The daily Alaskan., 1922-04-15
Continued from page 9 MARY MORRISON ON
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against Mary's contentious, let me refer Mary and hel sympathizers to an illustration near home. The schools of Alaska, our school in Skagway. and probably Mary's school in Anchorage, receives terri torial money to aid in carrying 1t on. We have a territorial superin- tendent of education, Mir. Lester Henderson. Since his inauguration he has had general supervision of the schools in the territory. He has advocated and urged certain gener- al provisions to make the schools of the territory uniform in their meth ods. books and courses of study This has been generally helpful, and is considered in the line of progress. Much more can be expected in the future under h.s wise leadership. Has he hired any teachers? Has he imposed on any local school board unfit teachers or favorites of his? Is not our local board free if 1t chOos- es to change courses, etc? Champ Clarks "nigger in the woodpile" bugaboo was urged against the es- tablishment of our territorial edu- cational bill, but the actual opera ton of the provisions of that meas ure IS uuquestiouably and almost universally acknowledged to be eX- celIent
 The provisions of the Sterling Towner bill provide a cabinet dig nity to education on a par with com merce, foreign relations. labor. etc One secretary ir the Presidents cabinet who will coordinate the var .ous elements in our more or less loose educational program We now have a governmental bureau of edu. cation, this bureau will be taken over by the new department, and the officers of that bureau will be ofic- CTS in the department of education See Sections 3 and 4.
 Section reads: That it shall be the duty Of the department of edu- cation to conduct studies and inves- tigations iu the field of education and report thereon. Research shall be undertaken in lA) Hliteracy; (Bl immigrant education. co public school education. and especially TUT al education; (D) physical educa- I.tion, includ ng health education, re- creation and sanitation; (El prepar- arion and supply of competent teach CTS for the public schools; and (F) in such other fields as, in the judge ment of the secretary of education. may require attention and study" Section 2 provides for an appro- priation of $1OO,OOO.OOO to len courage the states n the promotion and support of education"
 Section provides that three for tieths of the SIOO.OOO.OOO shall be used for instructions of illiterates of ten years and over. This shall be apportioned 10 tIe states accord ing to their illiteraje population.
 Section g provides the same pro portion Of that fund for the Amer
 canization of immigrants.
 Section 10 provides that one-half of the S10O,OOO.OOh shall be appor- toned to the states to encourage them to improve their educational opportunities. It IS to be used for public, elementary and secondary schools for partial Eayment of teach ers' salaries, for providing better in struction and extending school terms" etc, etc. This section also provides the following: Tn order for a state to share in this fund, the state must establish and maintain the following requirements: tA) a legal school term of at least 24 weeks in each year for the benefit 1 of all children of school age in such | state; (B) a compulsory school at tendance law requiring all children ] between the ages of seven and four teen to attend SOME school for at least 24 weeks in each year; co a | law requiring that .he English Ian guage shall be the basic language | of instruction in the common school brances in all schools, PUBLIC and PRIVATE"
 That there is created no eduCa- tional tyrany operated from Wash ington is clearly demonstrated by Section 13, paragraph 8, which reads: "A state may accept the pro- visions of any one or more of the apportior ments authoriz- ed in sections s, g, 10, II and 12 of this act, and may defer the aCcep- tance of any one or more of said