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Show UNREST IS AIDED BY SCHOOLGONDITIONS SUCH IS CHARGE MADE BY PRESIDENT PRESI-DENT OF UNITED STATES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Says Short Sighted Policy in Failing to Recognize Dignity of Teaching Profession Has Led to Class Consciousness in Profession. Washington. Conditions In the public pub-lic schools are contributing much to unrest throughout the country, and the situation has become so serious that the states and the nation should co-operate to remedy them, according to a statement Issued by Joseph 11. Defrees, president of the United States Chamber of Commerce. "Our short-sighted policy In failing to recognize the dignity of the teaching teach-ing profession has led to a class consciousness con-sciousness in that profession which has made itself felt In the classroom and left Its Indelible Imprint upon the Impressionable minds of the young," declared Mr. Defrees, who adds that of the 500,000 public school teachers in the United States; ' One hundred thousand are under the age of 21; Thirty thousand have no education beyond the eighth grade ; One hundred and fifty thousand have no education beyond the third-year third-year high school ; and Four hundred and eighty thousand, or four-fifths of the total, have not had two years of special training, the minimum required in other countries. "One reason why radicalism has not made the same headway In the United States that it has in Europe," Mr. De-frees De-frees continues, "is the fact that hundreds hun-dreds of men occupying positions of the greatest Importance In this country coun-try began life as poor boys. But what have we got to say of the inequalities of education? ' "Eighteen thousand classrooms in this country are said to have stood Idle last year-through lack of teachers. Taking an average of twenty-five pupils pu-pils to each classroom, that means 450,000 children were either denied education altogether, or were crowded Into their classrooms, where they were given such education as they could got from an overworked, underpaid, un-dertrained un-dertrained teacher." |
