The New York herald., 1921-01-02
Topic of Live Import
Sanctioned by Board
of ofEducation---Wide-
ly Known Persons
Consent to Act as
Judges in Contest

been an agency of oppression rather than
uplifting.
"The loose speaking and often wild
speeches of the radicals on our street COR
ners, the hastily devised remedies for social
evils which appear so frequently in our
newspapers, the general interest of boys and
girls of high school age who are in all move
ments which aim or purport to aim at the
Improvement of industrial and economic
conditions, and who, therefore. are fire.
quently brought into contact with those
theories of social amelioration or even social
overthrow which ore not based on expert
ence and which are not the product of close
thinking have brought home to us during
the past few years that we have been dere-
ct in our duties as teachers in allowing our
boys and girls to be graduated from high
schools without such systematic training in
economics as to give them some understand
ing of our industrial conditions, some knowl-
edge of the forces which control mems ac-
tions in industry such training as will keep
them from hastily subscribing to half baked
theories and from Joining in movements
which are subversive of the orderly develop
ment of society.
The Board of Superintendents has. there
fore, this past year made economics for five
periods year i'm the fourth year require
ment for graduation from all four year
classes and has made it q requirement also
for the three year commercial course. All
students graduated in 1920 will. therefore,
have had a course In economies"
Study of Economics to Begin
With Government of the City
The outlines of study prepared by the
Board of Education for the study Of eco
nomics is regarded by authorities in educa-
tional matters as of the highest value. 1t Is
the aim of these civic courses to begin with
the government of the city itself and gradu-
ally to unfold the relations OF the local com
munity to the State and the nation.
The Simonds prize to which Mr. Tildsley
refers Is a contest inaugurated for the bene-
fit of students of all high schools through
out the United States FOR special study OF
the economic theories of Adam Smith. the
British economist, which has been sup
piefffented for the benefit OF high school
pupils in this city by Clarkson Cowl, well
known merchant Some of the special read .
ing recommended for those taking part In
the contest would be OF value for the eco
nomics prizes offered by THE New York
HERALD.
Pupils who have taken up their high
school economies, however. In the regular
courses have an ample foundation for the
contest which Is now So busily engaging
them The text books and lectures in those
courses could well be supplemented by a
close reading Of the current news and OF
magazine articles.
The announcement of the terms OF THE
New York HERALD contest was received with
much enthusiasm by the high school pupils,
and many of them have been gathering IN
formation during the holiday vacation which
comes to it's close tomorrow The indications
are that the competition will be the most in
teresting Of the kind ever held In this city
and the effort to gain its rewards and honors
unugually keen