San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-17
WAR PAINTINGS
BAN CAUSES
STORM
Chieasoans Protest Action
Of School Head in
Removing Canvases.

CHICAGO, Jan. ia storm-cloud
has gathered on the horizon of DR..
William NJ. McAndrew, superinten-
dent Of schools, as a result Of his
article in the Educational Review in
which he declared that war paintings
had been rooted out" Of the public
schools.
Leaders Of patriotic societies, headed
by the Daughters Of the American Rev.
olution, flung a challenge at the direc'
tor of Chicago's public schools for
commencing the idea of removing pic
lures and statues "perpetuating the
war spirit" from classrooms.
]. Lewis Coath, a member of the
board of education, declared that he
would take the matter up at a board
meeting, and the American Legion i'll
timated that it was preparing an or
ganized protest.
Superintendent McAndrew's reply
to the resolutions adopted by the ID.
A. r. of Chicago, and others, was to
stand pat" ON his article in the Re-
view, of which he is the editor.
RESOLUTION CONDEMNS.
4ut TesOlutlOH VI Inc ~. n. H., oiSh'
ed by Mrs. Samuel Earle, regent Of the
Chicago chapter, and its other officers,
read:
"The Chicago chapter protests
against the Pacifism and the lack of
appreciation of the history and mean.
ing of the glorious past Of the United
States, and wishes to say that it was
the intention of the joint Americaniza-
ton committee of the Daughters of the
American Revolution to write to DIR.
McAndrew that we approved of his
work in the Chicago schools and would
endorse his work to the best of our
ability, but instead of commencing him
we now feel that he has undone all his
good work and has done irrcparable
harm to the schools and to the public
mind by voicing his sentiments against
the spirit of 49,"
DIR. McAndrew had specifically cited
the historic painting of A. w. Willard
as having disappeared from the school
rooms.
ASSAILS EDUCATOR.
Rev. William L. Barton, famous
biograpber of Lincoln, and a personal
friend of the artist, commented on Su-
perintendent McAndrew's observations
as follows:
"When the youth Of Chicago cease
to have pride in Americas war record,
it is time to swap that disreputable
old bird Of prey, the American eagle,
for q goose and let the Goddess Of Lib
erty hang calfskin from her recreant
limbs"
Edwin p. Morrow, member of the
United States Railway Labor Board
and former governor Of Kentucky, in
addressing a Government club lunch
con, was equally bitter in his attack on
Superintendent McAndrew.
"These utterances come from a man
who presides over the instruction of
more boys and girls than any other
teacher in the state" he said.
STATUES MUST GO.
sThis is Illinois-the state tina,
gave to earth Lincoln and to the
Union Grant and Logan. To what
depths of shame, of piffle and pink
powder effeminacy are we descending:
IF you follow this patriotic pro-
fessor to a logical conclusion then Chi
cago must take from the heroic statue
of Washington on your boulevard the
sword from his uplifted hand, snatch
from Logan the flag that waves above
his head, unhorse Phil Sheridan and
take the pistols from his holsters, for
they are symbols of carnage
IF the spirit Of 20 is not fit for
the schoorooms Of Chicago, then we
must strip from the walls of the ma
tons capital the great picture of Per-
ry at the Battle of the Lakes"