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Show Educational Bill Wins Many Votes Thai the Towner-Sterling bill will i be enacted into law .giving the country a Department, of Education, with a Secretary in the President's ; Cabinet, was predicted at the oduca-j oduca-j tioual conference which has just closed in San Francisco, says a : Washington dispatch. ! Miss C. 0. Williams, past presi-j presi-j dent of the National Education As-j As-j sociation and its present field sec-! sec-! retary, says : "I have fell, the pulse of the people! on this question. They are for the TownerStorling bill. The people elect, the Congressmen who are intrusted in-trusted with the passage of the measure. mea-sure. As field secretary I am making mak-ing a comprehensive campaign of the forty-eight states to determine precisely pre-cisely what these gentlemen are thinking-. I have sent out 12,000 letters, let-ters, 15,000 pieces of literature, made i 25 field trips in sixteen states and j held 700 conferences throughout the j United States to check up every Uni-j Uni-j ted States Senator and Rep-csenta-' tive and a complete rel'ile of this information in-formation is made every three ' months. j "I therefore say with authority t that the conscientous Congressman and the politician alike are turning I up for tiie Towner-Sterling bill. Opposition Op-position comes from certain cnpital-' cnpital-' ists who work through organizations like the United States Chamber of , Commerce and other groups who profess pro-fess great consternation because j education is swelling t lie tax budget, j It costs So o,0 00 per month to man i one of Uncle Sam's battleships and ?10.000,000 to biuld one that will last twenty years. Why pick on education? educa-tion? "Of course, the layman needs" to i know as well as the capitalist. The (former is teachable; the latter 1; I not. So I have been developing lay-; lay-; man supnort for the program of the National Eduaction Association in its drive for better piofcssional efficiency, ef-ficiency, better teachers, salaries, and tenure laws. "We can not forget that there are sinister influences at work in Ameri-i Ameri-i ca which would undermine, if possible, pos-sible, the entire educational structure, struc-ture, divide taxes and supplant our present promise of a virile, forceful, progressive public service with two weak ineffectual ones, a public and a private administration. America j needs such buttresses as a Towner-j Towner-j Sterling legislation and neither poli-j poli-j tical medicine nor capitalistic in-j in-j fuences will be permitted to block j it." |