Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 19, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 March 1924 — Page 2

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CITY SCHOOL HEADS ON COMPETITIVE BASIS New York Assembly Passes Steinberg Bill Democrats Charge Partisan Designs

EDUCATORS OPPOSED TO EXAMINATIONS

Plea for Instruction in Code of World Patriotism Is Made at N. E. A. Conference

ALBANY, N. Y March 1. After thaws and counter charges had been flung out that an attempt was being made to drag New York City schools into politics, the assembly passed the Steinberg bill, which would place the city school superintendents on the competitive list, by a vote of 81 to 55. The "bill was bitterly assailed by Minority Leader Bloch and other city Democrats.

"I'nder this bill the remnant of

the Republican party in New York

t'ity is trying to drag the schools ofr

that city into politics," declared Assemblyman Bloch. "If any one can tell me any good reason for this bill, I will vote for it." Assemblyman Steinberg, father of the bill, said it was designed solely for the purpose of keeping the schools out of politics. He declared that It had the support of the city school authorities. This was denied by Minority Leader Bloch. Other New York' City Democrats who attacked the bill declared it

was one of the "boldest raoven in years to inject politics into the New York schools." They asserted that Mr. Steinberg had not offered one good reason for the bill. Assemblyman Louis A. Cuvillier In attacking the bill said it was "about the kind of legislation we would expect Steinberg to handle." He said the teachers were opposed to the bfll.

Glimpse of the Papal System of Education in Philippines During the Spanish Domination , 1 ; ; 1 - " : Facts Gleaned by an American Soldier With the American Army of Occupation Illiteracy at Every Hand, But Pomp and Show of Church Flaunted at All Times.

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CHICAGO, March 1. The students' millennium, the day when there will be no examinations, is coming on apace, in the view of educators. Speakers before the annual convention of the department of superintendence of the National Educa

tion Association recently ruled out

the periodic examination "and all its moral hazards" as unsound, unscientific and "generally meaningless."

The examination mark, they said, has been proven by years of testing by educational psychologists "to have absolutely no fixed relation to

mental capacity or intellectual ability." "The retentive capacity of the student never is indicated accurately by the written examination," Prof.

F. N. Freeman, of the University of Chieapo, said. "One student may stay up all night to fill his head with a jumble of disassociated facts without ever understanding their

meaning. In the examination room the next day he will record his vast knowledge with the same facility as the superior student who has mastered his subject. The first type may forget his facts within a week, yet he is given the same grade as his more intelligent classmate." A scheme for scientific measurement of intelligence to replace the examination system was suggested. A plea for instruction in a code of "world patriotism," which will develop a positive appreciation of the rights of other nations, was made before a group conference by

Augustus O. Thomas, commissioner of education in Maine. "If we teach the children in the

. early years the virtues of justice

and fairness underlying right world relationships this generation will outlaw war as thoroughly . as an earlier generation outlawed the duel," Mr. Thomas said.

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Soldiers Home, L. A. Co., Cal., February 15, 1924. Editor The Fiery Cross: During the early American occupation of the Philippines, there were very, very few Americans who knew the Spanish language. Those of its who possessed it were most cordially extended every hospitality. We were invited into banquets and dances especially arranged in our honor by the Spanish families as well as by the Filipinos themselves. Thu3 we were thrown intimately into touch with the society of their greatest scholars. Opportunity presented itself to learn the history and the traditions of the Filipinos who are the most advanced branch of the

Malay race, although at that time they were indeed a very strange people to us. We found thousands of towns, of from 5,000 to 15.000 inhabitants, scattered over the archipelago which were mostly very picturesque. The residences were mostly built of bamboo, with nipa or grass thatched

roofs, very destructible and inflammable. There was one or more great, overtowering, substantially built churches and convents. The picture is not complete without re

membering the tall bamboos, the banana and cocoanut grove's, and above all, to remember seeing the Star-Spangled Banner floating in the breeze. Poor and Illiterate The people, with very rare exceptions, were extremely poor and illiterate, and in many places semisavage. Many of the large towns had no postofiice, drug store, no

store or shop of any kind. A native market supplied the simple wants of the people. Usually there was one

or two small Catholic primary

schools attended by about twenty-five to fifty children in each town of about 5,000 to 10,000 population in which they were taught the three Rs plus a fourth "R" which means Romanism, "How to serve a priest at

mass," and the papal dogmas. Owing to the extreme poverty and illiteracy of the people, it could not be expected that they would be able to

send their children to the Spanish schools for more than a year or so. Tradition insists that in the Spanish times the curate (priest in charge) was usually a chaplain of the Spanish army whose duties were ardent, manifold and exacting; political, official and ecclesiastical as well as educational. Very little money could possibly be expended in public education. There was but little demand for it or need for it,

owing to the customs, social and re

days In the year that such schools could constantly be in session and comply with the endless reel of Royal and Catholic parades iind feast days. "Tomorrow we shall have no school because it is the feast of St. Augustine or the feast of St. Ygnacio de Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits." Duringr every teuch occasion the streets would be agog with festivities, endless Catholic parades, miles long, with numberless priests in costly robes, following life-sized idols bedecked with costly satin robes Und adorned with silver, gold and pure diamonds of great price. As you quietly contemplated

such vast arrays in regal and papal splendor and attempted to count the innumerable, fat, gorgeously-'robed

priests, you would not wonder about the amount of time, attention and money which could possibly be given to educational purposes. You would clearly understand that the avenues of illustration, education and distinction were opened to the sons of the wealthy and closed against the sons of the poor. Influence of Clergy The clergy cultivated an intimate

acquaintance and a great influence

over the families of the wealthy.

They influenced their brighter s'ons to enter the learned professions, and others to engage in the business or agriculture. The brightest sons having been decided on the next step was that Of inducing them to take up the study of law or medicine because Catholics so educated will

hold a greater influence over families,

over everybody, for "The Holy Mother Church," than they could possibly do in other professions, because they commingle more in society and are in closer touch with families than the members of other profes

sions. Astronomy and geology are very learned professions also, but

the astronomer is busy observing the stars at night rather than at the

banquet rooms, and the geologist is

inspecting the mountains and the mines in the Alps or Andes, "far from the maddening crowd" while the doctor and the lawyer are quietly and surely paving the way for Romanism day and night. This explains exactly why we find so man Roman Catholics in the legal and the medical professions in our own country, quietly aiding the papal conquest of America. Later on we see these youths enter the University of Santo Tomas in Manila (now the oldest university under the American flag), where they are most cordially welcomed, and where they are soon delighted to

learn that "His Catholic Majesty"

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ligious, then prevailing. Very few I has a standing offer of a free this?"

This offer wa3 called a "pension." The unbounded joyous expectations of those happy ..lads, so highly honored by the Spanish -erown may

well be imagined, but it would beggar description. Finally, ' we see them enter the Royal University in Madrid, with all the glitter and glare, pomp and splendor o royal and papal array. The gaiety, gallantry, the receptions, banquets,

wines and Well, let us leave some things for the imagination. Not only from the Philippines. Look again, we see thousands of young men from Cuba, Porto Rico, the Canary Islands, from the Spanish possessions inAfrica and from the various parts of Spain itself, all sons

of the wealthy, and all entering (under this same "pension" at the expense of the crown, which means the expense of the public. Yes, that

is it exactly. It is the same aristocratic plan of medieval times which

creates and maintains a deep wide sea between the rich and the poor forever more. Being so generously educated and placed in such influential positions in life those young men could be depended on abundantly to repay the monarchy in loyalty and influence for the "Unity

of Church and State," for Romanism and the monarchy, and ever to sing, "Long live the king, long live Spain, the most generous nation in the world." How could we expect them

to be or to do otherwise? They were moulded into that form. Are you going to allow such distracting, bewildering, beguiling and insidious occult influences continuously to

work undisturbed right here in your own country. Are you going to allow yourself and other Protestant Americans to recognize the (Divine?)' authority of that foreign papal propaganda with its several thrones of the viceroys of the pope already set tip in this, your own native land? All Americans who believe that they should stand for all this, will now

please rise to your feet. What? I do not see one, not one. I have yelled loudly, until it seems to me

that my voice must be heard as iar as the hills in East Tennessee, "How much longer are you going to stand for this?" and the only echo which seems to be resounded back to me from across the hills and plains are these same words, "How much

longer are you going to stand for

GREENWICH, Conn., March 1. George Dennis, of Harrison, N. Y., former barber, painter and handyman, has become heir to $75,000,000, it was. stated here. According to the story, which reads like fiction, George Dennis, a sailor on a British warship cruising off the coast of France during the French and Indian war, kidnarjned

the three-year-old son of the Due de

Longville, with the intention of extorting a ransom for his return. Be

cause of the fortunes of war the

warship had to leave hurriedly for safe waters before negotiations for the boy's return could be completed, and in consequence the lad was brought to America where, under

the care of Dennis, he grew to man

hood.

Not until he was on his death-bed

did Dennis disclose to the .boy his

real identity," and at 'tEat time ha

left a written; $atemefit Cfrttoe kidnappingepisdde; The - boy- toote th'a name of Dennis, and while living, m the vicinity of Rouses Point, a border town on Lake - Cfcamplain, he

married an Indian .squaw,- and several children -were born to them. Generations passed until today George 'Dennis, the Harrison barber,

is the sole survivor of the family. During the World war he enlisted

in one of the American contingents

as a cook and while in France he met a youth named Bertrand. son of a French barrister. Dennis disclosed to him the story of his ancestor's life. Bertrand's father became interested and started inquiries. He knew the the French government held many estates in trust for lost heirs, many of them dating back before the French revolution. The Due de Longville had died of a broken heart soon after the kidnapping of his son. Bertrand came to America recently and disclosed proof of the Harrison man's claim to the estate of the duke.

Approximately 40,000 Corsicans diedfor France during the world war.

Captain Kidd, of pirate fame, was a Scotchman by birth.

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that they will be taken care of by charitable institutions. The inhabitants of northern Europe are the best grade of immigrants here today. This class is educated and thinks for itself. What America needs is not cheaper labor, but skilled labor. Representative Johnston lias presented a bill in Congress to limit the num-ber-of immigrants to 2 per cent of the nationals of their country resident in the United States in 1890. This would greatly reduce the number coming from southern and eastern Europe and permit an increase in the number coming from northern Europe. It is only through such a law that our foreign labor and immigration questions can satisfactorily be settled.

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It is not to be wondered at that human nature, always perverse, regards every -4aw, self-imposed or otherwise, as having been enacted only to be broken. Opposition to law is engendered and excused on the ground of what is supposed to be self-interest. Evasion of the law is regarded by the transgressor as offering a possible opportunity to gain a selfish advantage, or to be

privileged to do something -which, for the good of all, is forbidden to all. Were not this human tendency

dominant -and aggressive, there would be no need to enact laws forbidding the doing of certain things and providing penalties for their violation. It may be insisted that, in the mat

ter of so-called human laws, one person has as much right to ignore or violate a statutory injunction as

another, or a number of others, has to impose it. But this postulate can hardly be maintained by reasonable argument. First of all, it is conceded, especially under every democratic form of government,

that the deliberate judgment of the

majority, properly proclaimed or enunciated, governs all. The mino

rity can reverse that judgment or authority only as it becomes the ma

jority. This transition is quickly made whenever it is apparent that1 right is on the side of the few, rather than on that of the many. Wonderful advance steps in civilization have been made by just such processes. A second and more convincing test of authority can, however, be helpfully applied. Gradually there has come to the peoples of each succeeding generation some additional light, perhaps in the form of revelation, possibly through education, and undeniably through experience, which has made clearer the way of t true progress. Now It -requires no

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pared for the conviction that, in this advanced day of human thought and really purposeful accomplishment along other than purely materialistic lines, there may be, behind, and supporting even human or manmade laws, something higher and more powerful than the mere will

of the majority as that will is expressed In numbers and physical power. Mankind certainly is advancing toward a better under

standing of its relationship, not only to its Creator, but to itself. Some progress is being made. Thus considered, what once might have been regarded as a mere interdict, a bluntly phrased "thou shalt not," be

comes the inspired and logically sound pronouncement, the clearly defined policy of a people properly

and wisely self-governed. There is no appeal from such final and enlightened judgment. Nullification of laws thus enacted is impossible by the processes commonly employed, simply because evil, ignorance, and selfishness are powerless against enlightenment, unselfishness, and right understanding. Law which is more than a mere ukase or a mere arbitrary interdict

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