Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1925-08-21

American Federation of Teachers, president Miss
Florence Rood Minneapolis.
American Home Economics Association, presi-
dent, Miss Alice N Blood, Boston
Council of Women for Home Missions, president.
Mrs. John Ferguson, New York.
Medical Women's National Association, presi-
dent. DR.. Kate Campbell Hurd; Mead. Middetown.
Conn. @sstsfaa
National Congress of Parents and Teachers.
president, Mrs. A. H. Reeve Philadelphia
Mrs. Florence Kelley, New York.
National Council of Women, president, Mrs
Philip North Moore st. Louis
National Women's Christian Temperance Union.
president, Miss Anna Gordon, Evanston, Ill
National Womens Trade Union League presi-
dent, Mrs Maud Swartz, New York
National Board of YOUNG Womens Christian As
sociations. president, Mrs Robert Speer. New York
These organizations have been working for
faction by Congress creating federal Department
of Education and providing federal aid to the
states for eradication of slliteracy for Amer
icanization and for the equalization of educational
opportunities" 1t is understood that all the or
ganizations mentioned supporting the move
ment approve the bill as amended.
Dr. John ]. Tigert United States Commissioner of
Education, who delivered an address at the
National Education Association meeting said that
the new bill would secure the united support of
the school people of the United States. Miss Char
o. Williams reported that she had consulted the
Federal Board for Vocational Education and 1t
approved the bill. The American Legion,
which Is closely affiliated with the National Edu-
cation Association In many ways, will take
action on the amended bill at its coming national
convention. John w. Mahon, newly elected ma
tional commander of the Disabled American
Veterans, has given out these aims of his or
ganization: "A supreme effort to have wounded
veterans given vocational training. A fight against
proposed absorption of the Veterans Bureau in
the projected Department of Education and
Relief.
Miss Mary McSkimmon of Brooklne, Mass. the
IF National
ton Association, believes that the passage of
the new bill is the outstanding feature of the
associations program 1.-The education bill pro-
vides for research in education" she said 'That
furnishes the means to the end of educational
progress Higher qualifications for teachers. in
creased participation of teachers In school pol
icIes and all the other progressive movements in
the field will be furthered by the creation of a
federal department"
Efficiency and economy demand that those
agencies in the Federal Government dealing with
education and distributed among the several
executive departments be brought together under
a single executive" said Doctor Strayer, In an
address to the National Education Association
meeting Education vitality affects every aspect
of government that 1t is essential that this
tive sit at the council table of the nation.
Surely no one who believes in our public school
system can object to the development of an ade-
quate fact-fnding and Notwithstanding agency In
the Federal Government. II progress is to be made
In the development of our public school system
the experience and successes of every locality and
state must be made available for every other part
Of the country.
THE members Of the teaching profession are
unalteraby opposed to the development of any
thing that might be remotely characterized as
bureaucratic control of education, but we recog-
nize Intelligent American citizens the necessity
for more significant scientific inquiry with respect
10 our objects, our procedures and our efficiency.
We know the possibilities that lie In the organiza.
ton Of Department of Education for improving
and developing the service represented by the pub
lie school system. We believe that the American
people win no longer withhold their approval OF
the creation OF Department Of Education"