Word: communisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This nation will never fall beneath the conquering tread of an invader. It will never be lured to chaos and destruction by the red flag of Communism. If this Government is destined to follow the course of human history and, in the fullness of time, to fall into ruin and decay, it will perish as the result of official dishonesty and corruption within the State and nation...
Last June Congress passed a law denying pay checks to any District of Columbia public school teacher who should "teach or advocate" Communism. Followed loud arguments as to what "teaching" Communism meant. To William Randolph Hearst the issue was perfectly simple. Explained his New York American: "The word 'teaching' as used in the statutes in conjunction with the word 'advocating' covers the whole field and PROHIBITS INSTRUCTION AS WELL AS ADVOCACY." But to E. Barrett Prettyman, corporation counsel for the District of Columbia, "teaching" meant outright advocacy, did not mean a factual, unbiased treatment...
Leading a group of outraged citizens was Major General Amos A. Fries, one-time head of the Chemical Warfare Service, now an indignant critic of Washington's Board of Education and of School Superintendent Frank W. Ballou. Told that a study of Russia might turn children against Communism, he retorted, "Why not teach children about robbery, murder?", proposed that a committee pass on a long list of high school textbooks...
Last week Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl ruled that hereafter the 4.000 employes of District of Columbia public schools must swear every month that they have not "taught or advocated" Communism, otherwise go without pay checks. Since the ruling failed to define the exact meaning of "teach," school officials were in a worse quandary than ever. Not so Major General Fries. Said he: "Three cheers for McCarl! That's just fine. When the law reads so clearly there's nothing else to do but observe...
Both groups take a firm stand against social upheaval. The first step to Communism, state ownership of public utilities, is censured by both groups, but more vehemently by the students. As for the possible increase of inheritance taxes, the groups taken in their entireties show little difference of opinion. But when the concentrators in the Social Sciences, who among the students surely have the most significant opinions on these matters, are isolated, their favoring of this particular economic adjustment is pronounced. Thus though both camps agree in their denunciation of Communism, the students are the more antagonistic toward...