Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-08
BISHOP GAMBLERS MESSAGE

immensely rich educational boards
was chartered by congress the Pc
riodical known as the Outlook" SAID
of it:
with this financial power in
itsocontrol, the general board is
IL position to do what nobody In
this country can at present, even
attempt. 1t can determine large
ly what institutions shall grow,
and in some measure what shall
stand still or decay. 1t can look
over the territory of the nation,
note the places wnere there is
. a famine of learning, and start
new educational plants of any
species it chooses, reViv1ng old
ones. 1t can do in many ways
what the government does for
education in France and Ger
many. Its power will be enor-
nous; it seems as If it might
be able to determine the charac-
ter of American education. The
funds it holds represent only
a fraction of the amounts which
it will control; by giving a sum
to an institution on condition
that the institution raise an equal
or greater amount, it will be able
to direct much larger amounts
than it possesses"
opOIL IIlS SOUJSCL d
the time, in an article which L pub
lished in the Journal, 1 said:
ct h e General Education
Board in the final outcome may
adopt the suggestion of Mr..
Charles A. Gardiner, of New
York, which is really the logical
conclusion from the premises of
federal aid to education. He ad-
Vocates endowing 1.-The National
Rl11 NfI - Il
visory powers SO that it can
make education compulsory, fix
the courses of study, and direct
instruction in any channel--in-
duStrial, intellectual, moral, or
religlous-that the citizenship of
any locality may particularly re-
Qaire."
The bill now pending in congress
II 1t should become a law, will lead
to this result, and, then we may ex-
pect these great foundations, with
their heavy endowments and power
tuI influences, to control the an
polntment of the secretary of edu-
cation, and to do much elst in the
direction of the directing and deter
mining the character OF education in
the United States. The bill now be-
Tore the congress provides a handle
Tor them to use for the doing the
very thlng which the Outlook said
one OF them would do.
ears ago there was before the
congress an educational measure
known as the Blair BILL 1t was
defeated by the great statesmen of
that period, prominent among those
VINO were opposed to it being that
able and noble man Hon. William l..
Wilson, of West Virginia.
IN many respects the bill now be-
lore the present congress is more OBJ
Jectlonable than the Blair bill" 1t
also should be defeated as the Blair
bilP' was defeated.
Nothing could be worse for our
country than the naturalization of
education" with a cabinet minister
at Washington supervising it.
In connection with all the meas
ures to make appropriations from
the national treasury for education,
and for other things needlessly. the
people should bear in mind that
there can never be in the treasury
any money which is not taken from
the pockets of the people. To carry
1t from the people into the treasury
costs much and to get It back to the
people costs more. The administra-
ton of a cabinet office is expensive,
and all his subordinates are paid,
there will be less money left for
the work Of education and for all
other interests of the people.
The federal government has been
collecting from the people far toe
much money of late years. 1t is
time now to return to the sound doc
trine that no more taxes should be
colIected from the people than are
necessary to carry on the govern
ment economically administered. The
day of extravaganza should be
brought to an end There are enough
executive departments at Washing
ton, and another is not needed, GER
ta1nly not a secretary of education,