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i uesuay, .uaitxi i, place upon his bier this short tribute: "After this litful fever he sleeps well, no steel, nor poison malice, domestic, foreijrn. nay, nothing:, can touch him further." Francis H. Weston. Columbia. <qi RESi .T THE PRUSSIANISM OF EDUCATION Bishop Warren A Candler in Southern Christian Advocate. Quite apart from what is commonly understood by "the doctrine of states' rights" the centralization of power in the federal government is not good for the Union any more than it is good for the states. It must inevitably put too much strain on the center of our governmental structure,: and in the same proportion diminish the efforts of the states to perform their proper duties. In the end that means ruin or revolution or both. Nevertheless, there has been for many years a steady trend towards ever-increasing centralization. In this the states themselves have been much to Diame. 1 ney nave jeen too reauy to renounce their rights and flee their duties in order to get money from the national treasury. The CommercialAppeal of Memphis put this matter well in a recent editorial: "It is beyond doubt that the national treasury has been regarded as a sort of legitimate grab-bag by too many of our forty-eight commonTOa?HJic Tt liuc VPW PJ1SV fOT" too many of the states to go along and have the national government look after things they should look after themselves. It has appeared as if the federal government were very, liberal on the one side, but at the same time it has been very exacting n on the other. The national government has been willing on most occasions to step in and help the states out financially, but the price it has demanded is that it be allowed to step in also politically and do something more than help out. The states are learning 10 tneir sorrow umi unancial dependence occasions political! i dependence. The states themselves,' while apparently the gainers, ?,are in reality the losers, since they are exchanging their birthright for a doubtful mess of pottage/' This evil tendency was greatlv aci celerated by the war. In the urgency of that great emergency the people were willing for the federal govern-! ment to exceed its powers and encroach upon the rights of the states' and invade the liberties of the citizen in order to del'oai the common enemy. By natural consequence bureaucrats' at Washington were permitted to do, some of the very things for which our forefathers rebelled 'against George! III. And now that the war has passed these men do not wish to lose their power or surrender their emoluments. As Governor Lowuen of Illinois said in a recent address, "The bureaus in Washington tasted the delights of power over fields which before had been exclusively occupied by the states. Propaganda, that new found weapon of all causes, good and bad, was employed to perpetuate these powers. Federal aid, generally speaking. is a bribe offered to the state governments to surrender their own proper functions.". Governor Lowden does not use too strong a word when he characterizes federal aid as a "bribe;" and what is more, the people are bribed with their own money. The government has no money ex cepi what it extracts from the pockets of the people, and in carrying it up to Washington and bringing it back again to the people the gatherers of taxes and the dispensers of appropriations have to be paid, and thereby much of the money of the pecple is lost in going from them and coming back to them. Nothing is gained by looking to the government ior everytnm^ we warn. Even when no inequity is practiced in the distribution of public funds, the people can get no more out of the treasury than thcv put in it. But inequity is inevitable when the treasury is turned into a grab-bag. Long arms and big hands grab far more than their just share. Thereby the strongare enriched and the weak are im poverished. The whole thing gravitates at last into socialism of the worst sort. Liberty is sacrificed while the treasury :j looted. Public interests are not served by such methods, but rather they are dominated and controlled by those who get possession of the machinery of government. Bad precedents are set. an^ worse courses are then by them justified. Power is first usurped and then claimed as a right * ' * * l- I ....U,, 1 t>y tne men wno maKe ana run bureaus, and the people are devoured under fair pretences of "benevolent assimilations." Their masters assure. them that onlv their ?or d is intended j by their subjection to bureaucraticj authority. This is a very real peril to our civilization just now. In his j ? > , _ | annual report to tne trustees 01 <^o- j Ium:>ia university, President Nicholas1 I Murray Butler pu- th:> natter in clearest li.uht a few w.-e;; ayo. said: "In the United Stutes we are in i defiance cf all our jit-is; '.aimea pnr nl?>c hii;! (i n L1' ;i scries bureaucracies that wiii pui : > sha the best efforts of the ?;>vi rnment the Tsar of all the Russians when the heyday of its ?;<>rv. We are s rounded by agents, snc -ia: agents, spectors and spies, an 1 the people called upon to support through tli taxes in harmful an i un-American tIvities whole armies of individu who should be enquired in product industry. When anything appears ?o wronjj, or when any desira movement seems to lair, a cry goes for the creation of some new board commission, and for an appropriat of public funds to support it in r sonable comfort. An infinite nun: of blank forms must be filled and infinite number of records must kept, classified and audited at st'.*;" ly mounting: cost. For a ionix ti the excellent limitations of the erican form 01 lecierai governm held these movements in check, so as the national government itself \ concerned. When, however, the Tenuous discovery was ma le that national government might aid states to do what lay within th province, but was denied to the tional government itself, the door \ opened to a host of schemes. Th have followed er.ch other in rapid s cession, all urged with a cert amount of plausibility and with anneal to kindlv sentiment, u:u; supported by vigorous p^cpugai and zealous paid agents." Dr. Butler points out how th< processes have been carried on w reference to education until they h: become a damage to education as v* as a menace to good government, says most truly that "there has be over-organization for a long ti Light-Si SEDA! $1751 f. o. b. Factory i ! I I i I I I I I: i M==^k ffi// \m//Mm^. fwm Pig| kmlip WSkT ^iiiz fit V pi ll w i } -k j \r\ ' r :he l ot) n:;.r.y persons are engager lit* ii supervising. in inspett:;;g, and in j recording the work of other persons. l... ri he ;c iI- <> much n::u hinerv. and in1 !.u # j_ r?>i:s< 'j'u .'K'c a ste:tuv temptation t o # ()r !.:y move stress upon the l'orai of ed-! m0 ; ucation than upon its content." of Tin so bui i aucratic tendencies in in education arc now moving towards ur- making a fed*>r;:l d-pavtmen of edin v.vatioM of the same kind as the deare part men t of agriculture or the departicir ivent of the interior. and I>r. Butler ae- niost \vi>e!y and strongly deprecates iais the proposal. His position is a sound ive one, and the people should be aroused to against this dangerous measure before +Vw? nmnno'inrHsix o f the movement w r * . up J have aceompplished their dangerous oY purpose. He speaks as follows, and ion his words are most weighty: <-'a" I "It is now proposed to bureaucra-j ^ei' ti::e and to bring into uniformity the an education of the whole United States he while muking the most solemn assurtdi auce that nothing of the kind is in-, in*. tended. The glory and the successes Lin-' of education in the United States are ont due to its freedom, to its unevenness.' far; to its reflection of ihe needs and amvas bitions and capacities of local cornin inanities, and to its being kept in the dose and constant touch with the the people themselves. There is not moleir ney enough in the United Stale?, even .->0 ,+ ,.f i't ivc>r(i PYnpnrled lit" 11 l' \ cit\ Kl\Jl iCi : \s ? IU x, .J. vas? on education, to produce by federal ese authority or through what is naively uc- called cooper:;4 ion between the fedain era! government and the several an states, educational result? tint would ;'i!y ho at all comparable with those that id:; h:.ve already been /earned under the ; frc e and natural system that has ese grown up among us. If tax-stipp ;r:ith : e;l education be first encouraged and v" imsected, and then little hv little i ell controlled by central authority, EuHo' ropean experience shews precisely '' ' J 1 T~ ~ t ] Wilai Will flapl'fll. ill J ;i t ci c *..'? mel schools of France are controlled from I *_ A fef : - f-?3> &&jZ*a $0^ Miii Your satisfaction with a Set r>ends largely unon const * Z> * A A you'll never see. Since yo \t see it, you want to be ail tin ^ certain what's there. ^ And the chances are you' from the manufacturer in wh( have the greatest confidence. Studebaker's reputation for fin work was established in your father's time. 1 his LIGHT-SIX Sedan body complete in Studebaker plar is as good as the chassis, last, without rattles or sque longas the chassis?and that's than the average life of man cars. There's nothing flimsy MO I I LIGHT-SIX 5-Pa3s., 112* W.B., 40 H.P. 5-1 Chases $ 875 Ch? Touring Car 1045 Toi Roadster (3-Pass.) 1045 Ro? Coupe-Roadster (2- Roe Pass.) 1375 Coi Sedan 1750 | Sed k ||MS!lpi^ Phon< nmIi U vrn-J!i!t.!?:;\^5J ^mr ? <*v Mf* F/^\ / '; ' %^%jgSk ??-A ^^ Vy^ra"?' . T :tf~ |fl!plyiKfiB V _^TV.! S ! S A ! ' wiliimii"1 inr? u 'M-iiiayXLUM'.1 JL Ji *" i 1 1 h? 111.ni.-iry of education ;n Paris, t they tend to h;;r.i; :i into uniform ma- ' chines, and it is only when freedom is ; uiven to deferent types of school or i to diiferent localities, that any real ! progress is made. Anything worse.] tha i the system which has prevailed ?. in Prussia would be diflieult to imag- < I inc. I' is universally acknowledged t that the unhappy decline in German university freedom and effectiveness * and the equally unhappy subjection'< of the educated classes to the dictates i of the political and military ruling i wm? t hr> :1:rr?f*t result of the I highly centralized and efficient control i from lierlin of the nation's schools Jand universities. For Americans now r to accept oversight and direction of t their tax-supported schools and col- f leges from Washington would moan i that they had failed to learn one of < the most weighty lessons of the war. f It is true that education is a national problem and a national responsible j ity; it is also true that it has >ecn j characteristic of the American people j + ~ mnct /lifiicnlt nntinual , problems and to bear their heaviest national responsibilities through their own action in the (ie!d of liberty rathrr than through the agency of 01 -, A ganized government. Once more to > tap the federal treasury under the guise of aiding the states, and once ^ more to establish an army of bu- ^ reaucrats in Washington and another armv of inspectors roaming at , ' r. fthe* land, will not only . " V r fa:l l'? .'ic-vOmpl'.^h any prnnn'nent nv men' in the v iucntion of our i) r: bill it w:H I'! (TcMiir^ i c-, ;-it n revolution in our American ^ f of government rs one day to en<] . ?rs perpetuity. Illiteracy will , iv. be sensibly diminished, if at all: | j b u-.'cral apnronriations. nor will the i s p! . . cal health of the people be there- rj bv improved. The ma or part of anv a a; ^ropriation that may be made will' CT.::iinIy be swallowed up in meeting, f t ; T 1 4 drn. .'.]> * this body. It has a st'J? 1 ' ] i 1 ri clicn c* selected ash, the :; u can't the purpose that can te n:ore _;!?? l-Igill SlUUL ??c,w piiiazc fioor to roof, insu: 11 buy strength and rigidity )m you freedom from body joints of the steel pan ecoach surface are perfectly \ grand- are hung with great pi freely and close wit! i .]t finality. Windows is built i t- . / KmHmrr Tr/of ^ YC* CO I itc anrl u,aul"6' * It will *^ey are rat^e"Pro?^ aks, as And unless you chi 5 longer with the quietness ar y other the LIGHT-SIX moto: / about disappointed. 3F-LS AND PRICES f. o. b. Factories SPECIAL-SIX I EI Pass., 112' W. B., 50 H. P. 7-P?s?., 126 issis $1200 Chassis 1 47!T T : iring 14/ j i vu[ui{; idfster (2-Pass.) !425 Coupe (4-Pa; id3ter (4-Pass.) 1475 Sedan ipe (4-Pass.) 2150 an 2350 McHARDY MOWE I ^ 1 ? I-/W iyiou luuiui ; 300 New 8?[ ' m is ipi mm wm - : IP Bmmi fi? $$P?S 5TUDEBAKER YEAR I he cost of doing ill that which should : lot be done at all. The true path of j uivance in education is to be found 11 the direction of keeping the peo>le*s M-hooIs closely in touch with the) jeopie themselves. Bureaucrats and j xperts will speedily tuke the life out ; >f even the best schools and reduce ! hem to dried and mounted specimens >f pedagogic fatuity. Unless the chool is both the work and the pride )f the community which it serves, it is iothin;r. A school system tha! grows ! laturally in response to the needs and , imbitions of a hundred thousand dif-: "erent localities, will be a better! ;choo! system than any which c:in >e imposed upon those localities by. he aid of grants of public money. 'rom the federal treasury, accom- j lanied by federal regulations, feder-J il inn?. federal renorts and i ' ? -* 'c(! era! 11 n if orm iti es." To put education under federal supervision and domination would be learly, if not quite, as bad as putting cliffion under such inspection and ontrol. In the South especially, with its. ^implications of race issues and rual prcblems, such federal directionj vould be most mischievous. It would; >e both irritating and injurious. We have quite enough federal bu-j eaucracy already. We want no more; ^he editor of the Memphis Commer al-Appeai is eminently correct wnun le Kavs, "The federal government is! leinjr encouraged t'> take over con-J ro! of the schools. The sintes should :ducato llvir own. The object of ihe neasure is ?o benefit teachers rather han pupils There is more bu-! c-.ucv;v.k in Washington now thnn: here is in England or in France. It s about as bad as the bureaucratic. ystem of Germany before the *.var.: ?he German system had this acvant-! ,ge. Prussian government officials (Continued on Page 6.) i i I i II * e ! ! rl -.r fram^-wnrtr ^est lumber for be bought. >, running from re permanent which means rattles. The els of the cuter velded. Doors recision?open h a sound of open without 1 i. il?i. 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