Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1925-11-05
PRESIDENTS PROCLAMATION
ON EDUCATION WEEK


Education is becoming well-nigh
universal in America. The rapidity
of it's expansion within the past half
century has no precedent. Our sys-
tenn of public instruction, adj
ministered by state and local Off
GERS, is peculiarly suited to our flab-
it's of life and to our plan of govern
ment, and it has brought forth
abundant fruit.
In some favored localities only
one, two or three persons in thou
sand between the ages of Is and 20
are classed as illiterate. High
schools and academies easily accessi-
BILE are offering to the youth Of
America a greater measure of edu-
cation than that which the founders
of the nation received from Harvard.
William and Mary, Yale, and Prince
ton; and so widely diffused has adj
vanced study become that the bach
elor's degree is no longer symbol
of unusual learning.
All this is reason for qualification:
but in the contemplation of worthy
achievement we must still be mind
full that full provision has not yet
been made throughout the country
for education of either elementary.
secondary or higher grade. Large
numbers have not been reached by
the blessings of education. The eff
ficiency of the schools in rural COM
munities is in general, relatively
low; too often their equipment is
meagre, their teachers poorly pre-
pared, and their terms short. High
schools, Notwithstanding their ex-
traordinary growth, have not kept
pace with the demand for instruc-
ton; even in great cities many stu
dents are restricted to half-time at
tendance, and in outlying districts
such schools are frequently insuffl-
cient in number or inadequate in
quality. In higher education the
possibilities of existing institutions
have been reached and it is essential
| that their facilities be extended o.
that junior colleges in considerable
numbers be established.
| These deficiencies leave no room
| for complacency. The utmost en-
deavor must be exerted to provide
for every child in the land the full
measure of education which his
need and his capacity demand; and
none must be permitted to live in
| ignorance. Marked benefit has come
| in recent years from nationwide
campaigns for Strengthening public
sentiment for universal education,
for upholding the hands of consti-
| tuted school authorities, and for
promoting meritorious legislation in
behalf of the schools. Such revivals
are wholesome and should continue.
Now, therefore, Calvin Coolidge,
President of the United States, do
proclaim the week beginning Novem-
| Der sixteenth as American Education
Week, and I urge that it be observed
throughout the United States.
recommend that the Governors of
the several states issue proclama-
tions setting forth the necessity of
education to free people and re-
questing that American Education
Week be appropriately celebrated in
their respective states. I urge fur
ther that local officers, civic, social.
and religious organizations, and cit
liens of every occupation contribute
with all their strength to the ad-
Vance of education, and that they
make of American Education Week
| a special season of mutual encour-
Iagement in promoting that enlight-
eminent upon which the welfare Of
| the nation depends.
| In witness whereof, have here
unto set my hand and caused the
seal of the United States to be affix-
| ed.
(Seal) Done in the City of Wash
ington on this 18th day Of Septem-
Der in the year of our Lord Ono
Thousand Nine Hundred and TweT:-
ty-five and of the Independence of
the United States the One Hun
ldred and F'iftieth.
CALVIN COOLIDGE.
By the President:
Frank B. Kellogg, (
of Gtata