appropriated
$4,000 francs for travelling expenses
on this side of the Atlantic. The
colleges furnish room, board, tuition,
and fees.
By this one plan the Association
Of American Colleges puts across an
educational program costing this
country no less than 100000. The
French girls are to remain in Amer
lea until they graduate from the col
leges. Later there will be an exchange
of students-men and women-be-
tween the United States and all. the
allies, and not only of students but of
faculty members also. American
education is broadening its horizon.
Other committees Of the American
Council on Education are the commit
tee on education for citizenship whose
object is to secure more ADEQUATE
instruction in the schools regarding
the history and genius of America,
the committee on educational recon-
struction looking toward the altera-
ton of our system of education as
the events OF the war may indicate
as desirable, a committee on oppor-
tunities for study, a committee on
cooperating societies, and a commit
tee on a department of education.
Millions for Education
When it is recalled that in the al
lied countries there are departments
of study with which the American
education of the future will have to
deal. and that in the United States,
while millions are spent for educa-
ton, only few paltry thousands are
at the command Of the Bureau of
Education, which is subordinated to
other interests and embarrassed by
restrictions, it will be seen that the
committee on the department of edu-
cation has a great work to perform.
In a few weeks a celebrated COM
mittee of educators is to come from
Great Britain as guests of America.
They come for the inspection of the
American system Of education and to
interchange ideas with American edu-
Gators. They will make a tour of
larger cities, going West, perhaps, as
far as the Mississippi river.
The visit Of these educators is I'M
der the Jurisdiction OF the American
Council on Education. American edu-
Gators are awake to the opportunities
of the new day now dawning for the
world