THE MONMOUTH HERALD, MONMOUTH, OREGON FRIDAY. JU LY 20, 1923 Page 4 The Herald in keeping with the new point of view. In 1919 a speaker before the National Education Association made a plea Entered as second-class m atter September*', ISO*, for history to be interpreted broadly n tbs post office s t Monmouth. O re-on. under th l “including the life of the man in so­ Act of March 3 1ST*. ciety—his industry, religion, science, RICHARD B, SWENSON literature, and art as well as his wars Editor St Publisher and politics.” TJie average American history text MONMOUTH. OREGON book is largely a record of wars and ISSUED E V E R T FRIDAY rumors of wars. Is it any wonder that the youth comes to think of pa­ FRIDAY, JU L Y 20, 1023 triotism as something concerned with - - - - . . donning a soldier’s garb and fighting S u b s c rip tio n R a te s for the defense of his country? From One year • 82,00 1775 until the present time America has had several wars, but in compar­ Six month» - - $1.00 ing the time that the nation has been Three months - . 75 eta ,at war with the periods of peace we recognize that the part of our history Fanning the Flame« devoted to war is all out of propor­ Monmouth’» largest and most complete Confectionery and Book Store By Cecil J . S. Bowling. tion. The ordinary history of u country There has been a narrow view tak­ has been written with a view to arous­ en regarding the importance of ing patriotism, and making those who events, to say nothing of the half study that history feel that their truths concerning the matters that country was always in the right. are discussed. Our American pupils This is not so much because facts have have been going through school with­ been garbled as it has been a case of out learning very much about the | ^Transferring by telling half truths, telling just country’s past, and much that they auto tru ck and by enough about anything to make one’s have learned has not been true be team , w ithin the country appear noble and grand in cause they have not learned enough comparison with others. city or out of tow n. to get at the truth of the matter. Sectional differences have been em­ Leave orders at Garage There needs to be a decided if not a phasized improperly in American radical change in this valuable and Call Phone 2003 history. After the Civil War the important subject. The youth has a C O F F IN 4. E G L E S T O N teaching of history in the public right to know the truth about his a2525Z5'dSHS2Si!5ESH5HS2525252S25E5252525H5Z5i!SZ525H5H5£53^S(lS25£52Sii!Si!.' schools came into prominence, and the country and the whole truth. The histories commonly written and stud­ things that are not to the credit of the ied in the North presented the strug- nation should not be hidden from him between the North and the South, in­ We can learn by the mistakes of others cluding the causes that led up to the as well as by their perfect accomplish open conflict, in such a way that the ments. school child of the elementary grades Text books that confine the subject readily came to the conclusion that to narrow limits, that take a sectiona. there was not the slightest grounds view based on prejudice concerning for the stand taken by the South. the internal affairs, that aim at teach­ + I Naturally the southern states could ing the gloriousness of America at the not feel justified in adopting such expense of other countries: text books h.stories, and so for decades the pupils of that type should not be permitted of the North and the pupils of the to have a place in our schools. South have gone on studying the his­ There is a need for the modification tory of their country written to best of the curriculum which 1 shall not satisfy the vanity of the section in take up, but I would emphatically which they lived. Is it any wonder plead that the bonds that have kept that the North celebrates one date as history study within narrow confines Liability and Surety Bonds Decoration day while the South has be broken. Give us historical free­ selected a different time for remem­ dom. Let the truth be known, “the bering their soldiers of the sixties? whole truth and nothing but the Is it any wonder that nine southern truth”. Let the pupils of today have states observe the birthday of Rob­ a true insight into the past and the ert E. Lee as a holiday and eight of sectional prejudice and difference will Monmouth Oregon the southern states celebrate the be lessened within the nation while it td5251FHS2S2525Hr2S2S2S2SZS25EYa5H52525HSES2SZS£S25ZS7'525ESZSZS2SZSE!i2S. birthday of Jefferson Davis at which will be less difficult to get an interna­ time Confederate flags have a prom­ tional viewpoint and to learn to think inent part in school ceremonials? In­ in international terms. Whatever we stead of healing the wounds of sec­ put into our schools we do get into the tional controversy the histories stud­ fibre of the nation whether we will it ied in our schools have served to keep i so or not. For the future welfare ol the wounds open. the nation and in the interest of Some decades ago the Prussians 1 world peace in the days to come may adopted a maxim which was, “What­ we have academic freedom in prepa­ ever you want in the nation put it ration of history text books and free­ into the school”. It was the Prus­ dom in the teaching of this vital sub­ sian plan to make all German child­ ject. ren feel that their nation was the greatest in the world—the salt of the earth, and so the history text books were written with that end in view. How successful was the plan was demonstrated in the war that became world wide in its significance and led to the smashing of the old Prussian Lost—Saturday evening, July 4, a regime in 1918. blue-green cape between Munmouth Germany has not been the only of­ and Eola. Finder leave at Herald Pickles, Olives. Salad Dressing fender in this respect. America and office. Greenwood Cottage Cheese England and other countries, while Wanted:— Men or women to take or­ M O NMOUTH MARKET Get it from us. not going to the same extreme, have J. B. HILL & SON Proprietors P. H. JOHNSON nevertheless emphasized nationalism ders for genuine guaranteed hosiery in their text histories and have thus for men, women, and children. Elim­ Salary $75 a week stood in the way of a sincere under­ inate darning. full time, $1.50 an hour spare time standing between nations. ! Beautiful Spring line. Some few of the nations have rec­ INTERNATIONAL STOCKING ognized their error, at least a few MILLS, Norristown, Fa. people have done so. In 1921 a dele­ gation in England, headed by H. G. Money To Loan Wells, made an appeal to England's Plenty of it at 6 per cent, on city highest educational official, for a more property.— Pay us back like rent.— liberal attitude on the subject of his­ Loans quickly made if title is good YO UN G BR O S. D A IRY Monmouth Ave. tory. At this time Mr. Wells said, Long time loans on farms—6 per PtfONE 503 "Unless we have a wider teaching of cent and 6** per cent. history, going beyond national range, G. W. 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