Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-18
PANlPACIFIC CONFERENCE
PLANS PRESACE SUCCESS
Administration Expects Important Re-
suits From Honolulu Sessions on
Education Next Spring.

public and private auspices, includ-
IND the extensive irrieation works
and Iand-settlement projects.
Under the board title Of recre-
alton 1t Is planned to include national
parks, their establishment and con-
troll for public service. The Hawaii
National Park furnishes a nucleus
about which the specialists from our
own country, Canada, New Zealand,
Australia, Japan, China and other ma
lions of the Pacific area may appro-
priately assemble and gain much
benefit through exchange Of expert
ences."
This letter was laid before the
Senate committee on territories and
insular possessions and the House
foreign affairs committee. where the
resolution was considered, and with
it a tentative agenda for the con-
ference prepared by Commissioner of
Education Tigert.
The main topic under the program
contemplated will be the exchange Of
educational ideas and under this head
ing will be studied ways Of bringing
about wider and more rapid exchange
Of educational thought and practice
through
Ca) Establishment and maintenance
Of centers for the exchange and dis
tribution of adequate TRANSACTIONS of
laws. DEGREES, texts. publications, ETC..
(b) Exchange of lecturers, teachers,
students. research workers and: others
interested or actively engaged in edu.
cation;
(c) The formulation of principles
and standards for credential accept
apce and evaluation.
Establishment and preservation OF
national standards for child life,
through
Care Of Mother and Child.
(a) Proper care of the mother and
the infant: S.
Oh Furnishing a certain minimum
number Of years Of instruction and
requiring the child's attendance.
(c) instruction in health habits and
provision Of proper recreation.
Making the common school common
to all through national guarantees
and laws fixing certain minima.
The next general topic Is relations
in professional training and in re-
search, under which viii be taken up
vocational education -
fa) The place Of vocational educa-
ton In the general educational pro.
gram:
o. Government plans for stimula-
ton Of vocational education. a.
Under the general title Of reclama-
ton the following VIII be studied:
(a) The social and colonizing aspects
Of reclamation;
aiding the homesteader without re-
tardiny individual Initiative;
(c) The relation Of marketing agen-
Giles to the successful settlement OF
public lands:
Phases Of Industry.
Id What Is the function Of the
State in connection with planting con-
tracts and the homesteader's dealings
with the mill or cannery at which his
product is handled. CThis would give
rise to a discussion Of whether can
neries, sugar mills, and similar manu-
featuring plants could properly come
under q phase Of control not unlike
that exercised over a public utility.
A condition bordering on this exists
in Hawaii today on the sugar planta-
lions and on some of the pineapple
areas, the outline OF the agenda ex-
plains.) f-a
lei Methods for extending public,
credit to homestead development en-.
terprises.
The final general session of the con-
ference would be on recreation, and.
under this there are four avenues OF
inquiry outlined:
(a) How to get the best and fullest
use of the parks for recreational and
educational purposes;
o. How to conserve plant and ami
NAL life in the parks;
(c) Administration and management
Of parks;
to individual effort.
Results to Be Expected.
The four outstanding accomplish
ments that are envisioned to come
from such arconference also are sum-
med up in the Senate report on the
resolution to authorize it as follows:
81 It will furnish an excellent
medium for exchange of knowledge
between the United States and the
Pacific countries on the subjects I'M
der discussion.
CD It will make clear to our Pa
ciflc neighbors that the United States
Is interested in cooperating with
them In the promotion Of peaceful
arts and pursuits.
(3) 1t will afford wider field of
service for the technical activities Of
the Interior Department.
(4) It will be instructive and highly
beneficial to the Territory Of Hawaii.
The legislation authorizing the con-.
ference allows the Secretary Of the.
Interior to extend through proper
channels invitations to "such couns
tries as in his Judgment 1t is appropri.
ate to have represented at such con-,
ference, which inSureS a compre-
hensive invitation list.
This Government win be represent
ed by the Secretary Of the Interior,
commissioner Of reclamation, commits
sioner Of education, director Of MAJ
tional parks, and a corps Of technical
experts. ~