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...court Mrs. McCollum's lawyer called in a Presbyterian, a Methodist, a Lutheran, a Jehovah's Witness, a Quaker, a Fundamentalist, a Christian Scientist, to prove that Champaign's religious teaching discriminated against their faiths; but several of the witnesses said just the opposite. The school-board lawyers then tried to show that the issue was not between sects, but between religion v. atheism. They succeeded with Mrs. McCollum's father, Arthur G. Cromwell, who is president of the Rochester (N.Y.) Society of Free Thinkers. (Last spring he got religious training abolished in three upstate...
...schools were opened over the protests of Dover's school-board chairman, Captain F. R. Powell, who demanded that the Government force the youngsters out of town. Said he: "Children are living in caves and getting as pale and miserable as possible. ... If a shell from German Channel guns falls into one of our schools and kills or injures any of the children, the parents themselves will be to blame...
...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...
...school board has fired 50 teachers "to make room for horsetrading and political favors." He found that all the Range towns had a teacher exchange system "more or less on the plan of 'you hire the daughter of the president of our school board and we'll hire the cousin of your superintendent's wife's friend.' " The American Federation of Teachers also investigated the case of hapless Harold Sivula, Gilbert high-school teacher. Mr. Sivula, when he arrived in Gilbert, went to board in a house recommended by the school-board president. His wife...
...invitation of the Christian Association on "What comes first?" This is the first of a series of weekly talks planned to assist men in constructing their ideas in regard to personal Christianity. A member of one of Boston's oldest business firms, at one time chairman of the school-board, and at another, president of the famous Municipal Reform League, Mr. Capen is well qualified to present the practical side of Christian living...