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Show SCHOOLS TO BE AIDED BY' GOVERNMENT MONEY School men of the United Stales are interesting themselves in the problems of readjustment and reconstruction which faco the United States, now that peace Is declaimed, and the following statemont with regard to comprehensive comprehen-sive and important educational methods meth-ods finds Mr. Henry C. Johnson a strong supporter. On October 10, 191S, Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia introduced into the United States senate the most comprehensive com-prehensive and important educational j measure that has ever been put before be-fore congress. The bill provides for an annual appropriation of $100,000,000 provided that sums in equal amount be appropriated by the several states, for tho purpose of aiding the states to carry on more successfully certain types of education which most vitally concern our national welfare. The main provisions of the bill (S 4987) aro as follows; j 1 For the removal of illiteracy, ?7,-, 500,000 anrfually. i 2. For the Americanization of for- j eigners. $7,500,000 annually. 3 For the equalization of education- j al opportunities within the several : states, particularly in rural and village schools, $50,000,000 annually. 4 To cooperate with the states in1 the promqtion of physical and health! education and re"croatlon, S20.000.000; annually. I 5 To extend and improve the facilities facil-ities for the preparation of teachers for public schools, and particularly the rural schools, $15,000,000 annually. 6 The creation of an executive de- nnrtmont Irnnwn nc flio flona rtmont nf education. with a secretary in the President's cabinet. This department j is to administer the educational work, of government which is assigned to it. This is the most comprehensive edu-1 cational measure that has ever gone; before congress. Some of our con-1 gressmen oppose this measure because they fear over-centralization. It seems' that it would be better to study the measure from the poin of a sensible plan of regulation by the federal government gov-ernment of most Important and nationwide na-tionwide institution. This bill should be studied by our people and settled by congress on a basis of efficiency aiid not of politics. As perhaps the greatest of national problems arising after peace, federal plans for education educa-tion should be determined with a sole view to national welfare. on |