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. (UP) Burton Shel-
ton, editor of the Brand, newspaper
of Hardln-Slmmoua university, la
looking for the MroseH and "thorn"
of his campus. He has asked the stu
dents to name the most beautiful '
girl and the homeliest boy so they
may enjoy an evening out together
at the expense of the paper
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ENDORSE
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PRESENT INCUMBENT
For State Superintendent of
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ru Adr.
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