The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. SATURDAY. MAY, 29. 1915. ON EDUCATION.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 May 1915, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. SATURDAY. MAY, 29. 1915. ON EDUCATION.

The Chronicle has been favoured with some interesting articles by the executive of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. From these, to-day, we make some extracts, bearing upon the subject of education, which in ite broadest sense must be the theme of any world exposition if that exposition ifc to be successful. This is as correspondingly .true with the Panama-Pari-fic International Exposition as San Francisco as with the great universal exposition of the past. But where the entire exposition is catholic in study, social ecomomy, is given one of the main exhibit, palaces. Domestic education occupies one fdrtFi of the floor space in the Palace of Education ; foreign education, one forth, the other half of the palace being devoted to ex> hibits in social economy. Where the educational exhibits will appeal by their variety and worth to thoee work is confined to that field, it is probably true that the average- visitor will be deeply interested in the groupings of exhibits under social, economy in the social economy section; such exhibits as are claesed in the group for the study, investigation - and betterment of secial and economic conditions, eugenice, hygiene and labor. In the department of public health, notably splendid exhibits are made by the United States government, by the Philippine Islands, by Japan, China and Cuba. In the southeast corner of the palace is the children's bureau of the department of labor. Here daily are held children's health conferences, with free medical examination of children under fifteen years of age. The intelligent, interest taken by mothers in modern hygiene and sanitary precautions for .children is evidenced by the great numbers that daily bringing their children for inspection by the Federal doctors. The growth of' education in the UnitedStates is graphically portrayed.. In figures this growth for the past thirty six years is given as follows:—School population, 1877, 14,025.800; population. 1913, 2§> 499,928; average daily attendance. 1877 5,426,595; 19.13, 13,510,643. Many of the states of the United States have complete exhibits showing the systems in which their state has specialized. Among these is Massachusetts, showing the agricultural industrial, day making, evening home making, -evening trade extension, and textile schools all of which vocational schools are operated by state aid. The , care of the blind. "Prevention, education, employment, recreation and re-' lief" is also extensively treated by this state. A feature exhibit on the mezzanine floor of the Massachusetts booth shows the shoes of all ages, an exhibit lent by the United Shoe Machinery Company. From tiny sandals that clothed the feet of the little children oi Antinoe, 300 years B. C. to the jack boots of the middle ages; sabots, clogs, moccasins and sandals, the shoes, all of which are actual relics, represent all nations and all times.