Williston graphic., 1919-05-15
600 for administrative purposes.

600 for administrative purposes.
Section z. Appropriation Of $780,
100000 to be apportioned as specified
Section. Apportionment of $500.
900 for removal of illiteracy.
Section 9. Apprtionment of ST..
100000 for Americanization.
Section 10. Apportionment of $50.
100000 for equalizing educational
opportunities.
Section II. Apprortionment OF
$50, 100000 for physical education
insluding health education and sani-
tation.
Section ~. Apportionment Of
SIS 100000 for preparation Of teach
ers.
Section 13. Condition under which
States may receive apportionments.
Section IA. Administration of Act
by state and local authorities.
Section Is. Duties of Secretary of
Education in relation to states.
Section 16. Duties of Secretary of
the Treasury in relation to the Act.
Section II. Reports of States on
administration of the Act.
Section 18. Reports of Secretary
of Education to Congress.
Section 10. Date of taking effect
and repeating clause.
Why Should Department of Educa-
ton be Established?
A Department of Education, with
Secretary of Education in the
Presidents cabinet at it's head, should
be established in order tocoordinate
and administer more efficiently the
various educational activities of the
National Gov ernment. The Govern
ment has dealt with the subject of
education along particular lines for
several years, but it's activities are
scattered Throughout the several ex-
ecutive departments and administer
by many unrelated board, bureaus
ant divisions.
The department should be estab-
lished in order to give to education
the recognition which it's vital relat-
ion to our national welfare demands.
Issues of great Importance to the
nation, involving complex education
al problems, are continually dealt
with by the President and Congress
without the ad foeca en- en- en- fcmb
without the advice of cabinet men,
er whose sole duty it is to consider
such questions from the standpoint of
their relation to public education.
Education is represented by a cabinet
minister in the government of every
other great nation in the world.
Thee should be a Department of
Education to conduct Investigations
in the field Of education and give to
the states and the people the bene-
fits of such research. 1lliteracy can
not be removed or the American
ideals established by mere superficial
attempts. We must know the facts
involved in these social problems be-
fore we can accomplish their solution
The same is true of all our great edu-
cational matters. The National gov
ernment should furnish information
and guidance.
Every valid argument used in be-
half Of the establishment Of the De-
partment of Agriculture, the Depart
ment of Commerce, the Department
of Labor, applies with equal force in
support of the establishment of a
Department Of Education. These de-
partment were created in recognia-
ion Of the Importance of the subjects
which they represent in relation to
national welfare. Education is un-
questionably as vitality related to the
welfare of your country, and the gov
ernment is now dealing with the sub
ject of education more generally than
it dealt with the subjects embraced in
any of these departments when they
were created.
A Department of Education should
be created as a matter of administra-
tive efficiency and wise public policy.
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