New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-20
Time to Clean House
This Is the Hour to Clear Our Schools
of Disloyalty
To the Editor Of The Tibune.

To the Editor Of The Tibune.
Sir: Hurrah for the Board of Education
and DR.. Tildsley. At last the housekeeping
that has so Enthusiastically been due in New
York's teaching force ever since last May
is really on.
Last Nav every loyal citizen of New YORK
was shocked by the combined dsloyalty ana
the brazen impudence of the 10 teachers
who had the nerve to send to the Board OF
Education that now historic protest against
having Been asked to sign the pledge OF
loyalty to the government. That pledge' as
YOU remember, was gladly and Joyousi!
signed by every loyal citizen, not one Oh
whom dreamed of getting up protest. no
true American ever gags at signing pieuse
of loyalty.
Stripped of the naked facts, we know per-
fectly we'll that every teacher who protested
against that pledge of loyalty was at hear'
traitor TO this country and should have been
kicked ont of the public schools at once. We
know that to-day our public schools contain
many alien Socialists of the most dangerous
tyne. many of them Russian Jews, OF the
kind who are as bitter against this govern
mont as they were in Russia against that
autocratic despotism.
We know that the Socialist teachers IN our
rublic schools. of whom there are said to DE
over one hundred are people whose influence
in a country like ours is thoroughly bad. Inc
line between the alien Socialist and the pro-
rounced anarchist and the !. W. WIS Is
dim one, and easily crossed.
MANY, many times since the historic cpl
sode of last May / have wondered whether
the fathers and mothers Of New York care
p damn about the principles Of the men VINO
teach their children. Having myself no
children at the mercy Of the disloyal Social
list teachers, can stand it if the parents can
But. even as bystander, | am sincere
friend of the boys and girls of New YORK.
and | object to the poisoning of their MINDS
at a most critical period Of their lives, by
the rotten theories Of alien socialism, which
are totally out Of place in America. Inc
foundation of alien socialism is envy ana
jealousy Of "the rich" and the we'll to do ana
a desire to get something for nothing. Men
who come here from Russia and seek TO pro-
mote here Russian socialism and anarchy dc
serve 10 be kicked out of this country ana
shipped back to Russia as undesiraoles' We
see right now what that brand OF socialism
has DONE and is doing, for unhappy Russia
Here we want none of it.
The disloyal teachers Of the New 1ork
force are raising a great howl against Dr.
Tildsley. OF course. That was TO De eN-
pected. Hit birds always futter. The great
mass Of loyal American teachers now nave
the opportunity Of their lives to 'heip the
Roard of Education to clean house. Go to
it, Americans.
The parents of New York who really care
for the welfare of their children now should
wake up, and Drive forward, and vigorously
back up the Board of Education in the house
cleaning that has so we'll been started. Sweep
the disloyal element into the gutter Inc
parents who now remain silent and inactive
must be put down as not caring as parents
should care for the moral welfare of their
children. WILLIAM L. HohNADhi'
New York, Nov. II, 1917