•DEFENSE OF
OUR SCHOOLS
BY PROFESSOR
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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 16
(by Associated Press).—Insufficiency,
^not inefficiency, in dealing with pupils
not gifted with academicability, is the
great fault of America’s public school
system, Will C. Wood, California state
superintendent of public instruction,
declared in an address at the National
Educational Association convention.
Defense of the school system against
critics was voiced by Mr. Wood. Criti
cism, he declared, came from business
men, who said some school graduates
could not read and write; from manu
facturers, who charged boys lack
sense of responsibility; and even from
^he universities, which alleged many
high school graduates lack general in
telligence.
“It is a broad indictment and I make
no sweeping denial,” Mr. Wood said.
*‘I would declare, however, that the
school cannot be held responsible for
all the shortcomings and frailties of
human nature. We are attempting to
educate all the children and a consid
erable portion are not endowed with
minds capable of academic develop
mem. me scnooi can ueveiup urams
hut cannot supply them.”
Mr. Wood declared his answer!
would be an unequivocal “no” to the
question, “Are the schools a failure
considered in the light of their rela
tion to our national life?” One reason
he gave for his belief was that the
school was “the great and fundamental
reason for the success of the Amer
ican people, for it kept open a path
way of opportunity for all the children
qf common folk.” Another reason, he
said, was that 90 per cent of our war
time soldiers, who turned the tide to
victory, were products of the schools.!
“A nation that can turn from peace
to war so successfully in seventeen
months as we did, cannot be said to
have a failing school system.
“Faults of the school are faults of
fnsufficiency. There has been insuf
ficiency of vocational education, insuf
ficiency of physical development and
insufficiency of Americanism.
“The national commission on the
emergency in education has mapped
^gput a plan to help overcome in
sufficiency in our schools. It is
planned on the ground that America’s
hope is her public school system. It
has attempted to provide federal aid
for Americanization, for overcoming
illiteracy, for physical education, for
teacher training and for equalizaton
of educational opportunities in the
schools. It remains for us teachers
to take this far-reaching program to
the American people, not for the sake
of ourselves, but for the sake of the
children we teach and the country we
serve and love.”
Health work, as conducted in Amer
ica’s pi^blic schools, was described as
“a disgrace to the nation” by Dr. Thos.
D. Wood, member of the Columbia uni
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versity faculty, in his adddress.
“Principles of universal training
must, in a manner consonant with the
spirit and methods of democracy, be
interpreted and applied in the univer
sal compulsory health and .physical
care and training of all the children,”
he declared.
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“Children of our country deserve as
effective physical care as livestock
and as careful attention and cultiva
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tion as crops. Shall not the children '
drafted by compulsory education into
our schools be assured of as skillful ,
and satisfactory, care as soldiers in
camp and trench?
“Much of the actual health care of
the children must be accomplished by
the home, by health boards and other
organizations. But the school is the
universal, the officially credited and
the strategic agency to lead in the
educational program of health.
“The most vital item in the re- ]
sources of any country is the welfare ^
and health of the children. No eoun- .
try is really civilized which does not
possess a national intelligence and (
sense of obligation relative to the .
health of the children and an effective, ,
complete practical program of health ,
care for all the children of the na
tion.”
CHMCHESARE
GIVEN BACK TO
CONGREGATIONS
MEXICO CITY, July 16 (by Associ
ated Press).—A number of churches in
Guadalajara, taken over by the gov- (
ernment in 1915 and withheld from
the Catholic clergy since that time un
der the provisions of the constitution,
have been returned to their congrega
tions by order of President de la
Huerta. According to El Heraldo de
Mexico, the return of the Guadalajara
churches is the first step in the presi
dent’s program to turn back all
churches throughout Mexico which
have been closed by governmental or
der. The closed-church issue has been
a vibrant one for years in Guadalajara,
a notably religious city.
ENID BENNETT IN
“THE VAMP” TONIGHT
No one who has seen the womanly
charm and grace of Enid Bennett can
imagine her in a “vampie” role, as
that term is generally accepted for
sirens of the screen. The title of the
play in which she is booked at the
Empress tonight, “The Vamp,” is, in
fact, satirical, and the play itself a
delightful mixture of girlish simplicity
and daring.
As Nancy Lyons, wardrobe girl with
a musical show, she has heard much
about “vamps” and their success in
life. The man she loves is slow to
propose, so she borrows necessary
finery and lays her plans. So well
does she succeed that wedding bells
speedily ring. Later, in a grave crisis,
she finds the old witchery still holds
good, and uses her fascination to ex
cellent purpose.
There are numerous dramatic situ
tions in the development of this story,
the whole relieved by much whole
some comedy. The program is com
pleted by a two-reel Mack Sennett
comedy, “Beware of Boarders.”
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PARIS, July 16 (by Associated
r*ress).—The ministry of foreign af
!airs of Montenegro maintained in
Paris by Nicholas, formerly king of
hat country, has issued an official
communique, quoting the newspaper
flepublique of Belgrade concerning the
Serbian occupation of Montenegro,
rhe article says:
“The people of Montenegro are
caked and have no shoes. They are
;oo weak to work and earn a living be
cause a majority of the population has
lad little to eat for the last eight
nonths or more. Many infants are
lying and the children in many cases
lave been unable to go to school be
cause of weakness. This economic
nisery which is indescribable is ag
gravated by the regime of the authori
ses of occupation, maintained by
!orce and corruption. The oppressors,
sent by the government of Belgrade,
excite the people to anger, then kill
them. Those who are not killed are
thrown into prison.”
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