Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-29
u. S. IS HYSTER|CAL,
ASSERTS EDUCATOR
Prof. Zook Tells Historians That
"Red" Criers Will Destroy
"Birthright of Nation
RADICAL ANTlD0TE URGED

The nation is suffering from hystera,
and unless it ceases wasting time and
energy lighting spectcrs Of bolsheyism
and other forms OF radicalism it will
eudauger it's birthright of freedom.
This warning was sounded by George
+. Zook, professor of history AT Penn
sylyania State College, ut today scs-
sion of the Association Of History
Teachers Of the Middle States sud
Maryland ia Houston Hall.
The association is Il subdlN vision OF
the Association of Colleges and Pre-
paratory Schools Of the Middle States
and Maryland, now in session here.
Professor Iook's talk opened the gen
eral discussion which followed talk
by Prof. Thomas J, Werteubakcr, Of
Princeton, who proposed the thought
teaching Of constitutional history rs 0n
antidotc for radicalism.
Doctor Wertenbaker declared the
children of the nation must be taught
how liberty originated. They must be
taught that freedom is of long and slow
growth.
1t must be impressed on the chill
dren, he said, how civil rights We're
slowly built up, how the heritage of civil
liberty was brought to this country and
how it was extended and protected.
True liberty, he declared cannot be
manufactured over night, cannot spring
forth fully developed from the mind
of one man or set of men, the method
that the Russian radicals are attempt
ing.
At the history conference, Or. james
Sullivan. New York state historian,
cautioned the instructors not TO be mere
monographs and not to be propagan-
dists,
While avoiding propaganda, he con-
tinued, the teacher should not steer
away from the vital topics of the day.
He said questions of capital and labor
and other big questions Of economics
should not be avoided.
Suppressing discussion of socialism,
bolshevism and other cults, be declared,
was not the right plan. It is better
to discuss them SO that their fallacies
may be exposed, he said.
Doctor Sullivan pleaded for more
moral instruction in the schools and
colleges without involving doctrina'
matters.
Professor Charles Knapp, of Barnard
College, urged that the classics b.
brought up to date by a comparison OF
housing conditions and rent problems
n. old Rome with those OF modern
AM&rica. Professor Knapp read papc,
beforeAthe Classical Association of tn
| United States in its meeting today IL
| the architectural library of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania.
Professor Knapp's paper was OF
Studies in the Catilinarian Orations'
which, be explained. contained man!
instances of the housing situation sim
liar to those OF today. A comparison o
the two conditions, he said, woult
simplify the teachir~ of Latin and liver
up the study of dead language,
The Introduction of newspapers and O
the periodicals in the college assroor
as q means of Frightening the students
interest was discussed by the colleg,
conference on English, which dis.
cussed PROBLEMS in the Required
Freshman English Courses"
This conference elected Professor n
r. Sleeves, of Columbia University
chairman. and Professor W o. Syp
herd, Delaware College, secretary anC
treasurer.