The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01
WARN OF PERIL.
Pastor Says Chicago School Board
Should Abdicate.

Convinced that he had the facts,
DIR. Quale renewed his attack on the
board of education last Sunday night
he made a plea for all good citizens
to rally against the professional agi-
tators who, he asserted, are running
the schools in such a manner that the
ideals of American citizenship are
being replaced with the disintegrat-
ing spirit of anarchy. He asserted
that the present Chicago school
board members are unfit for their po-
sitions and in speaking of the pro-
posed advisory board or board of ex-
pert examiners he said:
What we need is real board OF
education. If the present board will
abdicate we will have no need of an
advisory board
In regard to the influences which
the teicher's federation has exercised
he sa d.: The public schools of Chi
cago are the greatest institutions in
the city and to turn them into labor
unions by placing them under the
control OF labor union would be to
wreck the system"
Dr. Quale was bitter about what he
called the un-American attitude
which was manifested in the action
of the board Of education last We'd
nesday night, when it repudiated its
contract to advance efficient teachers.
by this action" DIR. Quayle said.
the board of education has COM
mitted itself to an un-American pol
icy. 1t has said that the efficient
shall not be rewarded 1t has taken
the policy of the labor union which
it favors-all men on dead level.
Recall further, he continued, that
Chicago has been the home of fierce
anarchy which ultimated in murder
and that it has the repute among
American cities of being. the breed
ing place of labor difficulties and law
less strikes which had no justihca-
ton. Recall that for three months and
fifteen days the streets of Chicago
were under the sway of crime which
the authorities eeither could or would
not prevent, and then answer me
when | say that there is just cause
of alarm in the conduct of the pres
ent school board
Il have never attended a school
board meeting. / know only one mem
Der of the board, and him only slight
ly. Rut / think that it is unnecessary
to know them personally or to see
their policies shaped. 1t is enough
that the finished product is such that
must condemn them.
I'm this matter leave out personal
attack / don't doubt that the MEM
bers are honest and we'll meaning.
But if they do i'll. which ! feel they
do, it matters not how right their
motive The board of education is
no place for the visionary 20 come
with his moral and pedagogical PAN
aceas like the quack doctor with the
dozen or so walls of medicine and
stuff them down the throats of the
Chicago schools"
The schools, he asserted, are the
bulwark of the nation and whatsoever
does as these people have done in
tinkering with the system and trying
crude iIl-advised schemes on it SUBJ
verts The nation. The foreign make
up of the board is a menace Tax
payers aud Americans seem to be ex-
cluded.
Everything in the schools should
be distinctly American from the flag
on The school house to the teaching
inside. | would not thank any teach
er for teaching my boy Dutch He
goes there to become an American.
There are, for instance. 100000 Poles
in this city, and when we consider
the foreign performance on the
school board the fact that these peo-
pie will not become Americanized
and will therefore be q menace stares
,,o a., the faca