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...letters came from Kentucky three weeks ago, then from other states. The sender, whoever he was, gave the stunt a chain-letter twist by urging "dear miss" to send copies to five or six other "innocent and unsuspecting young people." Who in Seattle had it in for the U.S. public-school system? A crackpot, was one likely answer. Mrs. Pearl A. Wanamaker, superintendent of public instruction for the state of Washington, thought that too much time and too many postage stamps were involved; it sounded more like Communists to her. Last week the National Education Association asked...
Majority Leader Benjamin F. Feinberg of New York's Republican state senate regarded it as "the finest bill I have ever sponsored during a long career [16 years] in the legislature." The bill: an act to purge fellow traveler and Communist teachers from the state public-school system. Other states, such as Illinois and Texas, have ordered investigations of Communist activities in education (TIME, April 4). But last week, with Governor Dewey's signature on Ben Feinberg's bill, New York went even further...
Under the Feinberg bill, the Board of Regents, the top governing body of the state public-school system, will be the sole authority for weeding out "subversive" teachers; The bill requires the regents to draw up a list of all subversive organizations (the U.S. Department of Justice's list may be used as a guide) and makes membership in such organizations sufficient grounds for summary removal. The regents are also empowered to dismiss school employees for the "utterance of any treasonable or seditious word ... or the doing of any treasonable or seditious act . . ." regardless of their affiliations...
...unseat Bertrand Russell from a teaching chair at the College of the City of New York on the grounds that Russell's writings were "lecherous, salacious . . . lustful." Last week Goldstein took off on another joust: unless two books which he considered "a menace" were banned from classrooms and public-school libraries within five days, he threatened to sue the Board of Education. The two books were Oliver Twist (the British film version of which has been withheld from U.S. movie theaters as a result of protests from Jewish groups-TIME, Oct. 4) and The Merchant of Venice...
...public high schools, and the real reason Westchester boys commute to it (whether the impetus comes from themselves, their families or their parish priests), is religion. Because of the separation of church & state in the U.S., no pupil can now have any religious instruction, even a Bible reading, on public-school premises.* At Stepinac every boy, whatever his course, has a 45-minute class in religion every day of his four high-school years. He attends regular services in the school chapel and auditorium. Just before Easter each year, the entire school will hold a three-day religious retreat...