Evening star., 1934-05-22
ADULT EDUCATION
PUBLICITY URGED
Issue Is Discussed at An
nuaI Meeting of American
Association.

AQulG eQuCdllOn Is DdOlY III Ueeu Vi
more publicity, leaders of the Amer
lean Association for Adult Education
decided at an informal discussion
which marked this mornings session
of the associations ninth annual con-
vention at the Shoreham Hotel.
The movement can best function
through publicity channels, the edu-
Gators said, holding that these chan
nels are not as wide open to them as
they might desire. Take organized
base ball, for instance. they said
there was something which owed its
prosperity and possibly its existence to
the publicity it receives in the daily
newspapers. If only the adult educa-
ton movement would receive any
where near the lineage devoted to
base ball. it would go forward with
giant strides, said the school men,
Section Meetings Held.
After the general discussion the con-
vention broke up into section meetings
devoted to specialized subjects.
One section was devoted to museum
and art education" Thomas Munroe
curator of education, at the Chicago
Museum of art. protested against the
usual methods in sociological art
study.
The thinness and vagueness of
much sociological talk about art" he
said, lis due to the fact that sociolog-
lists have never learned to see and
understand the structure of the works
of art they discuss"
Speakers and leaders in other
groups included Scott Buchanan, pro-
fessor of philosophy at the University
of Virginia; Spencer Miller. jr-. sec
retary of the workers Education
Bureau of America John ErSkine
chairman of the New York City ad-
justmcnt service; Jerome H. Bent
ley, director of that service; A
T. Pofenberger, professor of psy-
chology at Columbia University,
Frederick P. Keppel president
Of the Carnegie Corporation;
Philip N. Youtz. director of the Brook
lyn Museum of Arts and Sciences;
Franklin F. Hopper, the New York
Public Libraries chief Of circulation;
John Hope. president of Atlanta Uni
verSity; Alain Locke. professor of phi
losophy at Howard University; w. M.
Lewis. president of Lafayette College;
Ralph A. BealS, assistant to the dl-
rector of the association; Lyman Bry-
son, visiting professor OF education at
Columbia University Teachers Col
lege; Edmund De s. Bruno, professor
of education at the Columbia Uni
versity Teachers College and A. Chas-
well Ellis, chairman of the aSSocla-
tons Research Committee.
Eugen Rosenstock. professor of civil
law in the University of Breslau,
described Germanys experiment in
the work camp movement. He spoke
at luncheon.
Appropriation for Replacement.
An appropriation to finance replace
ment of every one room school house
in the country would be 'eminently
worthwhile DR.. George F. Zook,
United States commissioner Of edu-
cation, who soon will retire from
office, declared at a general session
last night.
He told his audience that the Pub
lie Works Administration had fur
nished S400, 900, 900 for roads and only
$4,000, 900 for new schools and COL
leges. Three -fourths of the roads
appropriation would be ample for re-
placement of one-room buildings With
adequate school houses, he said.
Abolition OF child labor under the
N. r. A. has brought to the Nation
a fresh youth problem. DR.. Zook de-
clared. He pointed out that crime
among youths has increased since
boys we're barred from work in mines
and factories.
Solution Proposed.
AS a solution he suggested that
every one Of the industrial codes be
modified so as to allow some sort of
part-time apprenticeship work"
DR.. NJ. L. Wilson, director of the
Subsistence HomeSteads Division OF
the Interior Department, said the ultl-
mate success of the subsistence home
stead experiment depends on whether
the schools will be able to reorient
families to the new pattern of living.
He saw in the movement the saliva
ton of stranded economic groups pre-
vented by the depression from return
ing to old occupations.
Edward Bruce, director Of the Pub
lie Works of Art Project, called the
recent Corcoran exhibit of P. w. A.
art the most comprehensive and
representative exhibition of art that
has been shown" He said there is a
vigorous, we'll distributed and highly
exciting art movement in this coun-
try"
Of the quality of the P. w. A. art
Bruce made no extravagant claims
L do not claim it is all great art, =
he declared Perhaps a little Of il
is. But this is true-no other nation
could have produced such an eX-
hibit'
Brings Democratic Patronage.
He said the P. w. A. P. has brought
the first genuinely Democratic pa
tronage of art. adding that "the
movement has gone far to take the
snobbery out of art and make it a
part of the life of the average citi-
zen
If through this movement" he
asserted, I'VE can create demand
that America should be rebuilt as ar
America beautiful we are going to
create not only greater content and
well-being and a more abundant life
among our people, but an economic
demand which may be very vita
factor in lifting us out of the depreS-
sion"
William Green. president of the
American Federation of Labor, told
the educators that continued refusal
to recognize and deal with labor
through the agencies labor considers
most effective will inevitably drive
labor to revolutionary policies and
tactics"
Stresses Education Task.
He stressed the task of educating
the hundreds of thousands of new
members the federation has acquired
in the past two years and instilling
in them knowledge of economic prin-
Ciples.
At a group session yesterday after
noon. Benjamin C, Gutenberg called
attention to the decline in the study
of the sciences among adults as con-