Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-07
DEMOCRATIC

n surface at the meeting of the
"A National Education
ton in Milwaukee the other aaS'
One of the speakers. Guy Stanton
Ford. dean of the graduate school
of Minneapolis, under whose dlrec-
ton the Committee on Public lnlor-
nation sent more than 4O,OOO,OOo
educational pamphlets to Europe
and throughout America to cult'-
vate civilian morale in wartime
dsc,a red that ''~insidious foreign
propaganda poisoning national ldeaiS
and secret anarchy must be COM
hated by the right type of demo-
cratic education Another speaAer'
+be Director of Citizenship of n
Federal Department of Labor au-
vocated extension of the Feuerai
nlan of Americanization nroush
wide use of school houses.
Pennsylvania d at the head Oh
the Department of Public lnstruc-
zion now one who is thoroughly m
buad with the Importance of Amer
ica nization effort in the Dr'
Eineean. as acting president OF the
1-riversity of the State of New York
and commissioner of hst
March submitted to the Board Oh
Regents a table and map dealing
with the question of illiteracy anu
demonstrating that it is not a sec
tiona question. For the purpose Oh
annroaching this question in a dl-
rect and comprehensive manner
and of obliterating illiteraey within
tho next few years. DR.. Finegan
stated that New York had been d.
vided into fifteen zones, each COM
prising several counties, the taole
submitted showing the population OF
and the number of illiterates in each
of such counties. -
In his report, DR.. Ffnegan recon-
mended that provision be made for
the appointment of a director IN
each of these zones: that boards OF
estimate and apportionment; boards
of Supervisors and town boards be
authorized to make appropriation 10
aid in the work; that teachers be
employed in the several TO
give instruction to all illterates
under the supervision of the zone
director: that wherever possible the
public schools be utilized in giving
instruction to illiterates; that when
a public school is not accessible to
all illiterates classes be organized
for the benefit of those who could
not be thus reached in shops and
factories, and when found necessary
home instructors should be appoint
ed in order to reach women, and in
some cases men. who could not be
induced to attend a public school oil
a class in a factory or shop.
1t is the opinion of the present
head of Pennsylvania's school sys'
tenn that many men who have re.
turned from the service will have
an appreciation of the necessity fol
teaching illiterates and non-Englisf
speaking persons n that these mer
will gladly give their time to aic
in this patriotic work. He believe!
that all organized civic agencies il
the State should be brought int
active cooperation in the campaign
AS in New York the military census
for 1919 contains the names anC
addresses of all ~illiterates, this in
formation is available for zone di
rectors, teachers and other agencie
interested in the work.
In his investigation of the condi
tions in New York. DIR. Finegal
found that there were $4,000 per
sons in that State unable to speal
English. He declares that one 0
the most Immediately pressing edu
cational problems before the NatioI
is that of educating the adult litter