JUNE 1925
Page Thirty-one
THE UNITED AMERICAN
FIGURES IN SUPPORT OF PROHIBITION
rTHE NUMBER of individual savings bank accounts
1 in America have increased tremendously during
the last few years, according to a report from the
American Bankers’ Association. In fact these accounts
have more than doubled in the five-year period from
1919 to 1924. In 1919 there were in round numbers
eighteen million such accounts. In 1924 there were
nearly thirty-nine million.
From 1914 to 1918 there was an increase of only
6,164. In 1918, when the prohibition law went into
effect, the number increased by 7,738,501. This
enormous difference is partly to be accounted for by
the fact that 1914-1918 were war years. Another
reason advanced for this splendid showing of thrift
is the closing of the American saloon.
Prohibition may have given us some very knotty
state and national problems, but there can be little
argument that it is the chief factor behind the increase
in individual savings accounts. The man who has
stopped spending his earnings in a careless manner
and has acquired the habit of saving and adding regu
larly to his reserve has automatically changed his
mental attitude, and the shiftless individual has been
transformed into a constructive citizen with plans
for the future and an interest in the welfare of his
country.
CONQUERING EVIL
By H. H. Schroeder
A CERTAIN king was accused by some of his
officers of doing good to his enemies, showing
them kindness. He said: “If I make my enemy
into a friend, do I not conquer him?” For ages men
have resisted each other in the spirit of ill will,
hatred, jealousy, revenge, and what has been the
result? A state of chaos, ruin. This may be applied
to the life of every individual as well as the life of
the nations. When we have peace of mind within
our own soul, we may attain harmony through our
physical organism as well, but we allow ourselves to
get into the spirit of discord and inharmony through
jealousy, fear, anxiety, eventually it reacts upon us
physically, for these mental disturbances cause
physical disorders. Love is the great adjuster of all
our affairs, our mental, physical, domestic, social,
national troubles.
A GOOD FORMULA
By Rt. Rev. W. Bertrand Stevens; The New Age
T F WE WHO profess religion do not believe in it
* with a consuming passion, we cannot expect
religious ideals to dominate. The compelling need to
day in religion is for men and women who care about
it with every fibre of their being. There is no work
able substitute for the formula: “Thou shalt love the
Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy
soul and with all thy mind and thy neighbor as thy
self,” yet we try to convince ourselves that there is.
Righteousness is the giving of one’s whole self to good
and God — the projection of one’s personality out into
the world in behalf of God’s plan and purpose.
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PROGRAM
OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ADULT EDUCATION
OF THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
of the United States
IN ANNUAL CONVENTION
AT INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA
Meetings in Y. W. C. A. Building
Monday and Tuesday Afternoons
June 29th — 30th 1925,
MONDAY, JUNE 29TH, 2 P. M.
Presiding-^CHARLES M. HERLIHY, Pres.
Central Theme: Interpretation of the Adult Schools to the Public
I—Outstanding Accomplishments in the Field of Adult
Education since the War.
Charles M. Herlihy, President Department of Adult
Education, State Supervisor of Adult Alien Education,
Massachusetts.
II— Public Support for Adult Education from the Standpoint
of the Employer.
Mr. Louis Boman, Chicago Chamber of Commerce,
Americanization Committee.
III— Public Support for Adult Education from the Standpoint
of Organized Labor.
Mr. Daniel J. Tobin, National Treasurer, American
Federation of Labor.
IV— The Interest of the American Legion in Programs of
Adult Education.
James L. Drain, National Commander, American
Legion.
V— Outstanding Needs in the Development of Programs of
Adult Education.
Miss Clutie Bloodworth, Director of Exceptional
Schools, State Department of Education, Alabama.
VI—The Outlook for Americanization in the Northwestern
States.
H. J. Langoe, Editor, United American, Portland,
Oregon.
VII—The Americanization Program in Chicago.
Mrs. William S. Hefferan, Member of the Chicago
Board of Education.
TUESDAY, JUNE 30TH, 2 P. M.
Central Theme: State and Local Programs of Adult Education
for Native and Foreign-Born
I—State and Local Support and Leadership for Adult Edu
cation.
Miss Willie Lawson, Assistant State Superintendent
of Public Instruction, Arkansas.
II—A Cooperative Program between Schools and the Federal
Bureau of Naturalisation in preparing Aliens for
Citizenship.
Miss Marguerite Burnett, State Supervisor of Immi
grant’ Education, Delaware.
III.—The Inculcation of Ideals in Civic Instruction.
Howard Bradstreet, Director of Bureau of Adult
Education, Hartford, Connecticut.
IV— Organizing a County for Adult School Programs.
Miss Wil Lou Gray, Director of Adult Education,
State Department of Education, South Carolina.
V— The New Constitution for the Department of Adult
Education.
Robert C. Deming, State Director of Amercanization,
State Department of Educaton, Hartford, Connecticut.
The Annual Business session of the Department will be .
held immediately following the last speaker.