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Show Nation's Public Schools Must Set Moral as Well as Educational Standards By DR. MARTIN G. BRUMBAUGH, Ex-Governor of Pennsylvania. The hope of tomorrow lies in the public schools. What's needed is - rot that the schools should teach arithmetic but teach being honest-Not honest-Not that the schools should teach to parse but to behave. ! The American people went into a jnzz 6pree after the war. We bought things whether or not we had money to pay for them. We became be-came the most extravagant people the world has ever known. But when men become extravagant and wasteful their morals decay. When Sweden gave physical examination to its young men of military age last May, only 8 per cent were rejected. In the United States, at the beginning of the World war, 27 per cent were rejected and with a much lower physical requirement. The explanation is that for a genera tion the Swedish youth has been given careful physical instruction in the 6chools. Any child who buys an education at the cost of health pays a price too high either-for the individual or the state. We haven't yet seriously approached that problem. j What are we doing to solve our Americanism problem? All immigrants A who (l(mt learn English in five years should be sent back. Our churches are losing membership not on their rolls, but in their pews. The home has failed to take up its share of the moral problem. It's not a boy-and-girl problem we face, but a mother-and-father problem. And now in the schools you've got to set the moral as well as the educa tional standards. America is suffering for need of great spiritual lead ership. |