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KNOW YOUR NATION

THROUGH THE

National Republic

AN

N illustrated monthly journal, published at the national capital, presenting the American government, its history, ideals, institutions, and current operations.

There are many periodicals dedicated to the task of telling you what is the matter with your government. Its alleged shortcomings are freely discussed, its policies are attacked, its traditions are flouted: the glory of the sun is forgotten while the spots on its surface are magnified. A reasonable amount of such criticism is legitimate and helpful, but the job is being overdone to the point where the worth-while things in America are forgotten, and the popular mood is one of pessimism and carping criticism.

The National Republic, besides a wealth of popular historical material dealing with the careers, achievements, and beliefs of the greater national leaders of the past who have "made and kept us a nation," prints each month many authoritative articles, written by cabinet officials, members of the national Senate and House, government experts and nationally known civic leaders, presenting the service the government is rendering the American people in a tremendous field of activities. No other publication in America tells so much of what your government is doing for you. and for one hundred and ten million other Americans.

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Can Boast Such An Array of Nationally Known Contributors as This? Among the Notables Who Have Specially Written Authoritative Articles on Subjects of Vital Interest for recent numbers of the NATIONAL REPUBLIC are:

Secretary of Commerce HERBERT HOOVER. (Two articles.)

MAJ. GEN. ELI H. HELMICK, Inspector General U. S. Army.

Secretary of the Navy CURTIS D. WILBUR. Director of the U. S. Census WILLIAM M. STEUART.

HON. JAMES J. DAVIS, Secretary of La-
bor. (Two articles.)
HON. JOHN J. TIGERT, U. S. Commissioner
of Education. (Two articles.)

RT. REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, Protestant
Episcopal Bishop of Washington.
HON. HUBERT WORK, Secretary of the
Interior.

CHARLES

LATHROP PACK, President American Tree Association.

JOHN BARTON PAYNE, Chairman of the
American Red Cross.

MAJ. GEN. AMOS A. FRIES, Chief Chemi-
cal Warfare Service, U. S. Army.
HON. GUY D. GOFF, U. S. Senator from
West Virginia. (Two Articles.)

HON. HARRY I. THAYER, M. C., President
Tanners Association of America.
JOHN M. GRIES, Chief Div. of Housing,
U. S. Department of Commerce.
MRS. JOHN D. SHERMAN, President Gen-
eral Federation Women's Clubs.
Secretary of Agriculture WM. M. JARDINE.
HON. JAMES E. WATSON, U. S. Senator
from Indiana.
HON. JOHN G. SARGENT, Attorney General
of the United States.

COMMANDER J. H. SYPHER, U. S. Navy. Postmaster General HARRY S. NEW. ADMIRAL E. W. EBERLE, Chief of Naval Operations, U. S. Navy.

DR. C. R. MANN, Director American Council on Education.

DR. C. R. MARLATT, Chairman Federal Horticultural Board, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture.

RICHARD F. GRANT, President of the
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States.

N. A. GREVSTAD, Former U. S. Minister to
Uruguay.
WILLIAM STERLING BATTIS, Nationally
Famous Lecturer.

HON. SIMEON D. FESS, United States
Senator from Ohio.

HON. SAMUEL B. WINSLOW, Former
Member of Congress from Massachusetts.
DR. JULIUS KLEIN, Director of the Bu-
reau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce,
U. S. Department of Commerce.

E. C. PLUMMER, Vice President U. S.
Shipping Board.
MRS. WILLIAM S. WALKER, Organizing
Secretary General, Daughters of the Amer-
ican Revolution.

HON. DOUGLAS ROBINSON,

Secretary of the Navy.

Assistant

MAJ. GEN. W. H. HART, Quartermaster General U. S. Army.

BEATRICE M. WARD, Secretary of the National Conference on State Parks. CAPT. W. T. CLUVERIUS, U. S. Navy. Congressman GUY U. HARDY, of Colorado. MRS. ANTHONY WAYNE COOK, President General, Daughters of the American Revolution.

ALVIN MACAULEY, President Packard Automobile Company.

HON. DWIGHT F. DAVIS, Acting Secretary of War.

S. H. CROSS, Chief of the European Division
Department of Commerce.
HON. FRANK W. MONDELL, Former
Member of Congress and War Finance
Board.

COL. HANFORD MacNIDER, Assistant Secretary of War.

F. R. ELDRIDGE, expert on Far Eastern Affairs of the U. S. Department of Com

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|ORE than any other man, Colonel House was at the very center of world diplomacy in the period preceding, during, and following the Great War. During these years, he recorded in great detail, each day, the substance and often the exact words of his conversations with Wilson, Grey, Balfour, King George, the Kaiser, Bethmann, Zimmermann, Briand, Kitchener, and many others, adding frank and intimate comments on the men with whom he dealt. From these journals, supplemented by his voluminous correspondence, Professor Seymour, with great skill, has built a narrative which presents, in Colonel House's own words and for the first time, a complete, day by day picture of world diplomacy during the most momentous decade of human history as seen by the one man who was in a position clearly to observe from behind the scenes every phase of the struggle and honestly to judge the personalities and motives of its leaders.

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Volume 142

Hop, Skip, and Jump!

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The Outlook

CENE: a sidewalk adjacent to a Brooklyn public school. Twentyfour five-year-olds marshaled in a double row, closely pressed together and suggestive of prison. In charge, a damsel of eighteen with an air of authority. The little folks stand meek and silent, cowering a bit. The maiden speaks commandingly:

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The Proposal for a
Department of Education
THE

HE Convention of the Department of Superintendence of the National Education Association, which brought fifteen thousand school men and women to Washington, was the occasion for a renewal of interest in the bills pending in Congress for the establishment of a Federal Department of Education. The Department of Superintendence went on record by formal resolution as favoring the establishment of such a Department, and the President, Dr. Randall J. Condon, of Cincinnati, declared that every possible effort of the Department of Superintendence will be exerted to secure the passage of the bill at this session. This is reaffirmation of the position long

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cluding Lowell of Harvard and Goodnow of Johns Hopkins, expressed disapproval of the bill on the ground that it would hamper education by a standardization

process.

The forces for and against the establishment of a Federal Department of Education appear now to be rather definitely lined up. In general, the public school system, through its officers and teachers, is supporting the movement. The colleges, if not in general, at least in considerable numbers, are, through their administrative officers, opposing it. With the public school men are a number of Nation-wide organizations, many of them organizations of women. With them, too, are the Scottish Rite Masons and officers of the Ku Klux Klan, though it is understood that these latter are supporting the Means Bill rather than the Curtis Bill. The Means Bill would create, as an adjunct to the Department of Education, a National Council of Education composed of superintendents of schools of the forty-eight States. With the college presidents in opposing the bill are a number of Catholic organizations, who fear that the parochial school would fare badly under a Federal bureaucracy. One of the most vigorous opponents of the measure who has yet appeared before the Committee is John F. McCarron, representing "America,” a Catholic publication of New York.

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The public generally has manifested comparatively little interest for against either the Curtis or the Means Bill.

Our view of this proposal is stated in an editorial elsewhere in this issue.

"Face the Facts" and Facts to Face

held, not alone by this branch of the T

National Education Association, but by the Association as a whole.

While the superintendents of the schools of the country were in session a joint House and Senate committee was holding public hearings on the Curtis Bill for the establishment of a Department of Education. At those hearings several college presidents of prominence, in

HERE is danger of confusion in the public mind of two committees that are making inquiries into prohibition enforcement with a view to modification of the Volstead Law, and even of the Eighteenth Amendment. And confusion of the two is likely to lead to unintended condemnation or approbation of one or the other.

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gratuitous. One is, by profession and doubtless in fact, unbiased. The avowed purpose of the other is to show that prohibition is a failure. One is to be conducted by the Alcoholic Liquor Traffic Committee of the House of Representatives, the other by a citizens' committee of twenty-one representing the so-called "face-the-facts movement" and appointed by the chairman of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. The two were launched at the same time and were so mixed up in the news reports as to be hardly distinguishable.

The inquiry by the Alcoholic Liquor Traffic Committee ought to bring beneficial results. What the Committee proposes to do is to ascertain conditions as they actually exist with regard to traffic, both lawful and unlawful, in alcoholic. liquors for the purpose of arriving at a basis for determining what, if any, remedial legislation Congress should enact. The inquiry is not authorized by Congress, and therefore the Committee has no power to subpoena witnesses nor has it any money with which to pay for bringing witnesses to Washington. But it has the authority inherent in any committee of Congress to ascertain facts bearing upon needed legislation. Its work will be done mainly by the questionnaire method, and nobody contends that the data gathered will be complete. There is general agreement, however, that they will be more nearly authoritative than any data yet gathered on this subject. The Committee does not expect that its inquiry will be more than a preliminary survey which may furnish the basis for a complete investigation if Congress sees fit later to make an appropriation for it.

The Alcoholic Liquor Traffic Committee is a regular committee of Congress. The name seems strange to most persons because since the Prohibition Law was enacted this Committee has had nothing to do. It has not been moribund, but latent. It happened that the Volstead Bill was handled by the Judiciary Committee, and the Alcoholic Liquor Traffic One inquiry is official. The other is Committee was temporarily out of the

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