The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-08

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which are burdening the schools
and at the same time holding up
and cutting off appropriations
and preventing the necessary
progress of educational work.
Miss Jones criticized Nicholas Muir
ray Butler, president of Columbia
University, and others who claim that
the schools are becoming 'lawless"
and are being the agents for the
spread of radical ideas. She laid the
blame on other social institutions of
the country whose opportunities for
influence on the morals Of young peo-
pie outweigh the school two to one"
Pray, Let More See Light
"Why is it taking us teachers so
long to see that the very people who
shrek against the failures Of educa-
ton are identically the same people
who are hampering and obstructing
education appropriations, in plans to
remove illiteracy, in the extension of
Misunderstanding in legislation aimed
to remove positions of the top ranks
from unethical infiuences?" asked
Miss Jones.
Then she showed that in the teach
ing of history, people who have a pub
location to sell persuade school
boards and principals to throw out
history texts and use current topics"
(The UNANIMOUSLY unfair Literary
Digest" is one of the magazines which
has forced this upon the schools.)
Miss Jones pertinently demanded:
Denounces Propaganda.
what right have they, or you, and
I, to shape the social, political, or
religious life of children on the basis
Of a study of issues and occurrences,
whose reporting is of doubtful accur-
acy and even more doubtful impair
TALLY, when we ourselves change our
point of view in regard to some Of
them with almost every issue of a
newspaper"
The president continued her report
with an attack upon the Glow motives"
which are prevalent in the applica-
lions OF vocational education. She
said that the aims of making a liv-
ing and the needs of industry" were
"selfish and debasing" as final aims
Industry has no right to demand
children trained for its engulfing NAV
nor have ignorant parents the right
to push children into that nav too
soon, altho the profits system which
gives them so little to live on forces
that action. Mis- Jones agreed that
organized labor was justified in OBJ
jecting to vocational education which
is guided by industrial needs" and
the hope of making an immediate
living.
Miss Jones has administered her
Office largely in the interests of the
classroom teachers of the organiza-
tion than so much in favor of control
from the top by principals, supervis-
ors, superintendent, and school Off
cials who too often have ruled the
N E. A.
Five Million IIIiteratesI
The startling disclosure that there
are nearly 5,OOO,UOO 1lllterateS, OF
whom over 100000 are native-born
Americans. in this country, was made
by the Illiteracy Commission of the N.
q. A. More than 100000 of these
illiterate persons are entitled to vote
in the November elections for presi-
dent, vice-president, and members of
congress. Illiteracy of parents was
asserted to be one of the main bars to
school attendance of children.
The delegates were offered resolu-
ton which would pledge the N. e. A.
to determined efforts to have states
ratify the child labor amendment
passed by the last congress. A resolu-
ton calling for national code of
teaching ethics has also been submit