The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-29
LEAGUE
TACKLES PROBLEMS
THAT FOLLOW WAR
Education That Leads to
0uiCkened American Citi-
zenShip win Receive Prompt
Attention.

ZeHSnlp VIII Receive PROMPT
Attention.
NEW YORK, Nov, 2s.-That the Ma
tional Security league Is already look
ing forward to postwar problems, par
ticularly along educational lines, Is
shown IN the quarterly report Of DR..
Robert NJ. McElroy, educational dlrec-
tor Of the league, made public today.
DR., McElroy is head of the department
Of history and politics in Princeton uni
versity, n is directing the Security
leagues bureau OF patriotism through
education under leave of absence. His
committee includes the leading edu-
Gators OF the country, among them DIR, |
Phllander p, ClaXton, United States
commissions Of education,
American Ideals.
DE- McElroy outlines the plans Of
his bureau for the immediate future
and lays particular emphasis on the
necessity for a more complete knowl-
edge by the people of the meanings
and sources of American ideals. He
points out hat the necessity for active |
pro-war propaganda has now passed
and that the great need at the present
moment Is for the creation of a more
responsible and responsive American
citizenship to permit adequate under
standing OF and participation in after
the war reconstruction by the people.
DR.. McElrOy's report reads:
THE National Security league was
originally founded to promote military
preparedness. A pioneer In this field,
its influence is generally recognized to
have been potent. That question ceased
to demand active propaganda when Ani-
versal service became the accepted pol
icy of the government.
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tied and equal privileges were inter
preted as implying equal obligations,
another great cause demanded sys-
tematiC propaganda, 1t was imperative
that Americans of every race, creed
or place of birth should be made TO
understand why Germany. must be
beaten. They understand it now and
they know what we are trying to de-
stroy. The next imperative need is for
a campaign designed to make clear to
all just what we are trying to pre-
serve.
Strong Pamphlets.
I'VE are therefore beginning a cam
paign designed to interpret, in popular
form, the meaning of our constitution,
and to point out the influence which
it has had and is having in ever-in-
~creasing measure upon the p%olitical
ideas of many nations. Three pamphlets
written with this end in view are now
ready for the press:
Il. The Principles OF the Declara-
ton of Independence and the World
War BY w. NJ, Wiley, member of the
Nevada Council of Defense.
III. How to Become an American
| Citizen BY william Ii, Allen, director
of the Institute for public Service.
iii. American Ideals Of Govern
ment.' BY w. w. Willoughby, profess
sor Of political science in Johns Hop
tional adviser to the Chinese republic.
These will be followed by other
pamphlets az rapidly as suitable mann
scripts can BE obtained,
THE VALUE of the study of history
and political theory lies chiefly in this:
It enables us TO live in the light of our
own past, il enables us TO feel the i'm
plications of the term, free citizen 1t
makes us conscious of the struggle and
the sacrifice which our freedom has
cost countless generations of men in
many lands. When We fully realize this
we will the more readily accent the
responsibilities which free ltizenship
implies.
Too chars Naadod
AN"o0AS NS0"0u,
1.-THE American peonle now under.
stand the meaning or fhe menace ~
miltarism. a menace incarnate In
Prussianized Germany and her vassai
states. But they do not as fully undsr-
stand the domestic dangers which men
ace the full success of the renresenta.
tive idea, Hence our campaign de-
signed to point out the danger of local
thinking, of education which rains the
mind to think in terms ~ small IocaI
\ ~unitIes instead of in terms of nationsi
and international values, We know
that the most serious errors. the most
costly errors, in our history have hsen
the direct result Of local thinking. hut
our educational machinery has not vet
been adjusted TO the task of training
our people to think nationally and ino
ternational1y II win never be 40 ad-
| justed until the people understand The
need and demand the change,
THE mere creation of a federal sec
rotary of education will not reduce
this result. We had secretaries Of war
and navy in 1914, but we got national
preparedness only after the people hal
been aroused to the need of national
preparedness And SO il must ever be
in a republic. The machinery of the
school creates the machinery Of the
nation; and the teachers in the last
analysis, are the rulers Of free govern
ment, for they point the young minds
soon to be the controlling minds, in
the one direction or in the other, Thev
are like the prevailing winds which ~
| slow degrees determine, in the sapling,