Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-14
SCHOOL SYSTEM
CHANGES SOUGHT
BY GROUP OF A
$500, 900 Private Fund En-.
abIes Five.Year Fact.
Finding Survey.
PROTECTION OF YOUTH
FROM CRIME AN AIM
Fourfold Undertaking Under Aus
pieces of American Council
on Education.
Nv tha Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The American Council on Education
has challenged the existing school set.
up and seeks to determine If it is out
of touch with social and economic
times.
A broad effort to rechart the course
of education and gear 1T with chang
ing forces of the day was mapped
yesterday by the council, the creation
Of a non-governmental commission Of
IA members, who will meet Monday tt
launch a four-point program OF in
quiry into youth problems.
An 100000 private grant will
finance the five-year intensive survey
which is designed to be fact-fndine
and remedial.
In announcing the plan, DR.. George
F. Zook. council president, laid en-
phasis ION the part youth plays in the
present-day crisis" He said youths
problems may constitute a funda-
mental threat to national welfare"
Need Of Protection.
OF all arrests reported to the JUS
tice Department in 1884, DR.. Zook
said, 114.233, or 37.5 per cent, were
persons under Is and ISL per cent
under 20. He said there are no exist
ing social agencies equipped to pro-
vide adequate supervision and protec-
ton for these young people"
The fourfold undertaking includes
/. Analysis Of the characteristics Of
youth and an evaluation Of the infiu'
ences to which they are subject.
2. Study Of commonly accepted
goals in the education OF youth tt
determine the adequacy of these goal'
in relation to the social, economic ant
political trends.
3. Investigation Of agencies con-
cerned with the youth problem. and
the recommendation of procedures
which seem to influence the young
effectively.
4. Systematic popularization of de-
sirable plans of action through con-
ferences, publications and demonstra-
tons.
Director TO Chart Study.
DR.. Zook, a former commissioner OF
education, said the new commission
will choose a full-time director who
will chart the study.
The commission includes Newton
D. Baker, former Secretary Of War;
Robert M. Hutchins, president of the
University of Chicago: John w.
Studebaker, Federal education COM
missioner, and Dorothy Garfield
Fisher, author.
The commissions investigation will
cover education Of youth from 12'year.
Of age upward and will include ex-
animation of such problems as unem'
ployment and cIime, "the growing
specialization and mechanization Of
vocational opportunities. the "recent
increase in leisure time for both young
people and adults" and the declining
influence Of the home and church"
DR.. Zook said 5000, 900 young per.
sons in rural sections are not receiving
adequate educational opportunities ano
that only l2.5 per cent of college-age
youths are enrolled In schools and thai
only one out OF every three of high
school age is in school.
Others Of Commission.
Besides Baker. Hutchins, Studebakel
and Mrs. Fisher, members of the com.
mission are:
Will w. Alexander of Atlanta, former
clergyman and leader in the field Of
race relations.
Ralph Budd of Chicago. president Of
the Burlington Railway Lines.
Lotus D. Coffman of Minneapolis
president Of the University of Min
nesota and chairman of the American
Council on Education.
Willard E. Owens Of Washington
secretary Of the National Education
Association and former San Diego anc
Oakland, Calf, school superintendent
Henry I. Hartman Of Boston. public
utility executive and past president
of the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States.
Chester H. Rowell of San Francisco
editor of the San Francisco Chronicle
trustee of the World Peace Founda-
ton and political science lecturer.
William F. Russell of New York,
dean Of the Columbia University
Teachers College and former chair
man Of the American Council on
Education.
Member From Louisiana.
Mrs. Edith r. Stern of New Orleans,
civic and educational leader.
Miss Marian Van Water of Franz
ingham, Mass, superintendent of the
Massachusetts, State Reformatory for
Women and former president of the
National Conference on Social Work.
Matthew Woll of New York, vice
president of the American Federation
of Labor, writer and lecturer.