If a bill now awaiting the attention of the Senate becomes a law, a secretary of education will be the next new member to be added to the President's Cabinet.

Backed by the National Educational Association the bill was recommended recently in a report by the commission upon the emergency in education. It has the earnest support of Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia, who is the chairman of the Senate committee on education.

The title of the bill states that it is "to create a department of education, to appropriate money for the conduct of "to create a department of education, to said department, and to appropriate money for the federal co-operation with the states in the encouragement and support of education." It provides one hundred million dollars per year for training teachers, physical education, and the education of immigrants and adult illiterates.

The secretary of education will be on an equal basis with the other members of the President's Cabinet, and will have three assistant secretaries. The secretary's salary will be $12,000, and the assistant secretaries will receive $10,000 each. The entire appropriation for salaries, incidental expenses, and general financing of the new department will be $500,000 per year.