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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON. THURSDAY. MAY 19, 1938. PAGE FIVE SUBVERSIVE USE OF SCHOOLS AT P.-IA. WIEET Statesman, Church Leader Says Some - Institutions Becoming Hotbeds Hatch ing Un-American Ideas SALT LAKE CITY. May 19. (AP) Into the staid congress of par ents and teachers an elderly states man and church leader hurled to day a charge tjiat subversive Influ ences were seeking to use the schools to destroy democracy. Employed as a screen for the at tempted "undermining of Democratic principles, said J. Reuben Clark, Jr., former ambassador to Mexico, are the Democratic liberties freedom of speech and thought. "Some of our schools and col leges, both fctate and privately en dowed and Including among them some of those of widest reputation," he asserted, "are become hotbeds for the propagation of un - American theories of government and for the ridicule and undermining of our constitution. Must Be On Guard "We must be on our constant guard lest we be destroyed by those who, cloaking themselves in the Im munities which this nation's blessing give them and wearing the disguise of a deep anxiety for our welfare, plot to set up over us non-Christian and pagan forms of society and gov ernment after the pattern that now threatens the very .life of Europe "When existence is threatened whether It be our civic, political, moral, physical or spiritual exist ence we may not wisely be over sensitive about the criticism and whining complaint of those who seek our destruction. " Clark is first counselor In the first presidency of the Latter-Day Saints church. Clark, warning that "the teacher may not take the place of the par ent," complained that parents had too little to say in regard to modern teaching methods. "We parents." he said, "have not only lost all control u to what our own flesh and blood are taught and to be taught, but further we are not even consulted about these matters. Surely we who pay the cost and furnish the students might have some voice In what they whom we pay shall teach to those students." Denying, In his prepared address, that he was treading upon the rights of free speech and free thought, the churchman continued: Not Gross License "I insist that he (the teacher) shall have all the personal freedom he can carry, but I am not willing to extend that full freedom Into a gross license and then pay him to abuse that license to distort and debase the minds and vhearts and bodies of those who belong to me. "In my view no single principle of our government system is wiser than that which forbids the teach ing of religious dogma and cult in our public schools. But the control of the teaching of any alien politi cal or moral creed Is no more an Infringement upon academic free dom than la the control over relig ious teaching. "As to the teaching of religion In schools, there Is to that rule . a corollary, too often overlooked, that no antl-rellgion dogmas or beliefs or theories should be taught in the schpols either. He who abuses this principle has no 1 place teaching our youth." Death List Growing Fast liLEGl AUXILIARY POPPY SALE AIDS World war veterans, due to advancing age and vicissitudes suf fered during their service, ore now dying at the rate of 103 per day, according to the American Legion Auxiliary. The auxiliary will sell memorial popples here Friday and Saturday, much of the money re ceived going to the widows and children of veterans who die without means. Quints In Pink On Approach Of Fourth Birthday CALLANDER. Ont., May 19. (Canadian Press.) The Dlonne quintuplets, given virtually no chance of survival at'birth, today 10 days before their fourth birthday were reported "perfectly normal" and In perfect health. Three noted child specialists made the periodic checkup on Cecile, Emllie. Annette, Yvonne and Marie yesterday. All agreed that their health and physical development were excellent. Dr. William Defoe, of the Uni versity of Toronto, was one of the experts. He told his brother. Dr. A. R. Dafoe. the quints' personal physician, he thought all five girls were progressing "at a great rate." SAN FRANCISCO, May 19. (AP) Robert Lane, 21, of Salem, Ore., was sentenced by Superior Judge Prank Deasy today to serve from one to 15 years In San Quentln prison on a burglary conviction. Police Inspector Richard O. Hughes said Lane admitted 110 robberies in Portland, Ore., Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Barbara and other Pacific coast cities over a period of three years. Lane said his father, Michael Lane, lived in Salem. Hughes said Lane served a trm on the Multnomah county, Ore., rock pile for a robbery In 1037, and that Santa Barbara au thorities waived a Jewel robbery charge against him to enable San Francisco authorities to prasecute Telephone Votes Usual Dividend NEW YORK. May 19. TV-American Telephone & Telegraph Co. di rectors today voted the usual quar terly dividend of $2.25 a share on cjipltal stock, payable Tuly IS to stock holders of record June IS. The dividend Involves a distribution of about $42,000,000 among the shareholders. More than 37.00 new names will be on the roll of America's dead defend ers on Memorial Day this year, ac cording to Mrs. Chas. Kunz. poppy chairman of Med ford unit of the American Legion Auxiliary. During the past year. World War veterans have been dying at the rate of 103 per day, Mrs. Hums pointed out. meaning that 37.595 have passed on since last Memorial Day. "This heavy death rate among men who served in the World War has placed an Increased burden upon the American Legion and Auxiliary. And has enlarged the need for poppy day contributions." said Mrs. Kunz. "The money received for memorial popples on poppy day here next Friday and Saturday will form the principal source of support for the Legion and Auxiliary welfare activities during the year. "Almost every veteran now dying leaves a widow and children. Unless lecal proof of a disability received in the service amounting to twenty per cent or more had been established by the veteran, no government aid Is available for the widow and children. The Legion and Auxiliary must step In with emergency aid, If the family is without means, and strive to keep the home together. "For every veteran who dies, several are stricken down with disabilities. The government provides hospital care for alt. when hospital beds are available, but other forms of aid are restricted and again the Legion and Auxiliary must meet the needs. Poppy 1 making provides employment for many disabled men without compen sation. The poppy day funds make It possible for the Legion and Aux iliary to bring relief to thousands of disabled veterans and their families every year. "Right here In Medford we have many men. women and children who are still paying the nrlce of the World War in suffering f .d hardship. The money contributed for popples will be for them. If everyone understands the need thrre will be no one with out a poppy on poppy b; . As YouLlke It STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (UP) Stu dents at Pennsylvania State college take their physical education exer cises any time they feel like It. This is an idea instituted by Dr. E. C Davis, professor of physical educa tion, to replace the former compul sory training which many students found objectionable. PRICES TO DROP THEN GO HIGHER WASHINGTON. May 19. PV The bureau of agricultural economics fore cast today slight early summer de cline in hog prices, to be followed by advances In the summer. It said Indications point to usual seasonAl increases In slaughter sup plies In the Immediate future, but a decline In late summer months. "The rise In prices will be limited. the bureau said, 'by the continued weak consumer demand for meats." Slaughter supplies during the sum mer season will be considerably larger than those of last summer, the bureau said, adding, however, that this in crase would be offset to a consider able extent by a decrease In pork and lard stocks now In storage compared with a year earlier. The bureau said the 1936 fall pis crop probably would be somewhat larger than that of 1937. because of more abundant feed supplies and feed prices favorable for expansion iy hog production. "Rose" and "Thorn" ABILENE, Tex. 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