The Washington herald., 1921-07-07
JlJDCEBROWN RAPS
CRITICS OF PLAN
! FOR U. S. UPLFT
Defends Harding's Sug.
gestion for Federal Wei
fare Department.

Educ4tlOn emDr4ces nOfAs pnyei-
cal and vocational az well a. in
tellectual instruction. according to
the opinion expressed yesterday BY
Judge willis Brown. organizer OF
the.FIrst American Boys movement,
who suggested and assisted in the
Washington school servey for boys
who have achieved something
worth while" at the Powhatsn Hotel,
where he 10 a guest during his stay
in Washington
Judge Browns opinion on educa-
tion was voiced in opposition to the
recent statement made by DR.. A f.
winship. OF oBston. in which he said,
while commenting upon the pro-
posed establishment by President
Harding. aided by Brig Gen. Charles
f Sawyer. Of a Department Of Pub
lic-welfars IN the Federal govern
ment:
Protests wtn.hip's Statement.
The public school is not a poor
mans school. is not q charity school.
and now Gen Sawyers scheme-the
proposed Department of Public We'll
fare-would dump the public school
into a mess pot with all phases OF
charity from crippled soldiers to inn
beetles. Are there no red-blooded
Americans to protest.
In answer TO this statement. Judge
Brown said: Il make this protest:
A physically crippled soldier boy
in hospital and vocational classes is
no more a charity subject than Is
the boy OF same age who is now a
student in a State university. Both
are supported by public funds I'm
beetles may not always be Of the
mental sort. There are physical and
moral imbeciIes. Therefore all need
edfacation and care. All are edu-
Gated by public funds, on the basis
otr the public welfare and not
Charity.
TO Be Educational Department.
TDr. winship should understand
THAT the proposed Department OF
PrbIic welfare is strictly an educa-
tAonal department
-It is the restrictions which edu-
c2fors have given to the word edu-
cation, which makes IL necessary to
use the broader word of public well
fsfe to describe the greater educa
tisn. Educators in the past opposed
calling trade schools, educational
Institutions. and some still oppose
vocational education as having any
part to do with real education
Education. as defined and appIied
bx,Dr. winship and various profess
sional and official educators, means
intellectual instruction only-the de-
velppment of the mental. To them.
eddication and instruction are synon-
ymous. In fact. some of the States
dsane an official as superintendent
OF public instruction. while other
States call this Individual the super
intendent of education
isEducation, as so defined and
lodged in the public school system:
oSnthe various States. can never be
oSher than an advisory department
otilhe Federal government. for other
than in the District of Columbia the
FsSeral government has no direct
educational problems such as DR..
Wthship describes as solely pertain
ing to the public schools.
ut is because of this fact that we
have the Bureau of Education as a
rather inconsequential department
OF the Department of the Interior.
wInship Restricts Education.
~Dr. winship and his associated
educators also restrict education to
a class Of youth. and schedule these
through a graded system of instruc-
tion which is their measurement of
a public school system concluding in
State university.
ITO President Harding and his
aid, Gen. Sawyer, and to a great
number Of other folks. education en-
compasses more than the public
SCHOOLS. for it stands for human well
far~physical, moral and vocational,
al well as intellectual
sGt- Sawyer, in the position in
which President Harding has placed
HIM as his personal representative
to further the organization of the
great educational department of
government. is Illuminating the plan
Of placing all humanizing agencies
of the government under the one
proper welfare head.
tInteIIectual education applies to
an ignorant adult as well as to the
unnstTucted youth.
Moral education Is for the willful
adult as Ill as for the mistaken
child.
Physical education Is for the
crippled and MANNED, the weak and
Unbalanced. as well as for the de-
uhinstructed youth.
Vocational, trade and thrift edu-
cation is for the war veteran who
was called from his pursuits in an
swer to country's call. as well as
rqr the youth OF the public school
and the young men of the univer-
stiles.
Federal Educational Problem.
%There is an educational problem
which is Federal activity, just as
are the departments Of State War,
Navy and others. The public school
EDUCATIONAL problem is not for Fed
eral but for State supervision. All
States would protest upon the en-
croachment OF the government on
their individual systems of educa-
tion as expressed in the public
school systems
ut is necessary for the welfare
Of the whole people. regardless of
any States educational enterprises.
that the four great educational
problems be unified. Public well
fare in this broad sense is dig
nifed into a Federal department and
human welfare placed on a par with
commercial needs, foreign inter-
course or labor demands.
I'm the Department OF Public
welfare are the four distinct divi-
siens. each important in its edu-
cstional field. each with a well de-
fined department and head.
Education as defined by DR.. Win
ship is lifted from a mere bureau
ins the Interior Department to its
sgnified and important place as
. Intellectual side of the educa-
tional square called public well
fatr. This Intellectual side which