Holmes County herald., 1959-07-23
Additional Releases
Investigation OF ole Miss Professors
RELAXED By Hooker And White

Wen have to have Indignation
or close every damn school.
Never be able to have public
schools.
Said. I am an educator first.
u. S. is going to make us inte-
CRATE.
Says he's not a coward"
Mote: There were some young
ladies present in the class when
DR.. Garrett made the above state,
mentS.)
The above book that DIR. Gar
rett was obviously referring to is
the book mentioned In a news ar
ticle in the November 1858 issue OF
News, Notes & Quotes" of Phi
Delta Kappa, a professional frater-
nifty for men N education at the
University of Mississippi and else,
where, which fraternity has de-
veloped, and Is spreading abroad,
a program Of racial Indignation In
Southern Public Schools and Col
leges.
The above news article Is en-
titled "DeSegregation Manual To
Be Ready For Distribution Soon"
Pertinent sentences in the article
are:
Distribution will be free to
school officials desiring up to five
COPIES"
"The book tells the story of de-
segregation in simple and human
terms attempting to draw from
the experience of the schoolmen
and teachers who have succeeded
or failed the lessons which will
make future desegregation less
painful"
"It is a book that can be of more
real help to beleagured and uncer-
tain Southern administrators than
anything yet published. in the opin-
ion of the board of editors"
In the above November 1858 IS
sue of News, Notes, & Quotes"
of Phi Delta Kappa the following
news letters appear from the Beta
MI Chapter at the University of
Mississippi, and the Psi Chapter of
Peabody College at Nashville, Tenn.
BUSY AND SUCCESSFUL =
Beta Nu Campus University of
Mississippi is among the busiest
of Southern chapters, having held
II meetings in fiscal 1888. Among
programs tabled by Past President
William E. Wilson as most success,
full: A demonstration of mechan-
ical teaching devices by a staff
member who invented them; u. S.
Air Force tape recording dealing
with "brainwashing'' In Korea;
University Bureau Research slides
showing Mississippi schools as they
are" We are reliably informed that
the slides shown were of unim-
proved negro schools which have
not yet been reached by the new
building program.
"S-H-H-H-(Psi Campus Peabody
College for Teachers, Nashville,
Tennessee) considers as one of its
outstanding 1888 meetings that
at which William Van Til and w.
D. McClurkin of the Peabody staff
discussed degeneration. McClur-
kin is a member of the PDK Com
mission on Desegregation." CAS-
hereinafter shown, DR.. Garrett is
also a member of that Commission.
The above desegregation manual.
which is plainly the book which DR..
Garrett told his students that Phi
Delta Kappa would publish, has
now been printed and distributed.
1t is entitled "Action Patterns in
School Desegregation, a Guide
Book" The book states on it's
front inside page that it is a pro-
ject of the Phi Delta Kappa Com
mission on the Study of Educa-
tional Policies and Programs in Re-
lation to Desegregation." On page
vi of the book the six members of
the above commission are listed.
end nj of them is the above DR..
Harley F. Garrett of the University
of Mississippi. Dr.. Garrett has SER
we'd as a member of the above de-
segregation commission of Phi
Delta Kappa since, at least, the
year 1856, and his name has been
SO widely connected with that COM
mission that it appears unacceptable
that both Chancellor ]. D. Viii
liams, and DR.. F. w. Murphy,
Dean of the School of Education,
are and have been acquainted with