The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-02-21
PUT POLITICS OUT OF THE
SCHOOLS.
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upon by battles. Inventions are mere
events detached from their social in
.togumcnt aud robbed OF their greatest
glory the worldwide part they play
I'm economic and social evolution.
Then she gugerly touches on present
day politics with now and then an in
.sulting fling at the socialists. Strikes
are looked at from the bourgeois view
point. They iniure business The
years of travail, the misery, the hope
less nights. the dying children, the
Ilaceratcd livcs-these social and eco
monte torrors that drive men and wom-
en- TO strike are unknown TO this pref
tv creature. The noble heroism Of the
picket line where naked hands meet
clubs and thugs and flying steel-that
+ Is mob
Socialism has been tried says Miss
Blink and It has failed. It was tried
nj jamestown. in Virginia, she says.
She lies. but she lies innocently, the.
sweet thing She does not know that
jamestown was company town
owned boot and baggage by the Lon
don company for the profit of the
gentlemen adventures" of that com
pany and nobody else.
The geography class is construct
ing political checkerboard called the
United States. They are putting on.
this checkerboard political states and
political capitals. The cypress swamps
of the South, the solemn pines of the.
North. the far flung grasslands, and
the gray wastes of sage brush and
cactus are not on that map. Instead
of life and wonder and delight there
are political scars. When the boys
and girls have finished" the United
States they know bunch OF halt-
baked political facts They do not see
in their minds eye the mighty NOV
ing picture of human toll and achieve
ment. of luxury and grandeur and
beauty. of pain and poverty and
wretched death that is the real United
States The dramatic fire of the class
war, the yearning and the longing for
better things-all is lost in a maze OF
political hash prepared for an eighth
grade examination.
Step into this high school room
where Professor Quarterback holds
forth. He thinks he teaches econom-
les. The text was written by an oily
creature in the University of Chicago.
From cover to cover it is an apology
for capitalism and an attack on So
cialism: and Quarterback believes 1t
his duty to show up this thing called
socialism even if he loses his Job by
doing so. After he gets through talk
ing tariff you couldn't tell for the life
of YOU whether he believed in free
trade or tariff on tacks. But When
he hits socialism he hits it hardi
And SO the show goes on. Day after
day politics in the school. Day after
dav lies and ignorance. Day after day
dry rot and disinterested students.
Capitalist education is dead. 1t rev
els the dead, for it knows not the liv-
ing. 1t is heartless. 1t is brutal. I'll
is soulless. Let us take out this po-
litical nonsense and put in science.
Do it now.
This bureau is here frankly to fight
| for a new educational order that Will
lspring from the brain of labor and
that alone. 1t is socialist educa-
tional bureau and it's here to win.
This bureau is under the direct con-
troll of the socialist party-a party
that is only incidentally a polltlcal
marty. a party that is essentially edu-
cational, party that has no more use
for politicians than it has for rattle
snakes. We do not look to the gov
eminent for help. We believe in the
working class organizing to carry on
the business of production without
leave or consent from any one. wei
believe that political things as they
are today must perish from the earth'
We believe that the affairs or the
world can and will be run by indus
tries and not by political states, byt
the workers on the jobs and not by
the shirkers on European tours
Therefore we believe in teaching in
dustrial history, in teaching Industrial
science, sanitary science, and all the
branches of physical science. We be-
Heve in giving politics, and war, and
murder, a place very far in the back
ground.
We believe in child study that is
child study. We believe in the feed
ing and clothing and housing OF all
the children Of men. We believe IN
driving from the school room those
who are brutal, those who are fossil
lied, those who persist in delivering
into the murderous nav of capitalism
the children of the working class
This bureau is here to assist in
every possible way the teacher who
wants IN learn of the greatest move