The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-08-25

schools, Wn!Ch, DcING a! I!yIeu,
mcans of course that he is opposed
10 the bill. Now that Swanson has
been reaominated be viii probably
be as strong against IL IS oth@r Dem
ocrats. Because if the bill does 2ot
mean federal control o. interference
with state schools, it means nothing.
Watson points that Oh, very clearly.
He says: The 5.ni.A-Townc.c bill
would inevitably evolve complete
federal control Of or pubic schools,
wherever the fedasal government
comes offering aid, i means to come
again demanding coMl"ol.'
WEI Teach Yankee History
There is another feacore thai is
bothering southern statesmen besides
the question Of race equality. They
are of course most bitterly against it
on that line. They are AFRAID that
what already has happened in Mass2-
chusetts, Illinois, and elsewhere,
where the republicans control and
depend so Iargly On the coIored vote
is bound to happen under federal
control, especially Republican fedcr'
al control and that 10 appropriations
would be forth coming 70 any school
IN the south unless the teachers were
examined and qualified under r3gld
civil service rules which means OF
course that the negroes woald be ell
igible as well as whites. The feGcr%!
government could not have one rule
for Massachusetts and another Tor
Georgia. 1t hasn't in The poStothce
dcpartment where negroes are post
masters. mail carriers, mail clerks,
etc. or in other federal departments.
Southern statesmen are Of course al
so afraid these negro teachers Wou!d
he 10th men and women and that
negro men teachers would be put oV-
er white girls. Why not, if they are
competent to teach according 20 the
federal standard which knows no col
or line? That would be bad enough
But negro boys and negro gi"'S would
also sit in CLASS rooms with white
bows and girls, as they do N Boston
and Chicago today. And also, why
not? The federal government preach
eS EQUALITY of races and would re-
ouire in school rooms only that eth
er white or colored children, boys or
girls. be able to keep up with their
classes. If colored boys or girls stood
the best examinations they would get
the medals, the prizes and the pro-
motions. it would soon be heraided to
the world that all the talk IN the
sonfh about the inferior:ty CT ne
groes was nothing but prejudice.
These medals and prizes would be
used as proof even OF the superiority
Of colored children. How long would
i take under this condition to break
down barriers the south has bulIc
nm against race equality and intends
10 maintain at all hazards. And to
what would all this lead in the END
BUT the ferces; and bloodiest OF race
conflict? Is the south ready to pay
this price to satisfy religious blgotry.
But there is one thing that, ASIDE
from all this, the south can never ad-
NIT It would be as bad as race equal
;tv for the federal government
through its system Of schools to teach
the children of the south that their
fathers were traitors. All the schools
of the south have taught that the
south had a right to secede from the
union. All the schools Of the north
have taught that this was rank trea-
son. The heroes of the south VINO
wore the gray have been held up to
immortality in the south, but IN the
north they have been held up to oo-
locuv and scorn as destroycrs OF the
nation. The federal schools could
not teach one history in the north
and another in the south. They would
have to teach one side or the other,
There can be no compromise on
history. Federal schools would have
20 teach the same history in the
north and the south or become ridl-
cu,ous. The avowed purpose OF the
Towner-Stcrling bill is TO "standar-
die education," and the greatest
part Of all education IS HISTORY
At the recent rcunion of Confederate
veterans in Richmond on this very
account strong resolutions were pass
ed condemning certain next books 81
history that had crept into The schools
of North Carolina. That state had
a4oDted histories which n etfe>y were
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