The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-15


 Both the main auditorium and the balcony floor were filled to capacity. to hear the national leader of educa- ton, and pr. Charles AicKenny, president of the Michigan state Nor maj college, present their respective appeals for the purchasing of more education and the inauguration of better schools.
 Choosing for his subject, Selling Education", Commissioner Tigert, de- clared that education was the great est factor purchasable in American business life today, and very uniquely illustrated the point, in referring to the manufacture of Ford cars, in Detroit, where with . meager outlay for raw materials, technical skill and trained minds produce, or cause to be produced, the finished product that sells for a hundred fold more than the actual cost in manufae- ture.
 Education Sold.
 Education has not been generally sold, and there is a great need for more interest on the part of the edu- oators to create the incentive to back Ahe progressive educational movements now being planned" as- serted the speaker, who urged that II e9 AAhNh dIlu enthusiasm would be eXerted on the floors of Congress for educational appropria- tions, and public sentiment was back of that to threaten the tenure of the representatives of that public sentiment, as is the case with the support of agriculture and the like, the sufficient federal support would be forthcomine
 very graphic picture of the travel of raw materials out of this and oth- CT states, to northern and eastern industrial centers where brains as he expressed it, are combined to produce wealth, was painted in en- phasizing the importance of the people here really appreclating val ues, as they exist.
 Severe Censure.
 Severe censure was expressed against the still prevailing habit In Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky. the native state of the commissioner, of sending their vast resources of coal, lumber, tobacco, cotton and other raw materials 10 other states without even placing a tax on them, to say nothing of the opportunity being lost in purchasing sufficient technical knowledge to develop them ourselves. Were contributing too much to the wealth of other sections. at great and unnecessary expense and loss to ourselves, by not appre- clating the value of education,s was the charge then presented.
 speaking along more optimistic lines, Mir Tigert stated, in his con ciuding remarks. that he was glad as an American and true southerner that We were possessed with great CT national ability than any other people; that the American peon1e were becoming stirred to fuller realization of not only indiyidusl values but also the, national power to be gained herewith, and that hv pressing on to perpetuate the awak- ening, along educational lines. brought through the noble sacrifcles or those who fought and died on Ioreisn battlefields, education. free 10 all' new birth of freedom. and the preservation of a government of the people for the people and by the people, may be ours"
 McKenny Speaks
 Treating the practical and vital question. to our national. as well as community life today of Can Amer iea Afford Good Schools pr. Me Kenny first asserted that with the changes constantly taking place the term good schools" has a new con nation with the incoming of each generation, and In fact every decade. The old order changeth, giving place to the new"
 Humorous reference was made to the old order. consisting of the OK team, now replaced by the Ford" es- pecially in the speakers native state, and the former means of building construction among schools and the crude methods of education that went hand-in- hand, which have changed with expanding needs and demands.
 The schools as they stand today, with the phenominal increase in at tendance, broader and richer curri- culum along scientific. industrial, cul- tural and hygienic lines, show con cretely what the public. as school pat rons demand that the schools should be- declared pr McKenny, who illus trated further that the schools be- longed to the people, as was evidenc- ed by the nationwide responses made since the recent war.
 School system
 In answer to the question as to where we can get the money to build up and sustain an adequate school system that, will enable us to realize the ideals of American democracy, Dr. McKenny stated that education and more of it, was the solution, flor money spent in the betterment Of sscbools is a richly paying invest ment" he asserted; because it gives a knowledge and mastery of the