Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-07-29

On Higher Education
Work Is Vital 10 U.S..
President Truman today told the
National Commission on Higher
Education that I'VE face nationa
decisions that are as important a.
any that have confronted us since
the Federal Union was formed"
These decisions" the President
continued in message to the COM
mission, ARE made in a democracy
by the people and not by a Gov
eminent apart from the people
Their choices are governed in large
part by their opportunities for edu-
cation aimed at producing effective
citizens.
| For this reason, I view the work
of this commission as vital to our
national welfare"
The commission was appointed by
the President July Is to consider
current problems in higher educa
ton and its first meeting, a two
day session, began today. Mr.. Tru-
man expressed regret that press OF
affairs kept him from the session in
the Lafayette Building, Vermont
avenue and H street NV.
Noted Educators Attend.
/ A number of distinguished edu-
Gators are present, including George
F. Zook, president of the American
Council on Education, who is chair
man.
Mr.. Humans greetings were reac
by John r. Steelman, director OF
War Mobilization and Reconversion
who also declared:
For the first time we have
caught a glimpse of the significance
OF the removal of the economic bar
rlers to higher education. Today
even when jobs are more plentiful
| than ever before in our history
young men are demanding-in un-
precedented numbers-a chance to
carry their education above the high
/ school level
AS a Nation we cannot afford
ever again to permit the accident
of family income to determine who
shall go to college
Colleges to Be Aided.
Mr.. Steelman asserted the Federal
| Government ic do;n1 ayar,,tt.;,,r. T.,
its power Ito assist the colleges and
universities in the realization OF
their programs of action" and that
S300,000,000 will be spent by the
Government for housing and build
lngs for the universities.
He recalled that President Tru-
man asked the commission to re
examine our system of higher edu-
cation in terms of it's detectives
/ methods and facilities: and in the
light OF the social role it has tc
| play"
! The commission has free HAND
to probe widely and deeply into
every aspect of higher education
which it considers significant 70,
the institutions and for the Nation, ;
Mr.. Steelman said.
Participants Listed.
While the sessions are closed tc
the press. announcement was made
today that these educators, in add.
ton to DR.. Zook, are participating
DR.. Francis Brown. director of thu
division of higher education, Amer.
lean Council on Education; Arthur
H. Compton, chancellor, WASHINGTON
University. ST. Louis: Harold w
i Dodds, president, Princeton Uni.
versity.
Earl McGrath. dean of College
of Liberal Arts, University of Iowa
Alge D. Henderson, president Anti.
och College, Yellow Springs, Ohio
Fred D. Patterson, president, Tuske.
gee Institute, Tuskegee. Ala: Sarah
Banding, president. Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, N. Y: Milton Essen
hover. president, Kansas State Col.
lege, Manhattan. Kans.: the Very
Rev. Frederick G. Hochwald, direc.
tor of higher education division
National Catholic Welfare Confer.
ence; Horace M. Kallen, New Schoo
for Social Research, New York City
Also Alvin Zurich, vice president
Stanford University. Stanford
Calf; Goodrich White, president
Emery University, Emery University
Ga.
John Emmons, president, Bal
State Teachers College, Muncie
Ind; Henry A. Dixson, president
Webster Junior College, Ogden
Utah; Ordway Tead, president
board of higher education, New
York City; T. R. Mcconnell, dear
Of College of Liberal Arts, Univer.
sity of Minnesota. Minneapolis
Harry Newburn, president. Oregon
University System, Eugene, Greg.
George Stoddard, president, Univer
sity of Illinois; Martin R. P. Nc
CURE, dean of the Graduate School
Catholic University of America
Washington; Lewis Jones, president
Bennington College, Bennington
Vt; Fred J. Kelley, retiring directo
of the division of higher education
United States Office of Education
I Bishop G. Bromley Oman, presi
dent, Federal Council of Churche
of Christ in America; David W
! Petegorsky, executive director
America Jewish Congress trepre
senting Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, VIII
: is in Europe.
Also. Harold Swift, chairman
board of trustees. University @
Chicago; o. c. Carmichael, presi
dent, Carnegie Foundation; Mar
Starr, educational director, Inter
national Ladies' Garment Worker
Union; Murray d. Lincoln. presi
: dent, Ohio Farm Bureau Fedora
: ton; Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Doug
las S. Freeman. editor of the Rich
mond (Va) News Leader and Mr..
Agnes Meyers, journalist and socis
worker and wife Of Eugene Meyel
r former publisher of the Washinpto