Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-10-31
ARE RED METHODS
REACHING u. S?
State Superintendent Cary
Sees Danger in Methods
Used by Reds to Poi
son ChiIdren's Minds.

From numerous sources, the New
York Times, for example, we learn of
the Bolshevik educational program in
Russia. If these accounts are at all
trustworthy, deliberate program
has been developed for poisoning the
minds of Russian children. This plan
includes a systematic attempt to en-
courage them iE idleness, unlimited
indulgence in pleasure and contempt
for their parents. Brutal and materi-
alistic principles are to be inculcated
in the receptive minds of boys and
girls. Religious and moral instruc-
tion is strictly forbidden.
"There is no schedule of lessons,
the pupils in the four higher classes
deciding themselves every day what
they shall be taught. All educational
questions are decided by school
councils, whose meetings are, to say
the least, extremely original. Side
by side with the teacher sit delegates
of the Scholars Committees, children
from the age of twelve and upwards,
and the decisions of the latter are
obligatory for the teachers.
ut is deliberate part of the Boil
sheyist plan to corrupt and deprave
the children in order to obtain last
ing hold over them and to train them
for future propagandists of Lenine's
materislistic and criminal doctrine 4"
The reader may say this is untrue
or exaggerated. Let us hope that
such is the fact, though I fear there
is no warrant for such optimism. Do
I hear the reader exclaim, ''Such
things could not happen in America!'
Let us not be too sure. A recent
writer says that there is instruction
goingson in this country at this time
in a systematic way, having as its
purpose the destroying of all ideals of
modesty reticence, reverence for
parents, respect for women, or faith
in any ultimate spiritual good. ''As
a substitute for these ideals, without
which the world would never have adj
vanced beyond barbarism, the reds
preach the most unbridled license in
sp6soai and behavior. They make any
kind of religion, or even intellectual
agnosticism,. a possession to be
ashamed of. Atheism of the most
blatant kind is preached. Grossest
materialism is substituted for the
ideals and dreams which are instinc-
tive in the minds of all normal girls
and boys" Indecent books and pic
lures are used, land young people are
wallowing in what they call psychoN
analysis, but which is really little
more than education in sex license. !"
"a teacher in the English depart
ment of one Of our schools prepared a
photography of contemporary litera-
ture, which he recommended to his
young students. Included in this bib
biography were books which the pub
lie library forbids even adults to read
except in private room under the
eye of an attendant.
One may well exclaim, ITO what is
this world coming?" There are three
great and time-honored institutions
that are responsible for the proper
rearing of children-th family, the
church and the school, Pause for
moment to think whether in your
opinion these institutions have as eff
fective a grip on young people as they
once had and what the present tend
encies seem to be. One thing is GER
tain: it is time when all the forces
that make for law, order and right
.eousness should combine their efforts
to keep civilization from wobbling in
to chaos.-C. P. CARY.