Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-07-26
CARRY EDUCATION
into EVERY HOME
AMENDMENT TO PEACE TREATY
PROPOSED TO PROVIDE FOR
scHoouiN0.
RECOMMEND TO ALL
NATIONS HOME TRAINING
t. suggestion Made BY Mrs. Frederick
sehem, President National Congress
Of Mothers and Parent Teachers As
soelatien-Amsriea First to Adept
Home Extension Teaching.
IBy e. q. Dougherty.l

a.
[By e. g. Dougherty.l
Washington. July 26.-In favoring
the educational bill introduced in the
house by Judge Towner, representative
from the Eighth Iowa district. and
KNOWN as the Smith Towner bill, Mrs.
Frederick schoff. president Of the Ma
tional Congress Of Mothers and Par
ent Teachers Association. placed an
International angle on the measure
when she suggested that the peace
treaty be amended to recommend to all
nations that education be extended to
every household. Mrs. Schoff. who also
is director Of Home Extepsion of Edu-
cation Of the Federal Bureau Of Edu-
cation, which seeks. to teach the adult
beyond school age within their own
homes. declared the duplication Of such
| work as she Is performing by all ma
tions would be strong guarantee for
permanent peace.
} The United States IS the first coun-
! try In the world to adopt the horne ex-
!, tension teaching, Mrs. Schoff declared.
{, The scheme has been SO successful
thus far that she IL enthusiastic that
other countries pattern otter the Amer
! lean plan.
Await Expression Of Opponents.
Senator Kenyon, chairman Of the
senate committee on education and la
| Dor, who presided over the joint hear
ings on the bill just closed, said today
that no further sessions would be held
on the bill until its opponents were
ready to be heard. Invitations have
f, been generally extended for the oppo-
sition to appear, but up to this time
none have responded except thru let
tiers manifesting opposition to the
measure.
While favor for tho Towner measure,
which enlarged the scope of education
to warrant the creation Of a new fed
eral department to handle the question,
and which appropriates funds to spread
education thruout the country, has
been generously given during the
hearings just closed, some opposition
has developed.> Augustus Downing,
acting commissioner of education IN
New York state, has written the COM
Inittee that q department Of education
could not be put on parity with the
departments Of war and navy and post1
offices and thus would be without ef-
feet" Officials Of the National Educa-
ton Association, who are fostering the
bill, answer this criticism by assert
ing that the department of education
Z is worthy Of being made a parity with
the department Of labor and the de-
partment Of agriculture.
R.;s> n~:,x >e N~.A.~I
.This raises the point of control"
said Hugh Mcgnl, field secretary of the
i National Educational Association. I'VE
do not believe the government should
control education, but should only as
sist In the extension Of educational IA
cilities to all of its people. This pro-
posed department Is not to be compar-
ed to these departments which control
governmental activities. Education
ceases to be q government function
when 1t passes the point of control and
this bill does in no way provide for
such control"
Commissioner Downing declared
that the passage of the bill with its
800, 900 900. authorization would only
! open the way for the spending Of $780,
100000 and ever increasing sums in the
future. This charge was answered by
!; the National Educational Association
, by asserting that this sentiment was
expressed in, the east because the
wealth in the east docs not wish to
pay for the education Of the children in
the south and west"
Asks Duty on Corn.
To afford protection, for the corn
growers Of Iowa and other states, Rep
resentative Dickinson, of the Tenth
Iowa district, has introduced bill in
the house to amend the tariff act by
providing for duty on corn and corn
meal shipping into this country. The
bill provided:
"That on and after the day follow
ing the passage Of this act there shall
be levied, collected and paid upon all
corn, when imported from any foreign
country into the United States or into
any Of its possessions Except the PHI
ippine Islands and the Islands Of Guam
and Tutuila) duty of Is cents per
bushel Of nfty-six pounds, and on all
corn meal imported into the United
States a duty Of 40 cents per 100
pounds"
The bill was referred to the ways and
means COMMITTEES. in which Represent
tative Green, Of the Ninth Iowa dis
trict, member Of the committee, will
eadeaver to get early consideration.
THE tariff on corn" Mr.. Dickinson
4 said today, was removed in the tariff
bill of 1917. and the corn growers of
the middlewest have suffered ever
since. The imports total more than
5000. 000, 900 bushels from Argentina
Alone aud limo one is getting the benefit
except the growers in South America.
MY bill will, II passed, be Of Inn
mense value to the grain men of the
middlewest."
II Amss Gets New instructors.
Special to Times-Republican.
Ames, July 26aSeveral new APP
pointments to the faculty Of Iowa State
College for the coming year have just
been confirmed.
Robert A. Caughey, Of Pennsylvania
state College, nss neen appointed as
associate professor OF civil engineer
Ing. He IL graduate Of Pennsylvania
State College. and received his degree
If civil osYatneor In 1919 from that in -