Show 1 p b POSTWAR r OST MONEY JIAS HAS EffECT 0 ON N Public Should Not Expect More Than It Received in n 1911 CHICAGO March l 1 l 1 This country has baS no reason to expect t from its schools os more more culture efficiency and go good d citizenship for Its expenditures In 1922 than Ithan it It obtained In 1911 Job Wood Jr deputy superintendent of ot i public Instruction in California told Delegates attending the session of ot the National Edu Education association here today 1 x Pointing out that although expenditures expenditures expenditures expendi expendi- tures In 1921 as compared with In 1911 the purchasing power of the dol- dol Jar in 1921 was less than half halt that of ot 1911 and that the 10 10 per capita ex expenditure expenditure expenditure ex- ex for education in 1921 could purchase no more than the per capita in 1911 It has reason to expect no more I be he said but as a matter of ot fact It Is getting more the Increase being I chargeable to the devotion of ot the great body of teachers and school administrators administrators administrators adminis adminis- to the cause of ot better America I r What kind of ot a a- school system shall I I we have havo In 1931 It depends entirely upon pon the attitude of the American I people towards facts that are well known I do not doubt that the American Amerlean Amer Amer- I lean ican people when they know the facts will wUl gladly build and support a school lS system stem to match the nations nation's need The school system of ot 1931 will wUl frankly avail Itself of ot Intelligence tests to determine that point In the thel l scale cale of at Intelligence below which na native native native na- na tive endowment is so slight that effort to develop it Is wasted or largely wasted wasted- The school system of ot 1931 I should be expected to care only for Individuals who possess sufficient native native native na na- na- na tive endowment to justify education A sense of at responsibility and duty ft lL general knowledge of ot at least one human activity a trained mind re- re to the best Ideas and Ideals i whether old or new these new these in reasonable reasonable reason reason- I able tibIa measure are the fruits the country jas reason to expect from a generously generous generous- ly 11 y supported American school system One of ot the most vital suggestions for tor the Improvement of ot teachers' teachers in institutes institutes institutes in- in according to Georgiana Lommen Lommen Lom- Lom men of ot the University of ot Minnesota who spoke before the rural department of the tho association Is the one calling for the reorganization of ot the Institute from that of ot a chautauqua type to one more nearly resembling a school of In Investigation Investigation In- In investigation and study of ot local needs and problems Proportionately less effort erfort should be made to render paternalistic aid to the farmer and greater stress should be laid on the obligation and necessity of the farmers farmer's assuming his own responsibilities responsibilities Z Z M JM Smith of ot Lafayette Ind said before the rural department i A. Cession In discussing Junior extension work |