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Show DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION A distinguished jurist recently said: "Everybody who wants something solved or somebody saved, regenerated or reformed, is urning to national legislation to accomplish this puroose." The educators of the nation appear to have adoDted this form-ila. form-ila. At the recent meeting in Washington the legislative commission commis-sion of the National Education association went on record in favor f the bill before congress creating a department of education with i secretary in the cabinet at its head, to "meet the nation's most undamental need." Departments of state and secretaries of the cabinet are politi-;al politi-;al entities. Schools, like the church, should be kept free from political association. The states have ample powers to administer md control their schools. Federal participation in this respect is subject to grave question. Bureaucratic development already hreatens the permanency and stability of democracy. If the na-ion na-ion is to have a department of education, it might as well have a iepartment of public morals. Cincinnati Enquirer. |