Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-03
America the Brave.

America the Brave
THE American Association of School Administrators
one of the most important educational groups IN the
United States has held its annual convention IN San
Francsco-where the war very close to American SOL
The association S TO be commended for meeting III
San Francisco which it had selected for convention city
long before the war. -,
70 move the convention to supposedly safer part of
the country but the responsible leaders OF the association
and the Overwhelming majority among the memDershp
spurned the suggestion as an expression OF unworthy
timdy and representative OF the spirit OF the Amer
can people.
BECAUSE of this the convention had more than the
. usual interest to the general public and was widely
applauded as typicaly courageous and patriotic and
However the patriotic Americansm of the
ton demonstrated in another and equally laudabe
Chancellor Frederick NJ Hunter of the University of
OREGON delivering the keynote address of the session,
defined the future role of American education as one OF
the safeguards of democracy.
He said the schools must hereafter devote themselves
TO teaching succeeding generations both faith in democ-
racv and awareness of dangers which threaten it.
He said democracy must be recognized, within the
schools elsewhere implementing the philosophy of
Christian civilization.
TO inform Young Americans of 1.-The nsdious philosophy,
the goals and strategy of the totatarian states
IE SAID finally that the American people must have,
| l and the schools must support permanent system
of citizen sodery the keystone of future peace
and security.
THE American people, he declared, "must create
plan the practice of the responsibility of citizenship,
providing for each youth to contribute period of his life
to the service of the nation and the democratic cause-a
universal selectye service policy for all American
citizens"
This admirable program, with faithful adherence by
the entire system of American education be the most
encouraging and constructive national enterprise emerging
from this otherwise discouragng and depressing war
7 HITHERTO the most vulnerable point in American
i i democracy has been the educational system
While the majority of American educators have
always been loyal to the democratic American tradition
and have strven to develop wholesome American citizen
ship their ranks have been penetrated by energetic
and effective subversve minority.
Insdious totalitarian and communistc PHILOSOPHERS
have been taught to American boys and girls in the
schools.
Lack of faith in democracy has been preached there.
And the failure of country to have an American
ing the principle of universal military training almost
solely attributable to opposition within the school system
by either misguided psuedo liberals and ntelectuals
IF AMERICA had pursued for the last twenty
i ten five years the constructive enlightened Amer
program Of education enuncated by Chancellor
Hunter, the nation would have at hand for this
trained citizens-no professional soldiers but expert
enced and seasoned defenders of American peace and
security.
1t is to be hoped the patriotic, militant and practical
keynote sounded at the San Francisco convention OF
American School Administrators introduces the and
enterprise
BY that means, as Chancellor Hunter said, America
will only win this but safeguard way of life
In the peace to follow.