Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-30
SHARP EDUCATION
REFORMS FORESEEN
Or. Clark Of Columbia Tells
Socialists of FaIIacies
and Low Pay.

DtAulS, LII. f1AIOlu r. Cl1rk OF COiuu1~
bia University told the American
Sociological Society today.
American educators. he said, have
gone on implicitly crediting a statistical
falsehood that education pays, regard
less Of kind, and that the, college,
trained man generally has a better In
come than others. While statistics may
show this, he insisted, the fact that the
average college man has Weather
parents and that much Of his income
superiority comes from inherited Securi.
ties or pull" Is constantly overlooked.
In some cases, he said, higher education
may result actually In lower income.
1t could be shown Statistically, DR..
Clark pointed out, that nearly al boys
who attend expensive private schools
or Summer camps have larger incomes
in after life than boys who do not, be-
cause boys who must make their own
way In the world seldom 60 to such
places.
Training to Be Necessary.
It will be necessary eventually, he
said, to train only such men as are
actually needed in various lines of work,
based upon exact statistics of needs.
In this way there will be no more
overcrowding OF neids, and equal anil-
ity will command the same pay In every
line, because there will be equal de-
with this, he predicted, viii come
complete free public education, even In
the higher professional grades for the
protection Of the public, because II any
line Of work commands from the pub.
lie an especially high price It IS to the
public interest to level 1t down By put
ting more men in the field.
The schools today, he said, are badly
rvercrowding certain occupations and
neglecting others, partly because they
have no information on actual needs.
The new type Of education, he said,
"may abolish unemployment and pow
erty."
FaIIacy Pointed Out.
That alternating sharp waves Of de-
preston and imitation are Inherent in
the structure Of industry is O fallacy,
said DR.. Carl Snyder Of the Federal Re-
serve Bank Of New York, speaking be-
fore the same group. Throughout Amer
lean history, he said, statistical curves
show a steady, almost uninterrupted, In
dustfial growth, with occasional slight
variations above and below the line.
This has been the case, he pointed out,
even in periods Of great business depres-
sion. This proves, he said, that the
cause of these depreSsions can be traced
the future can be controlled by . more
enlightened system Of banking.
College trained women have practi-
cAlly as large families as their less edu.
Gated sisters, said Wfllystine Goodsell
Of Columbia University, as the result
Of q, statistical study. The comparison
Of two approximately equal groups
shows. she said, that while the size OF
the families Of college women Is very
slightly less, the birth rate actually 10
larger, based upon years Of married
life. The FIGURES show, she said, .
marked tendency to O controlled birth
rate in both groups and that college
training has very little TO do with It.
Financing Of medical care is becom-
ing an increasingly dimcult problem
in family economy. said Niles Carpen-
ter Of the University Of Buffalo, de-
manding Q more effective economic
organization Of medical care. The
poorer the family, he said, the more
illness, while the family physician Is
disappearing and sickness demands
more and more expenditures for the
specialist and the hospital.
The Sociological Society this morning
elected ofncers for the coming year.
The following were chosen: Prof.
Carolina, president; Z. H. Sutherland,
University of Minnesota, FIRST vice presi-
dent; Prof. Dwight Sanderson, second
vice president; Prof. Z. w. Burgess,
University Of Chicago. reelected secre~
tary-Teasurer. Two members, Mrs. W.
F. Drummer and r. Stewart Chaplin.
were elected to the executive committee
Capital Grouping Plan.
A future Washington made up Of .
grouping Of community "cells' Is now
contemplated, Charles w. Elliott Of the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission told the sociologists yester-
day.
Each cell will consist Of . nucleus Of
from is to 20 acres. with athletic fields,
Fairgrounds, swimming pools and COM
n1unity buildings serving Q radius Of
about three-fourths OF mile, with aux
Iiary nuclei Of from two to I'VE acres
probably about the elementary schools
The central social nucleus, he said, Is
nearest represented by the New Eng
land common, In the center Of each
village. Each "celr' on the map viii
have somewhat the appearance Of .
spider.
The commission q now determining
the natural location Of these nuclei,
around which the cells win normally
group themselves. There will be ap-
proximately as Of them within the pres
emit city limits. It viii be impossible to
follow the territorial groupings Of citi-
zens' associations and present connmu-
nifty centers, whose territories have been
marked on without much regard for
sociological laws.
Boundaries Of Cells.
The commission, he said, now Is try
ing to determine the natural boundaries
Of the cells, which. as In the case Of
biological cells, will be IRREGULAR In
shane TrbA nikxy sIn<v,n va,,vatA,, - - ,Ana.@
ed out is normally delimited by certain
physical features, such as railroad yards,
cemeteries, groups of institutional build
ings and main arteries with street car
lines. Under the original checkerhoard
plan Of washington every street was
OF equal importance, but this theory
must be cast aside In favor Of the eel
lular development, with certain streets
set aside as trafnc arteries and others
for quiet residential development.
In the past, he said, 1t has been as
sumed that the main artery, with its
street cars and stores, is itself the COM
mun1ty center, but observation of the
social behavior Of the people shows that
exactly the opposite is true. The nor
NAL cell" lines never cross such a
street.
One Of the cell centers such as Is pro-
posed for the whole city, he said, is
approximately represented in lexington
with the grouping Of the new Mckinley
High School, junior high and an ele-
mentary school and sufficient land for
the other community activities. Enough
land has been purchased for another
in the Takoma-Manor Park area. Once
the cell structure Is established, the
growth Of the city will consist simply
Of adding cells.
Associations on Increase.
The citizens associations Of Washing