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...give us the proper chart by which to steer our educational course" President Hoover two years ago appointed the National Advisory Committee on Education. Chief question to be mulled over was whether to revive (not, as many people think, create) the Federal Department of Education which existed briefly after Congressman James Abram Garfield (see col. 3) helped establish it in 1867. Under Director Charles Riborg Mann of the American Council on Education and President Henry Suzzallo of the Carnegie Foundation, 52 savants labored and brought forth last fortnight a bulky report...
...girls have set up a chart to which the boys must conform. Intelligence counts twenty points, the highest. The ability to understand the word "no" counts five percent, the lowest. Which all boils down to the fact that a young man can be ninety-five percent perfect and have a pretty good time for a dime...
Ingeniously the clothing trade, usually identified with Babbitry, is glorified by sophisticated treatment. An example is the story of the rise & fall of starched collars as reflected in the glorious reign and ignominious fate of the Arrow Collar Man -"a national idol who never lived." A chart showing the tumble of starched collar sales from 1919 (the advent of the soft shirt) is surrounded by colored reproductions of Artist Joseph Christian Leyen-decker's unbelievably handsome creation at critical stages of his career from the "merry Oldsmobiling" days of 1907 to the present. Captions tell the story...
...greeted by a guide who is thoroughly familiar with the Expedition, its work, and its achievements. On the deck he is shown the quarters where Admiral Byrd lived and planned and commanded the 84 men of his Expedition. His quarters are preserved nearly intact. Visitors are shown the chart room, where the navigation of the ship on her long and difficult voyages was carried out. Farther aft, in the radio room, what is considered to be one of the most powerful instruments afloat, is to be inspected; this is the radio that carried dispatches and brought tidings of good cheer...
First need this year, reported the Council last week, is relief. But then "are we to continue indefinitely to drift . . . through lack of any adequate social planning? . . . Our economic life now seems to be without a chart." Chief trouble is the present distribution of wealth: "the stark contrast of vast fortunes and breadlines." The average worker earns (according to 1927 statistics) $23.17 a week; millions fall below the average. Of all the wealth in the U. S. in 1921, 33% was owned by 1% of the population; 64% by 10%. Society treats the needy in these times as if they...