Evening star., 1934-04-25
EDUCATION TRENDS
GIVEN TO NURSES.
Miss Bess Goodykoontz
Sketches Changes at
Joint Session.

at the fourth joint session of the
National Biennial Nursing Conven-
ton at the Washington Auditorium,
at which Miss Bess Goodykoontz, as
sistant commissioner of education, and
Dean Annie w. Goodrich of the Yale
University School of Nursing were
the principal speakers.
Miss Effle G. Taylor, president of
the National League of Nursing Edu-
cation, presided and introduced the
speakers. The session, which began
,, at 9:15 am. and ended shortly before
noon, closed the joint activities for
the day. after which the more than
1000 delegates adjourned into groups
for separate meetings.
Miss Goodykoontz sketched the
, changes In general education which
! nave taken place since 1900. BY
series OF contrasts she showed there
are great many groups in the United
States that must learn new ways to
earn living.
More Versatility Needed.
The trend of education today" she
said, requires greater versatility upon
the part of the individual. Changing
modes demand ability of the individ-
ual to change from outmoted occu-
pations to other occupations that are
needed more"
she lamented the fact that due to
the depression and to the increased
numbers now being educated that
each year a large number of gradu-
ates are turned out from schools to
lace JoblesS world. She pointed out
that now there are 100000 teachers
who are unable to find employment.
Dean Goodrich also traced recent
changes IN nursing and nursing needs.
There is no more essential achieve
ment for nursing" Dean Goodrich
said, than cooperation with higher
education, with the business of health,
as conducted by the hospital, dis
pensary or health organizations; and
with the Government to the end that
the highest expression of his COM
plete personality be assured each in
divldual for his service to human
ity -"
OF all professional workers. nurses
should be the last to be DETECTED from
careful study. analysis and intelligent
conclusions concerning those condi-
tions through which society is best
served"
U. S. Officials Speak.
AT the joint meeting last night at
the Auditorium, at which Miss Sophie
c. Nelson. president of the National
Organization for Public Health Nurs-
4 ing presided he
vid Cushman Coyle, consulting en-
glneer OF the Public Works Admins
/ tration, and Aubrey Williams, assist
ant administrator of the Federal
Emergency Relief Administration.
The session was opened by a con-
cert by the United States Army Band
orchestra, under the direction of
Capt. William j. Stannard. A series
OF songs was also presented by the
Freedmen's Hospital Glee Club.
Coyle discussed the changing order
OF today as it affects the economic
world, and Williams talked on the ef-
1ects on community life.
The changing order OF TO-DAY"
Coyle said, lis the gradual develop
ment of natural power to control the
now OF money SO that more of it
Will go into buying useful and desir-
| able things and less of it will 20 into
buying pretty. but useless pieces of
| engraved paper.
Approves Business Tax.
when every one has been employed
and business is active and profitable.
the Government, of course, will have
to have tax system that will more
than pay for the Federal spending
program. The taxes will have to be
imposed on incomes rather than
business, because if anybody tries to
| help business and send business
the bill, the effect will be about as
helpful as buying father a new car
and charging it to his account"
Coyle also asserted the Government
must guarantee basic security, through
old-age pensions and various kinds of
insurance, so that people will spend
their incomes freely.
! 1T Is just your good luck" he told
the nurses, that the things you have
always wanted to do for improving
the health and happiness of the people
happens to be the things that must
be done in order to make the economic
system operate. In the long run, once
the President succeeds in leading the
country to the new deal and making
the people try it, they will find that
they like it.
Future Partly Apparent.
"Some indications of the future are
already apparent. We have the power
and desire to make our people phys
ically healthy and emotionally we'll ad-
justed. We have the powe. and desire
to arrange our social order so that
the mass of our people shall never
again be subject to lifelong fear,
humiliation and degradation"
Community life, fundamentally,
Williams said, will be changed but
little by the order because communi-
ties are made up of human beings and
human nature changes slowly.
He did see change, however, in the
new attitude of Government, which
has assumed responsibility for public
welfare, and has asserted that citizens
who cannot provide for themselves
shall nevertheless be cared for.
Breakfast meetings were held today
by the Illinois Training School
Alumnae Association at the Dodge
Hotel, the Henry Street Visiting Nurses
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