Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-05-07
NEW AGENCY URGED
REINFORCEMENT
IN THE SCHOOLS
DR.. Judd Addresses Educa'
tors-Dr. Strayer Also
Speaks Today.

agency 10 encourage ana compel pro-
gressive improvement in the public
schools of the nation was advocated
by DR.. Charles H. Judd, director Of the
| school Of education of the University
of Chicago. at the opening session to-
day of the third annual meeting of
the American Council on Education
at the Cosmos Club More than fifty
leading colleges and educational in
stitutions Of the country were in at
tendance.
A correction of teachers salaries.
which he believed to be the most
urgent call of the times" and an ade-
quate education for negroes Of the
southern states also were urged by
DR.. Judd.
Up to the present time" he said.
I'VE have had a very loose policy in
regard to teachers salaries and we
are reaping the reward in these times
OF stress of generations of neglect of
economic fundamentals.
The new department of education
can render no greater service than
to attack the problem of helping the
states to set up new and sound
public policy in these matters. The
setting up of sound policy certainly
does not mean palliating the present
evil in any trivial way.
There are other national problems
of financial type which are urgently
in need of wise solution. We are not
adequately educating the negro in our
southern states. The civil war left the
south financially incompetent to cope
with what is evidently a national
problem. The untoward results of our
past national policy in this matter
have been brought acutely to our
thinking during recent months through
the effects of negro migration to
northern commercial and industrial
centers.
ut cannot be denied that We should
formulate a new national policy in
regard to support of southern edu-
cation. This ought to be the task
Of some strong federal agency,
backed. il need be. by adequate fed
eral support"
DR.. Stfayer Discusses Bill.
DR.. George D. Strayer. professor
of school administration of the
versity, discussed the Smith-Towner
bill, now pending before Congress.
He called attention to the fact that
this measure had not only received
the unanimous Endorsement of the
National Education Association. but
that it had been approved by the Cen
eral Federation of Women's Clubs. the
American Library Association, the
Nationai Congress of Mothers and
Parent Teachers Associations. the
American Federation of Labor and
numerous other organizations.
Dr. Strayer suggested that the OBJ
lection to the creation of depart
ment of education on the ground that
it would involve control Of education
by national government was not well
founded. He pointed out that the
Smith Towner bill expressly provides
that all Of the schools aided by the
provisions of the act. shall be or
panized. supervised and administered
BY the legally constituted state and
local educational authorities OF SAID
state"
In concluding his remarks. DR..
Strayer appealed to the council to
stand with Overwhelming majority of
the friends of public education to
support the Smith-Towner measure
which, he said. lis the only bill now
before Congress which g uaaMraee
ment for public education in the
United States"
Educational Organization Needed.
Relief that the educational organ
ization of the country must be the
means of placing emphasis on the
moral and spiritual values which are
ultimately determining factors IN
nations history was expressed by Dr:
John II. MacCracken, president or
Lafayette College, in presenting the
report Of the Committee on federal
legislation Of the council. DR.. Mac
Cracken also suggested that educa-
ton should be recognized as Of equal
rank In the councils of the nation
with that accorded commerce., labor
and agriculture. all Of which have rep
resentatives in the Presidents cabi-
net
The session this afternoon will be
taken up with an address by former
Secretary of Interior Lane and prom
inent educators, including DIR. Charles
Il. Mann, chairman OF the advisory
board. war plans divisions of the gen
eral staff, and Or. William F. Will
loughby, director of the institute OF
government research. The sessions
will conclude tomorrow after reports
are made by various committee chair
men following the election of officers.
Among the Washington delegates
attending the meeting are f.. j. Nc
Cormack of Catholic University. A. o.
Neaie, bureau of education; G. F. Zook.
bureau Of education. and Mrs. Theo-
dore Cole Of the Association of Col
legiate Alumnae Of the Century Club.