The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-12-19
PUBLIC SCHOOLS and NECESSARY LEGISLATION
HISTORY MANIPULAT|oNS.

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On Tuesday, November 8, delega'
ton officially representing numerous
civic and educational organizations
called on President Coolidge ano
strongly urged his support to a mea-
sure substantially identical with the
Demonstrating Bill whose enact
ment of the Roman hierarchy as the
enemy of public education has pre-
vented more than five years.
The delegation assured the Presl-
dent that such measure will be IN
troduced early in the ensuing session,
It will provide for a department OF
education in the Presidents Cabinet
and for federal aid to the States In
removing illiteracy, Americanizing
the foreign-born among us, advance
ment of physical education, and
equalization of educational oppor-
tunity throughout the nation. The
following organizations were repre-
scented by those who called on the
President:
National Education Association.
American Association of University
Women.
National Congress of Mothers and
PARENT Teachers Associations.
General Federation of Women's
Clubs.
American Library Association.
International Sunday School Coun-
Gil of Religious Education. -.
- National Council of Jewish Women.
National Women's Christian Temp
erance Union. ..-
National Board of Young Women's
Christian Association. .
= Many Masonic National organiza-
lions. --.'-
Order of the Eastern Star.
Daughters of the American Revolt
ton.
Women's Relief Corps. ..-...
, National Committee for Depart
ment of Education.
National League of Women Voters.
National Council of Women.
National Federation Of Business
and Professional Women's Clubs.
= National Federation Of Music
Clubs. - s.. .-.-, --.r..
American Federation of Labor.
American Federation of Teachers.
National Women's Trade Union
League. -
A number of City and State School
: superintendent. III =.
81 The proposed measure means ample
express provision against the posi-
bility of federal interference with
State management Of the schools and
of all funds used for their mainten-
anee. Educational functions of the
federal Government are now confined
to a obscure bureau in the Interior
Department. Until quite recently
that bureau was crowded into dark
and chilly corner Of the lobby of the
old Pension Office. It is now in the
office building of the Interior De.
psrtment.-Tri-State American.
would cast over the whole nation a
glazing light Of old-time independ-
ence. q.
The newly revised Muzzey text
which is acceptable only to such su-
perintendents as were satisfied with
the avowedly lAnglicized edition, is
the object Of especia patriotic pro-
test in and about New York City.
- National Chairman Joyce Of the
Americanization committee, Veterans
of Foreign Wars, and the New York
state officials of the American L.
gion have directed all post command
ers in New York state to file with
school authorities the protests OF
- their posts against the new Muzzey
text and to employ other measures,
if necessary, against it's use.
It is possible that a monster mass
meeting in Madison Square Garden
may be called by these veterans and
other patriotic organizations to make
ringing protest against treason teach
ings in the public schools, and to give
school superintendent who support
these teachings opportunity to ac-
count for their favoritism.
In this event Judge Wallace Nc
Camant, past president general, Sons
? of the American Revolution, and
chairman of the national COMMITTEES
ON patriotic education, will come from
Portland, Ore, to make the chief ad.
dress voicing the national sentimen,
for the preservation Of true history.
National Chairman Joyce's letter
TOW. F. w. post commanders reads IL
part as follows: 3
''The school history committee, act.
ing under Endorsement and instruction
Of the Norfolk national encampment
has carefully examined the new revi
sion Of d. s.. Muzzey's American
History and finds it little, II any
better than the 1920 edition that ha.
been 50 generally condemned as I'M
truthful and dangerous in its teach
ings to school children.
aProf. Muzzey has allowed to stanG
uncorrected in his new book innum-
cradle perversions, omissions and out.