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Show Social Unrest -Is Discussed byjducaiors Social Revolution Threatening, as a Result of Concentration of Wealth In Hands of a Few, Independence Touched Upon Oakland, Cal., Aug. Aug. 18. Social So-cial unrest, arraignment of tho rural schools, discussion of teaching moth-ods moth-ods nnd organization politics woro subjects today beforo tho fifty-third annual convention of the Rational Education association. Politics received re-ceived tho most nttentlon. Halls and lobbies took on the ap-pearanco ap-pearanco of a stato political convention, conven-tion, but thero was said to bo no further change in tho situation ot yesterday which Indicated, according to many delegate1?, that Dr. David B. Johnson, president ot tho Wlnthrop Normal and Industrial college of Rock hill, S. C, would bo nominated tomorrow to-morrow for tho presidency and that Miss Grace C. Strachan, district superintendent sup-erintendent of schools Brooklyn, N. Y., would carry her fight for tho honor hon-or to the floor ot tho convention. She claimed today that tho women who predominated in tho convention would support her. An analysis ot conditions among wago earners, which were declared to threaten social revolution was given beforo tho department on administrative adminis-trative problems by Frodorlck W. Roman, professor ot economics nt Syracuse Sy-racuse university, Syracuse, N. Y. Foresees Social Revolution "Wealth Is being concentrated moro and moro in the hands ot the fow," Professor Roman said. "Tho effect ot this tendency Is expressing Itself dally In a threatening social revolution revolu-tion Just ahead of us. "Strikes ot enormous proportions aro occurring dally. Civil strife has been so great In recent years that ono may Bay tho militia or tho fed-oral fed-oral troops aro busy restoring order In one or moro sections of tho country coun-try all tho tlmo. "We. can't hope to hold tho material mate-rial blessings which wo now enjoy unless our schools nro able to social ize our peoplo moro fully. "Tho problom will not be solved by vocational schools which havo material ma-terial production for their goal. Tito nows at the present time Is vocational vocation-al schools able to tako due cognlzanco of tho Industrial Btrlfo being waged so bitterly between those that havo and tlioso that havo not. "Tho vocational school curriculum must dovoto a largo part ot Us tlmo to tho study ot problems connected with wages, citizenship and democracy. democra-cy. "Tho greatest problem beforo tho American peoplo Is tho question Involving In-volving tho dlstilbutlon of goods that wo havo nlready produced and not how to train boys and girls to pro-duco pro-duco moro and better goods at less expense In shortor time. "Moro food and clothing now nro produced iier capita than at nny previous pre-vious tlmo In history, yet there Is great discontent among workers." Criticizes Rural Schoolhouses nural schools were termed tho worst typo of buildings In tho country by Dr. Thomas D. Wood, professor of physical education at Columbia university, un-iversity, N. Y. "About ono half of tho 20,000,000 school children In tho United States attend rural schools," ho said. "Country children attending rural schools nro Ipss healthy and nro handicapped han-dicapped by moro physical defects than city children, Including tho chil dren of tho slums. "Rural schools, from tho standpoint stand-point of health and fitness for their uses, nro tho worst typo of building in tho wholo country, Including not only tho types of buildings used for human beings, hut also thoso used for pigs nnd all domestic animals. Better teachers, hotter pay fm- them bettor buildings, sanitation and moro rigid health examinations of tho chll-dred chll-dred woro remedies suggested by Dr. Wood. Ono ot tho most Importnnt of tho congresses In session today was that on music education. Interesting nddressos, somo of thorn Illustrated on tho music of tho Hindoos, tho natives na-tives of tho Phlllpplno Islands tho Chinese, tho Hawaiian and Uiq Jnpn-neso Jnpn-neso woro given tonight. War Opens Great Opportunity Amorlcnn universities must bo-como bo-como tho centers of tho Intellectual llfo ot tho noxt generation as a rosult of tho Europoon wnr, Frank Strong, chancellor of tho University of Kansas, Kan-sas, told tho department congress on educational investigations. Dr. Strong snld that tho world looks to America to mako good tho Inovltnblo letdown In tho tremendous Intellectual development in scionco for which In tho past fifty years Germany Ger-many has been largely responsible," and to tako up most burdens which tho French and English schools have boon obliged to a considerable degree, de-gree, to lay down." To moot tho problem, tho speaker suggested that It Is necessary to main tain .tho Independence of tho American Ameri-can teacher. "Most disquieting things havo happened hap-pened In many universities In tho this year," he continued. Tho stato ment has been mado that thero aro at least ten institutions, ono of them 1 great private Institution In which a 1 teacher or administrator has been dls- D missed without a reason so adequate Vj as to bo convincing to tho university T. community and to tho public. v TT "Uncertainty as to tho indopond- n ence of tho teacher undermines con- U fldenco In regard to everything that is done In the institution." I |