Evening Star Newspaper, September 8, 1935, Page 60

New Educational Plans (Continued From First Page.) who preach social welfare. present time Uncle Sam has allotted $50,000,000 to be advanced to college students this year. Some of these young Americans will get their first taste of communism within college halls. Instances may be rare, but they are existent nevertheless, the professors say. As a specific problem in the field | of education, the professors point to the land grant colleges and univer- sities, of which are some 200 in the Midwest. These institutions are said to be mostly influenced by their own departments of agriculture. Some of the most important appointments to the faculties, lucrative posts all, are directly due to the agricultural mind— the professors say—whereas, appoint- ments to all college faculties shouid be made on the basis of minds con- versant with all the elements of a rounded education. Where the opposite is true, where the president of a college fails to bring in diversified talent, students come out lop-sided. Their only sal- vation is to be placed under the tute- lage of professors free from narrow influences. Fortunately, American col- leges contain thousands of such men and women. Where the land grant colleges are apt to be unduly influenced by the | argricultural mind, its natural domi-| nating influence, other colleges and universities have as their outstanding enemy the political mind. Another danger is the appointment of college presidents trained only in one subject —as, for example, chemistry. These professors say, such a man is liable ‘o lay too much stress on his own sug- ject, to the neglect of others equally or more important. They clamor Joudly for men well versed in all the activities of educational life. In tak- ing their stand against the old order. in this respect. they advocate the ap- pointment of philosophers as college and university administrators. ACT of the matter is, philosphers are being called upon to change the complexion of American college life. They intend to provide new means for an adequate general edu- cation, claiming that all the provisions necessary are now set up and func- tioning for the training of specialists. ‘There are several plans—the Chicago plan and the Cincinnati plan—de- vised to improve on the old methods, but the professors are not in agree- ment on the workability of any of these. They take, rather, as the core of their problem, words uttered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who said in a speech not long ago “The necessities of our time demand that men avoid being set in grooves, that they avoid the occupational predestination of the older world, and that in the face of change and devel- opment in America they must have 8 sufficiently broad and comprehen- sive conception of the world in which they live to meet its changing prob- lems with resourcefulness and prac- tical vision.” This the professors hold up as a good sign-post for the youth of today entering the colleges and universities. All of them are not,going to be spe cialists. Those who are going aft the broader education, the more lib- eral education, would do well to bear the President’s thought in mind—the professors say. The idea is to guide young men and women into the channels of life where they will serve usefully—a ben- efit to society and a profit to them- selves. Within the next four years— or before the present crop of fresh- men come from the acagemic halls— the new education, with its simple innovations, will have advanced to a | point of fruition. It just has to de- velop because of the changing times. Reduced State appropriations and curtailed budgets have been the order in the past six years of college life. Some of these colleges have been re- duced to sad levels. At least 10 of them went out of business. The de- pression resulted in lower salaries for professors. Old men were replaced by inexperienced young men. Smaller salaries drove many men out into other lines of work. So, the colleges have taken a reef in their belts. Be- cause of necessity many of the old luxury courses must go. Presidents, professors, and parents are all in the same boat, so far as certain economic strains are con- cerned—and these three forces are at last getting together in considering the future of American college youth. The parents, as one educator ex- presses it, constitute the 1935 dynamo that controls the educational system. What the parents demand, says this professor, “will be gobbled up by the administrators of our colleges and I place emphasis on the word gobble. At last, the parent is being recognized as a factor in education. The admin- istrator, be his school a college or a university, will have no school unless parents decide to send their sons and daughters to him. The modern parent cannot operate like the parent of old— for the modern parent, as a rule, has been through the mill. It was the old-fashioned father whe said, “My boy, fortunately, won't have to go through what I did.” That was held up as some terrifying experience. | Btill, the worst that can happen to | any man is merely a test of his fiber. | There is an old proverb, Gold must be | tried by fire. The professors call at- | tention of modern parents to this in the event they want to shield their offispring from the realities of life. As one professor puts it, “The suffer- Ing of the 1935 child, devoid of 1910 opportunities, could never be so great as the mental torture of the father who does not want his son to suffer as he did. It sounds paradoxical but it's true. If the child is spared a certain amount of hardship in young life it may all be made up for later on when the individual, in later years, is least able to endure punishment. The time to take the rap is while the arteries are not quite hardened.” THAT too much coddling of the young is dangerous, the old pro- fessor proves by an illustration. He had an easy-going pupil. The boy got regular checks from home. After | giving the lad a lecture on his laziness, the professor told him: “You are a grade chaser. Why do you not study for the rewards yielded only by honest inquiry?” “You don’t understand,” the boy| replied. “I'm getting along all right. My parents send me checks right along. The university sends grades and hohor points. The only important thing is that last semester I received 50 honor points. The semester before that I got only 48. You see, I am two | points to the good.” Where the parent makes his usual mistake, the professor points out, is | in boasting of high grades and points scored by his son or daughter—or by pointing out, -in the presence of the | youth, the smart conversation these Joungsters are able to carry off— At the | ywise.cracking of the literati and the. | campus this Fall going to do for him- | self? That is the question the pro-| | fessors advise each one of them to | to two if they go at it hammer and } when, as a matter of fact, it may be | nothing more nor less than the thin | veneer of modern-day thought, the sophisticates and all learned poll- parrot fashion. , And now for the youngsters them- selves. What is the young student as he stands alone on the American frame. What will be at the end of the four years ahead? | The thing for the boys and girls entering college today to remember is this: That many of their daddies started real worthwhile careers at the ages of 16, 18 and 21. That is where comparisons of for- mer generations with the present aca- demic crop offers a startling dif- ference. . The boys and girls of today are get- ting a late start toward their careers. For that reason, the professors hope to work out a plan in the near future where college courses may be cut down anywhere from a year to two in conformity with changed conditions. Diligent students can easily, the pro- fessors say, condense four years' work tongs, and side-step the social activi- ties. This they can do by thinking ahead to the job that awaits them if they prepare properly for it. Nature demands that even the col- lege graduate fight and struggle for existence. With this advice, the professors tell the new generation to go to it— and do the best they can. MASONIC Scottish Rite day will be observed today at the open air religious services on Temple Heights at 4 o'clock under the direction of Dr. John C. Palmer, grand chaplain of Masons. The ad- dress will be delivered by Dr. Allan A. Stockdale, pastor of the First Congre- gational Church. The music, under th direction of J. Walter Humphrey, will be provided by the Scottish Rite | Quartet. composed of J. Walter Hum- phrey, Carl S. Kerr, Horatio A. Rench and Newton T. Hammer, accompanied by Past Grand Master Harry G. Kim- ball. The special guests will be members of the Scottish Rite bodies as follows Mithras Lodge of Perfection, Evan- gelist Chapter Rose Croix, Robert de Bruce Council of Kadosh and Albert Pike Consistory headed by Ellwood P, Morey, deputy of the Supreme Coun= cil for the District of Columbia; Ar- thur P. Hayes, secretary general of these bodies. Capitol Chapter, R. A. M., will re- | sume its activities Friday evening with | the Past and Most Excellent degrees. At its meeting last Tuesday night, King David Lodge was visited by Mr. Murray, superintendent of the Ma- sonic and Eastern Star Home. Mas- ter Joseph W. Marshall and Past Mas- ter Parry outlined the numerous im- provements recently made at the home. Mr. Murray introduced one of the boys from the home, who enter- tained. At the lodge’s September 17 meeting the Master Mason's degree will be conferred. The suggested amend- ments to the by-laws will be acted upon in October. De Molay Commandery will hold a conclave Tuesday evening. There will be a short business meeting followed by drill practice. All members of the drill team are requested to be present. Mop Up on Elm Blight. FORCE of nearly 4,000 men, taken | largely from relief rolls, has started a second scouting of the Dutch elm disease area which center around New York. The entire section visited in the first inspection is to be gone over again to see if the disease has de- veloped in trees passed over the first time. All suspected trees are to be destroyed. for that is the only method of control known at this time. Since the Federal campaig.. to stop the spread of Dutch elm disease began two years ago, 10,545 cases of the dis- ease have been confirmed by labora- tory tests. All but 720 of these trees already have been destroyed. In ad- dition, 483.201 dead or dying elms have been removed as possible sources of new infection and 231,312 mort | have been marked ior destruction. | The Connecticut-New York-New Jersey area has been scouted once this season. The scouts are now going over it again, with special attention to | the critical safety zone—a strip of land 10 miles wide outside the outer line of known infection. This zone is extended slightly from time to time as scouts discover diseased trees within | the zone. In the only other States where Dutch elm disease is known to have occurred—Virginia, Maryland, Indi- ana and Ohio—some further evidence of the infection has been noted in the last month, says Lee A. Strong, chief of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. He has received reports from the field forces that two more diseased trees were found near | the one discovered some time ago in | Norfolk, Va.; seven near the four | found in Indianapolis, Ind., in 1934 and another in Ohio. | The source of the infection—which | has been present in the United States since 1930—has been traced definitely | to infected logs shipped from Europe through the ports of New York, Nor- folk, Baltimore and New Orleans and sent by rail to veneer plants in a num- ber of States. Federal plant quaran- tines have been imposed to prevent entry of any more foreign logs or lum- ber harboring the dangerous spores. However, says Mr. Strong, the success | of the campaign to keep the American i elm from going the way of the Ameri- | can chestnut still hangs in the bal- ance. Entomologists and pathologists working on the problem cannot yet answer several very vital questions concerning the disease. For example, as yet it is not known in how many ways or by how many agents the dis- ease organism may be spresd. Ento- mologists have proved that the small Enropean elm bark beetle, present in | large numbers in New York, New Jer- sey ahd Connecticut, can transm:: the infection from one tree to another, but this species of beetle, however, is not known to occur in Virginia, Maryland, Indiana or Ohio. Hot Dog! P IN the section around Strouds- | | burg, Pa., the roadside stands go in for hot dogs on a big basis. In| fact, the signs along the roadway an- nounce proudly the largest hot dog in the world. A full 12 inches of frankfurter is served each patron with | the accompanying roll for 10 cents. | The ads proudly proclaim “A Meal for & Dime.” , WASHINGTON, e All-Water Cold Cream Complexion Soap Marvelous value! }I;ntgers efasily in ard or soft water. Large size cakes, doz. C delicately scented. 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