The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-06

these practical bills too, are finding
Il more and more difficult to get q
hearing in congress.
The domestic science bill made
strong appeal to women when it was
discussed at committee hearings last
winter 1t provides an appropriation
to be spent in the states TO promote
the study of home making. The pro-
portion of women who cook, sew, and
shop by instinct is said to be appalling
We go along following the old theory
that mother learned to make good
bread and to distinguish cotton from
wool by long practice, and therefore
daughter can do no better than follow
in her footsteps and learn by expert
ence. This seems an old-fashioned
| idea, but it holds in innumerable fam !
| lies.
/ Teach Women to Work
| The congressman who introduced
| the domestic science bill, however. be-
| lieves that girls and women, who are
| housekeepers or expect to be, can save
money and health by learning facts OF
their business at school, Part of the
appropriation is set aside to be used
| for women who work. That is. the
classes established by the fund must
! be part time or night classes This
proviso was made in the hope that the
classes would benefit girl who have
never before had an opportunity of this
sort opened to them.
| Compared with the half million a
year asked by the domestic science
bill, and the half million to finance
| the national university for two years
! the bill for the Department of Educa
ton demands a heavy appropriation
1T is, therefore, doubly handicapped
! The appointment of a secretary oil
education to be a member of the Presi
dents cabinet is a part of the bill
that has been featured. There are
a number of other important pro
visions, however, in which various
sums of money are set aside for educa
tional advancement.
Thus, $7,500,000 is provided for over
coming illiteracy. to be distributed tC
the states according to the percentage
of illiterates in each. A similar sun
is named for AmericaniZation work, Il
be distributed to the states accordins
to the number of their foreign-bor
residents. Fifty million is provided
to level up" opportunities in public
schools, especially rural schools. Tween
ty million is to be used for physica
ieducation and instruction in principle
of health and sanitation; and fifteel
million for training of teachers in tn
= states.
1t is expressly stated that each stat
e is to administer its share of the fund
= according to it's own laws. The school
of the country are not to be put unde
= federal control through the creation
of the Department of Education. TIL
report of the house committee on edI
, cation explaining the bill says tina
= the secretary of education is denie
the right to establish standards or t
| exercise any power over the cOnduc
/ of the schools. All details with II
= spect to courses of study, plans an
: methods are left entirely to the states.
1t is pointed out that the treasur
; would not be called upon to surrende
/ the entire amounts mentioned in thi
/ bill, because, in order to obtain it
: share of each fund. state is require
t to double its appropriation. If then,
= state is not interested in reducing I'LL
/ eracy or in promoting physical educ;
ton, or if it is pressed for funds,
= simply forfeits the allowance for tn
! year, and the money remains in tn
5 treasury.
/ Last year the committee approve