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Show JORDAN PLAN TO GET BIG AWARD REWARD OFFERED BY RAPHAIL HERMAN OF WASHINGTON WASHING-TON GIVEN EDUCATOR f25,000 Prize is Given for Best Plan to Maintain World Place; Plan Is Called Masterpiece ' Augusta, Dr. David Starr Jordan, chancellor emeritus of Leland Stanford Stan-ford university, educator, naturalist and author, has been awarded the prize of 525,000 offered by Raphael Herman of Washington, D. C, for the best educational plan calculated to maintain world peace. Announcement Announce-ment of the award was made here by Dr. Augustus 0. Thomas, commissioner com-missioner of education for Maine and president of the Wtorld Federation of Education associations, which directed direct-ed the contests. ' Thousands of plans were submitted for the consideration of the judges. The World federation of education organization was an outgrowth of the world conference on education which met at San Francisco in 1923. The award, Dr. Thomas explained, differs from that offered by Edward Bok in that it calls for no legislative legisla-tive action and will not be submitted to referendum vote. The plan selected, select-ed, it was stipulated, must be worldwide world-wide and capable of application in all schools. Dr. Jordan in his plan recommends that "the world federation make intensive in-tensive studies of certain matters pertinent per-tinent to world amity through the continuous operation of appropriate committees on education for peace, these to report at stated meetings of the federation and to the various national organization, corresponding to and including our own national education assocation, indicating at the same time lines of action likely to contribute toward international concord. Meanwhile, one must admit that any specified procedure can be at best only a step toward the development devel-opment of enlightened public opinion and cooperation in effecting mutual understanding among peoples." Indicating "certain lines of hopeful activity within the scope of the world federation, Dr. Jordan suggested that formation of a number of committees be made as follows : "The formation of a general world committee on education for peace to function in connection with the several sever-al educational groups in the different nations, and a second international committee to cooperate with many already al-ready established organizations for peace in all parts of the world. "A committee to investigate the present teaching of the history of the world, reporting also on textbooks used, their virtues and their delinquencies delin-quencies from the standpoint of international inter-national amity and stressing the need that history, whether elementary or advanced, should be just and true so far as it goes. Above all, history should not be perverted in the supposed sup-posed interest of national 'honor' or partisanship. "A committee on the teaching of patriotism which shall attempt to define de-fine its true nature, expressing Its value, its limitation and its perversions. perver-sions. "A committee to consider plans of promoting mutual international understanding un-derstanding on the part of students of various ages. "A committee to consider the pos- sibilities of better relations through the international use of athletic sports, especially those games which involve cooperative action or team play as distinguished from individual competition. "A committee to consider the possibilities pos-sibilities of a continuous effort to commit the visible influence of the government of the United States to a definite activity in behalf of peace by means of a bureau of conciliation in the department of state, or a peace council connected with the same department. |