The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-05-14
EDUCATION REMEDY
FOR WOE OF WORLD
iNTERCHURcH PROPOSES TO
MAKE AMERICAN COLLEGES
READY FOR DEMANDS
WILL NEED 100, 900 LEADERS
More Than Half the Total Investment
in Higher Education in This Coun-
try Is in Colleges Founded by
Religious Denominations

More than half Of the total invest.
ment in higher education in the United
States is in colleges and universities
founded by religious denolnina ions
who found in America that liberty 1T
theological preferences and academic
learning which had been denied to
them in their native lands overseas.
Today half Of the 45O.OOO students Of
higher grades in the United States are
in attendance at these UNCONVENTIONAL
colleges and universities.
Upon that tremendous army equally
tremendous demands are to he made
during The next five years. demands
that trend tn restore IL American col
lrseS and universities that atmosphere
and purpose which marked their be-
cinninyS. \ world survey Of the needs
of peoples who are struggling along
without knowledge Of the teachings OF
Christianity and without training i'm
even the most rHdimentary courses Of
7 an academic education has revealed
to America her responsibility and priv
le-e. Through the 1nterchurch World
Movement the 400 colleges and uni,cr-
stiles of the 10 religious denominations
which have united ON "A program NJ CO.
, operative effort are to be required to
! furnish the majority "f the lMWN
leaders AMI workers needed. They
are the West PniHfs ana the Naval
Academies ~ The greatest religious
movement Of al time.
II is estimated that these aenomina.
,ional institutions have furnished 30
per cent of the religious leaders of the
past Are they ~ he able IL meet
the new and larger demands: No.
Unless
Unless the churches return whole.
hrar,e,l|y to thos" policies which crc-
alrd and developed the system upon
which modern American education is
based the effort will fail So serious
is the situation that in 1870 half Of
the IyMN places that must be filled IN
the United States alone every year
must he filled hy un,rafncd or only
partly trained men.
Solution OF the problem resolves it.
self in the last analyst into terms Of
money. Unless III" churches are pre-
pared 10 rNltn'i nlure than 81 for
I every so appropriated for education
by the state solution nf the problem
is Indefinitely postponed If not made
! Impossible. This proportions is caused
by the fact that The churches concen-
1ratc almost exclusively upon the col
le.eS and universities. upon the ~
students who enter college from the
] ~ T.,} Inn b.. Al
mentars schools And of the IS only
the II NH" obtain their degrees re-
.cetSe amy prolonged training
Il has been demonstrated that what
q people wouit! accomplish in their M.
tional life they must first put in the
minds and hearts Of their youth in the
schools. That the frs, exponent Of
this theory WAS a pruS>ian minister
of education does not alter The fact.
Tie colonial colleges w.r. quite as
successful in producing men true 10
type as We're the German educational
institutions prior to 1914 viii the
church colleges and universities Of to.
day prove as successful:
The 80 denominations which have
created the 'InIerchurrh World Move.
/ ment are going 10 make q determined
effort to restore the balance. Ameri.
can education is represented by SIS.
So, 4*1 in a total In,erchurch bulge,
of SS3i. 1912 which is 10 be sub.
scribed during the week of April %,
Only foreign missions and home mis-.
sions are considered more important,
by the deHominational leaders And
in both departments items for e.luca,
tional purposes bulk large.
Wherever the church of America ex.
tends its educational activities il il
possible to create Il civilization that
is Christian just as Ivy her schools
Germany made her civilization mir
tary.