The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-27
PREPARE FOR
WEEK OF RED
DENUNCIATION
To Have Seven Days of
Education Soon
nv LAuRENCE TODD.

RA0IItoV VIII 0OhlOi 0ONN NAAt0 8CAA
Franklin listen in on the official
program for American Educa-
ton Week, announced by the
U. S. bureau of education!
Constitution day, Nov. II, be-
gins the week. The topics listed
by commissioner Tigert, whom
President Harding picked from
a Kentucky post Of the Ameri-
can Legion and damned into the
job of running the bureau, are
these:
"Down With the Reds"
a Life, liberty, justice, security
and opportunity.
-. How our constitution guaran-
tees these rights.
80. Revolutionists, Communists, and
extreme pacifists are a menace to
these guarantees.
"A. One constitution, one union, one
flag. one history.
Slogans-Ballots, not bullets; mas
ter the English language; visit the
schools today"
Hardened revolutionlsts such as
Adams and jefferson must blush for
their crimes, and pacifists such as
Robert Morris, the Quaker, must hang
their heads before the bull-necked in
telligence here disclosed.
Patriotism day is next. It's pro-
gram reads:
Il. The red flag means death, de-
struction, poverty, starvation, disease,
anarchy and dictatorship.
-. Help the immigrants and aliens
to become American citizens.
SO. Take an active interest in gov
ernmental affairs.
a. Stamp out revolutionary radical
ism.
20. To vote is the primary duty of
the patriot
Slogans-America first. The red
flag-danger. Visit the schools to-
day"
All Kinds of Days.
There is a school and teacher day,
and an iliiteracy day, whose program
includes the stirring announcement:
"An illiterate who obtains only Sec
ond-handed information is the tool Of
the radical"
Then comes physical education day,
in which the radicals seem to have
no attention, and a community day
with hooking suggestion of "equali-
ty Of opportunity in education for ev-
cry American boy and girl; finally a
God and country day in which the
communities are urged to go to the
American Legion to secure speakers
tor the theme Of goodness, or on any
pther appropriate subject
Why this moronic display?
It's simple. Harding handed the Bu-
reau Of Education over to the Legion,
and Tigert, who eats 'em alive If they
are tinged with working class SYM
pathies or other revolutionary radi-
calism," discovered that in the previ-
Gus year an Education Week had been
established, to make the American
people better acquainted with their
schools and more concerned in i'm
proving the school system. Tigert and
a fellow named Powell, head of the
Americanization section of the Lee
gion, grabbed this Education Week,
and apparently recalling that touch
ing line from the song of the Craa-
bao Society
And beneath the starry flag, edu-
cate 'em with a Krag :" they de-
cided to educate EN- with Mitchell
Palmer and Harry Daugherty and Big
Bill Burns. plus Hardboiled Smith.
From that day on, Powell and Tigert
have prepared the programs for Edu-
cation Week, and the Bureau of Edu-
cation has acted as loud-speaker for
these weird mental messes. And the
National Educational Association,
which had the courage to protest the
nomination of Tigert as commission
er, has bent the pregnant hinges Of
its knee and Joined in giving sanction
to these programs before the intelli-
gent public.
The secretary OF the National Edu-
cational Association says this pro.
gram was drafted last May, so he is
sure II is not aimed at LaFollette. The
policy Of the ~ e. A. rs to cooper.
ate with the bureau"