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Show WOULD COB HIS ITS! . FREL SGHODLS Advice Is Given by Committee Com-mittee of Americans of National Reputation as Educators. REPORT RESULT OF MUCH STUDY Problem Said to Be One for People of United States a3 Well as Those of Distracted Dis-tracted Republic. flYT IXXATI. Jan. 7. Intervention in Mexico, not with arms, but by free, public, n on sectarian schools, was recommended rec-ommended in a report issued tonight by a self-constituted committee of Amen- cans of national reputation as educa- j tors or publicists. This committee began be-gan studying Mexican conditions about a year and a half ago. Its conclusion was summarized as follows: ''The chaos existing in Mexico is due to variety of racial elements, woeful woe-ful lack of general education, still ( greater lack of political experience and , rapacity and cupidity of the educated ! leaders, and, in a few instances, of in- telligent uneducated. " j The committee recommended establishment estab-lishment of a nonsectarian college mod- ,, eled after the Roberts college in Con- ; etantinople, which would have the backing back-ing of the American people. The report reads, in part: '"'The crying need of Mexico is education edu-cation a type of education that will 1 lift the common people out of their eloth and ignorance and enlist the better, bet-ter, classes in a real patriotic service. Problem for Americans. ''The problem is one for the people , of the United States as well as the Mexicans. Such a proposal is no more absurd than were similar ones in reference refer-ence to Cuba, Porto Rico'aud the Philippines. Phil-ippines. The Mexican natives have the capacity, and if they are given the opportunity, will readily acquire industrial indus-trial education. The higher classes, in spite of the common impression, have a cultural basis that, wisely directed, will enable them to hold their own intellectually in-tellectually with the other peoples of America. "The present study also reviews educational edu-cational work in Mexico since the coming com-ing of the Spaniards. Naturally most of the work was carried on under the auspices of the church. The mission is the best known and most useful of its establishments. In addition, the Catholic1 Catho-lic1 church gave Mexico its first formal schools and its universities. But the net result of such work among the lower classes was not great. "Some of the states, such as Jalisco, Kuevo Leon and Coahuila, have projected pro-jected admirable educational establishments. establish-ments. ' Members of Committee. The committee comprised Dr. Norman Nor-man Bridge, Los Angeles; Frank J. Goodnow, president Johns Hopkins university uni-versity ; David Starr Jordan, chancellor chan-cellor of Leland Stanford, Jr., university; uni-versity; Harry Pratt Judsoo, president University of Chicago; Henry C. King, president Oberlin college ; Samuel C. Mitchell, president University of Delaware; Dela-ware; John Basse (t Moore, Columbia university; Arthur W. Page, editor ot the World's Work; Theodore X. Price, writer on economics; Leo S. Rowe, professor of political economy at the University of Pennsylvania; George B. Win ton of Vanderbilt university, f or-merlv or-merlv connected with education works in the republic, of Mexico, and Charles William Dnbney, president University of Cincinnati, who acted as chairman. The committee brought to its assistance assist-ance Senor Anders Gsuna, formerly general gen-eral director of primary education in the federal district of Mexico; Senor Uzequicl A. Chavez, formerly president of the National University of Mexico, and Professor I. J. Cox of the University Univer-sity of Cincinnati. |