The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-02-18
RED MICROBES" In OUR
HIGH EDUCATION SYSTEM

Inc Danger 70 american society Oh
the future from subversive teaching in
our colleges is emphasized in detail in
an interesting article in the current
issue of the National Republic under
the caption "Red Microbes in Our Col
leges." 1t was written by DR.. E. D,
Clark, distinguished Hoosier physi-
clan and president of the Indiana State
Medical Association. In setting forth
his opinions on the subject, DR.. Clark
says by way of beginning:
zone of our most important ma
tional problems concerns the avenues
which much of our modern education
and scholastic training have been TAX
ing for several years without adequate
or forceful criticism and protest from
the general run of American citizens
and taxpayers. To be quite specific
at once, say unreservedly that am
deeply worried and concerned by what
I consider the subversive, immoral and
undermining doctrines which are per-
mitted to be taught in our UNIVERSE
ties, state-supported and otherwise
1 have been aware of this for some
time, but it was only recently that
was informed by a university off
cial that nothing could be done about
it, Just imagine that. I hold that it is
our business-mine, at least, as cit
izen-to see if something cannot be
done about it.
"What are some of these subversive
and undermining doctrines that are
breeding poison in our colleges, and
why can nothing be done about them
Frankly, the matters which are
causing me the most concern, and
which are tainting the minds and hab-
its of our young people are the rami-
fications which the teaching of ply
chology, sociology, philosoph, ethics
and economics have been permitted to
take. Under the guise and protection
of academic freedom many profess
sors in these subjects are not only
teaching communism, socialism, an
archy and government-regulated So
cial security as an innate right, but are
also indorsing free love- and unre-
stricted sex relations between unmar-
ried people! 1 am informed that one
smart-aleck professor in one of our
Indiana colleges advised members of
his classes to be themselves in mat
tiers of sex relations, and to satisfy
their appetites when they pleased.
Marriage he is reported as having
said, perhaps is a necessary and old
fashioned social institution, but not a
requisite at all to free qualification
of carnal desires when love asserts
ITSELF
"Of course, I have no intention, or
desire, to emphasize unduly what may
have been the inept wanderings of a
distorted mind. We can be deeply
grateful, at least, that the number of
distorted minds on college and uni
versity faculties is small, but there
can be no question of the unsavory
and destructive teachings which are
all about us, not only in what were
considered our seat of learning, but
also in many other avenues of life.
Virtually all of the sterling tenets of
decent living, love, religion, romance,
honesty and citizenship are being at
tackled and undermined almost con-
stantly.
care we to continue to permit de-
structive forces to operate in the
schools and colleges to which we en-
trust our children? I use the word
Children advisedly, because that is
just what most of our sons and our
daughters are when they enter COL
lege, and some of them are still chill
dren, to all intents and purposes, when
they graduate"
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