The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-18
Education Week" Helps
Rouse Inquiring Mind Of
Nations School Children
BY J. LOUIS ENcDAHL.

Communists to life liberty Justice security
and opportunity. and with all the blood hounds of the
aercan Legion not on the trial. scheduled on
But there little evidence of life and activity anywhere
IN the capitalist camp
here IS no beating of tom TOMS to arouse the multi
uoes 70 ynoh law frenzy thru the columns Of the kept
over. = D''O'S "'e week IS
= The Communists have taken seriously the challenge
ton for "Anti-Red Week." Everywhere thr,,o,,t +h Z
larger masses than before being reached with the
message Of Communism. They are being shown +ba dff
ence between capitalist and Communist education
Perhaps the capitalist enemy still drunk with it's vc+or
on Nov a. in the political arena feels i unneoessar y
put forth any exerton Education Week. Perbane T.
ee's tnat II IS pest TO let we'll enough alone"
There is the big probability that the "Red Batting Pro-
gram issued by the American Legion head Of the Rraa,
OF Education in the Department Of Commerce carries +b
sting that piercing the hide Of those who framed It
IL +ba rrd e . give birth to questioning attitude
will swallow, all of them, without thinking the fra',da+
program presented to them 'e''
When the charge is made that "Tba Dad Ella, -
s, poverty starvation, disease anarchy and
dictatorship some youngsters among the millions Of work
ing class school children may rise and inquire:
why it that there is much dying needless death
nen unue the stars and stripes? The children Of the coal
miners especially could inquire the children of anv
worker tong in the mills and the factories ALWAYS facing
death In the unnecessary hazards capitalist in
What about the poverty under the stars and o+r;,.
MILLIONS OF children know that their fathers and mothers
must count the pennies lest single one of them be snent
on any but absolute necessities = r
what about hunger and starvation under the American
nag9 million children go hungry school every morning
Penny lunches must be served most often to those ;tho
penny, in the schools to the undernourshed cbldran
What about disease under the American flag? The chill
aIsn WIN iase Inat question They know how disease comes
1ought the doctor could be paid father and mother
aan have to work so hard the children got better food
II we could only live in better home!"
The children understand very well What s re.n+
says that THE Red Flag stands for destruction
and dictatorship But they will begin to question if these
are not the things that exist under capitalism: desrotio
OF all that worth while life for the great masses of
workers and armers chaos all relations between the
Units N me great human family all under the bruazng
dictatorship OF greed.
What is this Red Flag?
1t natural to assume that the children will ask about
The teachers answer that it is the FLAG of Soviet
Rule that regns the Russian Workers Repuc spread
ing out over Onesxh of the land surface of the globe
But that will only be the letting loose Of the fs+ l
questions that will pour like avalanche from the
nqulrng mind OF the child The boys girls of the United
States will want to know about Soviet Russia: if II
IS so bad why do the many millions tolerate the Red Flag?
Then somehow they will learn that Soviet Rule is the
government OF the many millions of workers and peasants
in Soviet Russia the that they have
themselves in their struggle against DEATH destruction
poverty starvation, disease anarchy and dictatorsho ali
those tormentors of mankind thriving under all the FLAGS Of
the capitalist nations.
Today is called Patriotism Day" of "Educaton Week.
The New York World, in discussing Education Week" SAYS
the natural reaction is, Patriotism? Sure Fine Thing! I'm
tor t? But second thought the question arises What
knd OF patrotsm? And there is where the trouble starts
The children will begin to question why they owe pa
otc allegiance to the flag of Morgan Rockefeller and the
government that permits millions Of children to be fed into
the factories there to be destroyed their youth; unable
to enjoy manhood and womanhood If they ever reach IT,
They will begin to wonder if they do owe patriotic
allegiance to the struggle that has already brought such
happiness such bright prospect for the future to all the
children of Soviet Russia under the Red Flag that the
enemies Of the children in the United States condemn so
HISTORICALLY.
Let American capitalism loose the avalanche of ques-
tons from the nqung mind of the children in school and
it will thus help destroy itself and all that il stands for
Welnaone at conex Island.