. The National Civic Federation review . of that State, do see. Think of five school-masters as her State Board of Vocational Educa-tion developing by themselves the vocationaltraining of the wage-earners of wonderful De-troit and all other places in Michigan. And soof almost every State, except the thirty-threestates having politician-superintendents electedthrough political machinations by popular vote,who run the whole show. I trust that I have shown enough to demon-strate that at bottom our educational difficultiesare not financial. Money, of itself, may only fixupon the country for a cons
. The National Civic Federation review . of that State, do see. Think of five school-masters as her State Board of Vocational Educa-tion developing by themselves the vocationaltraining of the wage-earners of wonderful De-troit and all other places in Michigan. And soof almost every State, except the thirty-threestates having politician-superintendents electedthrough political machinations by popular vote,who run the whole show. I trust that I have shown enough to demon-strate that at bottom our educational difficultiesare not financial. Money, of itself, may only fixupon the country for a considerable period thepresent defective leadership. This Conference 24 The National Civic Federation Review September 2f>, 1920 has emphasized the poor quality of our schools,rural and city, but the country is safer wihthem where they are than with an exclusive,talkative, and unseeing leadership. Everyone inindustry wants and will fight for ample teach-ers salaries, but employers buy quality. The How proper instruction improves workers-. Swk 3wk 4wk 5wk 6wk 7wk — Lenqth of lime under instruction.— The Sharp Downward Points Are for Saturday Half-Day Production best employers will pay any price for us have it in our educational lame horse is dear at any price; a thorough-bred is cheap at any price. Our rural teachersaverage up to our leadership. If they didnt theywouldnt be where they are. Each social force both gains and gives in co-operative endeavor with all others. No singlesocial endeavor can gain anything worth whileexcept by such cooperation. Let us, with a newspirit, work together and refuse to work apart. Possibly no one in this country has happenedto have more experience than myself in jointconferences of educators, employers, and men oflabor, meeting for the promotion of the educa-tion of the body of our people, each of thesegroups adequately and about equally representedin each conference and com-petent by its numbers (neververy large) and
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