PAoasnt THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM MONDAY, DEC. 9, 1918. THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND BUN-TELEGRAM Published Every Evening Except Sunday, by Palladium Printing Co. Palladium Building, North Ninth and Sailor Street Entered at the Post Office at Richmond. Indiana. a3 Sec ond Class Mall Matter. MEMHEn OP THE ASSOCIATED FRKSS Th Associated Press Is xcluslrely entitled to the use for republication of all nwi dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local uews published herein. All right of republication of spe cial dispatches herein are also reserved, i $1 00,000,000 For Education Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia introduced a bill in Congress on October 10 providing for the most important educational measure that has ever been presented to the national legislators and the country generally. It provides an annual appropriation of $100,000,000, provided the sev eral states appropriate sums in equal amount, for the development of certain types of education deemed vitally necessary for the improvement of our commonwealth. The main provisions of the measure follow: , 1. For the removal of Illiteracy. $7,500,000 annually. 2. For the Americanization of foreigners, $7,500,000 annually. . For the equalization of educational opportunities within the several states, particularly in rural and village schools, $50,000,000 annually. 4. To cooperate with the states in the promotion of physical and health education and recreation, $20,000,000 annually. 6. To extend and improve the facilities for the pre paration of teachers for public schools, and .parti cularly the rural schools, $15,000,000 annually. 6. The creation of an Executive Department known a the Department of Education, with a Secretary In the President's Cabinet. This Department is to administer the educational work of the govern ment which is assigned to it. The National Education association has col lected data which reveal astounding facts. We discovered in the first selective draft that there were 700,000 illiterates between 21 and 31 years old in the United States. The 1910 census showed 5,500,000 illiterates of 10 years and over, or one in every 13 was illiterate. Indiana, according to the 1910 census, had 47,914 illiterates. Its share of the congressional fund would be $95,540.52 annually, which with the state's allotment of a like amount, would make $191,081.04, or $4 for each illiterate, available for this phase of educa tion. An insignificant sum compared with the good that would accrue to the state if ignor ance and its attending evils superstition, pau perism, poor citizenship, vice and crime, would be removed. Indiana has 159,663 foreign born, according to the 1910 census. The congressional allotment for the Americanization of the foreign born would be $88,612.97, and a sum in the same amount from the state, would give $177,225.94 annually to make aliens patriotic Americans. Supporters of the bill adduce these reasons why the nation should co-operate with the states in the Americanization program: 1. Foreigners are admitted to the country under Nat ional law. 2. They are privileged to participate freely in a demo cratic government. 3. Their contribution to national welfare Is in pro portion to the training in Americanization afford- ! ed them. , 4. The permanency of a competent democracy rests on the intelligence and patriotism of its citizenry. The per capita wealth in the United States is about $1,712.77; there is one teacher for a popu lation of 163.91, and the wealth back of each teacher is $280,754.08. Comparing the salaries paid to teachers with the country's wealth, it is easy to see that they are being underpaid. Ind iana has 19,648 teachers and would receive from Congress. $1,578,520.32. An equal amount from the state would give $3,157,040.64. The Bill provides that no State shall share in this fund unless it has at least twenty-four weeks of school in each district, unless it enforces an adequate com pulsory school attendance law, and unless it provides that "the basis language of Instruction in the common school tranches in all schools, public and private, shall be the English language only." The Bill now in the Senate provides $20,000,000 annually by Congress "to cooperate with the States In the promotion of physical and health education and recreation." including "the medical and dental examination of children of school age, the determina tion of mental and physical defects in such children, the employment of school nurses, the establishment and maintenance of school dental clinics, and the in struction of the people in the principles of health and sanitation." Indiana's population in 1910 was 2, 700,876. She would therefore receive from Congress . for physical and health education $87,440.53 annually. An equal amount from the State would make avail able $1,174,881.06 annually. The Palladium has asserted for a number of years that the nation cannot expect capable men and women to enter the profession at the ridicul ously low salaries that are paid. Young men and women will not spend thousands of dollars to prepare for a profession that hardlypays a de cent return on the investment. The Bill now before Congress provides $15,000, 000 annually, and demands an equal amount by the States, "to cooperate with the States in preparing teachers for the schools, particularly rural schools" '.'to prepare teachers, to encourage a more nearly universal preparation of prospective teachers, to ex tend the facilities for the improvement of teachers al ready in service, to encourage through the establish ment of scholarships and otherwise a greater number of 'talented young people to make adequate prepara tion for public-school service, and otherwise to pro vide an increased number of trained and competent teachers." This money is to be apportioned on the public school teacher basis, and amounts to $24.10 per teacher for the promotion of teacher-preparation. Indiana had 19,648 public school teachers in 1915-1316. She would receive $473,516.80 for the pur poses named above. Doubling this amount would make available a minimum of $947,033.80 for teacher preparation in her tax supported normal schools and colleges. The bill provides for the creation of an exe- i cutive department with a secretary in the presi- den t cabinet. This feature is an important one. In a democracy the safety of the state depends upon the education of the people. Education is not a state, district, parochial or local problem, !but has national significance. It deserves rec- i ognition by representation in the cabinet. The present bill is the most comprehensive school measure that has ever been presented to the American people. It seeks to obviate some of the greatest evils of the present system. Its enactment into law will be a boon to the educa tional system and of positive good to the public iDiriuer S tor IGi9 Masonic Calendar An elderly church warden. In Phav Ing himself one Sunday before cln'rch ; time, mado a slight cut with t he razor on Ihe extreme end of his noao. Quick-. ly calling hi wife, he asked her if she , hnd any court plaster in the house.' "You will And .onm in my sewing bas ket," nhr pnld. The warden soon had ; the cut covered. I A tho church. in assisting with the collection, he noticed everyone smile as ho passed the plate. Very much annoyed, he asked a friend if there was anything wrmiT with hl3 apyear ance. "Vell I f-hould sny there is," was the answer. "What ,1s that on your nose?" "No," snid the friend, "it Is the label off a spoel vt cotton. It says 'War ranted 200 yards long"." j The proprietor of a traveling me- j nacrerie had trained a Hon and a Iambi to live together In the same eag". The unusual r.ieht was always well ' advertined beforehand, and Invariably) proved a big draw. Presently, how-i ever, there came a time when the at traction ceased to figure in the show, , an dtho showman was asked the rea son. "Had to separate "em," he replied gloomily. "Irdcd. Did he turn savage then? I thought ho looked like such a mild o!d Hon." "Lion," Interrupted the showman. "Uon be Mowed! It was the lamb. When he crow up ho started butting like a battering ram Used to knock the poor lion about something shame ful.- Monday, Dec. 9. Richmond Com mandary No. 8, K. T. Special conclave. Work in K. T. degree. Tuesday, Dec. 10. Richmond Lodge No. IDC, F. and A. M. Called meeting. Work in Entered Apprentice degree, 7:00 p. m. Wednesday, Dec. 11. Webb Lodge, No. 24, F. and A. M. Called meeting. Work in Master Mason degree. Thursday, Dec. 12. Richmond Com mandary No. 8, K. T. Special con clave. Work in Red Cross dejrreo. OF BROOKLYN Friday, Dec. 13. King Solomon's Chapter No. 4, R. A. M. Stated convocation. LONG AFTER Influenza Reports Show That Strength, Energy and Ambition Re turn Very Slowly to Grippe Patients. Telh Mow She Was Made Well by Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound. Lynn, Ind. 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