Evening star., 1924-07-04
WORK FOR LEAGUE,
PLEA TO TEACHERS
Mrs. Gait Urges Promotion
of World Peace Through
Schools.
EDUCATION BILL BACKED
Lafayette College President Cites
Need for New Federal
Department.

Americas great body of teachers,
through their influence on the ma
tion's youth, were urged to work for
world peace and the league of ma
tions by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait
at an open air" meeting of the Ma
tional Education Association last
night in the stadium of Central High
School. A storm of applause greeted
Mrs. Cats references to the league
and peace.
The Christian nations of the
world, you will find" she said, ARE
building 80 per cent Of the statues
for war. But the time will come when
we shall see the statue dedicated, not
to warriors and things Of war, but to
great teachers and great scientists" "
schools Brought Prohibition.
Prohibition was Rot put over" on
the country, but temperance instruc-
ton was, Mrs. Gait pointed out.
while this was being DONE" she de-
clared. Il cannot imagine what the
brewers were doing. Different or
ganiZations claim now that they are
responsible for prohibition. But the
public schools accomplished it."
pciiSy VI Tic l"o HudJOT pOtlL-
ical parties in disregarding the ques-
ton of illiteracy was decried by Mrs.
Gait They do not know illiteracy
exists here" she said. 1T has been
revealed that it takes political par
ties fifty years to do the right thing
But we shall keep bounding them un-
til they do
Miss Mary F. Mooney of San Fran
cisco spoke upon the democratic
ideals of government as the class
room teachers view them. John H
McCracken. president of Lafayette
College of Easton. Pa, voiced the be-
lief that the bill providing for Il de-
partment of education under the fed
eral government would "be enacted"
National Motto Unknown.
The paper money issued by Con-
gress in 1916. before the Declaration
of Independence said Mr.. McCrack-
en-, bore on one side the motto, Mind
Your Business, and on the reverse
side the motto, I'VE are one" No one
knew at that time which was to be
the motto of our national lief nor do
we know today. e Pluribus Unum'
theory. but Mind your business DOM
mates in national practice.
If a people live together as ma
ton. they must produce a national
learning. conversely, common
heritage of national learning must
eventually produce nation. Geo
graphical facts and commercial in
terestS are not enough to produce and
maintain a nation. There must be
the cement of common ideas and
ideals.
"A community of commercial in
terests, said Renan. makes a Gus
toms union, not a nation. No school
no republic is as true maxim fol
Americans as No bishop. no king
was for King James. History knows
the army-state and the church-stAte
Whether it shall write America the
business state or America the school
state is yet to be determined.
Il am an optimist, and / think
it is true, as one text book tells US.
that America is becoming national in
economy, science. thought and cul-
ture. 1t is passing out of the provin-
cial stage of its development At
the same time we are in danger, as
President Coolidge has said. of losing
our reverence for the profession of
teaching and bestowing it upon the
profession of acquiring. One way to
correct this is to let a secretary of
education sit side by side with the
Secretary of Commerce and the Secre-
tary Of Labor and Secretary of Agri-
culture in the Presidents cabinet
Need for Learning.
"Of the American people it may be
said today. as Mazzini said of Italy
a generation ago, The worlds athirst