Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-07
NATIONAL UNITY
IS NEEDED IN. j S.
CLAIMS: M'KENNY
Says England and France Have
Settled Race Problem, With
America Still Confront.
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Prof. Guernsey Jones of the Uni
versuy of Nebraska and president OF
the history section of the State
Teachers association, INTRODUCED
President Charles Mckenny Of the
University of Ypsliant, Mich, the
first speaker in the history section,
at the First Methodist church yes
tcrday.
The subject of President McKen-
rey's address was "a Plea for Social
Sciences
Places in World
Education is to prepare young
men ard young women to take their
place in the world. so that they may
be a help and service to others
said President Mckenny. "In this
work more and more interest is be-
ing taken each year, and the people
of today are beginning to realize
that their children can reach high
er standard in life by having the
best education
"The educational curricula is
changing, as it is bound to do, as
the countries come into a new sit
uation. In day we have become
the world power, policies of gov
ernment have changed and policies
of education must change.
1.-TWO events have come that have
changed the whole problem of
schools. The Spanish-American
war, and the great war just waged.
We must prepare our children to
meet the present obstacles which
arise after the war.
Plea for Negro.
"A problem which confronts the
American people now is the race
problem. And the nation which has
progressed the most is the nation
to settle this difficulty.
England has developed national
unity, and France has also
progressed far along this line, but
the people of America have yet to
learn the meaning of national
unity.
1--WE must teach national unity in
our schools of today, and if we do
not, we will be always surrounded
by turmoil and strife,
81 am pleading for Americanism,
and relationship of group to group"
DR.. Fling Talks.
The main speaker during the
morning session was DR.. F. M.
Fling of the University of Nebraska,
history department, who during the
peace conference was in Paris as the
historian for the American army.
DR.. Fling spoke on the Publicity
at the Peace Conference"
You cannot imagine the Difficult
ties which the newspaper men had
to contend with, and the ways and
means they had to use in getting the
small amount of news they did GET
said DR.. Fling. "The Big Four"
after holding conference at the
start of the peace negotiations de-
eided that it would be dangerous to
allow the correspondents to be ad-
mitted to the peace conference, be
cause in many cases facts were mis-
represented, and men were quoted
as saying what they had not said.
The American government was ia
vorable to some publicity, but not
too much, he said.
Never Be Known.
"Yoh will see if you read the pa
pers that there was a surprising
amount of news that correspondents
got regardless Of the restrictions un-
der which they worked. A good
newspaper man, if he was on to the
ropes, could get inside dope, and
could also get copies of the peace
treaties before they were censored
for publication. But the main
things that were done, and the inn
portant decisions which took place
in the conference, will never be
known.
after much discussion among the
newspaper men and magazine corre-
spondents it was arranged to have
a conference between Colonel
House, Mr.. Lansing and the French
and English diplomats each morn
ing, during which Colonel House as
spokesman would give the newspa
per men the news of what was to
happen at the conference during the
day.
What Colonel House Said.
Usually in the morning, Colonel
House would walk in and say, Well,
gentlemen, there isn't much to tell
you today. perhaps something I'M
portant will come up tomorrow, and
the correspondents had to be con-
tent with this, and seek elsewhere
for news.
Much delay was experienced in
correspondents getting their news
back to America, by mail. The ca
bles were so crowded that the cor
respondents of some of the smaller
papers had to trust to the mails,
and often their papers would not get
heir news for two or three months
litter it had been sent from France
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