Evening star., 1941-05-11
Naziism in German Schools
Studied by Miss O'Neil
Mt. Pleasant
Chief Visited
Germany Twice
BY CAMBRIDGE CRIST.

Brought up many summers on the
North Shore of Massachusetts, in the
atmosphere of the town meeting,
Miss NJ Virginia O'Neil. president of
the Mount Pleasant Citizens Asso-
citation. has been carrying out here
the tradition of civic responsibility
of her New England ancestry.
Miss O'Neil, a teacher at Wilson
Teachers College, who went to
Germany in 1933-just after Hitler
came into power-to study at the
University of Berlin. and again in
1887, said yesterday that I'VE cannot
begin too early to indoctrinate
democracy" into our school chill
dren. She said that after going
around to the teachers colleges in
Germany, to study the affect of
Naziism on education, she noticed
how soon they started to indoctri-
nate the young generation with the
Nazi philosophy and how those who
disagreed with the philosophy were
removed.
She summed UP her impressions of
Nazi Germany by saying that she
wanted to do what she could to
keep that business out of here"
Turning to local affairs, Miss
O'Neil said that she believed the
"older people have the responsibility
of making the younger people civic
conscious" She said she was pleased
the other day when two young school
boys. 10 and II years old, came to
her house to find out what they
could do to help the community.
Miss ONeil invited them to come
to the meeting last night of the
association, so they could learn what
the older people were doing.
Campaign Planned.
One of the outstanding problems
of the community, Miss ONeil said,
was trying to hold up the standards
of an older urban area" She ex-
pressed great interest in what she
said might de described as a clean
up campaign" this summer, to be
sponsored by the association, in
which the cooperation of the chill
dren would be sought. Miss O'Neil
expressed concern for the problem
of getting rid of rats, which she de-
clared was more serious than people
will admit
Miss ONeil and her father, D. F.
O'Neil, are delegates from the Mount
Pleasant Citizens Association. She
said she and her father didn't
agree always by any means" on
various topics.
Part of Miss O'Neils time is spent
as member of the Laymens' Com
mittee of the Juvenile Court, to
which she is a delegate from the
federation. She described the work
as very interesting and challeng-
ing" Expressing the view that the
court needed a larger staff for social
service work." Miss O'Neil said:
MY main feeling is on the
amount of responsibility we need to
assume for persons who need guid-
ance."
Has Three Hobbies
Miss O'Neil, who Is native Wash
ingtonian, holds degree from
Northwestern University of Evans
ton, ILL.,; masters degree from
Columbia University, has studied at
George Washington University, and
is at present working for PhD.
degree at Ohio State University.
She is a member of the alumni
groups of Northwestern and Colum-
bia universities, the Massachusetts,
State Society, National Society of
College Teachers of Education. Ma
tional Education Association and the
Teachers Union in the District, an
affiliate of the A. r. of L.
Miss O'Neil disclosed that her
three hobbies were bridge, hiking
and the theater. She said that in
the past she had played in bridge
tournaments but that lately she
found Il took TOO much time"