TIIE MORXING OREGOXIAX. WEDNESDAY, XOVE3IBER 20, 1922
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IOWA SCHOOL CASE
II SUPREME COURT
Teaching of German on Ap
peal in Washington.
LANGUAGE STUDY ARGUED
T-carninR of Foreign Tongues Not
Iangerous, Says Attorney
for riulntiff. .
WASHINGTON, D. C. Nov. 28.
Iowa's foreign language act of 1919,
prohibiting the use of any languages
except English in all secular schools
below the eighth grade, was at
tacked in the supreme court today
in a case brought by August Bartels.
The case presented many conten
tions recently raised before the
court in two cases from Ohio, which
the court now has under advise
ment, and is to be followed by other
cases from Nebraska, in which
broadly similar questions are raised
under the laws of the state.
Admitting that Iowa could validly
prohibit the instruction of children
in any except public schools, Charles
E. Pickett, counsel for Bartels, in
sisted that private and parochial
schools which complied with all the
requirements of the compulsory edu
cation law of the state could not be
prohibited from teaching additional
subjects, provided the standard re
quired under the compulsory educa
tion law was maintained. Bartels
taught German in a Lutheran paro
chial school for religious purposes,
to enable the children, Mr. Pickett
asserted, to join their parents "at a
common altar" for worship with
them "in a common language." Con
tending that a child may be taught
in a private or parochial school with
the consent of its parents any harm
less subject, he insisted that the
state could not prohibit Bartels
teaching reading in German.
State KllllllKS Denied.
He denied that the state courts
had correctly held in Ohio, Iowa and
Nebraska that there was a "woeful
amount of ignorance among children
of foreign parents who are taught
in parochial schools, and that igno
rance of English on the part of citi
zens of foreign extraction had re
tarded the functioning of the melt
ing pot." There was no foundation,
he insisted! for the charge that pri
vate and parochial schools in which
foreign languages are taught are
likely to be disloyal, or impart in
structions inimical to the best in
terests of the country.
Replying to an inquiry from Jus
tice McReynolds as to whether a
state could not require all children
to attend public schools, Mr. Pickett
insisted that such a regulation
would not -prevent such children
from attending private or parochial
schools at the close of their classes
each day in the public schools.
The teaching of foreign languages
is not harmful, he asserted, either
to public morals or public safety.
When Mr. Pickett suggested that
the occupation of teaching was
legitimate. Justice McReynolds in
terposed, "but not to teach anarchy."
"When teaching was restricted to
text books, Mr. Pickett replied, it
cannot be classed as anarchy, be
cause the text books meet the re
quirements of the state.
I.anKOiijie Study Defended.
Knowledge of a foreign language
has long been considered desirable
l.y most civilized people, Mr. Pickett
declared. It has been encouraged by
governments from ancient times, he
said, and the Iowa statute does not
discourage it, he added, after the
eighth grade, although it does pro
hibit it below that grade.
This brought from Justice Suther
land the question whether a state
had not the right to restrict sub
jects to be taught children in tender
years. Justice Holmes asked whether
a state, taking notice of a large
foreign immigration, might not take
steps that might reasonably be ex
pected to assist them to acquire
English. Justice Sutherland also
asked if states could not restrict the
teaching of languages where state
jurisdiction in such matters ended.
If private and parochial schools
maintained in all branches of study
the standard prescribed in the com
pulsory education law, Mr, Pickett
repl-'ed, additional study in other
branches which are In no wise harm
ful cannot be limited.
State Attorney Present.
Children who are prohibited from
tudying foreign languages in pri
vate and parochial schools, like
those in public schools, were free,
he said, to study languages under
private tutors.
Assistant Attorney-General Flick
of Iowa represented the state, but
did not present an argument, stat
ing that the state was willing to
submit the case to the court in
briefs and in arguments which were
presented in the Ohio cases.
RESCUE FRANCE, IS PLEA
(Continued From First Page.)
pleted for the purpose of destrovin
us. They have not paid us and we
have been unable to pay our own
obligations. Go through the schools
of Germany and you will find that
they are teaching hatred of the
French. Go to our schools and col
leges and universities and you will
not find one man who would not
consider it something undignified
and not to the interest of his own
people to preach hatred toward Ger
many." Allianee Declared Made.
He reiterated his assertion that
Germany had as allies in her de
signs for war the Russians and the
Turks.
"I am not saying that this is com
ing tomorrow or when it is coming,"
he continued. "But I am simply giv
ing you warning. I see that your
government does not seem to be
afraid in this direction and does not
look that way. But in France we
do. And I think that when we show
you when we catch in the act
Germans hiding arms and secretly
violating the treaty by securing ar
tillery and guns in Russia, you will
understand our feelings. They are
to be used how? Why, against us.
There cannot be anybody else.
"Also we come to this point: That
the war was waged to obtain a cer
tain kind of peace: that peace was
obtained, but it was not put into
execution, and nobody can tell
whether it will remain or not. And
those who are interested in not
bringing about the execution of that
peace the Russians, who made the
treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which was
treason against France; and the
Turks, who prolonged this war by
Rt least two years, who were, with
the Germans; our worst foes are
preparing for let us not call It
war, if you do not want to, but let
tie call it interference in middle Eu
rope. "Now, my friends," he concluded,
"I am going to leave you. But not
without returning to the words with
which I began. My message Is peace.
I hate war, although it gave me
some of the highest joys of my life,
but I am ever in favor of peace.
"France does not wish for war.
I wish you could see the1 French
peasant. What does the French
peasant, on his. farm, want with
war ?
"Talk to him about dominating the
world and he would not know what
you are talking about. Why, in my
village, when a young man wanted
to marry a young woman who lived
in the next village, whose steeple
you could see, she would be called a
foreigner. Our bourgeoise want to
work, they don't want to fight. We
all want to attend to our business.
We do not teach hatred of Germany
or of anyone. We are not conceal
ing guns and cannons in the soil.
"The French people are a good
people. We do not fear to fight
that is quite different, but we do
not fight for the pleasure of domin
ating." The Tiger was introduced by
Brigadier-General Charles G. Dawes,
formerly director of the budget, as
"one of those great figures whose
memory will span the centuries and
live through the ages."
Speakers Not Muzzled.
General Dickinson, introducing
General Dawes, drew a laugh when
he referred to the storm in the sen
ate over M. Clemenceau's outspoken
utterances.
"We have never muzzled our
speakers we are not senators
weighed down w'th official dignity
and prerogatives," General Dickin
son remarked. .
He was interrupted by a burst of
cheers when he added a moment
later that no one "objected to the
Tiger's scream when he strode
dauntltssly up and down the battle
front encouraging the soldiers of
France."
General Dickinson received round
after round of applause when he
pleaded the cause of France and
urged the setting up of an alliance
by United States and Great Britain
to defend her against unprovoked
attack.
He expressed the hope that the
Tiger would be able to "melt this
cold oblivion" and bring America
into alliance.
General Dawes, Introducing M.
Clemenceau, referred to the fact that
France's casualties in the world war
exceeded the total mobilized strength
of the United States army in France
and at home, and turning to the
Tiger, assured him America would
never forget the sacrifices France
made.
Crowd Thunders Approval. '
When General Dawes told him
that his audience, whether it agreed
with him or not, admired him for
his "ccurage and sincerity," the
crowd thundered its approval.
"In these days of political trim
mers," the general continued, "when
our politicians want to discuss only
those facts which please us, we
want the man who believes what
he says and says what he thinks.
"What is the trouble all over the
world in the discussion of these
great international questions? It is
because the politicians of the times
want to discuss those things which
please their people and those things
only; and that is the reason why,
in international discussions, the
positions of nations are so often
like the positions of children."
Recounting his memories of the
thrill that came to the troops when
Clemenceau the Tiger was made
premier and the subsequent heroic
deeds of the French, he concluded:
"You need not fear that with that
knowledge, and with the knowledge
that France has been invaded every
50 years for 1500 years, America or
the world will regard your claims
of the right to self-protection as a
demand for empire."
TIGKU PRODUCES RECORDS
C'lemeneeau Reports War Ma
terial Finds in Germany.
CHICAGO. Nov.
menceau tonight
who had accused
ments regarding
terial unearthed
28. Georges Cle
answered critics
him of misstate
hidden war ma
in Germany by
making public what he said was
certified official list of munitions
concealed by the Germans and un
earthed since July 15, . 1921, by the
allied commission of military
control.
Forty-five separate discoveries of
guns, cartridges, bomb throwers,
gas masks and other war materials
were named. Tiie list includes a
number of machine guns, rifles and
cartridges discovered in a public
school at Frankfort-on-Main in July,
192L
Klamath Levy Increased.
KLAMATH FALLS, Or., Nov. 28.
(Special.) The city budget requir
ing a tax levy of 29 mills to raise
$131,264 was adopted last night by
the city council. This is an increase
of 4V2 mills over last year's rate. In
crease of the bond redemption levy
from 2.3 to 6.75 mills causes the dif
ference. The assessed valuation on
which the budget is based is
$4.5no. nno.
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FIGHTTO GET BIBLE
li SCHOOLS STARTS
Amendment to Constitution
of Washington Planned.
CHURCHES SPLIT ON PLAN
Movement Well Considered and
Intensive Campaign Proposed
to Put Measure Through.
PUGET SOUND BUREAU, Seattle,
Wash., Nov. 28. (Special.) An
amendment to the state constitution
to require reading" of the Bible in
the public schools and other state
educational institutions will be sub
mitted to the 1923 legislature. The
plan originates with the Bible fel
lowship of Washington, an organi
zation consisting of ministers of the
gospel and Bible students.
Immediate opposition to the plan
has been declared by pastors not
identified with the organization. Al
most from its inception the proposed
amendment is imperiled by the split
sentiment within the churches and
religious societies. Unbelievers will
have time to hold their fire.
Campaign to Be Organized.
The proposed amendment has
been drafted by the executive board
of the Bible fellowship. R. L. Ed
miston of Spokane, president of the
fellowship, has announced that a
call soon will issue for a meeting
of Protestant church leaders to form
the plan of campaign at Olympia. A
two-thirds vote of the membership
of both houses of the legislature
would be required to get submis
sion of the amendment, which then
would go to the people for decision
in the election of 1924.
The amendment is proposed to
section 11, article I of thefceonsti
tution, which, as it now stands,
gives the usual guarantees of "abso
lute freedom of conscience in all
matters of religious sentiment, be
lief and worship," and provides spe
cifically that "no public money or
property shall be appropriated for
or applied to any religious worship
exercise or instruction."
Text of Proponed Amendment.'
The proposed amendment reads:
Provided, further, that, whereas the
common rules of life and liberty of the
people of this state and of the United
States are founded upon knowledge of
the Bible, not less than 10 verses shall
be read or caused to be read by the
teacher, without sectarian comment, each
school day, from the .Bible in all state
schools and educational 'institutions of
this state. Teachers and school boards
shall encourage each student to read the
Bible as part of his or her pre-gradu-ating
reading course. The Bible shall
not be deemed a sectarian book. The
legislature shall provide for the enforce
ment of this provision and supplying
mules tor use or teacher and students in
all state schools. These further provi
sions shall never be held to be in con
flict with this constitution nor with any I
portion or provision thereof.
Other announcements by Mr. Ed
miston indicate that the movement
already has been well considered.
Legislative headquarters for the Bi
ble fellowship will be established
in the First Presbyterian church of
Olympia with Rev. Thomas H. Simp
son in charge. Rev. W. S. Pritchard.
executive secretary. Is at the- head
of what a political organization
would call a speakers' bureau. It
is up to him to provide speakers to
fill all engagements throughout the
state. - -
Unitarians Oppose Measure.
Closely following these announce
ments and also coming from Spokane
is the declaration of Dr. Eugene
Milne Cossrove of the Unitarian so
ciety that "the question of having
the Bible in the public schools is
simply anbther attempt of dogmatic
orthodoxy to throw dust in the eyes
of the people."
"Hands off!" cries Dr. Cosgrove.
"Under the illusion of having the
Bible introduced in the schools be
cause it is a part of world litera
ture, these people hope to bring the
youth of our country to embrace the
dogmas of their neo-Christianity be
cause they have failed to do it in any
other way. If it be simply a question
of literature, will they be willing to
put in the schools the Catholic ver
sion of the Bible, which is even bet
ter as a literary production, since it
contains the Apocrypha?"
With somewhaV less belligerence
Rev. Harry P. Olson also takes an
opposing stand.
"It would not be fair to many
people, Jews and Christians alike,
to require them to read the Bible in
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ing the Bible by one wrho does
not himself believe in it would be
harmful."
DAIRY FEEDING TOPIC
Iiecture-DemoBstration Planned
for Today at AVilsonville.
OREGON CITY. Or., Nov. 28.
(Special.) One of a series of lecture-demonstrations
being given in
the county by specialists from the
state agricultural college, co-operating
with the county agent, was
announced for tomorrow, Friday
and) Saturday, by W. A. Bolt, local
county agent. N. C. Jamison, dairy
extension specialist of the college,
will be in the county and will dis
cuss the feeding problems of the
ibreeders.
The slogan which the dairymen
have adopted as their eleventh com
mandment is: "Feed, Weed, Breed
and Advertise."
The dates and places of the ses
sions this week follow:
Wednesday. 10 A. M., Wilsonville; 2
P. M., Needy hall, at Needy.
Friday, 10 A. M., Springwater Grange
hall
2 P. JI.. Boring.
Saturday,
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