Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-16

Competently Faithfully
THE attention of the American people must be directed even
in time of great mental and physical concentration on the
war to the appalling delinquency and deterioration OF American
educational processes they relate to teaching and Ko"ese
of American history. 80 II,
Of the country was made during youthful years remote have
little conception of what nsdous CHANGE has occurred
They remember that the story of America was revealed
to them school days by teachers who loved the story ana
were proud to tell It.
They derived their own knowledge of American history and
their consequent America and pride in its achievements
and respect for its traditions, from such teaching.
It has never occurred them that American children today
are taught anything ELSE with less wholesome results
It comes to them as a shock therefore, that American history
is taught nadequate not at all in more than 50 per cent
of the nations colleges and universities fact disclosed
recently by Ncp York Times survey
TT COMES to them as greater shock that result of this
gross neglee- proof afforded by later survey pre-
ponean proportion college freshmen have striking lgnor
ance of even the elementary aspects of United States history
and know almost nothing about important phases or this
country growth and development
1t comes to equal shock that the board of educa
ton of the great American city of San Francisco has been COM
PEELED to purge its public schools series of textbooks which
pupored history but which in reality tended
ito weaken the students love for his country respect Tor It's past
and confidence in its future
What has happened to the American schools that they have
fallen far short Of their fundamental responsibility TO e
American people?
How do subvelsive textbooks Of the type properly and
schools find their way into American schools?
Particularly WHO is guilty of this perverson of our Amer
can system of education?
DASCALLY of course the American people themselves are
u at fault and are guilty.
They have neglected their patriotic duty to the Schools
and have left supervision of the schools radicals and theorists
who have no respect American history and faith in Amer
lean tradition. -
But the actual peerson has been accomplished by social
sc and communstc pseudo who have conspred
to dsparage American history and to American children
distorted conception of the principles which inspired the found
of their country.
Illustrative of this menacng conspiracy is the viewpoint
Miss NJ Con secretary of the educational depart
of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union The
able coumns of the York Sun, George f. SOkosky quotes
the following from pamphlet written by Miss COIN advocating
revision of textbooks:
The workers school is his union. But how much
effective will be workers practical experience
if it supplemented by knowledge of the history and theory
of social movements
Regarding this Mr.. Sokosky wrote ironically:
IF the workers real school his uniOn why should the tax
payer the providing unreal SCHOOL, Certainly
with all have out these days would be saving to let
the rich labor those with running into mil
lions of dollars provide the real schools and then might ben
eft by tax reduction"