New-York tribune., 1922-10-20
Bla1nes
Politicians for
Part-Tin1e Evil
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plan that is adopted. The point that
wish to make is that the thing that
must be done at all hazards is
to find a speedy remedy for existing
ills, and it is SO imperative that 1t be
found that ] would not Daik at any
thing which could be demonstrated to
be necessary"
1t il the states dug 10 offer every
child an opportunity to make the most
Of himself, the Governor asserted. and
to that end the state must provide well
trained and adequately paid teachers
in sufficient numbers aud t must pro-
vide proper courses OF study. Doing
all this, he added, means more liberal
appropriations for education year by
year, but such appropriations must be
cheerfullys made in the realization that
money spent for education means gem
erations of better, happier, more con-
tented, law abiding citizens, truer men
and women, saner, safer government,
better state and better nation.
The rural schools problem, the Gov
ernor said, results from an antiquated
unit Of taxation and administration.
the school district. which changes in
rural life have re adered obsolete.
II think that IA our village COM
munities, large and small, because of
the right public spirit, the right local
interest and pride, and the right pride
of parents, our educational system, un-
der the guidance of the department, has
so developed that it affords the best
opportunity for those who dwell within
a reasonable radius of such villages to
secure an education. But in the more
remote districts, the more mountainous
districts, the less productive and at
tractive and therefore the most sparse
ly settled districts, the boys and girls
do not have that opportunity that is
rightly theirs to be taught by equally
competent teachers, with equally ade-
quate faclites--thc fundamentals, at
least, which will fit them the same as
the village boy or girl for a high school
course or, if ambition points that way,
for college course" -
The remedy for this condition the
Governor said the he would not under
take to state, contenting himself
merely with pointing out the evil.
which any one familiar with the CON
dltions knows exists, apd with saying
that the cure must be found.
u want to see the schools kept out Of
politics, and / want TO say to the
teachers of the state that they can do
HiuCh W keep tHelr profession Out OF
politics." he concluded. "Tha. is not
to say that every individual teacher is
not to discharge his or her full duty Of
citizenship. To fail in that duty is to
set an example which, if followed by
sufficient numbers, would be destruc-
tive to our free institutions. 1t is
right that teachers as individuals
should have their political convictions.
and that they should support them, bus
let them do so as individuals, not as a
group"
With the midweek luIl in campaign
activities caused by Governor Miller's
return here tonight to discharge his
official duty in addressing the Board
of Regents, Republican leaders have
been afforded an opportunity to take
stock.
Good results have so far ensued, ali
hands agree, from the Governors swing
through the southern tier. Miller sem
timent in Broome County, it is said,
has been strengthened by George r.
Johnsons lining himself up with the