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mand to urge moderation upon people We sanction
weapon passive resistance"
However, there is point beyond which human nature
cannot bend There indications that the breaking point
is The Westphaans proud race They are not
accustomed to forgive insult Even hears tales of
French soldiers mysterousy vanishing who will
pear again, except a roll of men missing
The gulf between the marauder, and the popua-
ton is impossible 'They lepers" French
officer wrote to his sweetheart They will not speak to
they will not deal with they will not with food
We absolutely alone strange and hostile land Com
pared with state actual would be relief
In vain the French arrest the Judge the bench for
fung accept their dctaton They mprison the warden
in his Jail. They disarm the police.
Walters will not wait upon Frenchmen Belgans the
shopkeepers will sell them merchandise The banks
fuse French Belgian money. the French want food,
merchandise money, they take them by force.
There defiance everywhere Heads of cities and Of
dustra enterprises arrested matreated chained hand
and foot starved and beaten But they be beaten
starved bulied into submission When the French
proach NINE all hands lay their work. When
they seize car all traffic Neither coal coke
reaches France from the land between the Ruhr and the
Rhine except the little the French mine It is impossible
to get competent miners.
The French large shipment Of Saar coal Paris
with huge bboards Preparation Coal from the Ruhr Val
ley' "This,'' remarked member of the German Coal
Syndicate to may to fool their people It will
not to feed their furnaces
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1.-THE Rulers of France Brutal Greedy, Svvashbucxi1g
Are Bringing Upon Her People the Vengeance
of God the Former Rulers of
Germany Did Theirs"

time The French may throw him into prison they
abandon him. bruised and beaten the middle OF the
night obscure road where he have to walk for
hours before reaching help.
II. do not know he said "what will happen. / only
know that shall furnish coal Franos accept orders
from my government. Come what may, shall refuse to
accept orders from pirates.
One the first actions the French order dated
January &c. 1929 Bredeney to requisition large
number Of brothels in the newly occupied territory Strict
orders regulate the relations between of Mars and
perpatetc Venus. The German police authorities
joined from interfering with the between French
and dsorderly women in fact they forbidden to
undertake any in this connection that is likely to
he establishment of cordial and sympathetic relations
between the military and the population (RetGtaOn Ge
cOrdGlite des rapport DIES sympGthies.)
Similar regulations exist in the old occupied zone In
places city authorities compelled to furnish dsor
derby houses with white for the qualification Of
negroes and negrods The moral atmosphere thus ere
ated shocking There incidents that cannot possibly
related public Houses Of ifame insufficient for
the thousands Of black Frenchmen According to several
well authenticated instances their monsrous habits and
savage passions confined to the limits imposed by
nature upon the human species.
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Suffering, But Defiant

French paper, "Canard Enchaine,' wittiy summar-
lied the situation by cartoon showing three French SOL
dier shverng in the heart of the coal district with the
captions Condition of excellent Cold Send
us coa.''
The object Of the French is revealed in another
by Abel Faivre in Le Journal France proudly wearing
her Phygan cap Tightening the around the neck of
figure symbolizing the German people The face shows
strong resemblance Shines Unable to obtain coal for
herself, France will not permit coal coal products to
reach unoccuped Germany The Germans suffer and
Bat they do not give in.
All prominent in the Ruhr region, especially officials
of the government and directors of coal Mines
danger of Punishment courtmartia Their
wives know if their husbands will them
the evening One of considerable Importance in the
coal district goes out except in heavy boots with
little money sewed into his clothes He may be arrested
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Sweeping Expose by Hearst Papers Causes Authors to
Scurry Back to American Standpoint as N=tion
Rises i'm Patriotic Protest

since men began to XIII each
other"
Barnes re-AmericaniZed avs:
"The courage shown n both
sides was wonderful. Don't fire
until you SEQ the whites Of their
eyes said tho American cOmman-
der, who knew that their supply
Of ammunition was small, and that
his men did not have. enough bayO-
nets to be used successfully In
meeting the charge Of the British"
The cause Of the War Of 1919,
in the de-An1ericaniZed account
in the Anglicized text. was as fol-
lows:
eft was a mistake. Yt was Q
case in which righteous anger over
came Judgment. Some hot-bloOd-
ed young statesmen from the
Southern States, among whom
were Henry Clay, Of Kentucky, and
John G. Calhoun, Of South Caro-
lima, urged that war be declared,
and they had their way. Much
against his wish, Madison yielded,
and the War Of 1912 against Eng
land began. Had there been less
haste it would have been better,
for, no doubt, a peaceful settle
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lied HISTORIES THROWN OUT OF MANY U. S. SCHOOLS

cludihg the British commander,
General PaIxenham, were killed.
The American loss was very small.
Although at the time this battle
was fought the treaty Of peace had
already been signed at Client, IL
was Of utmost importance, IS It
had q marked effect In creating In
Europe . great respect for the
valor Of the American army.
Amazing are the alacrity and
agility displayed by Prof. Barnes
in shifting his weight Of modern
historical scholarship" from one
standpoint to its direct opposite,
WHAT WAS TO BE DONE.
Foreign influences which In
sidiously pervade the scholastic
circles Of our country had caused
this author and others to rewr1te
American school history from
the British standpoint. BY means
Of the propaganda texts our chill
dren were to be emasculated OF
patriotic pride and spirit. dena-
tionalized and trained for return
to British subsection.
It is doubtful If, In all the re.
lations Of friendly nations, so ex-
traordinary and sinister a con-
spiracy was ever before conceived
and carried 80 far toward success.
In tens of thousands Of our pub
lie schools these anti-American
teachings are Installed and stout
ly supported by scholastic ap-
prevail.
Oxford degrees, Rhodes scholar
ships, Carnegie Foundation influ-
ences, London history dinners,
English-speaking union directo-
rates, sulgrave Institute shares.
Magma Charta Day Association
vice presidencies, with perQuisites
and pensions, have caused an Eng
lish atmosphere to envelop Amert-
can educational institutions. The
Anglicized histories are but one
manifestation.
ONLY ONE IN TEN.
The Barnes book was only one
among ten which In the same
spirit and manner defame our ma
tion's heroes. falsify the causes Of
the Revolution and the War of
1912. discredit the Declaration of
independence and the Constitu-
ton, belittle the achievement Of
the fathers and misrepresent the
principles upon which our Repub-
lilo was founded and for which 1t
has stood. Nine Of these treason
texts still remain In the public
schools throughout the country.
They all must be driven out,
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denotes, Barnes has changed this
to
'What folly IL was for the
people in the British Isles to
make war on the COlOnists In
America"
Phrases such as English lib
erty," "Englishmen in America"
and "Britons fighting for liberty"
ceaselessly reiterated throughout
the Anglicized volume, have now
disappeared, and instead are new
ideals Of freedom" 1.-The American
colonists" and patriots Of the
revolution"
Faneuil Hall, 1.-The cradle of
liberty" which had been con-
signed to oblivion. is restored.
Anthony Wayne and Stoney
Point reappeared from exile.
Barnes Anglicized said OF Bun
ker Hill:
"The courage shown on both
sides was wonderful. To march,
as those British soldiers did,
straight up to the works, so near
that each one felt that the man
who was aiming at him could not
miss, required nerve as steady
as was ever shown on battlefield
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Of q great common danger, moro
than from a brOtherIy spirit with
In. They were united because
they dared not be otherwise. For
q time it was left for each colony
to do what It pleased in fighting
the king; but at length Congress
acted as though it were q union,
and voted to raise an army Of
10000 men."-etc.
In the new edition this IL
omitted, and in the same space.
same page, it is said OF the Con-
gresg:
'"The conduct Of the war was
guided by its action, under tho
leadership Of such sterling
patriots as John Hancock, Sam
ueI Adams, Benjamin Franklin,
John Adams and others. 1t was
an advisory body, working with
out the aid Of any written consti-
tuition. It was, however, the best
means the cOlOnists had, at the
time, Of bringing about cO-Opera-
ton. 1t afforded the opportunity
for all the colonies, instead Of
any single colony, to be repre-
scented In its counselS. 1t for the
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ment could have been made. Old
er mon with cooler heads, though
angry with England, felt that IL
would be wiser to wait, and were
much In doubt a. to the outcome"
This vile connection Of mod
ern historical scholarship" has
been thrown out, and in the space
1t occupied appears this:
FROM WRONG TO RIGHT.
'The impressment Of our sea-
mon By England interfered with
our trade, as ships were searched
upon the high seas, and Henry
Clay, q statesman from Kentucky,
who afterward went to tho Meth
erlands to help make the treaty
Of peace, insisted that war must
be declared to protect American
commerce. He was supported by
John G. Calhoun and statesmen
from other sections Of the coun-
try. It was also generally believed
that the English In Canada were
ar7ning the Indians Of the North
west and encouraging, II not
actually directing, the raids of
Tecumseh and other Indian chief.
tains."
In the AngliciZed text all the
courage and glory Of the battle Of
New Orleans were accredited to
the British. This was pronounced
"a wasted battle; it was a needless
victory, it counted for nothing,
for the war was over" In was
minimized in the sneering remark
that "all the Americans had to do
was to hold their ground" while
there was subtle praise for the
British soldiery. with no single
hint Of American valor.
The account said, in part. that
the invaders "came on like British
soldiers, and, like British soldiers,
they came again and again, those
that were not dead. For three
hours they endured that deadly
fire and offered up their lives for
their king. Then they gave up the
hopeless task, for they saw that to
perform It was beyond the power
Of man."
Every feature Of this is now re-
versed. The new account follows:
'"The invaders came on again
and again, tho front ranks carry
ing short ladders with which to
scale the earthworlks. These were
tho best trained soldiers In the
world, but JacIxsOn's Kentucky
and Tennessee rlflemen were tho
best marksmen In the world, and
in tho three-hour battle twenty
five hundred men and Officers In.
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A N ANNUAL los of 1926, 000,-
"A 900 through illiteracy is the
"A estimate of John J. Tigert.
United States Commissioner of
Education. made in the course of
the campaign Of the Government
for the abolition of the little red
schoolhouse" and, the establish
ment of equal educational oppor-
tunities for children everywhere.
Officials and authorities in the
National Capital agree that Hitter
acy represents tremendous eco
nomic and social loss to the ma
ton, and even President Harding
took occasion in a message to Con-
gress to comment upon the prob
lem.
Commissioner Tigert declared
the progress being made in re-
moving iIliteracy is not encour-
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cOl0nists was q time Of common
danger from without, and this, to
gether with q common interest
and patriotic zeal to carry to q
successful issue the great cause,
which the battles of Lexington
and Concord stood for, united the
cOlOnists for the struggle upon
which they were entering. While
tho Congress may not always
have dOno those things which at
times appeared to be advisable,
yet tho colonists never lost con-
fidence In the wisdom, patriotism
and patience of its great leaders.
This Congress voted to raise an
army Of 10000 men," etc.
Following 1.-The newer tenden-
cies Of historical writing" pro-
claimed by the revisionists, Barnes
in his book of two years ago
was teaching:
THE NEWEST TENDENCY.
''What folly It was for the
three -fOurths of England In the
British Isles to make war on
the one-fOurth of England in
America"
Feeling the still newer ten.
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dent that an educated nation is a
more productive one. 1t has been
estimated that If the productive Ia
Dor value of an illiterate is less
by only fifty cents a day than
that Of the educated man or wom-
an the country is losing $825, O0O,-
900 a year.
"Illiteracy Is a social menace.
Social progress can only come
about as it Is based on mutual
understanding, and there can be
no understanding where there Is
no power Of communicating ones
thoughts to ones neighbor. Where
intelligence reigns the land yields
its grain and fruits in greater
abundance"
Solution Of the problem, he as
serted. would come about by open
ing the doors of the public schools
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aging. pointing out that from 1910
to 1920 the drop in the percentage
Of illiterates was less than per
cent. while in twelve States illit-
eracy actually increased during
that period.
These figures are based on
census returns" he said, "but as
matter of fact. many authorl-
ties have long thought that a test
of ability to use the language In
a practical way would reveal a
much larger percentage of Hitter
ates; such, for example, as the
army test, which showed that 25
per cent Of our young men could
make no practical use Of written
English
In discussion of the economic
loss due to illiteracy Commissioner
Tigert said: 1.-THE fact Is self-evi.
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cock IL no longer "a smuggler,"
but once moro sterling patriot"
The portrait Of Lord CORVALLIS
has given way to one Of Nathan
Hale, who was unnamed In the
Anglicized edition. and a picture
Of Washington crossing the Della
ware.
1t il no longer stated that ''In
all the unfairness that had been
shown 1t was not England that
oppressed the colonies;" that
"the disputes were not between
the colonists and the English at
home. but between the Tories
and Wings on both sides Of the
sea, neighbor against neighbour"
and that had there been no
war this great country would
probably still be a great branch
Of the British Empire"
This has been taken out, and
patriotic recital Of real fact sub.
stituted.
1t appears to be no longer said
Of Lexington that ut was a fight
Of Briton against Briton; on one
side Britons fighting for liberty;
on the other Britons fighting be-
cause ordered to by their king"
The passage Is corrected so as
to read that poorly armed, un-
trained American farmers could
make the veteran British regu-
lars run"
FROM HERO TO TRAITOR.
1t is evident that this author,
in his conversion, has discarded
his British historical authorizes
and taken up study of true Amer
lean annals.
Benedict Arnold was not the
injured hero, whom the Congress
had not treated fairly" as praised
to the extent of a page by this
author in his Anglicized edition
Oh Two years ago, but now is q
traitor without any excuse for his
Infamous betrayal Of his country.
In the Anglicized version, now
Withdrawn, the Continental Con-
gress was described az:
"A scene Of petty chickering's
and screenings" among "seIfish,
unworthy, shOrt-sighted, narrow.
minded. Office-seeI1ing and office
trading plOtters. So many petty
wrangHngs stood In the way O..
wise measures to help the army
that 1t suffered much and the
cause was set back for years
Such union as there was among
the colonies, during the war.
came from the outside pressure
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Arrested Maltreaed Chained Starved Beaten

merely Of securing the territory .au E..,
g: % g saS .nps ss
esrs fen I into our hands nd auADe "
VIII s: as s +. s.a s led
s soTTaE sTi PEACE Co.'s II .-"A'
events esn vs psea Satisfaction and pride the unparalleled
accomplishments Of under command nrrorr
Degout (Disgus obviously nickname for DegOutte,
the French commanderinchief.
theater invaded at Recklinghausen where accom-
panied by tanks French troops interrupted perform
ance of Shakespeare king Lear dispeng the audience
Shakespeare however was not only casualty Schiller
too was to feel the heavy of French miltarism
few DAYS later performance Of Wilhelm Tell the play
that gores the emancipation Of Switzerland took place at
the Municipal Theater in Essen. Never was an AUDIENCE
never actors in such mood. The play proceeded
breathessly to the scene the Ruet mountain where the
founders Of Swiss independence soemnly take the OATH
II as"ss s r. b sss Srs 70 perl peril . s ss'"''
The actors could not go on Tears ehoksd their voices
schlers immortal lines It was an epic an unforgeable
moment Jointly actors and audience continued:
ss e. s eek 's s. ss ss T.: 4 sss ;s.
French soldiers swarmng around the theater but
forbore from attacking it. restrained to certain extent BY
the of the Schupo Gan abbreviaton for Schultz
polizei, the state polce).
RANKED by tanks they appeared the next day martial
array and seized the theater Republic The
object to be to punish actors and audience Tor the
sole crime of being German However the echo OF that
and Rhine reverbrates throughout the land Everywhere
resolutey reiterate the oath Of William Tell and
his dauntless comradesi
Hence let Be people, Of brothers
No suffering and peril shall dUde
freenen, fathers 1Oefe
Ruther death than iUe IN seTv1ude.
When the play produced in Berlin in the presence of
Ebert and all parliamentary leaders, the audience
at this point rose to its and ntoned with mighty
voice the national anthem:
Deutschland, Deutschland, land Of all LrMds
First and foremost In the DDOTtd
When thy children face united
EveTy foe against thee hurled
the Meuse unto the MeDeL,
To the 1Uih flags unfurted;
Deutschland, DeutschtGnd, land of oil L1ndss
First and foremost in the 1OOrld. :
The crimes Of the Kaiser and the Prussian military
party brought terrible and punishment Germany
Consequences Implying Germany must suffer. But
believe that the rulers of France brutal greedy swas
buckling bringing upon her people the vengeance
of God the former rulers of Germany did upon theirs
Americaa)
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MLITERACY SEEN AS GREAT PERIL TO NATION;
NEED FOR REMEDY is DECLARED SELF-EVIDENT

"every evening Of every week in
the year and offering courses
that will attract illiterates as
grown men and women, and at
the same time. because OF this.
create a desire to overcome their
great handicap. To reproach the
illiterate for being illiterate is the
worst possible way Of correcting
the evil"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-08
Judges Cook Own Food
PHILADELPHIA, Pa

ORNATE kitchenettes in the
city hall courtrooms may be
curtailed as a result of Mayor
Moore's announced opposition to
the custom of judges and others
cooking luncheon in their cham
bers.
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By CHARLES GRANT MILLER.

By CHARLES GRANT MILLER,
Whose expose through the Hearst
papers of the perversion of
early American history IN fre1O
editions of our school tezt books,
brought out since the World War
as the result of British propG-
gandd, has caused the objection
able nesU tezt books to be Off
ciGlly condemned in many States
and withdrawn from use.
" HE well-organized and far
advanced movement to per-
- vert American school history
in the interest of a British-Ameri-
can Union Is coming to failure.
Anglicized texts are being re-Amer-
icanized. One has appeared, fully
re-revised.
The exposures made through
the Hearst newspapers have
aroused tremendous and increas-
ing patriotic protest throughout
the nation against this sinister
attempt to denationalize Ameri-
can children, our citizenry of the
future.
In countless communities the
treason texts have been thrown
out Of schools. Every great ma
tional patriotic organization has
unreservedly condemned them as
unfit for school use.
In Oregon q law has been pass.
ed excluding from tho public
schools Of the State "any history
text book which defames our
nations founders and defenders,
or nlisrepresents the causes and
principles for which they fought
and sacrificed"
AMERICAN AT LAST.
Similar measures are now be.
fore the legislatures Of New
York, Wisconsin, Washington,
Colorado and West Virginia. Tho
Wisconsin bill has passed the
senate.
The publishers OF the altered
texts are seeking terms Of sur
render and the authors are sour
ryIng back to the American stand
point.
Everett Barnes Short Ameri-
can History by Grades" one of
the ten Anglicized texts exposed
in the Hearst papers, has appear.
ed in a new edition. so completely
rewritten that all of the passages
which were complained against are
corrected or eliminated. The atti.
tude has been directly reversed.
; In this re.revision John Han.
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The Washington Times-HerGLd last Sunday
presented the initial instGLInient OF the first
graphic eyeIUitness story to reach the United
States of scenes in the RHhr Valley as they
renLLy are since the French inUGsiOn. Here is
the second and concluding inStnIIn,ent of this
UiUid UOrd- picture of RuIr conditions
From o
ESSEN, Germany March %.
HHVHE Begians from poor little Belgium are if any,
thing more brutal than their French compeers. They
- make speciality of applying the riding whip with
complete mpartiaity the backs of and chill
dren One little boy made childish gesture of derision at
Belgian sentry The raised his to shoot He was
prevented numbering the lad but three stawart Bel
gian policemen fogged the child after taking away his
school bag.
Two young men standing in public square talking
number of Belgian officers passed. Although there
plenty of the officers pushed of the young
out of the way that he fell his back The boy
picked himself up and laughed derisively.
This enraged the Belgian He took his whip and cut the
young the face The latter did nothing He did
look the Belgian but calmly lit cigarette He was
coward He able to give account of himself
although it is rather difficult for unarmed to
with riding whip and revolver He realized, however
that Belgian desired to provoke counter attack which
might embro only him. but his friends and other harm
less bystanders in the tolls of Belgian courtmartal