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Glorying in the furor aroused by his social-science textbooks (TIME, March 3), Professor Harold Ordway Rugg this week seized the opportunity to publish another book - not a text this time but the story of his clashes with the Rugg-beaters who denounce his texts as subversive. Its title: That Men May Understand (Doubleday, Doran...
...pushover is Harold Rugg. An indefatigable talker, he stumped the nation, confronting his enemies at school-board hearings, Rotary luncheons, parent-teacher meetings. He found people everywhere, he says, talking about Rugg. Professor Rugg reports off-the-record tete-a-tetes with his critics (whom he usually managed to mollify), names his chief foes - New York State Economic Council's Merwin K. Hart, Elizabeth Dilling (The Red Network), Hearst Columnist B. C. Forbes, American Legionnaire 0. K. Armstrong, Journalist George E. Sokolsky. He quotes Hart: "If you find any organization containing the word 'democracy,' it is probably...
...committee of eminent educators, headed by Columbia's Professor Wesley C. Mitchell, was formed by the American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom to examine the text books attacked by Professor Robey. And in Philadelphia at a P. E. A. meeting over which Professor Miller presided, Professor Rugg and his critics unsheathed their swords. Cried Professor Rugg, glaring at the Economic Council's Merwin Hart: "These men are . . . enemies, enemies of our children. Mr. Hart speaks as a representative of business, I as a representative of the American people...
Retorted Mr. Hart: "I reject the socialistic viewpoint contained in the Rugg books. . . . All that I can see in this haze is that some of you want us to merge ourselves into an internationalistic, socialistic type of democracy...
...that the upper classes were cautious and slow to act. . . . The fathers of the Constitution feared "too much democracy." They were afraid of what the mass of people, who did not possess property, would do to the few who did.-America's March Toward Democracy, by Harold O. Rugg...