Show kindergartens for all children one of greater needs of the united states by MISS BESSIE LOCKE chief of c kindergarten division united states dureau bureau of 0 Edu education cadon those who are familiar with the fact that there are nearly a thousand kindergartens in greater new york k and that most of the large 0 cities have adopted them may be surp surprised risea to learn that throughout our country only 11 per cent of the children are in kindergarten making 89 per cent still for in other wards children are receiving this training of which nearly four million are deprived in a country which stands for equal privileges for all it is manifestly unfair that a few should he be enjoying this educational advantage while the large majority have to go without it our most advanced educators and parents are agreed that all children should receive kindergarten training 0 the question now is how to obtain it for more of thern them it is the belief of those who have looked deeply into this thio matter that most can be done by securing the right kind of kindergarten legislation in 1913 1013 mrs rowell president of the california state stale congress of moti mothers liers prepared a bill providing for the establishment li lish ment of kindergartens upon the petition of the parents or guar guardians diang of 25 children of kindergarten age living within one mile of an elementary 1 school i during the first year after this law was enacted there was but little growth because the parents of california were unfamiliar with it in 1914 the national kindergarten association appointed a field secre i tary N who dio is also a special collaborator of the united states bureau off of education to spend all her timo time making a known mown to parents the advantages chich the law allowed them to demand for their children childre ii site she has hag trav j I 1 cled clad thousands of miles written thousands of letters and delivered mi many zd addresses dresses and as a result the number of kindergartens in californian Califor california nial lias more than doubled what californians Californi aas have done surely the people of every other state can do for their children through the same means |