Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-04-22
|GANF|ELD BREACHES
REAL AMERICANISM
Declares There is No Place in Our
Schools for Teachers Who
Are Bolshevists
CBy Assoc1ased Fress1

ers in American schools for the
person who believes in destruc-
tive revolution as a means OF
bringing about social reforms,
DR.. w. A. Garfield. president of
Centre College, told the kentuc-
ky Educational Association in an
address here today. Nothing
short OF ICU per cent American
program will satisfy the o.. .liga-
tion resting on American schools,
he said, urging the placing OF
safe and sane" mcr and women
i'll teaching positions.
DIR. Ganlicld spoke on the sub
jcct: GLOW Many Shall We Edu-
cate"
"Thc nation that docs not ed
ucatc." he said, must abdicatc.
The destiny of the nation lies in
the school room Of today He
asserted that every boy and girl
i'll the country must be given
sufficient education to enable
them to wisely discharge the du-
ties Of citizenship.
In answering tht question
"Ilow many shall we educate? -
he asserted that Education Is
for Citizenship" and for Lead
crship," and that the only answer
is universal Education" j." ''Dc-
mocracy can be considered safe
only when it rests upon higl
degree Of mental likcmindedncss
he said. "Progrcss i'll the solution
Of problems may arise from the
clash of human minds, but no ma
ton. and no social organization
can be content to have the mind
Of the child and youth set in az
anti-social direction by the influ-
ence and the instruction of the
classroom. Nothing short of
100 per cent American program
will satisfy the obligation resting
OH Our American schools. Thi,
does not mean merely a frank
avowaI of the rights of govern
ment and a recognition of law
fully chosen rulers. No either
can safely boast his cherished de
votion to the flag, and blaze fortI
his disloyalty to the other fun
damental social institutions.
81 know no better method o
counter-acting radicalism than t.
put safe and sane men and wo-
men irto teaching positions. The
fate OF the future rests with the
Of the nations ideals
"Our system has no place for
any teacher whose personal con
Victions make it impossible for
lim to be a sympathetic cx-
FOUNDER Of the cherished ideals
and institutions of ouf nationa !
life. which, although subject T.
should be to our
,hildren institutions worthy Of
reverence and respect, to be
not by chaotic and de
,tructive revolutions such as VIC
ind cxcmplihed in the Bolshcvist
of Europe, but by theI
gradual and orderly changes that
nave always been characteristic
of the development of Angle
Saxon institutions. Teachers
Who cannot assent to this gcner-
II point Of view are, in my opin
on, ineligible as a matter of law
md undesirable as a matter of
'elf-rcspect, to contract with the
Board of Education to carry out
he ideals to which the state law
md bylaws give expression"
Asking whether in education
or leadership colleges should be
United in the number Of things
they shall teach. should higher
education be provided for all who
inish secondary schools; can /;
wise method Of selection be
adopted; should students be free
y eliminated by rigid scholastic
-ests; can diplomas be denied
Horal dclinquents, and the man
who breaks the decalogue and
granted to the one who would
overthrow the fundamental in
,titutions Of National Life, Dr.
Ianield said.
"Why should we solicit philan-
.hropic Americans TO endow pro-
fessorships or tax patriotic citi-I
zens to maintain anti-AmericanI
instructors and teachers to train
otfIer men and women for place
md power of leadership in these,
n turn, go oaout to destroy and not
% save, to tear down and not to
ouild.
81 am we'll aware that ] have
asked these questions in a form
which has implied my answer. I