The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-07-21
SECURITY LEAGUE
FOREWARNED ON
RED PROPAGANDA
Plans Formed Month Ago to Fight Ell
forts Of Radicals In South Re-
yealed by New York State
Legislative Investigation.

American propaganda In this city, o
among the negroes of the Far South
the National Security League mad
public today a statement concerning
: active steps already taken by thu
League to counterfeit these efforts.
The Security League states that thu
disclosure by the Legislative Com
Tmittee came as no surprise to 1t ant
that the League formulated plans
: months ago to activity combat the in
fluence of the disorganizers and de-
structionists upon the negroes.
The Leagues statement reads
THE National Security League, af-
ter thorough investigation of the sit
uation in the South, decided that the
best way to meet the problem was
through the colored schools. Having
worked out. detailed procedure, it
was when decided to undertake the
campaign during the summer, when
all the teachers in the colored schools
would be gathered together in easily
reachable centers, at their Summer
School. The National Security
Leagues agents are now at work in
these schools.
"In addition to direct Americaniza-
ton propaganda as an antidote to Boil
slevism, the National Security
Leagues efforts among the negroes
are also aimed at attacking the bases
of discontent-poor sanitation, thrift
lessness and illiteracy.
Dean L. B. Moore, of Howard Uni
versity, Washington, D. c., who is in
general charge of this work for the
National Security League, was re-
leased for this purpose by the trus-
tees of Howard University and has
already organized and begun the OPP
Grafton of the summer campaign. Dur
ing the winter, he travelled through
out the South, meeting the education
al authorities, talking to the leading
negro teachers and organizing classes
of both children and adults. In MIS-
sissippi he met with such encourage
ment from the heads of the education
al system (W. F. Bond State Super
intendent of Schools; Bura Hilbun,
Supervisor of Negro Schools; and r.
S Grossley, Assistant SUPERVISOR
that he concentrated on that state as
test for future efforts. Working on
schedule prepared by Mr.. Bond and his
associates, Dean Moore was enabled
to reach through personal contract or
classes formed, practically 100000 col
ored teachers, children and adults in
| Mississippi alone.
Principal Motion, of Tuskegee In
stitute, recently wrote Dean Moore
Your ideas on reconstruction for
black and white are, in my judgment,
absolutely sound and the only ones
that will work in the South, and
think in the North as well. 1t is
splendid work and just the thing
which we in the South need
Encouraged by this success the
principal 20 Summer Schools for Ne
gro Teachers in the South were Sc
lected as bases for concentration OF
the work during the coming weeks
These schools include approximately
4 900 negro ateachers and are located
as mississippi, A; Alabama
A; Louisiana, 2; Arkansas, 3; Georgia,
2: Tennessee, 8, and Kentucky, 2. In
all these schools, which are attended
by negro teachers from all parts OF
the South, Dean Moore has established
full courses of six weeks duration
While laying particular emphasis on
patriotism and Americanization to
counterfeit Bolshevist influence, the
subject matter of these courses VIII
also be directed at the fundamentals
of education.
"a syllabus of AZ pages, prepared
by Dean Moore, has been printed by
the National Securiay League for use
IN THESE SCHOOiS. hc man uoSi 'P' Vs.
submitted to President Mckenzie of
Fiske University, President Durkee of
Howard University, Principal Gregg
of Hampton Institute, Principal Motion
of Tuskegee, and Superintendent Bond
and is printed with their approval.
"Dr. Robert M. McElroy, Education
al Director of the National Security
League under leave of absence from
Princeton University, under whose di-
rection Dean Moore is working, said
today
"'Of our negro population, over 30
per cent. is illiterate, and a much
larger proportion is practically so.
This Is not the problem fthe South
1t is a problem of Importance to every
citizen of every section of this free
land Education Is not local issue.
II belongs to the whole people, for
the welfare of all is involved In 1t.
1.-The disclosures OF the Lusk
Legislative Committee now investi-
eating Bolshevism In this city, leave
no doubt OF the fact that the Reac.
tionary Propagandists are diligently
working among the negroes OF the
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