Evening star., 1921-06-30
CONGRESS EXPECTED TO FAVOR
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
! Many Members of Both Houses Expert
enced as Instructors in Colleges
and Minor Schools.

principal Of a village school three
years. superintendent of the Grand
Rapids public school for eight years
and of the Toledo schools for seven
years. He has been vice president
and president of many important as
sociations of teachers, including the
National Educational Association.
Representative Edwin d. Ricketts,.
Ohio. for twelve years was teacher
and superintendent of schools. Rep
resentatve c. Ellis Moore. Ohio, taught
school six years, and Representative
Harry c. Chan taught for three years.
Representative T.. Il. Swank. Okla-
homa, taught school and was county
superintendent five years. Represen-
tative l.. NJ. GenSman, oklahoma. was
| a school principal. Representative
Willis G. Hawley. Oregon. was presi-
dent of Willamette University.
Pennsylvnnia's Quota.
In the Pennsylvania delegation are
a number of men who made a nota-
BILE success as teachers. Rcpresen-'
tative William S. Ware has been par
ticularly soliCitouS in behalf of the
public school system. He secured for
his district the first sectional high
and manual training schools estab
| liShed in Philadelphia. Representa-
tive George S. Graham was professor
of criminal law and procedure in the
law school of the University of Penn
sylvania for eleven Years. Rcpresen-
tative George +. barrow was prcsi-
dent of the twenty-second sectional
school board of Philadelphia for three
years.
Representative Clarence -. Cough
lin is the son of Il noted educator. He
himself was a teacher of literature
ana history in Fairview and Wilkes
Barre high schools. Representative
John Reber taught rural schools
RpDra . Il
trustee of Franklin and Marshall
College and Allentown College for
w omen. Representative Edgar r.
kieSs taught school two years. Rep
reSentative l. Clinton Kline taught
five years Nand for two years was
principal in Wilkes fare Represtn-
tative Samuel a. Kendall began teach
ing when seventeen and taught four
! teen years. the last five years having
been superintendent of the Jefferson.
Iowa. public schools. Henry W. Tempe
was adjunct professor of political science
and professor of history and political
science in Washington and Jefferson
college for many years until he came
to Congress. Representative Harris
j. BlNler taught four years.
representative Ambrose Kennedy.
Rhode Island was princial of the
Blackstone High School for six years
and later superintendent of schools
representative John J. MrSwain.
south Carolina. taught school in three
counties. Representative William F.
stevenson. South Carolina. taught
school several years. Senator Thomas
sterling. South Dakota. was super
lntendent of schools at ISmtnt III
for two years. He was dean of the
college of Law, State University. at
Fermilion. for ten years. Represen-
tative Charles \. Christopherson
south Dakota. was on the board of
education. Sioux Falls, for ten years.
three as president. Representative
William Williamson. South Dakota
taught several years. Representative
r. carroll Reece. Tennessee, taught
for years in the Tennessee public
schools. was assistant secretary and
instructor in New York University.
later director of the School of Com
merce. Accounts and Finance Of New
York University and instructor of
economics.
Special Instructor Mt Quantico.
Representative Lon Allen Scott.
Tennessee. was special instructor in