Evening star., 1951-11-09

might tend to increase patriotism.
>. Watch out for their attempts
to abolish patriotism and foment
world government. y
Your council Is now undertak-
Ing the most important assign
ment In which 1t has ever engaged.
This Is q complete expose of the
National Education Association,
that entrenched hierarchy of
school administrators and teach
ers. the SUPPLEMENTARY which
leads around by the nose the Ma
TONS school administrators and
teachers. most of whom are good
Americans but who are powerless
in the hands of this entrenched
Socialist autocracy."
| Heavy Attack on Textbooks.
| Mr.. Zoll's literature attacking the
public schools usually takes the
slant that the so-called progress
sive education Is the root of all the
trouble. that the schools have
gotten away from basic reading,
writing and arithmetic. Textbooks
come in for heavy attack.
One of his pamphlets is entitled
Progressive Education Increases
Delinquency" Another is called.
American Higher Education: Its
Betrayal of Trust and Faith" Still
another is entitled, Must Amer
ican Youth Be Taught That Com
munism and Socialism Are Supe-
rior to Americanism?"
| Mr.. zoll's personal story. as
compiled from NEA files. the B'nai
Birth reports and other informa-
ton available, is as follows:
Now about 56 years old, he is
said to have been born in Atchi-
son. Kans. He was graduated
from the University of Arkansas
in 1919 and served as an infantry
officer in World War I.
He bills himself as sales con-
Isultant and has been president
Iof the International Association
of Sales Executives, vice president
> of the National Federation of
Sales Executives and a member
of the Sons of the American Rev.
olution.
Mr.. Zoll studied law at Harvard
University but didn't finish his
course. He became a sales exec
, utive about 1880.
, In 1889, Mr.. Zoll appeared be-
, fore the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee to oppose the appointment
of Felix Frankfurter to the Su-
; Ipreme Court on the grounds he
was Jewish.
i. In 1899, Mr.. Zoll was chairman
of meeting to protest the barring
, Eof Father Coughlin, proponent of
I. the Christian Front. He picketed a
New York radio station and many
!, of the pickets carried anti-Semitic
signs.
d He was then arrested and held
under $1,000 bail on a charge of
attempting to extort $500 from
1.-THE radio station president, Donald
Flamm, after allegedly telling Mr..
Flamm he would call off the pick
cts for the payment. The charges
later were dropped.
;. Warning on Attack.
/ DR.. Harold Benjamin of the Uni
!, versity of Maryland also has at
!, tackled Mr.. Zoll. In a speech last
|, year before the NEA convention in
st. Louis. he warned that a gen.
,leral attack against public educa-
ton is being organized.
DR.. Benjamin said Mr.. Zoll's
!, group was a leader in this anti
school campaign.
Il The program of Mr.. Zoll's group,
) las set forth in one of his pam
.lphlets, includes the following:
Review and evaluate as many
: Traditional textbooks as possible
Publish the findings regarding
sIeach of the books reviewed. Dis
5 s|seminate these reports on un-
American textbooks to all who
Ihave to do with their selection,
Including the boards of education
Iof all States, cities and counties.
Il Extend the work Of the council
Ito cover every school In the