The Washington times., 1933-11-15

verge of physical and nervous collapse they told OF
friends who walked go blocks through sush and seet be-
cause thew hadn cents for carfare Cor may be TO- here
They noted that the occasions when they are PAID IN
taxanticpaton warrants these warrants are 10
20 per discount the day they issued so that on pay
due last February they now get only oO Genus 1or ood
A Bankers Jest
They were disappointed President Roosevelt who had
used the unfortunate word fr when speaking OF educa
tion; frills in Chicago seems now to mean everything
beyond the eighth grade of school, They appauded
Mrs Roosevelt whose attitude was that America could not
afford to throw its free education system unless we
build hundreds of free jails and insane asyums
They told me of banker who sent word that teacher
get than $25 week. when he was asked whether
my cook cam They were boiling with rage.
am not the worlds best reporter but do check up.
went out into Chicago and asked all met to tell me
whether the of the school teachers exaggerated and
what the against them and what did people think
of the conspiracy the Dark Ages in order to
keep wages The not reassurlng ABOUT
the banker and his cook told that (who had been
named to me- thought) probably wouldn't say such
thing but it quite like to say it. The idea of con-
spracy not exactly secuted but played down. one man
said he didn't think the big had intelligence enough to
carry such conspiracy through About the payments to
teachers the only mitigating circumstance offered that
the city had money The teachers assertion that the
F. c. had offered lend the city would under
take to fulfill certain conditions not denled but 1t
wasn't generally known
Other Cities Next
As say was shocked. And, seeing me bewildered my
friends pressed home their advantage: New York is
coming next And Boston and Philadelphia They are 60
ing high school down three here this winter
then slowly they'll op off those three years And it will
spread. Education is doomed in America" had been so
long away that couldn't give them data the fouryear
financing New York about which had brief re-
port, but knew it didn't matter. When came back to
New York discovered great many people talking openly
Of cutting down expenditures high schools
"A Hard Choice
The minute the school goes you longer even
with cynical lee that America offers equal opportunity
to every one You longer that America recog
nizes no class distinctions You cannot add cup to the
eighth grade" ife liberty and the pursuit of happi-
ness" Or stick it into the Gettysburg Address, You can
say that America is free country but taxpayers will not
finance swimming pools and in bak-making; but
you say that mathematics for Americans must stop
with arithmetic Too many of have heard about the
uses of trigonometry in industry.
The most serious thing is that by checking education You
break down the normal expectation of Americans that II
they themselves will not become prosperous their children
w-through education better jobs professions That ex-
pecaion has carried millions of through bad times kept
us patient and almost too loyal to noble leaders, Take
like raise barracks the streets.