Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 August 1951 — Page 19
CHAPTER SIX | By J. R. WIGGINS Managing Editor, The Washington Post
T HOMAS JEFFERSON had to deal frequently, as
‘SUNDAY, AUG. 19, wn” Thomas Jefferson in 1951—
An Expert in Ticklish ‘Recognition’ Problems
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Sunday Times interpreting the Jefferson of the 18th and 19th
3 first Secretary of State in 0th ¢ . .t Ww hi ’ do & : . of Ina ashington’s Administration, ,.iire hath endowed with Wa and and as President, with the ticklish. genius and virtue, should be reunion y fie AX nd problems of “recognition,” | rendered by liberal education | ! His doctrines on the subject Worthy fo receive, and able to | amunity re- continued to prevail in American! guard the sacred deposit of the | ! tion policy until the Wilson Adminis-' low citizens, ri Se the tration. is going to To Gouverneur Mornis, in. turbu-| of the land lent Paris, he wrote on Nov. 7 u thee accilental Sondition uted for -it ’ or circumstance. 1792: labor and ~ | The school bill provided for the yny public- With vhat kind of government appointment of an overseer for| ready to you may do business is another each 10 schools. Among other question. It accords with our| duties, the overseer was to jollars is a HO ) in a town principles to acknowledge 81Y! school, who shall give assurance government to be rightful, whichiof fildelity to the common-| n teen-aged is formed by the will of the na- wealth,
tion substantially declared.” He gave similar advice to
: Thomas Pinckney, ris will join Dec. 30, 1792: Vassar Cor “We certainly cannot deny to kL Sept Xx other nations that principle wh "Fi el 23 whereon our government fis oar Hare founded, that every nation has | ann Sosan a right to govern itself intern- | gton Rivd.: ally under what forms it | AiR pleases,
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" ternally to transact business . with other nations, through whatever organ it
President, or whatever it be. “The only thing essential is | the will of the nation. Taking | this on your polar star, you can hardly err.” | Had American foreign policy adhered to this theory, the con-| duct of foreign affairs in some subsequent crises might have been| less difficult. The nation has vacillated be-| tween this strictly practical doc-| {rine and a doctrine under which recognition implies moral ap-| proval of a regime: |
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our time — in recognizing so-|
versal education.
his country’s grateful remem-|
school crisis at™ hand.
the Laws of Virginia,” as a member of a legislative committee. Among the measures he drafted was Bill No. 79—“A Bill for the More General Diffusion of # of Knowledge.”
the most gifted of the primary students might attend free, and
- most gifted of the grammar school graduates. xh
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plated an aristocracy of the educated, but he proposed to make education universally available. The bill's enabling clauses included these statements: . » It becomes expedient for promoting the publick happiness that those persons, whom |
iwant of money.
What he said and did in .this mond field alone would entitle him to school of quadom federalists....”
This Jeffersonian version of years ago. jiouays much debated ‘teachers’ 1898. {loyalty oath” did not seem to pro-| \ ; writing on'voke any excitement in Virginia.| Majority, Lives in County It was not responsible for any| lopposition to the bill, That failed for the reason that most edu-
|cational schemes have failed —
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and to change these [79 the most important of the forms at its own will and ex- |, 1, Revisal (including the bill served as secretary for 39 years, will carefully check the names of uously it eventually gives out, but uji, Japan, parts of which have those present. has been to every reunion, while which, when properly cared for, is believed to be the oldest woodCampbell and Forest True goes on forever and ever.
(for religious freedom). He made chooses, [this declaration in a letter he
whether that be a King, Con- wrote to Wythe in August, 1786, Mrs. vention, Assembly, Committee, |and he urged his old friend:
“Preach, my dear sir, a cru- | sade against ignorance; establish and improve the law for educating the common people. Let our countrymen know, that the people alone can protect us against these evils (of monarchy), and that the tax | which will be paid for this purpose, is not more than a thou- | sandth part of what will be | paid to kings, priests, and | nobles, who will rise up among | us if we leave the people in ignorance.” In a letter written Feb. 3, 1825,
z he indicated his determination to JEFFERSON was far ahead of see government correctly taught his own time—and perhaps ofjat the University of Virginia.
He expressed anxiety that at
ciety’s obligation to provide uni-some future date, the teacher of government. might be
“a Rich-
lawyer, or one of that
He said firmly: “It is our duty
brance. Much of what he wrofe to guard against such principles on the subjectgis relevant to the being disseminated among our youth, and the diffusion of that In the fall of 1776, he com- Poison, by a previous prescription
menced work on the “Revisal of Of the texts to be followed in their discourses.”
Otherwise, however, he favored
leaving the texts to the faculty.
¥ #8 SOME DEFENDERS of aca-
demic freedom who have invoked It was never adopted as pre- the shade of Jefferson in behalf pared. It call for primary schools of their own notions of his ideas that were to be free for three might find him a troublesome years; for grammar schools which/witness on some current issues
in education. On the broad issues, however,
for freé college education for the he would surely be in the. forefront of the struggle for schools. In his second administ#ation,! (when, for a time, a Federal sur- = ‘plus JEFFERSON frankly contem- thoughts on the proper use of it
was in sight, his first
included education.
He was not certain whether or, not funds could be used for this purpose without a constitutional]
amendment. The use he nonetheless recommended, leaving the
constitutional issue to Congress. (Copyright. 1951, United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
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Recall the Good Old Days— . Chicken Dinner, Games and Contests Feature 39th Reunion of True Family
Many a Hoosier clan will be NOTE: This is the last in- | gathering this month, but few of
| stallment of a profile In The |the ‘reunion. Will have
fusual atmosphere’ of the family-get-together. Eleven of the 12 children of Centuries in terms of the mid- James {True will be meeting with more {than 125 Jescendants and in-laws lat the True family's 39th annual
| Crossing. They'll discuss the days on a farm near Nineveh where the rights and liberties of their fel- jolder members of the clan: were and that they {born and reared. | should be called to that charge jabout the two babies born on re-
without regard to wealth, birth {union days, the births and mar|riages of the past year, and the
{boys absent because of military service.
But there will be little talk of
“Dad’ True died, there have been . appoint a teacher to each | few deaths in the immediate fam- §
None of the brothers and sister {has died since a sister died 78
about 10 a. m. By noon the tables have missed only one. will be laden with fried chicken, fuffy angolfood cakes and the family live |“company housewives meal and a brief rest, there will — JEFFERSON thought this Bill be games and contests. Mrs.
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MONDAY SPECIAL!
They'll talk
For since 1918 when
Their mother died in TRUE TRIO—Reunited today are Mrs, Lola Green, Forest
True and Mrs. Lura Campbell at the 39th annual True family
reunion.
get-together will begin,
| Represented in the four generaMost of the 224 members of the 'tioris is nearly every occupation in Marion County. from farmer to minister. Oldest six are out-of-state resi- person there will be 76-year-old
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