Evening star., 1924-11-14
c. j. TO SUPPORT
EDUCATION WEEK
Rev. E. A. Walsh Declares
Program Provides Antidote
| for RadicaIism.

No educational institution may
rightly claim to be American which
does not faithfully interpret the po-
litical doctrines of the founders OF
the Republic, Rev. Edmund A. Walsh,
s. j., vice president of Georgetown
University and regent of the School
of Foreign Service. declared in sup
port of Education week"
In a communication to John j.
Tigert, L. S. Commissioner Of Educa-
tion, Father Walsh pointed out that
the antidote for present day radical
ism lies in the program as outlined
for American schools during this OBJ
servance. DIR. Tigert was asked to
address the Foreign Service School
students at exercises to be held No
vember 81 in connection with the
furtherance of Education week" and
the fifth anniversary of the founding
Of the school
Viewed With Interest.
Father Walsh's communication read
rs follows:
The authorities of Georgetown
University have viewed with keen
interest and qualification the, grow
ing interest of the American people
in educational preparation for citi-
zenship, and for an Intelligent par
ticipation in the civic life of the
nation. with its complex problems and
increasing esponsibilities. 1t has
been the high privilege of this in
stitution, since its foundation, in 1889.
to interpret literally and faithfully
the political science of the founding
fathers, as epitomized in those two
immortal charters of free govern
ment - the Declaration of Inde-
pendence and the Constitution of the
United States. No educational in
stitution may riGhtfully claim to be
American which does less or con-
trariwise.
In the whirlwind of social, po-
litical and economic panaceas which
have been proposed to bewildered
humanity after the upheavals of the
great war, it is especially desira BILE
at this time that the growing gen.
erations of America should not be
blinded or confused as to the in
herent soundness and stability of
American institutions. There are GER
tain clamorous groups which strive
on every occasion to inject the
subtle virus of doubt, discomfort.
lass-consciousnesS and incipient re-
Volt into the minds of our future
citizens, relying, meanwhile, with
cynical disingenuousness, on the ex-
traordinary liberality of our laws,
which seem to protect even the
avowed revolutionists up to the very
instant of overt act.
Antidote In Program.
The antidote lies precisely in the
program as outlined for American
schools during Education week. To
be sure, no thoughtful man who
knows the American mind fears that
this Government can ever be over
turned by any sudden coup detat
of radicalism. Neither, for that mat
ter, does the most irreconcilable rev.
olutionist. He frankly counts on an
accumulation of hostile opinions. a
slow, imperceptible drift Of advanced
tendencies. He relies, as one writer
mas well put it, not on the strength
of the attack, but on the Inertia Of
the defense. He Is greatly consoled
and encouraged in his strategy by
certain good people. not aliens, who
seem to believe that any un-Ameri-
can ideal may be taught with i'm
punity under the aegis of the bill Of
rights, but that it Is insidious propa-
Eanda to defend vigorously and con-
Cretely the free institutions that have