Title | Facts and fabrication about soviet Russia |
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Publisher | Rand School of Social Science |
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Date | 1920 |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Extent | 93 pages; 20 cm. |
Original Item Location | DK265.C55 1920 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304542~S11 |
Original Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp |
Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections |
Use and Reproduction | This item is in the public domain and may be used freely. |
File Name | index.cpd |
Title | Image 51 |
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File Name | uhlib_768764_050.jpg |
Transcript | Miss Wood's statement of her own offense is as follows: I gave definitions of Bolshevism and anarchy and Soviet. Following the approved practice in any such class discussion, I referred the students to certain articles in magazines—Current Opinion for February, the New Republic and the Dial, the first two being in the files of the school library. We never discussed the situation in Russia. I never defended Bolshevism, and a perusal of the articles in the magazines referred to will prove that they did not defend Bolshevism. (N. Y. Times, April 27, 1919.) It was brought out in connection with this case that the complaint against Miss Wood came from parents of her pupils: Frank P. Reeside, secretary of the Equitable Cooperative Building Society, and Thomas Bradley, vice-president of the Washington Loan and Trust Company. The Board of Education which suspended Miss Wood included men of equal wealth and business interest, such as its president, George E. Hamilton, who is also president of the Capital Traction Company ; John B. Larner, president of the Washington Loan and Trust Company; John Jay Edson, chairman of the Board of Directors of the same company, and others. (See N. Y. Times, April 27, 1919.) In the examinations on the Great War given to pupils in the New York City high schools on June 12, 1919, the following questions were put: (a) Who are the Russian Bolsheviki and what are their chief aims? (b) Do you believe the following principles to be in accord with or in opposition to their aims: (1) Rule by the majority. (2) Progress under the law. (3) The right of each person to the product of his efforts. (4) Encouragement of individual initiative. (c) Do you believe Bolshevism to be a danger threatening the people of New York ? If so, Why ? (d) Tell definitely the sources of your information about Bolshevism. Each pupil was also required to give the names of his teachers in history and English. Two statements of Dr. John L. Tildsley, Superintendent of High Schools, disclose the real meaning of these questions in the light of current misrepresentation about Russia. "We have no obligation to graduate a student whose attitude is hostile to our American institutions." 'The number of teachers that adhere to un-American doctrines is quite negligible and even if they desired to preach their doctrines to the pupils they would not dare." 49 |