The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1918-02-27
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ilize the country's schools and col
leges behind the army in order to
! give those needing it the L reft OF q
special intensive technical training
. is an excellent thing. Bar, ut The
same time, it approaches the problem
of modifying the schools and colleges
specifically to. get at the men already
taken in the draft and gives small con
Germ to the futurS in the way of max
ing it possible for the schools and col
| leges so modified to meet the de-
mands of students under the draft
age. And it is upon these younger
students, upon their numbe: and the
character of their training, that the
efficiency Of the country depends. no:
only in wartime, but what is more
| important, in the long peace after
the war. AS it is, the colleges and
schools, bereft of students, bereft of
important members of the faculty, al,
of whom have gone into the service
of their country with the greatest
cheerfulness and with many sacri-
fees. find themselves in a very anon
alous position. AS in the case of its
attitude toward the medical schools,
it is not at all certain that the War
DEPARTMENT or this committee on edit
cation and special training even if
sympathetic, will give the help needed
Under the circumstances, the col
leges and technical schools, which
have done more than has been asked
of them, should not let this new re-
quest of cooperation on their part
pass without laying their needs be-
fore the administration. They GER
calmly ought to be able to make them
selves heard through the civilian col
lege officials who are on Secretary
Bakers new board. II they do not
The farce of last year will be repeat
ad 1t will be remembered that early
in 1917 ecretary Baker expressed the
pious wish that all those Mho would
be- needed technical lires for the
future development of America should
stay in school and college. The Pres
ident repeated the happy thought in
the midsummer. But since nothing
was done to prevent what might be
called the looting of the schools in
the interest Of a high patriotism, it
was necessary in September for d
group of the leadingg institutions of
the country to spend their scanty
funds in a cry of alarm and warning
to all concerned as to just what would
happen il the depletion of the school
and college ranks continued. Since
then very little constructive work has
been done to remedy the situation;
and with this new burden put upon
them the schools and colleges may
well point out that the cooperation
that the Government asks of them
is very jug -handled, and not very sci
entific at that.
Indeed, unless something be done
the indictment of the preparatory
headmasters that the Government at
present asks of the schools and col
ieges every sacrifice and then EXPECTS
them ito make bricks without straw"
will stand. One phase of this grape
question might ferry we'll be taken up
1T the vocational education conven-
ton which meets here tomorrow,
since one of the members of the Fed
eral Board for Vocational Education
| is member of Secretary Bakers ed
vocational committee, and most of the
workers in the National Society for
| the Promotion of Industrial Educa-
ton know what our lacks in indus-
| trial and technical education are and
what is needed to meet the tremen
| dous demands of the future
WISCONSIN AND PRO-GERMANtSM
| Unquestionably there has beer
| much pro-German sentiment in WIS