The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1954-02-20
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Josh Billings
AL CAPP famous creator of
eli Abner" and Fearless Fos-
dick" (both featured in the
liberal BOSTON GLOBE) is
scheduled to be the main speak
er before what should be a ca
pacity audience Feb. "a, next
Wednesday evening at South
End House. 49 Rutland street.
This presentation of the Hub
Community Council for Public
Schools including the NAACP,
deserves full attendance of all
parents interested is improving
our schools.
A CITIZENS Responsibility
to Public Education is the AL
Capp subject for the evening.
1t is a serious subject. But few
people realize that cartoonist
Al Capo land other artists are
a force in public education
Capp is one of the greatest
satire-artists Of the age. He
draws satire sketches of die
tatorS, big and small, foreign
and domestic. He hits stupid
prejudice, stupid customs, po-
litical phonies and other racke-
teers.
ANTI-LIBERAL Forces who
(like most dictatorS) can't stand
the darts of criticism, have
tried to smear Al Capp as a
barbarian, a red, and other la
bells which freedom - minded
artists and writers have with
stood through all time. Mr..
Capp has stood by his guns.
He is a good natured Will Ro-
gers philosopher with a pen.
His opinions next week will be
worth hearing.
JIM BYRNES and Gov. Tal-
madge are two current examples
of pad political influence" on
American Public Schools. They
and fellow Dixiecrats are per-
hapS the worst influence on our
entire school system including
the fashioning of poison pre-
JUDGE text books which have
helped 'tnliS- educate" a nation.
A brilliant college man, Will
liam Monroe Trotter of Boston,
was one of the first to hit
this faulty education program.
MISS EROSION, one of the
Bay States most popular tea
cheers and now president of
Palmer Memorial Institute in
Carolina, typifieS the much
desired freedom and equality
champion of the American
classroom. America has many
good teachers of all races. Like
Miss Crosson they have had
to buck many obstacles, not of
their own creation. Such tea
cheers need public and parental
help, notcensure. The majority
have done a great job.
JUDGE CCURDIN, certainly
another fine influence on public
education, will speak during
History Week (extension) on
Feb. 21st, Sunday morning, at
Union Methodist church annual
Breakfast while another Equal
Rights advocate, Judge Bruce
Robinson will speak at the same
church in the evening mark
ing the 5Oth anniversary of the
famous name Harriet Tubman
House, And last Sunday Bos-
ton heard the great Thurgood
Marshall.
ETTsT,OPY WEEK thus goes
bravely on with mounting i'm
portance as loyal pioneers, in
Guiding Anna Bobitt-Ga
! toll on ceaslessly through the
wears to build a greater ap-
nreciation of Citizenship and
in their own way advance the
cause of Public Education. This
Is the "positive answer" to COM
munisrn, facism and Dixiecra-
+isnn The trouble is, a lot OF
politicians Just haven't become
educated enough to realize this
fact.
III, ABNER of Al Caps
creation is certainly ten times
more brilliant than many pre-
sent day politicians who are
irving to defeat the "Isms" by
greater intolerance, hysteria
fear and smear If these are
the things our "Super-Fatrloe
politicians are teaching oui
schools or (expect our teachers
to comply With then 1t is Ger,
tainly time we stage p a,.ol,
school meetings to combat THESE
and other evils.
The palest ink is better thar
...ast ratentiye memory.