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at $12,050, ,0c0. 900, including s2,l5O.-
000, 900 held as endowment and other
trust funds. This is an investment Of
only $400 per pupil.
About 5000, 900 900 persons are en-
rolled in emergency education classes,
evening schools and special schools of
various kinds In the United States.
One million, two hundred and nifty
thousand persons are enrolled in voca-
tional schools or classes.
Nearly 40 per cent of the rural Negro
schools still use benches with no desks.
One million Negro children Of school
age are not in school.
There are 1000 school districts In
the United States.
More than $4,000 Indians are en-
rolled in public and private schools.
In 80 large city school systems. the
average cost per pupil for operation OF
the school plant each year is $9.56.
There are $4,000 high schools in
the United States.
To educate a rural school child 1t
costs on the average $53.3l per year.
To educate city school child II
costs on the average $92. 2.68 per year.
Forty-seven million persons in the
United States have had only an ele-
mentary school education.
Nineteen million have only gradu-
ated from high school or have only
taken some high school work.
Five million, two hundred and
seventy-five thousand have graduated
from college or have taken some col
lege work.
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Schools in U. S.
Continued From Page H-1.)

ment for the physically handicapped
and disabled. due to the increase in
funds for vocational rehabilitation
through the social security legisla-
ton.
Considerable handicap to the pri-
vate educational institutions depend
ing on endowments, due to decrease
in rates of interest on bonds.
Much greater use of radio in the
service Of education, due to the prac-
tical steps for cooperation between
broadcasters and educators.
Better school buildings and facili-
ties, stimulated by p w. A. grants and
loans.
Salaries Being Restored.
Further restoration of teacher SAL
aries to pre- e-depression levels, with q
restoration of depression promo
ton schedules.
Wider extension Of education in
the c. c. c., with achievement Of the
goal of a school house in every camp.
"A tremendous increase in civic ed
ucation for voting citizens through
the increase in public forums and dis
cussion groups under public and pri-
vate auspices.
Fewer illiterates, due to the ef-
forts of the w. P. A. adult educa-
tion projects.
An increase in college and univer-
sity enrollments due in part to the
assistance given needy students by
N. Y. A. This will also influence
high school enrollments.
Continued expansion of what prob
ably is the fastest developing field OF
American education-the junior COL
lege movement.
Further consolidation of rural
schools in the interests of economy
and better quality of educational op-
portunity."
Responsibility for instruction OF
Americas school family will fall this
year to approximately 1,018,000 teach
ers in both public and private insti-
tutions of learning. One-fourth OF
our Nations school teachers are men,
$4,000 of whom offer instruction in
the elementary grades. When de-
preston budgets for school purposes
brought decrease of $1,000 elemen-
tary school teachers throughout the
country, there was an increase OF
7,100 in number of men teachers
Since 1920 there have been 18 per
cent more men teachers and only
per cent more women teachers in our
public elementary schools.
Attendance Records Improving.
If your child attends rural school
he could go to class 161 days this
term, it Is estimated. The chances
are that he will be absent about 2e
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The United States Office Of Edu-
cation announces other facts con-
cerning American education:
There are still 138,542 one-room
schools in our country.
Two million seven hundred nine
four thousand pupils are transport
ed to school in 77000 vehicles at an
average cost Of $40 per pupil per
year.
Back to school for pupils means
back before school opens for $500
county superintendents and $4,000
city superintendents Of schools.
There are nearly 100000 nliterates
in the United States.
Each Of the 2,109 c. c. c. camps
will have an educational adviser this
year, offering instruction to nearly
35O,O00 enrollees in all the camps.
More than 100000 persons are
studying to be nurses.
From 1882 to 1884 kindergarten en-
rollments dropped 16 per cent; ele-
mentary enrollments dropped per
cent, partly the result of falling
birth rate.
Americas school property is valued
Evening star., 1936-09-13
DR.. Fritz Mann of Cologne U.
Named Il. u. Visitiin 2 Professor

leadership of Dean Ernest s. Grifith,
and the School of Public Affairs Is
under Director Arthur S. Flemming
Many new members have been added
to the university faculty.
Outstanding among the new devel-
opments this year Is the special pro-
gram offered by the two schools at
the downtown center on social Sc
curity administration" For this spe-
cial program Dean Griffith and Di-
rector Flemming will have special
faculty, the chairman of which has
been selected to be DR.. Marion Hath
way of Pittsburgh. who is secretary
of the American Association OF
Schools of Social Work. She Is now
head Of the division Of social work
Graduate School, University Of Pitts
burgh. Under her Craftsmanship the
courses will not only survey the pres
ent situation, but also the field for
possibilities of further developments
in public welfare administration
While the university has drawn upon
the personnel of those actually con.
cerned with the Federal aspects in
the drafting of the program and In
the conduct Of a number of courses
the program itself Is pointed in the
direction of preparation for State ad-
ministratiOn
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days. The city school will be open
1872 days. but each child will be in
attendance only 157 days. Every day
there are, on the average, 100000
children absent from school. Never
theless, school attendance records are
improving. Studies are telling au-
thoritieS why children are absent from
school and findings should result in
many reasons for absence being elm
mated.
The total school population in our
country is greater than the combined
populations of New York State, Penn
sylvania and New Jersey. If Amer
ica's peace army of education went
on the march-four abreast at regular
infantry pace-the back-to-school pa
rade would begin at New York City,
cross the country to San Francisco,
return to New York and stretch back
across the country to Lincoln, Nebr.
To pay the bill for educating the
vast throng of our children and
adults in public schools, it would cost
each citizen in our Nation only 7
cents day. A cent and half added
would also pay the cost of INSTRUCT
ing the 3,364000 persons enrolled in
private schools. The annual cost Of
education Is $25.61 per citizen and
for private education, $4.90 per citizen.
This total of $30.51 is 1888 less per
adult than it was in 1920-30.
Students enrolled in colleges and
universities this Fall-more than
900 ,000-equal about half the total
number of living college graduates in
the United States-2,20 1000.
The number of young people en-
tering high school roughly equals
about two-thirds the number Of liv-
ing high school graduates in the en-
tire Nation-8,222 900.
OF each 1000 adults in the United
States only 20 have received college
degrees and only 100 have earned
-; eohao1 Iin1oppoc
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or to those with at least two years
of previous college work. Its pro-
fessors will be drawn from the ex-
perienced staff of the regular Foreign
Service School, which numbers many
prominent Government and Latin
American officials. They are men
who deal daily with the practical
administration of problems which they
teach in the class room.
Law School officials at Georgetown
are greatly encouraged over the out
look of the school year as a result
of the decision to require a college
degree for admission. Rev. Francis
E. Lucey, S. j., the regent, who OBJ
tanned approval for this important
change last Winter. pointed out that
more than two-thirds of the present
student body are college graduates.
For this reason it was felt the school
would adjust itself to the new rule.
The Law School will open Septem-
ber %, the Medical and Dental Schools
on September 81 and the freshman
classes at the College of Arts and
Sciences start tomorrow.
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is now en- route to this country on the
lie de France and will reopen his
studios Immediately upon his return
to Washington.
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senior high schools will not be re-
quired to make any advance appli-
cation for entrance. New pupils, how
ever, and those seeking advanced
ratings will have to report to the
Thomson School for examination
Thursday. Friday or Saturday or to
Dunbar High School Thursday or
Friday.
White pupils will 60 to the Thom-
son scool and colored pupils to Dun
bar.
Special Application.
New Junior high school pupils will
also be required to to make special
application for entrance, but they
will not be required to apply in ad-
vance Of the opening date of schools
On the first day they will apply at
the school nearest their residences.
Because Of the present congestion
all Junior high schools will be closed
to nonresident pupils.
Public night schools also will open
week from tomorrow. Applicants
will have to apply to E. J. Lockwood
at Central or to c. o. Lewis at Shaw
Junior High, directors, respectively,
Of the white and colored schools.
Policy governing the admission Of
non-residents in the senior high
Evening star., 1936-09-13
>R. FRITZ KARL MANN OF

r. FRITZ KARL MANN OF
the University Of Cologne,
Germany. has been appoint-
- ed visiting professor Of po-
litical economy at American Uni
vsrsity.
This was announced by DR.. Joseph
M. M. Gray, chancellor Of American
University. as plans were completed
for opening the three schools OF
American University the week Of Sep
tember 20.
DR.. Mann, known as an outstand-
ing European scholar and educator,
will conduct at the Graduate School
seminars in Economics of Business
Cycles" and Monetary Problems. "
On leave from the University OF
Cologne and formerly at the Uni
versity of Berlin, DR.. Mann is ac-
knowledged in educational circles as
the outstanding figure in compare
tive public finance" in Europe.
Chancellor Gray expects enlarged
enrollments in all three departments
off American University-the College
Of Liberal Arts, on the campus at
Massachusetts, and Nebraska avenues
under direction of Dean George B.
Woods, and at the downtown center
of the university. 1901-1907 F. street
where the Graduate School is under
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School Opening

Continued From Page H-1)
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HAYDEN RETURNING

The Phil Hayden Studios announce
their Fall opening for September 10,
when day and evening classes for
children and adults, both beginners
and professionals, will be resumed in
all types of stage and sbcial dancing,
including tap, ballet, modern German,
acrobatics, musical comedy, exhibition
and body conditioning.
The director of these studios has
spent the entire Summer in Europe
securing for his pupils all of the
very latest ideas in every type of
stage and ball room dancing. Hayden
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Continued From Page HID
tomorrow, all new enrollees in the
kindergarten and primary grades will
be required to seek admission tickets
at the schools nearest their homes.
Principals will be at their Offices in
the buildings next Friday and Sat-
urday to take care of such new appli-
cantS.
Vaccination certificates will be re-
quired
Pupils regularly promoted last June
from elementary to either junior or
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schools has not yet been announced,
but it is understood that actual en-
rollment will determine which Of the
schools can or cannot accept outside
students.
The times-news., 1936-04-13
THE JOKER IN OPPORTUNITY

The Seldovia, Alaska, Chamber of Commerce
that's right; there is such Chamber of Commerce
is sending out bids for settlers for the Kenai PEN
insula, section of Southern Alaska ar large the
State of Maryland, with agricultural land suitable
and sufficient for hundred thousand homestead
crs.
But the folk who may imagine there is opportun-
ity with big CO. for those who have been unable
to get far ahead down here in the states are likely
to find joker in the proposition
The SeldOvia c. of c. warns that 'this is no
country for lazy man."
While Alaska wants settlers ct is the permanent
satisfied settlers who are desired"
And so the Seldovia c. of c. Observation-Disclosures
to most of us-sayS: You should have money
enough to get you hove to the United States if you
are lazy or dsSatiSfied; and even more plainly de-
clares tha twhe there is opportunity the settler in
Alaska will actually have to work to make it worth
anything to him.
Which is not different from opportunity here or
anywhere else, although good many people seem
to think opportunity is synonym for a cince or a
sin"eure.-Rock Hill (S.C.) Herald.
The times-news., 1936-04-13
NEWSPAPERS OPINION
WHEN THE LIGHT PLAYS

The light has played upon some of the AAA
heneficiaries and the American people have been
told of million dollar payments to corporations.
The chances are that few persons outside of Flor
ida knew that in that state great sugar cor
noration but there is, for it received total of
81 O67, ,665 in three payments. A Hawaiian sugar
producer received $470,3l3 in one payment and
will get total of 81 ,022, ,O37.S7.
These generous benefits were authorized by law.
As the law read there nothing improper about
the payments, but it is Understandable that the
secretary of agriculture heSltant about listing
names and amounts. The administration has been
saving that the little fellows being protected.
All these benefit payments upon the ultimate
consumer. 1t stands to reason that the price of
sugar included the liberal amounts which have
been paid or are to be paid. The housekecper
doesn't understand that she footS the benefit bills;
if she did, she would be complaining.
When the light plays, strange things come to
omen notice. If the same light were turned on all
the .abecedaran activities the public would know
where much of its money is going and who is get
ting il The light has been shut off by the spend
ing politicians for the reason that they fear the
result of exposure.
In the glare oil the HSHt "iiC" was '"'"' ""'
il was seen that the Mississippi state penitentiary
received $4,000 for its reduction in cotton acre
age and the Arkansas penitcntiary received $25,5OO
for the same compliance. Government paid gov
ernment II is a strange performance.
Were any of the packers paid for meats or
vegetables they did not pack? If sugar producers
were paid for sugar they did not produce, why not
professors for stuffS they did not process
Charleston News and Courier.
The times-news., 1936-04-13
PINES FOR MAKING PAPER

DR.. ChaS. H. Hcrty. distinguished chemist of
Georgia and New York. ad aspoStlc of paper max
ing from pine-wood pulp, told the South Carolina
legislature yesterday that the South within ten
years is going to be making the larger part of the
paper used by the nation.
For years Dr. Hcrty has been working upon the
secret of using pine trees for the making of paper
With the financial aid of outside interests he estab
lshed laboratory at Savannah. He has accom-
pliShed his purpose and told the legislators that
paper can be made by mills that use spruce and
other woods.
ern areas nature produced second growth of slash
pines which which was thought to be of little value
Dr. Herty has discovered that these pines have lit
tie turpentine in them and that they may easily be
converted into paper of all kinds. He declared
that more wood for paper making can be grown in
the South in six years than can be grown in Nova
Scotia in so years. He urged the southern states
to take stock of their opportunities and prepare to
profit from them
There are many thousands of acres in South Car
ona that have lost their fertility to such extent
that they no longer may be used for profitable
agriculture. They are not even suited for pasture
lands. They will grow slash pines and in ten OF
fifteen years should begin ii yield crops of wood
doubt will be discovered and the land will be
guaranteed market for all the wood he can pro-
duce.-Spartanburg Herald.
The times-news., 1936-04-13

adopted by the group to which
one belongs, very much influence
behavior. The boy, no matter who
he is, is 10th to violate the rules
of his fellows. Even the criminal
who ScornS the laws Of the land,
will refuse to violate the code of
his gang. The customs, the rcgu-
lationS of human behavior which
are set up and generally accepted
in a community have a trcmcn-
douS influence on the people Of
that community.
There is considerable doubt
that the human being born today
is any better when he comes into
this world than was the human
being born five thousand years
ago. But the fact is indisputabIe
that in the more advanced ma
tions, the human being born to-
day comes into and grows up un-
der a better set of social laws
than did the human being who
came here five thousand years
ago.
As the human group gains more
experience in the art of living on
this globe. that experience is pass
ed on from one generation to an
The times-news., 1936-04-13
FOLLOWING THE CROWD

Today an advertisement appeared on the front
page of the Carbon Hills, Ala, paper, a weekly to
this effect: "Wanted to sell:
compete mouern dairy. Sixteen cows all
spiendlu miiNerS' dairy electrically equipped
ana making money-want to sell so | can get
on relief. Coley Gam" Adv
News reports OF this unusual advertisement re-
ported that MIR. Gam was "as serious as a man po-
ing to an ocuSt for the first time" when he placed
the advertisement with the Alabama parer ann
paid the customary rates.
1t looks like Mr. Gam wants to follow the
crowd to the federal watering Observation-Disclosures
(S.C.) Herald.
The times-news., 1936-04-13
Wait
q
Minute,
Please
By
Noah
HollowcH

FARMERS arc our greatest
cXcmplars of faith and the worlds
biggest gamblers. The best farm
ers work and plan years ahead
and gamble ctcrnally with the
clements. One day they have their
wagon hitchcd to a star and travel
at a speed that is binding with
starduSt. Next day their little
wagon is stalled and up to the
hubs in the miro.
Today the orchardiStS are blue.
They persist in the belief that
their apple crop has been killed.
4 few days ago they were buy
ing equipment with the cXpccta-
ton of having a bumper crop Of
apples.
The Farmers Federation rr-
ports recent sales Of power spray
ers to c. G.. Freeman, Clyde Bal
lard, Jud and Bob Freeman, Roy
Merrill, J. W. Whitcside. X. j.
Davis. w. J. Boyd and Pink Cog
gins. The most of these went to
the Edneyville section, noted for
its quality and quantity of an
pies. These were 100 and 200
gallon capacity sprays, the largcl'
supplying two streams at Il COM
bined rate Of 10 gallons a min
ute.
Since the above was written
Earl Marshall has lowered his
peysimism from Il 90 to - rel'
cent failure. He will continue
with his sprays. \. N. LYDIA of
Edncyvillc says he expects 10
pcr cent apple crop. TIL" manager
The times-news., 1936-04-13
AN INVINCIBLE FORCE
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

other. Rules Of life are improv-
ed from generation to generation.
Things that should be done are
increasingly advocated and things
that should not be done are i'll
crcaSingiy warned against.
And the rules of social conduct
advocated and insisted on by any
certain group, have an important
bearing on the character develop
mcnt Of the members Of that
group. While the average human
being born today may be no bet
ter than the average human being
born five thousand years ago,
nevertheless no lives under such
a better set of rules Of behavior
that his character develops so
much more rapidly than did the
character of the human being born
five. thousand years ago, that by
shc' times he dies he is a better
human being than was the aver
age human being who died five
thousand years ago.
We do not begin to Appreciate
the power of rules of human be-
havior when generally adopted
and insisted on. | do not refer
to the public prayers we make.
and the hymns we sing, and It"
the spiritual declarations We make
in church and 60 out and forget;
refer to those laws Of human
behavior to which the rank and
file of the people of community
are committed, and on the obseiN-
ancc of which they rigidly insist.
Rare is the person in c0mmun-
ity who would do a thing if he
knew that the people Of his com
munity, particularly those of his
own set, would condemn him.
Force Of public opinion is viz
tually invinciblc. We do not be
gin to use that power as freely
and constructivcly as we should.
NOTE: The reason we people
in the United States are cursed
with the rottcncst municipal GOV
crnmcntS in the civilized world, is
that we do. not set up rules FOR
The times-news., 1936-04-13
BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASTIINGTON
BY RODNEY pUTCHER-

stones background is unusually
diversified. He started out as :,
teacher of law and got into tho
habit of Judging without the Scrv.
ice in corporation law to which
most justices have been largely
confined
He left his post as dean Of Co.
lumbia University law school to
join the big firm of Sullivan &
Cromwell. where he had chance
to learn the tricks Of Wall Street.
Finally he served as attorney gen.
eral in the cabinet.
Personally. Stone probably is the
courts most popular member lie
gets around" more than any other
Justice and has a strong sense Of
humor.
A LEGEND is still floating
"A around 10 the effect that The
crash of an American Airlines
plane in Arkansas, which killed II
persons. resulted when a dope
fiend. who had taken out heavy
insurance just before the fight,
suddenly murdered the pilot.
Although this fantastic version
wasn't mentioned in the Bureau of
Air Commences report. which Of
ficially declared the tragedy mys-
terry. the report conspicuously omit
ted mention of certain evidence
which aided the build-up of the
theory, and orders have been is
sued requiring that pilot compart.
ments be locked and passengers
barred therefrom.
Several phials of morphine were
found in the wreckage. A hole
which some thought probably had
been made by bullet fired inside
the plane was also discovered in a
piece of metal. The wreckage also
turned up an unidentified revolver.
Then there was the aforementioned
rumor that a passenger had been
financially embarrassed and had
taken out large amount Of in
Surance.
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