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Evening star., 1932-12-24

10. 8. Weathef Bureau FUlecAStJ
Cloudy, with occasional rain tonight
and tomorrow; slowly rising temperature
tomorrow minimum temperature tonight
about 40 degrees. Temperatures-High
est, SO, at pm. yesterday: lowest, AZ, at
am today. Full report on page IL.
Evening star., 1932-02-23

Industrialists. using as their weapon
the charge that critical teachers are
reds" were blamed yesterday by Dr.
John Dewey, professor of philosophy at
Columbia University. for the notable
and lamentable" failure of the schools
to equip their students to see moral de-
fects in the structure Of society
Speaking at a meeting of the Ma
tional Education Associations depart
ment of home economics in Service
Hall, District of Columbia Chapter Of
the Red Cross. on The Economic Stu
ation-A Challenge to Education" Dr.
Dewey dealt sharply with educators and
with economists and industrialists alike
One of the chief functions of educa-
tion. DR.. Dewey declared, is to train in
dividuals SO they can see moral defects
in society and, he said, Our schools
have failed notably and lamentably in
that regard" The failure of the
schools. he contended, Is the direct re-
ton which has become increasingly
strong since the World War.
Many Induced TO Keep Quiet.
'It is 'unpatriotic, Dr. Dewey said,
ito point out or even admit that there
are any weak spots in our institutions
and habits and to suggest that there
are matters in which We might learn
from other countries. There has been
heavy pail of 'hush-hush' imposed
upon our teachers, and the easy way
for them-the way of inertia-has been
to become yes men and women"
Attacks on critical teachers, he con-
tinued. have induced many of them to
keep quiet and Ito gloss over social ills
and accustom students to believe that
Evening star., 1932-02-23
LIBERAL EDUCATION. .
NEGLECT DECR|ED
Or. Thomas E. Benner Sees
Few Colleges Teaching in
Terms of Present Needs.

"The practical disappearance" of lib
eral education constitutes one of the
greatest handicaps of secondary educa-
ton, DR.. Thomas E. Benner, dean of
the College Of Education, University Of
Illinois, declared at the meeting of the
National Association of High School
Inspectors and Supervisors at the Hotel
Washington last night.
The core of the training Of high
school teachers. DR.. Benner said, is
liberal education and lack of this core
makes effective curriculum revision in
the secondary schools an almost impos-
sible task"
There are scarcely a half-dozen
American liberal colleges which devote
themselves thoughtfully and intelli-
gently to providing an education in
terms of the conditions and needs of
the twentieth century" he asserted
The remainder of these colleges
show vestiges of the liberal education
Of 200 years ago combined with
chaotic accumulation of other ma
terials. This situation is largely due
to the dictatorship which research has
succeeded in setting up in areas in
which it should be the servant and not
the master"
The meeting of the high school in
spectors and supervisors Is one of sew
eral similar sessions being held here
concurrent with the 62nd annual con-
vention of the National Education As
sociation'S Department Of Superintend-
ence Two others are the Department
of Rural Education CT the N. E. A,
which Is meeting at the Interior De-
partment Auditorium, and the Ameri-
can Educational Research Association,
which is holding forth at the New York
Avenue Presbyterian Church.
Speaking at the latter of these con-
claves, DR.. Arthur I. Gates, professor of
education at Columbia University, said
that the reason the schools have failed
to prepare students to participate in
the social economic, civic, religious,
artistic and literary life of the time is
the magnitude of the burden of teach
ing the conventional subjects-reading,
writing, spelling, arithmetic, compost
tion, etc" The teaching of these SUBJ
jects, he said takes so much tine and
energy that little is left for accomplish
ing the broader purpose of education.
Dr. David Snedden, profess of edu-
cation at Columbia. prophesied at the
rural education meet last night that by
1860 practically all the children of
farmers will attend full-time schools to
18 years of age, and that 80 to SO per
cent will seek at least two years at
tendance en- liberal colleges
Gradual cessation of immigration from
Europe and Asia and the probable cur
tailment of immigration from the coun-
tries of Central and South America, DR..
SneGden contended. will diminish cheap
seasonal labor which will be replaced
by machines. If the young Americans
of the future are to succeed to the
farms, he said, they are going to come
to their work with far more of definite
vocational preparation than is now the
case"
Evening star., 1932-02-23

will be given for other pursuits. People
can be lulled to repose by cocktails or
motion pictures or by radio or by riding
in an automobile, but it will not last
long Our children from the time that
they are small must net only come to
understand but actually become habit
uated to the gateways to true and last
ing enjoyment 1t is matter of music
and art. or literature and drama, or
plays and games, of politics. or supple
mentary hobbies and avocations."
DR.. George B. Cutten, president Of
Colgate College, said leisure must en-
brace two qualities: First, play in or
Ger to relieve strain, and second, rec
reation to build up our bodies so that
they will be prepared to meet the
strain"
In the section on school building.
planning and construction last night,
Don c. Rogers, director of the bureau
of research and building survey in the
Chicago schools, outlined plans for the
construction of a model school building
at the Chicago World Fair this year.
The structure, the plans of which have
been in process of preparation for the
last two years, will include the modern
facilities of the modern elementary
school-library, handicraft room, kin
dergarten play room, kindergarten prof.
ect room, bath room, auditorium. gym
nasium, administration suite for prin-
cipal and clerk, for doctor, dentist, vis-
iting teacher and psychologist.
Evening star., 1932-02-23

to promote their own political fortunes
or those OF their party, or who, in this
period of distress, seek to gain tempo
rary and cheap popularity with the
overburdened taxpayers by loudly de-
nouncing the public school as costly
and extravagant-to be led first to the
sacrifice as the chief offender among
our public institutions"
AS a matter of fact, DR.. Broome con-
tended. instances of extravagance in
school conduct are rare and instances
of the improper use of funds are still
rarer.
"A nation whose people spend more
on tobacco and chewing gum than on
schools for their children cannot be
said to have an extravagant system of
public education"
Dr. David E. Weglein, superintendent
of Baltimore schools and chairman of
the Committee on School Costs, also
section Of the report which dealt with
suggested economies for the schools in
the face of the depression. This sec
ton, as well as the report as a whole,
was reviewed in yesterdays edition of
The Star
News Bureau Urged.
This afternoon the convention is sit
ting in administrative groups At the
opening of the session in the board
room of the National Education Asso-
ciation, where superintendents from
cities of more than a 100000 popula-
ton were meeting, DR.. j. M. Gwinn of
San Francisco suggested the daily press
as the logical strong advocate of a
public school system. He urged school
systems to establish news bureaus in
Evening star., 1932-02-23
TO TRAIN STUDENTS
TO FACE REALITIES, DEWEY SAYS
Declares Public Domination, Increasingly
Strong Since World War,
Is Responsible.

all is for the best in this best of all
possible countries"
The representatives Of large eco
nomic interests have been especially
sensitive to anything approaching criti-
cism of the existing economic regime,
and have pretty well succeeded in at
taching to critics of it the epithet Of
red or 'BolShevist,' so much so that
the publicity agent Of the power inter
ests is ON public record as advising that
all teachers who discuss public owner
ship favorabiy should be branded Boil
SheviSts.'
Says leadership Is Lacking.
When such a spirit prevails through
out the schools, DR.. Dewey said. it is
impossible that education should ac-
compliSh its social function. The re-
suit of this situation. the Columbia Uni
verSity professor declared. is that stu
dents go out from school 'unprepared
to meet the realities of the world in
which they live"
Referring to Standardization of
thought in America, DR.. Dewey said:
Il cannot remember a time when
collective thinking. when the ideas that
are organic to large numbers, was so
stupid. so moronic, so incredibly incom-
remark that we have a surprising alb
sence of effective leadership in the
crisis, domestic and international, eco
nomic and political"
DR.. Dewey concluded his speech with
the conviction that until schools
escape the influence of powerful out
side forces" which, he said, intimi-
date instructors, through a declaration
of intellectual independence by teach
ers," the schools cannot meet the chal-
lenge made by the economic crisis.
Evening star., 1932-02-23

order to keep newspapers advised Of
all the news In the system.
Asserting that since the public schools
belong to the people, and that there
fore they should be carried to the
people every day" DR.. Gwinn char
acterized the newspaper as the most
powerful agency for this purpose.
Other group meetings under way this
afternoon include: Superintendent of
cities with population between 100 900
and 10000, at the United States Cham
Der of Commerce; superintendents of
cities from $4,000 to 100000, First Con-
gregational Church: superintendents of
cities from 10000 to 50,000 Mayfiower
Hotel; superintendents of cities from
5000 to 10000, National Museum Audi
torium; superintendents of cities of less
than 5000. Almas Temple: city assistant
and district superintendent. Raleigh
Hotel, and county superintendents, De-
partment of Interior Auditorium.
Leisure Discussed.
Leisure provided by more efficient
industry was discussed at the third gen
eral session last night, when the theme
was the work of the National Commits
sion on the Enrichment of Adult Life.
DR.. William F. Russell, dean Of Teach
ers' College, Columbia University, de-
clared the only hope of the people in
coping with the problem of increasing
leisure is education.
We need a new kind of education" !"
DR.. Russell declared, when we are
small We schoolmasters should under
stand this world into which our pupils
go should realize that getting living
will occupy not 50 great share of time
as it once did. ana that far more time
Evening star., 1932-02-23
N. {. A. COM MITTEE
MEETS IN SECRET
Scheduled Public Session of Reso-
lutions Group Held Behind
Closed Doors.

Despite the official printed program
which scheduled for it public meet
ing" the Resolutions Committee Of the
National Education Associations De-
partment of superintendent deliberat-
ed yesterday behind very tightly-closed
doors.
Convening in the pages room Of Con-
stitution Hall, the committee rid itself
Of reporters on the pretext of desiring
ito organize" and went quietly about
the business of thrashing out the sub
jects on which the superintendents will
express their views.
Members of the committee and the
reporters of newspapers from several OF
the larger cities. including Washington,
Of course. waited IN the appointed room
fer 10 minutes after the scheduled hour.
Then DR. Paul c. Stetson. superinten-
dent Of indianapolis. Ind. schools, and
Chairman of the committee. arrived.
will the members Of the committee
alcne please remain in the room?" DR..
Stetson said. Asked if the meeting was
not to be public, he replied to news
paper men:
"Yes. but if you'll Just wait outside
for a few minutes, we will organize and
then you may come back
The reporters, seeing a chairman and
a secretary. couldn't understand what
Organization" the ccmmittee had t0 eff
feet. but they left. The doors were
closed behind them. And they waited.
After 40 minutes the reporters appealed
to Belmont Farley, assistant director Of
the division of publications, N. E. A..
who is directing the press service for
the convention. Farley crashed the
precints of the committee room
Well he said on his return, its
et1 Nf
nounced a public Resolutions Commit
tee meeting there last year and turned
around and held a closed one. DR.. Stet-
son says he took a vote and his commit
tee wants an executive session. So they
Just went ahead and-they're having
one. It's air-tight, too. because the
committee members all pledged them
selves to secrecy with respect to their
discussions"
Evening star., 1932-02-23

schools. 1t is seriously proposed that
we cannot afford the program OF edu-
cation already established. There
seems to be little appreciation OF the
fact that the need of the hour is for
a richer education to be provided for
an increasing percentage of the Ntctal
population"
The criticism that the schools have
not yet produced a people who insist
upon integritT IN their political life,
and that they have not yet attacked
seriously the issues involved in the
rapid development CT industrial society
DR.. Strayer contended, is the best argu
nsent educators have in support Of ths
need for a generously financed pro-
gram.
Commenting on demands made upon
teachers, DR.. Strayer asserted that
preSent-day instructors must be more
than mere drill masters. The teacher
he said. must be student of society
as well as student Of human nature;
he must seek to lead boys and girls
in their attempt to understand the
modern complex social life.
Our plea" Dr. Strayer said, 'is not
for the maintenance of salaries, but
rather for the maintenance and de-
velopment of our civilization and for
perpetuity of our institutions. 1t mat
ters little in the long run what any
particular teacher or group Of teachers
is paid; but we have in the support of
public education, or in the lack Of it,
the destiny of our humanity"
Fears Serious Crisis
Referring pointedly, in his conclusion,
to the depression, DR.. Strayer declared: :
Il am persuaded We are confronted
with a serious crisis. I believe we
we should go forth to proclaim to our
public the necessity of maintaining
the school service in order that we
may preserve our social inheritance I
believe we should call upon our people
to bear the burden Of taxation and, if
need be, to suffer privation in order that
We may insure to ourselves and to our
posterity, life, liberty, and the pur-
suit of happiness"
In his address on THE Crisis De-
fined" DR.. Broome said:
Our country is passing through a
serious social and economical crisis.
Shall We continue to discharge our
eternal debt to childhood and youth, or
shall We repudiate that debt or declare
moratorium which will deprive the
children of depression of the advan-
CoSCo hIiNh Cl4llSISI VI prosperity O1
right enjoyed" He answered his ques-
tionS by plea for care in any program
of economy. Citing the most common
devices listed in the school cost report,
he said, with respect to them. that
sensible educators realize the schools
must share in the general retrench-
ment."
Decries Politics.
But" he added, "the education of
the children must not be the first point
of attack, nor should the schools bear
the major sacrifice" Continuing, he
said:
Whatever retrenchments are made
in public education should be made by
the friends of children, and not by
those who would sacrifice the welfare
of the schools to serve selfish ends or
Evening star., 1932-02-23
SEEKS NOMINATION

Son of Late Representative Bow
ers Files in Martinsburg, w. Va.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
MARTINSBURG, w, Va. February
E. Bowers, son of the late
Representative George M. Bowers and
Mrs. Bowers. this city, has filed for the
nomination for the House of
Delegates from this county The county
has two delegates in the House His
late father not only represented this,
the second West Virginia district in
Congress for seven years, but prior to
that was United States fish commits
sioner for q number of years.
Evening star., 1932-02-23
PUBLIC EDUCATION
CALLED At CRISIS
Retrenchments Threaten
Progress, Dr.. Strayer Tells
N. E. A. Session.

Continued From First Page.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-24
Girl Scouts Aid
 To Santa Claus
Dolls Dressed Stockings Filled and Toys Repaired By
 Troop Members

watch them. This is what he Is watching them do:
 In many cities they are collect ing toys, food, clothes, kitchen utensils and other articles to be re- paired and sent out again. In Wa terbury the Girl Scouts have been busy for weeks, sewing, planning and working hard to do their part in making others happy. Dolls have been dressed, stockings filled, all kinds of stuffed animals have been made from scraps of material which they decided were useful. old silk stockings were turned Into dolls, cats and puppies-felt hats were used for making ducks and elephants. delft fingers sewed scraps of calico together and pro- duced appealing teddy bears. Some who did not enjoy sewing as much as the others, decided to repair toys and turned discarded air. oplanes, high chairs, dolls furni- ture, etc, into bright, shiny "as- good-as new" toys.
 Others have given their time to the making of scrap books while others are making up baskets of food to be distributed Christmas eve. Ar
 Some girl scouts have been as- sisting at the Red Cross making flannel booties and comforting un- derclothes for babies. Others have helped sort toys for various organ izatlons.
 Santa is having good time watching these girl scouts. Be- sides he Is learning a lot, and next year he'll know better than to think that money is what counts.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-24
The War Debts
 No-P artisan Issue
E. 0. GOss Among Signers
 Who Favor Settlement on Merit

Among those who have endorsed the report of the National Commit tee for the Consideration of Inter Governmental Dobts is b. o. Goss, president of the sc6vill Manufac- turing company of this city. The report has received the endorse ment of several hundred business, farm and labor leaders through out the United states.
 Tn the report is recommended that the elected representatives or the American people recognize the vital and Gcl.rate problem of war debts as . on-partisan Issue to pc settled strictly on it's merits in the Lest interests of the United states: that congress authorize such con sideration and rcadjustments of the debt funding agreement as would best advance the interests of Amer ican trade and promote the pros, perity of the American people: anu that congress extend the moratorl- ,im for n sufficient period to givc time for these negotiations
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-24
BROUGHT CHRISTMAS CHEER
 TO ST MARY'S HOSPITAL

Nearly score, of pupils from St Mary's and St Thomas parocnia.. }, schools paid a visit to stMary $ hospital last evening and sang U number of Christmas carols for tne patients. The appearance or tne youngsters was . pleasant surprise to the authorities and the patients, no advance notice having been given of their intended visit. Ine pupils under the direction .. Mrs Ernest Drufa sang siien. ., :. Mishtt" N s,,t. ro%n csme of All nethlohem. ia it Game Upon a Midnight Clear" ana "Jingle Bells" and other favorites.
 Mrs SDrufa also directed the pro ram at St Raphaei's hospital yes. terday when the childrcn or ~ John's school. New Haven. sang there. aF
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-24

Great sighs of relief. issuing from the lips of Santa Claus may be heard by ears that, know how to listen; any time these pre-Christ- mas days. Fora time 1t looked to old santa as If he would have no occasion to harness his reindeer this year, for he wouldn't do 1t just to drop things down warm chimneys and forget those showing not one wee wisp of smoke. But where to get enough to go round? He was worrying, when up sprang q corps of green-c coated girls. call ipg themselves Girl Scouts and pro- claiming themselves his assistants. All he needed, they said, was to do Q little real scouting, but if that would reduce his figure. they'd do 1t for. him, because 1t was impor- tant he should look as red and TO- tund as eyer just now with the rest of the world gone green in the face and glun. Santa Claus said they were right, and sat down to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-24
HOOVER EAWAY ON HIS FISHING
 TRIP TO SOUTH
Will Spend ifs Christmas With Old Friends and Then GO After the Fish
By HENRY r. MISSELWITZ United Press Stan CorrcspOndcnt)


 Aboard President Hoover's Spe- cial Train to Florida, Dec 24-- UP)-Presiden Hoover wearied by the demands of his office, looked forward with eagerness to-day to a Christmas with old friends and To-day fishing trip in warm, southern waters.
 The president and small party of friends were due at Savannah, Ga, at 8:30 a. m. to-day. where they were to board the yacht &c., quoia and "loaf' during leisure- ly cruise down the coast of Flor ida.
 Members of the presidents party probably will be Christmas day guests of Howard E. Coffin at his Sapeloe Island estate near Sea Island beach. Ga. They were ex- pected there Sunday afternoon, un- less plans were changed, so they might hunt and fish another day along the Florida passage.
 Spirituals and chanteys handed down by negroes since early slave days will entertain the party at the Coffin home. "Old Liverpool"
 
 Coolidge there four years ago will be on hand to greet the presi- dent.
 Wild turkey, quail, doves, duck and excellent fishing are promised us lures to sapeloe Island, set tied by the Spaniards a year after the founding of St Augustine.
 The host is among Mir Hoover's m a HN n nr ton. He was appointed to Presi- dent Hoover's naval consulting board in 1915 and later to the ad- visory commission of the council of national defense which chose Mir Hoover as food administrator
 Tho president has left war debts and Kindred problems behind and refuses to consider anything more serious than the "fishin' tackle" in his luggage. He is going to ''loaf' Lawrence Richey. his secretary. said.
 He needs rest, and his mind Is going to be free for the next 10 days--free except when ne's got q big one on the line." Richey added.
 At Savannah, Ga, the Sequola's s OTueTb WCIo " BOt uhASt Way est once, and the yacht, followed by the Kilkenney. Q boat put at the disposal of the secret service de- tail, stood by ready for the cruise.
 The first days fishing was sched- uled for somewhere not far south of Savannah. Tho plan was to cruise down tho Savannah river and the inland pass, . canal. for about three hours or so," Richey said, and then heave to and throw out the lines.
 How far south the 10 day cruise goes depends, he said. on "how they're biting and the weather"
 The presidential train carried only small party southward. The guests included Senator and Mrs Warren Austin of Vermont, Jus. tice and Mrs Harlan r. Stone, Mark Sullivan, Lawrence Richey and Captain Joel T. Boone, the White House physician.