The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-08-20


gestion, in one small part of the text
of large inheritance and income taxes
for top income groups!
Robertson has powerful allies in his
fight to have this text banned from
the 1875 colleges which now use it.
Colonel Robert Mccormick of the Chi.
cago Tribune has screamed against it.
And the National Small Business Mems
Association, which prodded the Con-
gresham into his outburst, forced the
War Department to withdraw the text
from it Armed Forces Institute through
Senator C. Wayland Brooks of Colonel
McCormick's Illinois.
The wind on Capitol Hill has also
blown into the California state legis-
lature, where Senator Jack Tenny has
introduced fifteen bills aimed at lib
eral education. One of these forbids
the teaching of politically controver-
sial subjects. If passed, the legal
axe could be whetted for any school
text which carries English history
past 1945, Russian history past 1917 or
for that matter, almost any economics,
sociology, or political science texts.
Wallace Reason For Banning Text
In Rochester, New York
City school officials are equally Wig
liant In Rochester, NY, Supt. of
Schools James NJ. Spinning banned
all copies of Twenty Famous Ameri-
cans, text used by high school Soc
al studies classes. Reason: one chap
,er dealt with Henry Wallace who, as
5upt. Spinning darkly put it, has be-
come rather controversial of late.
The local school board of Washing
on, DC, opened its guns against a
,ivics textbook, Building Citizenship"
,y r. o. Hughes, which has been in
Use for 20 years. An alert witch-hunt-
II had come across this statement in
he Hughes text: "A law which is hard
o understand or is capable of being
in more than one way is
mother poor sort of law. Some firms,
whose standard of honor is none too
Ugh, employ attorneys whose only
BUSINESS is to see how the firm can
wade the law"
In New York, as is we'll known, the
Board of superintendent has banned
Toward Fast's historical novel, "Citi-
en- Tom Paine. 1t would obviously
10 poor judgment these days to in
lame young minds with a stirring ac-
cunt of our subversive ancestors of
776
A witch-hunt announced by the Uni
ersity of Wyoming's Board of Trus-
ses surprised even the conservative
lew York Herald Tribune. ut is gen
rally agreed here" stated that |
launch Republican paper, that the
tate and the university are as con-
sryative bodies as could be found. |
either the faculty nor the student
ody has ever shown any tendency
ward radicalism."
Nevertheless, the Board of Trustees
-dered an examination of all texts
sed in social science classes to weed
1T those "subversive or un-Ameri-
IN" Faculty members met in pro-
st meeting, and voted 1913 to "a
yainst the witch-hunt. They were
overruled by the Board of
rustees.
legion and VIEW Are Spearheading
Educational "BIackout" Drive
Spearhead of the pressure groups in
70 attack on textbooks is the mill
ry, led by brass hats of the Amer
an Legion and the Veterans of For
gn Wars. The VFW's latest cru
de is against the aforementioned
Building Citizenship, which it has de-
anded that the House of Represent
ives ban as 'irreligious, un-Amer-
an and pro-communist."
In 1871 the WV was an eager part
II in the witch-hunt of the textbooks
'itten by Professor Harold o. Rugg.
le American Legion in that year
clared war on Professor Rugg with
is resolution:
Whereas, Harold o. Rugg and 9TH
S are authors of certain subversive
d un-American textbooks and litera-
re, some of which are now in use in
bile schools =. it is necessary that
such textbooks and literature be
nished from our public schools at
a parIieSt OOSsih1a date .