The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1919-11-20
DIR. PENR0SE CITES
EDUCATIONAL NEEDS

The cure for America, threatened
with the cancer OF bolshevism. lies in
the correct educ alton Of the country's
young men and women. according to
DR.. L. b. Penrose. president of Whit
man College, who Sunday night gave
the initial address al Riverside forum.
I'VE have learned from the great
war;" said DR.. PenIOse, that We
have been rearing young men too
many Of whom have been physically
defective, and that eur high scools and
colleges have been teaching all kinds
of accomplishments but citizenship"
DR.. Penrose cited that the nation
had been shocked recently by murmur-
ings in support of the soviet form of
government from various American
sources. He laid this tendency in
large degree to the failure of the ma
tons public schools in the past to
grounds the boys in the fundamental
principles of Americanism. American
schools. DR.. Penrose declared, have
failed to give their students an insight
into historical reasons for American
principles of liberty.
"No American" said DIR. Penrose.
''can understand what it means to be a
good American until he first knows
what il means to be good English
man.
He declared that one must learn of
Magma Carta and the Long Parliament
before he really understands the Dec
laration of Independence.
Because the schools of the nation
have not impaired true American
ideals. the Whitman college head de-
clared, young men have come to con-
slider the soviet form of government as
democratic, when in fact. he asserted,
such a system. raising class conscious.
ness. is the very antithesis of Ameri.
can democracy.
''As soon as class consciousness be-
gins to enter into our life, said DIR.
Penrose, lust so soon will the Stars
and Stripes begin to come down."
DIR. Penrose called on his hearers to
think deeper. He intimated that
Americans had been too prone to form
their opinions from their favorite
newspaper or hearsay conversation.
1T is often far easier" he said,
to be good citizen in time of war
than in time of peace. 1t is often
easier to rally to the call to arms or
aid the Red Cross or other patriotic
movements than it is to rally to the
ballot box"
DR.. Penrose would carry compulsory
education further than the mere de
mand of boys and girls to attend
school. He would make the study of
certain curriculum compulsory. High
schools and the first two years of col
ege, he said, offered young men too
much of studies that were merely a
test in memorizing. While this might
be suitable for girls. he found fault
with it for young men students. He
criticised high school work as permit
ting too much dwadling for the keen
minded youth The cut and dried form
of study, he declared, often took away
any initiative. DR.. Penrose voiced a
opposition to vocational training in the
grade and high schools.
''The time is too precious to be
wasted on such studes." he said 1--WE
should devote it to learning that will
make the boys and girls more intellec-
tual. These vocational curriculums are
dangerous in that they may rear
among us class barrier, like the
peasantry of Germany"
DR.. Penrose also believes the Amer-
can public school remiss in moral and
religious training. leaving the boy and
girl without reverence for religious
ideals.
At the forum meeting next Sunday
night general discussion of the points
raised by DR.. Penrose will be made by
citizens of city and valley.