Evening star., 1927-12-01
CARNEGIE LABELED
AGENT OF BRITAIN
McAndreW Case Witness
Says Magnate Backed Pro-
English Propaganda.
BY the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, Decent Der Agencies
Tor "the dissemination of the spirit of
friendliness toward England" and in
oividuals who fostered them were
raked over the Goals in the school
board trial yesterday of William Nc
Andrew, superintendent of schools.
McAndrew. who walked out of a
previous session of the trial saying
he was tired of listening to lectures in
no way pertinent to the charges
against him, was absent, but the hear
Ing went forward anyway.
Carnegie Assailed.
The late Andrew Carnegie was de-
scribed as a fountainhead of pro brit
lsh propaganda in schools and libraries
by the days witness. Charles Grant
Miller. New York writer. Agencies for
dissemination of ''the spirit of friend
illness toward England were traced
by Miller to the dream web of the
steel king fo' the reunion of the
United States with England.
Rupert Hughes. the novelist, who
has written books on George Wash.
ington which have aroused comment,
was called by Miller one of the new
method school of literary smart-alecks,
whose little bag of tricks is limited to
drinkings and cursings and illicit
loving, and who could not comprehend
the real Washington if diagrammed to
him"
Il read somewhere in Rupert
Hughes writings" said Miller. that
Mount Vernon in Washington's time
with its constant round of entertain
ing, drinking. card playing and bet
ting was comparable to a present
day roadhouse.
Called rO-British.
ST wondered who could have in
spired such a nasty sneer as that, and
found that Hughes is an official of the
Sulgrave Institute. with headquarters
in England, the purpose of which is
TO establish Sulgrave Mansion in Eng
land as the true Washington shrine
and Mount Vernon be damned,''
Miller spoke of Hughes as being
like a busy woodpecker, rat-tatting
on the bark of a tree and picking out
salacious dead maggots. while imag-
ing his rraggots as the whole life and
mission of the tree"
Carnegie subsidies" the witness
said, sought TO bring the realization
of dream of reunion between Eng.
land and the United States through
the school history and library book.
The history text of David MuzZey.
Columbia University professor, which
has been under fire at previous ses-
sions, was reattacked by Miller, who
read from the book several passages
he regarded as un-American.
Belittled America.
"Muzzey never seemed to have
good thing to say of any American"
questioned Attorney Righeimer, rep
resenting the school board
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He does mention that Andrew Jack
son drove the British back at New
Orleans with terrific slaughter"
He said Muzzey did not possess
an historical mind" and cited what
he regarded as historical plumbers
In the Muzzey text.
CHM & Co., text book publishers.
were criticized in the Miller testi-
mony. He listed several organiza-
tions for world peace and nation ALI.
anee. and said:
'sThe millions of the late Edward
CHM. amassed out of texts In Amer
lean schools. have heavily endowed
these alien organization that now
assist in the efforts to force British
versions of the history in our coun. |
try upon our children in the public |
schools.
Some OF these organizations also
share in the 100000 900 fund of Car
negie. who declared his fondest dream
was the reunited States-the British
American Union.'"
Although McAndrew. who ia charged
with insubordination and fostering
pro-British teaching in the schools
was absent. his attorney was present
and characterized the testimony of
Miller as a lecture"
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