Evening star., 1937-02-09
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ton of non-violation hereof as a con-
dition for payment of salary"
The text of the original red rider"
was as follows: Provided, that here
after no part Of any appropriation for
the public schools shall be available
for the payment of the salary of any
person teaching or advocating COM
munism."
There is a "joker" in the McCor-
mack amendment, however. 1t will
relieve teachers and officials Of the re-
quirement of making special declara-
ton of mon violation" but will con-
tinue to apply to all other school en-
ployes-janitors, engineers, librarians,
messengers, etc.
Confident Senate Won't Yield.
However, according to Mrs. Nor
ton, many things" may happen be-
fore Congress finally disposes of the
red rider" controversy. The organi-
cations that have been fighting for
outright repeal are planning to con-
centrate their fire on the Senate, con-
fident it will not yield from its present
position.
Like Mrs Norton, Mrs Henry Grat-
tan Doyle, president of the Board Of
Educa ton, is not willing to concede
defeat on the basis of House action.
She sat in the House gallery through
out the prolonged debate on Kennedy's
repeal bill and the Mccormack
amendment, and after the vote was
announced, issued the following stae-
ment:
"The battle is not over by any
means. In fact, We have just begun
to fight and we shall fight until this
unjust reflection on the patriotism of
5000 American public school teachers
is wiped out. Not one scrap Of evi-
dence to justify this unwarranted re-
Election on the teachers was brought
forward. 1t couldn't be, for there
isn't any. Yet the so-called compro-
mise retains this feature, and is in
violation of the American tradition
against legislative interference with
our public schools, just as the noto-
rious red rider was.
"As sat and listened to the pro-
ceedings in the House, had the i'm
preston that what was needed was
moral courage. Members Of Congress
admitted they did not believe in the
sort of thing they were voting for but
were afraid Of what their constituents
might think. got the impression
that they were willing to cast unwar-
ranted and disgracefu1 reflections on
the Americanism of 5000 loyal, self
respecting and patriotic teachers
rather than face the possibility that
some publicity-seeking agitator might
label them as Communists.
Election Tactics Cited.
every one knows how ineffective
such tactics were in the last election.
Personally, have more faith in the
intelligence of their constituents and
in the sober common sense of the
American electorate than these mem
bers Of Congress seem to have. am
sure the American people do not be-
lieve in the application to our schools
of these imported ideas-typical of
foreign dictatorship rather than of our
free America, and know they will
make their feelings known in due
time. In the meantime, shall fight
on to free our once free schools from
this incubus.
II was particularly impressed with
the attitude of Representative Fish of
New York. He certainly cannot be
accused of sympathy with commu-
nism; yet he saw the danger to Ameri-
can principles in this legislation and
spoke in favor Of outright repeal of
the un-American red rider. All
honor to him.
1--WE of the voteless District of Co.