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Zoll was instrumental in getting Willard Goslin fired as Superintendent of Schools at Pasadena, California last year. Zoll was formerly National Commander of the "American Patriots, Inc." When New York's Station WMCA dropped Father Coughlin from its programs in 1938, Zoll was indicted for attempting to extort $7,500 from the station's president in return for calling off a picket line his group had thrown about the building. He was never convicted...
Pooling their vague and various grievances, the protesting citizens formed an anti-Goslin School Development Council, and as the weeks passed they gathered strong support from outside. When Goslin and the school board suggested rezoning the school attendance boundaries for two new schools, property owners howled in protest because it meant they would no longer be able to cross over zone boundaries to pick the best (i.e., allwhite) schools.When Goslin and the school board tried to raise the tax levy limit from $.90 to $1.35, the protests grew louder still. "Progressive Education Means Progressive Taxation!" cried the council. Echoed...
Delinquency & Communism. Pasadena did vote no, but the council was not through with Goslin yet. It demanded a full "ideological investigation" of the entire school system, hinted that the school program was "part of a campaign to 'sell' our children on the collapse of our way of life." The council's Chairman Frank Wells used the writings of rabble-rousing Allen Zoll, onetime advocate of Father Coughlin, to back up his charge that progressive education fosters juvenile delinquency. Wells's successor, Osteopath Ernest Brower, was convinced that sex education (a pre-Goslin innovation) would lead straight...
...face of these snowballing attacks, the school board began to weaken in its support of Superintendent Goslin. Finally, while he was in Manhattan to attend a national school meeting, it sent him a telegram asking him to resign. With that, the pro-Goslin forces sprang into action, but it was too late. The board insisted that Goslin must go. "He didn't have the right rapproach," explained one member. "That's the word, 'rapproach' to the grassroots problem...
...Whether Goslin's "rapproach" was wrong or right, Author Hulburd is sure of one thing. The campaign that forced his resignation was a sorry example of the sort of attack that hurls irresponsible charges without denning terms, or even finding out whether the charges are true or not. The result is that the attack not only damages the schools, but debases the honest criticisms of thoughtful citizens as well. Concludes Author Hulburd: "What . . . happened in Pasadena could easily happen in other cities where modern educational systems [come] under attack...