Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-04
F1IJCATORS PLEAD
|A)RDECENT HOMES
|,.,osr Environment Declared
Basis Of Efficient
Schools
,rsusINe SYSTEM ARCHAIC
pa , S,og Correspondent

a. rvv. March A. 1t would
..tS 1.-TWO two. thirds of the total wealth OF
nW ,,nited min States to build decent homes
,l' .,srv Ur family in the nation.
70, r.,. us foct was brought out in last
,'s ia's .ossion of the National Congress
',s,I ;, Mothers and Parent Teacher Assc,
,.tnns, inns when Miss Julia Lathrop SAID
oa''' I,oort homes WERE the basis OF
bat u'Sch schooIs and public institutions.
decent Stbpon, %bbp chief Of the. Children s
Miss NV Washington, u. c.. spoke on
Bureau o.ion 9 responsibility to its chill
dfsn;, odpouatc income is th" basic
.drripIc in the welfare oil tne S'iLd. HI
,% Miss Lathrop:, "lhc ln'tla' l,Ins .h,ns
tala decent I,o home. There is not an INDUS
"a a " citv in the Union that mas aee
uls, bcusing. We are the last natioh
ana,yL a.sLo n' IN the housing situation.
70 pW;I;om %Ti c. Bagley, of Columbia Oni.
N," ,,r New York, said the two, great
vLnCssos velI,S Of Americas school sys-
veaArcr roro IFS rural schools and its i'm
i'% i'.,nrity Tt,' and lack of training among
UnlullN'
taGwHf,s, t.wnSc than 10000 Of our teachers, y
"id MVI 'hnyc had nothing beyond an
BE- n sSlu, .,radc education. More than
ss1o s.!nN Noo of them have not reached ma =
lS,V' many of them are sixteen to
gfilH,.,,o ycors old. 1t is to such as
ssu.',bb ,nb;,dren are entrusted for train
ivs in citizenship
Only 600 School Hours In Year
nrho average child has only 10, per-
favor days of schooling year.
raE in tho school at the most only
hy Sonrs n day. Hence he gets not
@ norc than 600 hours schooling n year
.DJ ,"i' ono.haf our children receive only
4, or seven years in pubic schooi' OF
ioOO hours Of education. III,
fI0T fI"Tnti nil we have done away with our
..,hoic svstcm Of licensing teachers, th'
.n"n 'I.,o,n will nor be bcttered. 1t permits
s..yoms [m to enter the profession through
w. bock door. College population has
M u1rsr born so great as today, but nor =
T,I acSool enrolment is much less. be-
.,n,S .," il hns not insisted upon astutC
,.,iripg rs n prerequisite to teaching.
"T Ne Raglpv took exception also tc
,rbic Schools in which the English
om",ooo yas uScd only as one OF the
ams"aSc ans" studies. lie told Of one school
IL whose fourth grade language book,
nrintcd in a foreign tongue, was tins
sentence Your first loyalty is to tht
.onrtrv of vour fathers. Your second
Ioyaltr is TO the United States.
"a believe it is good thing that
no have n drccntralizod puDlic Schoo
srstc,n that there is no federal author
H. Eut we need to think of eduCa
,on in national terms and to work out
mony yolutionS on u nation wide basis
Wp nrod national system without fed e
eroI control. We need to develop pub
Ii orinion So as 10 remove the menace
T Htitrracy. We need national con
science in regard to education.
Curiosity Murdered" in Schools
Parents PVT 80 much stress on Just
having children in school they are APT
10 overlook what happens to them after
,hc SrhoolrNom door closes upon them
in thr opinion Of Miss Julia Wade Alb
bolt. " the United States Bureau I"
Education. Washington. ID. {. Miss
Abbott spoke ou what the school owc'
the child
1T has been said. she pointed out
that murder is committed every day
in orr c'cmru'arv schOulS-thC murder
NJ curiosity. livery child comes t'
school an interrogation mark. But tn,
schools Srom NOR" interested in quota
ton marks. The duty Of the schools Il
moi Iu congratulate themselves on hav
ing dull, quiet pupils. but to arouse