Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-07
BACKGROUND OF EVENTS
BY PAUL Y. COLLINS.

for they know well that it has no refer
ence whatever to Communists, but Is .
motto to make them alert to meet all
contingencies of life with self-reliance
and anticipation of what may happen
and how to meet it. This is an illus
tration, however, of the wide angle OF
divergence between a manly Boy Scout
and q Communist.
From England comes a patriotic warn
ing against the perniciouS activities
there among the children by the Com
munists 1t reads in part as follows:
Children are being baptized into the
Communist faith. When they are
little older they are taught such beliefs
as these in the Communist Sunday
schools:
Thou shalt not be a patriot.
Thou shalt teach revolution.
Thou shalt wage class war.
Every man and woman has an
equal right to an equal share in the
product Of their collective labor.
Thou shalt demand on behalf Of
your class the complete surrender OF
the capitalist class and all means OF
production, distribution and exchange,
with the land and all that it contains,
and by so doing shall establish class
rule
| Special clubs are organized. trips
into the country are arranged and
mimic warfare is practiced. The chill
dren are taught how to spy out the
creep through line Of outposts always
supposed to be capitalist or bourgeois
| troops)."
These facts concerning the active
| S.,k a.. IL
timely just now, at the season Of the
opening of the new school term
throughout the land. They are not new.
but most patriotic Americans, secure In
their own convictions and loyalty, for
get how many millions there sre who
whether sincerely duped by intrigue or
parties to treason with open eyes
constitute real danger which requires
watching in all schools and churches
and other public institutions. The Com
munistS avow an intent to abolish gov
eminent, patriotism, property rights,
right of inheritance, all religions and
all family relations. To that end they
propose to bore from within" all col
| leges, schools, labor unions, farm or
CARNATIONS, women's organizations and
churches.
| freely open to attack by the enemies of
the Government is indicated by the fact
that in only few States is there any
| legislation to protect them from trea-
sonable teachings
Only these States have any laws re-
stricting teaching to American citi-
zens-Arizona, Nebraska, Nevada and
New Jersey
Eight other States require either
American citizenship or a declaration
Of intention to acquire citizenship
California, Idaho, Michigan, Missouri,
Montana. New York, North Dakota and
Washington.
| teachers must take an oath of ale
giance-Colorado, Ohio, Oklahoma. ORE
gon. South Dakota, West Virginia and
Indiana.
That oath Of allegiance is as follows,
being practically the same for all
States:
ct solemnly swear or affirn that I
| will support the Constitution of the
State of - and of the United States,
and the laws Of the State and of the
United States, and will teach. by pre-
Of the United States and of the State
Of -, reverence for law and order and
undivided allegiance to the Government
Of one country, the United States OF
America"
This oath must be made in tripIicate
and signed. one copy 10 De MED IN tcs
4, ONCE of the State superintendent c:
, public instruction, one retained by the
person making the oath and one copy
| filed with the offlcer or board in charge
| of any public school. The same Is re-
| quired of teachers In all private schools
and Of exchange professors as well as
native professors In our colleges.
There Is q penalty of fine of 500 or
six months in prison for any board or
officer who hires teacher without first
requiring that oath OF allegiance, but
there appears no penalty Tor the teacher
who afterward violates the oath and
teaches subversive or reasonable doc
trines, by precept or example. OF
course, whenever q teacher violates any
part of the conditions under which he
or she was employed, that makes the
terms Of employment void and the
teacher can be discharged without re-
/, course, but there appears no other pen
atty. During the war there were many
such cases OF disloyalty OF tsaehers and
the culprits were promptly Disciplined.
but since the war there has grown a
spirit Of tolerance or ignorance of the
evil. There are some cases in the
washington schools. %
There appears no such requirement
whatever In the District OF Columbia, ,
and 30 our schools and high schools are
charged quite often with socialistic and
communistic teachers-even prize-win-
ming Communists known for their con-
tributi0ns to communistic publications.
Of which there are some 500 published
In the United States. ~
tCoprisht. 1899. BY Paul v. coilins)