Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-30
EFFECTS OF THE HISTORY
FAMINE ARE WIDESPREAD
Although the Federal Commissioner OF
Education 5lames College Youths,
Their Monopoly Of Ignorance
Has Not Been Proved

"WHo was Camille Dc.mon1tns> Who
" was GcnghiS khan:' queries tho in.
>ntiablc Ellison in his latest intcrrosative
hroad>idc.
''Why-ch--' seems to have been the
rommonrst answer. WhCrcat n nation that
derives no little of its amusement from its
own shortcomings is moved to mrth and
John j. Tigert. United States Commissioner
of Education, almost to tears
DR.. Tigprt has singled out college men as
his cue for grief. viewing their ignorance OF
history as disheartening and calamitous.
None the less. he is n modest even n con-
Scrvative Jeremiah. For one thing his mel.
ancholy survey has excluded not a few
Houndcring Congrcssmcn. some diplomatists
who arc never quite at case without their
secretaries. orators Of tho dclusive "history-
tellS-us type, n considerable class Of readers
who have given crpdenCc to Mr.. Wells delight
fully inventive tale of mankind some pro-
fessionnl opponents of "culturp.' az well
as Of course. the unfortunately untutorcd.
Is the picture unnecessarily dark Granted
that II is both unfair and bad form to de-
mand his life or that of Gcnghis Khan from
the average Congressman. it l. at least rca.
sonahe to inquire when tho Declaration of
Independence was signed. The instructive
sense of drama that Is in most Of us camors
for the s"norous conventional reply. History
i incOnsldCrate. and perhaps for that reason
50 widely stunned. BY August .. l77G. runs
the unfoelng record. all the signatures had
been formally affixed save those of Matthew
Thornton, Elbridge Gerry and Thomas Me-
Kcan.
From that moment we must marry our
selves to the British feet and nation" Mr..
Edison did not demand disclosure Of the
authorship Of that somewhat startling pro
gram. Cruel and unnatural punishments are
fcdCrally banned
Persons aware that the above sentence
was pCnnod bv Thomas Jefferson aS lnStrur-
tions to be followed IN case Of tho thrcatcnod
control of New Orleans by tho French in
the early part of tn" last century nrc OBJ
viouSly specially oquipncd either by training
or handy reference books.
Who originated the Monroe Doctrino:
Patriotic champions Of isolation can almost
be heard rumblng with complaccnry II
was. however Canning. the Yc.ourccfu
British Secretary Of State for Foreign A.
fairs, who in tho late spring of lS9H pro-
posed to Benjamin Rush. American Minister
in Lond"n. that "thp United States should
Join with England in n declaration TINT
while neither Power desired the colonies "f
Spain for herself il was impossible ~ look
with Indifference on European intervention
in their affairs or SEQ them acquired by
third Power Thus the unimpaSsionCd
John Bach MrNIaStcr.
Some sixty years after the circumstance
above Described Lord Sallsbury's ar0uaint
anco with them wa> obviously mcagcr'
Statesmen are prone n forget and of all
departments Of human knowledge few 50
conveniently clud" their memory rs history
does. With our "Iifclong friend' France
wc have in our tim" fought war which,
besides producing materially American yir-
tories evoked "TTniI Coumhla' from the
heated pen of Joseph HophinSon of tins
Cltv.
The principle Of tho League of Nations.
50 say It's foes has periSh"d in ignominv
and cannot bo revived 1t j. If record that
when The last century was in mid course
parti>anS of varied hucS in tho national
capital once >oIemnly pledged each other to
keep the vcX"d question Of Negro slavery
permanently buried What crcntunIly hap.
pcurd = ono of those facts If history uf
whirh NOT tn" most b"n!ghtod j. ignorant
Despite her paradoyc~. despite. n Glib
bon phra>od II. her "rogi>rrr Of t&c crimes
fol..r> and miSfortuuos Of mankind" his.
tory will bear the tr,r nf nudding ar.
quAIntanrc Mr.. lI~I. tic Chinese Pro~-
dent. maintains hIS >or"uitv in the face Of
Bo,shcvl~t propaganda China. A. he dis
closes IN a recent vomm". cxprrmrnt"G with
communism a cycle or 50 ago. on stuff
The youths II mo land congressman ac.
I'VE and RETIRED Lodge, Bcvoridgo and somo
others ron>picu"u-Iv NAr"ptcd; political
ovangcn~tS like Mr. Bryan. who found the
DromUtings Of John BuS~rtt Moore 50 sorry.
ircab'c; lesser lights vcXod by dntos trcurics
nud dynasti"s. can proijtnbly afford now and
again 10 be r"Spcrtful 10 the study of what
man in his way Mt ono" feeble fumhng
and heroic, has done