Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-08-13

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, presf-
dent, Dr. Kate Campbell Hurd Mead Middetown.
Conn.
National Congress Of Parents and Teachers.
prssident MS A, II. Reeve Philade iphia soo.-
Mrs Florence Kelley New York.
National Council of Women, president, Mrs.
Philip North Moore. st. Louis
National Womens Christian Temperance Union.
president Miss Anna Gordon, Evanston, I'LL
National Womens Trade Union League presi-
dent, Mrs. Maud Swartz, New York
National Board Young Women's Christian AS
sociations president, Mrs Robert Speer, New York.
These organizations have been working for
faction by Congress creating a federal Department
of Education and providing federal aid to the
states for eradication of illiteracy for Amer
icanzation and for the equalization of educational
opportunities" 1t is understood that all the or
CARNATIONS mentioned as supporting the move
ment approve the bill amended.
DIR. John ]. Tigert, United States Commissioners 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
y. Williams reported that she had consulted the
Federal Board for Vocational Education and it
approved the bill. The American Legion
which is closely affiliated with the National Edu
action on the amended bill at it's coming national
convention. John w. Mahon, newly elected ma
uonal 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
newly elected president of the National Educa-
ton Association, believes that the passage Of
the new bill is the outstanding feature of the
associations program. 'The education bill pro-
vides for research in education" she said "Tha
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 so vitality affects every aspect
of government that it is essential that this execu
tive sit at the council table Of the nation.
surely 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. If progress is to be made
in the development of our public school system
the experience and of every locality and
state must be made available for every other part
of the country.
'"rhe members of the teaching profession are
unalterably opposed to the development of any
thing that might be remotely characterized as
bureaucratic control of education but we recog-
nze as intelligent American citizens the necessity
for more significant scientific inquiry with respect
TO objects, our procedures and our efficiency
We know the possibilities that lie in the organza-
ton of Department of Education for improving
and developing the service represented by the pub
lie school system. We believe that the American
people will no longer withhold their approval of
the creation of a Department of Education"