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Meanwhile the National Association of Manufacturers decided to make a thorough examination of social science texts. It hired for the job Dr. Ralph West Robey, onetime financial editor of the New York Post, now an assistant professor of banking at Columbia and columnist for Newsweek. Dr. Robey was a member of Franklin Roosevelt's Brain Trust in 1932, of Alfred Landon's in 1936, has been a high Tory since. Black-haired, handsome, he sleeps in a bed about 14 feet long ("The Plantation"), which he likes to show off to visitors...
...problem of war-time censorship cast its inevitable shadow on the field of education last Saturday when Ralph W. Robey, Assistant Professor of Banking at Columbia, finished perusing six hundred text books and decided that they tended "to belittle our form of government and criticize the system of business enterprise." When he released his black list under the aegis of the powerful National Association of Manufacturers, people started taking him-seriously...
...Robey drew up an impressive list of excerpts in which social scientists had said that business men, even the ones who said their prayers every night, were not as good as they should be because they squandered natural resources, dominated the press, formed monopolies, played politics, and advertised breakfast foods in the guise of feminine freshness. This, cried Robey, was indoctrination. It was a condemnation of our "traditional liberties." Our children were being taught "that the American way is wrong, that some alien way is better." Oh shameful indifference toward "those ideals and principles which have distinguished the American...
...system and not to sugar-coat or ignore its faults." Is there any harm in "simply giving the students the facts?" they asked. "A picture which is not real will breed far more cynicism than evaluation of our institutions." What they were driving at was "reasoned respect." And now Robey, the voice of prejudiced business, took excerpts from their contexts intentionally to shade this purpose...
...first and most obvious danger is that the abstracting of the textbooks may be done with bias, professor Robey may easily find in any or all of his 800 volumes statements with which some groups in American will disagree. He will find very few statements not espoused by some legitimate group in our society...