$200,000 to Somoa

$200,000 to Samoa

In Honolulu, Hawaii last week, William Slocum Barstow, electrical engineer, president and director of Barstow, Tyng & Co., Inc., announced that he and his wife had created a $200,000 foundation for the education of natives of U. S. Samoa. Established in memory of their son Frederic Duclos Barstow, Vermont fox-rancher who visited Samoa three times and became interested in its educational conditions before dying at 35 in Honolulu last May, the fund will be administered by five U. S.-Hawaiians, who once every five years will send an investigator to Samoa to report on the state of education there.

In five of the seven islands of U. S. Samoa there are 21 public schools, a teaching staff (mostly native) of 54, an enrolment of 2,118. The native treasury appropriated $18,886 for the schools in 1931; the U. S. Government gives nothing. Eight schools have modern buildings, 13 exist in native '"fales" (huts). Equipment is poor; there are few desks; children must buy their own books.

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