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Show Posts Urged To Form Education Committees Now INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Dec. 26 The National Americanism commission com-mission is urging every department depart-ment and every post to form a committee on education to assist school authorities in keeping schools open. A pamphlet is being compiled, and will be ready for distribution dis-tribution by the time this is published, pub-lished, giving startling facts as to the situation in education at this time. Some of these follow: The school budget of the nation has been reduced .$378,000,000 a year. Enrollments have increased more than 1,000,000 since 1930. Three million American children are without educational opportunities, oppor-tunities, because of poverty- and the slashing of educational budgets. More than 2,000 rural schools failed to open for one day this year. There are 30,000 fewer teachers this year; one out of every six will receive less than $450 for the school ,term, and many salaries are' being deferred. |