Evening star., 1924-03-30
Education as a Preparation
For Real American Citizenship

the Jewish boy be trained in the
faith OF his fathers Perhaps we
shall reaoh an adjustment OF these
matters when we make patr1otic
sra,nins o9Ipnlsory IN AL All n,a schools 31a,
portion Of the training under state
supervision. That appears to me to
be a reasonably fair solution of the
problem
Just now it is proposed that we
have . centralized system Of education
in Warrington. This. hold. would
involve expenditures Of public funds
in q way that would be inimical to
the old principles OF government.
know something aboutsthe Washing
ton idea. We could not have a sys-
tenn Of education centralized ir
Washington without leading to the
compulsory education of every Amer
lean boy and girl along identie
lines. Development Of such prac-
tice would Kill education along indi-
vidual lines. We soon would be train
ing the youth of America by platoons
brigades and divisions. We would be
approaching the system Of education
which the German Empire established
after the Franco-Prussian war. Those
who believe that, the purpose of edu-
cation is to give the, fullest play to
the individual, consistent with the
good order Of society. will naturally
oppose a centralized system. On tht
other hand, those who think that we
should change from the Individual tc
the mass will give hearty support
but in so doing they must frankly
avow that they are of the Jener-
sonian reservation.
There is one phase OF education
going on at the expense OF the Amer
ican people that ought to be stopped
Recent revelations in washington
have disclosed that the government
business is not being conducted py
public servants who are dsv9t,ns nf 3hai,
duties, but by trainees who are pre-
pairing themselves for private busi.
ness when they leave the government
service. The great departments In
Washington seem to be American
unive rsities, maintained at the ex.
pense Of the people to train ofncials
along business and economic lines
AS the trainees complete their course
they are picked by business concerns
and paid partly for their knowledge
ana partly IOT lHGlI )
and supposed pull. The bureau oi
internal revenue has been seriously
hampe-ed for years because OF tho
persistent lifting" by corporations
Of efficient workers.
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Government has to be tinkered with
all the while to keep it in a running
condition. Something must be done
for the future. Men must cease te
pretend to be servants of the people
when they are simply studying a.
the expense of the government Il
At themselver for future Jobs wher
they get out OF ONCE. 1t may be en-
barrassing to the faithful and con-
scientious public servant to have sus.
picion cast upon his conduct by the
enactment of legislation controlling
this evil, but 1t Is the law Of life
that the innocent must suffer alonl
with the guilty. The only way te
correct the situation seems to liz
in the enactment of a law to PRO
hibit former oficials or employees ol
the government from interesting
themselves in cases before any de
partment OF the government for g
specified period following his retire.
ment from the government service
should say that the period oughr
to be five years:
Copyright, 1924, by Twenty first Centur.
Press.)