Evening star., 1934-12-02
PROFESSORS HIT
c. c. c. CENSORSHIP
Association Will Protest to
Roosevelt on Ban Of
"Machines" Book.
BY the Associated Press.

6y Inc hSSOCldttu rIesS
CHICAGO, December 1.-The pro-
fessors frowned darkly today on this
censorship Of reading matter in the
Civilian Conservation Camps and
asked President Roosevelt to do some
thing about it.
What the boys in the c. c. c. need,
said the American Association of Uni
versity Professors in resolution
adopted today. is broader educa-
ton that will give them true pic
ture of current industrial and social
problems The professors agreed to
send their idea along to the PreSi-
dent and Congress.
Delegates said their action was
prompted by the recent action of Rob-
ert Fechner, c. c. c. director, in BAN
ming from camps men and ma
chimes" The treatise, dealing with
the effect of increasing mechaniza-
ton on craftsmen, was written by
Prof. William F. Ogburn of the Uni
versity of Chicago.
Debate Is Lively.
The associations council adopted
the resolution after lively debate
by the whole convention. 1t stated:
THE association is informed that
the director of the Civilian Conserva- :
ton Camps shows a disposition to
interfere with the freedom of teach
ing and to obstruct the program OF
the educational director of the camps.
This association respectfully re-
quests President Roosevelt, to whom
the director of the c. C. c. is alone
responsible, to review the matter.
Furthermore, this association re-
Quests President Roosevelt and the
Congress to expand greatly the edu-
cational program of the camps In
order that the young men may have
the opportunity of becoming more in
telligent with regard to the industrial
and social problems which confront
the civilized world
Prof. F. K. Richtmyer of Cornell
University offered the resolution. Prof
J. S. Guy Of Emory University op-
posed it.
The book is out of step with this
scientific age" Guy declared. Its
dangerous and more or less destruc-
tive. If were the c. c. c. director
I'd ban it, too, speaking as a sclen-
tiSt.'
Sees Lack of Freedom.
"Td like to remind DR.. Guy" said
s. A. Mitchell of. the University of
Virginia and president of the organi-
zation. that this has already, been
considered by the Resolutions Com
mittee."
1T seems that some of us oppose
this pamphlet because it states one
position. while we'd be glad to see the
c. c. C. workers get another idea,
said Prof E S. Allen of the Univer-
sity of Iowa. That is not academic
freedom
DR.. C. H. Judd Of the University of
Chicago asserted that moves to pro-
vide the corps members with aduca-
tional material met with some difn-
Guilty shortly after the camps were or
ganized.
Ogburn to prepare the first of Sc
ries of pamphlets for the camps, "
Judd said. He prepared one en-
titled Men and Machines 1t is a
general discussion of the social i'm
plications of the machine by a lead
ing authority. Prof. Ogburn, who
directed the Hoover report on social
trends, is also director of the Social
Science Council"
Judd quoted Commissioner of Edu-
cation zook as saying Fechner gave
these reasons for banning the book
ut will induce the philosophy of de-
spair' and lit might induce a desire
to destroy our present economic struc-
ture."