When Ray Lyman Wilbur left Leland Stanford's presidency to become President Hoover's Secretary of the Interior, there were predictions that the long-discussed Department of Education might now become a reality, with Dr. Wilbur as its first chief.
Last week, Secretary Wilbur, speaking in Washington to the American Council on Education, cheered Catholics who would not like the department, chagrined the National Education Association by saying: "The place of the national government is not that of supplying funds in large amounts for carrying on the administrative functions of education in the communities, but to...
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