New Britain herald., 1927-11-03

George Harvey, former U. s. am- bassador 10 the court of St. James, and others, in which suggestions of tions appeared. He also quoted some of them as referring to the use of more just histories in American public schools.
 Alleged propaganda efforts of editors and ducators-"spurred by social influences and British decora- tions"-also were cited in detail.
 Then Schrader moved to another angle of the propaganda situation.
 T have seen the poet Longfellow referred to as the platitudinarian',' he said. "When I was a boy we revered him as our greatest poet. There has been a sudden change in viewpoint. and it is because of pro- British propaganda. If l am any judge of literature Paul Revere and Hiawatha' are among the greatest of poems"
 He assailed immigration laws which "open the doors to 'Brtons and bar others; he cited recent naval building programs of England and Japan as proof that America needs a bigger navy.
 The new school of historians emasculates our heroes" he con- cluded.
 Two school teachers also were witnesses. One, Miss Mary F. Lynch testified merely that she had had on the walls of her schoolroom a pie ture of the Boston Tea Party and the conventional Spirit of '76"; and that they mysteriously disappeared one night.
 Mrs. Josephine Didier. history teacher, testified she had been sub jectod" by the board of examiners of the board of education to his tory course at the University of Chicago which she complained was unpatriotrc. The course, she ex- pIained, was recommended by the board
 The text, she said, was Schlessing- CTS New Viewpoints on American History" The book, she said. was under consideration at the time 1926-as a text book in Chicago ele- mentary schools. In it, she said, Washington was referred to as a rebel" the participants in the Bos- ton tea party as "Vandals;" the col onists as persons "needlessly eXcit- ed" who had no right to revolt"
 "I believe" she said that MT, Schlessinger should be filling a cell in the federal penitentiary for writ ing those things.
 My children have every faith in me-" she said, eff any of you women and mothers in this room would ask me to teach such things to my little children, Id-well, I'd be sur prised."
 She said, In response to question CTS, that nothing that she would cal! patriotism was being taught in Chi Cago schools; that the children never sang patriotic songs; and that she did not believe many of the pupils could recite the Star Spangled Ban ncr
 The school board members looked unanimously shocked, and just little bit as if they thought some body might ask them 10 recite the Star Spangled Banner. But nobody did.
 Proceedings grew warm in a dis Cussion over when to hold the next session of the trial, which started more than month ago. Mean drew said he could not be present except on certain specified dates. His attorneys offered to go ahead without him. The prosecution re- fused.
 Coath, the board president, sug- gcsted that if McAndreW's inability to be present on desired dates was "only a matter of the price of 8 lec- ture or two, some members of the board might be willing to reimburse him for any loss sustained by at tending his trial.'
 McAndreW attorneys demanded that the hearing be conducted seri- ously." and the case was duly post poned until Friday, when. since Me Andrew already had specified he could not then be present, it will be further postponed until Nov. 14.
 The session of the trial-designcd to decide whether McAndrew shall be restored or permanently suspend ed as superintendent of schools then was adiOurnel.