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...Savannah 36.4 Little Rock...
When Dr. David Saville Muzzey called Georgia's 18th Century colonists "poor debtors and criminals" in his History of the American People he raised a tempest of protest from Georgia's 20th Century citizens. Fortnight ago when the Savannah Board of Education decided to ask Publishers Ginn & Co. to make corrections Historian Muzzey stood his ground, called the protest "just a manifestation of local pride" (TIME, Dec. 28). But last week good-natured Dr. Muzzey changed his mind. To the Savannah Board he wrote a friendly letter announcing that in future editions of the history the phrase would...
...knows, Dr. David Saville Muzzey's History of the American People refers to Oglethorpe's colonists as "poor debtors and criminals," says that "the convicts were poor workers," and that therefore Oglethorpe abandoned his charter 21 years after it was issued. To President Charles Ellis of the Savannah Board of Education, these passages seemed little less than appalling. He told the board last week that a local history teacher had called them untrue. The board agreed to ask Ginn & Co., publishers of the history, to make corrections...
...year 1733, a fleet arrived at the mouth of the Savannah River; and presently back home in London trustees of a new venture heard with joy that the flag of England had been raised over the Royal Colony of Georgia...
...King's poverty-stricken subjects." and "poor but honest debtors." Said he: "I have never cared to enter controversies. . . . There was no shadow of an idea in my mind of casting any aspersions on the people of Georgia. . . . It is a just manifestation of local pride that the Savannah Board of Education should protest...