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emphasis of this class struggle idea," lie■ continued.
"Until this year, the approved list of, 'textbooks for Virginia schools carried a book entitled 'The Story of Civilization’. One of tlie authors of this book lias permitted his name to be associated publicly with organizations officially adjudged subversive and Communist-controlled. This book referred to Karl Marx and Lenm in glowing teniis; . pheld the Spanish loyalists for their heroism; defended Socialism and villi 1 i o < I capitalism.”
"Although the State Board of Education let this book slip by, it is to be commended for striking it from the approved list. But what would be the situation if books of this character were bought for use in our Virginia schools—ncK as the result of a slip, but through- the deliberate policy of Federal bureaucrats exercising authority which local school authorities were powerless to oppose?
"So long as we retain control in the people of Virginia, you anth^I can back our Government in his announced purpose to bring out Virginia schools to the forefront in training oUr youth to become informed and patriotic citizens.
“But once we surrender the management of our schools to the federal bureaucracy and the ’parlor pinks’ of the ‘progressive’ movement in education, neither you nor I nor state and local school boards, npr even the Governor nor Legislature will have any power over who teaches or what is taught to our children.”
urged parents to take a new interest in the methods being used to teach their children in public schools and concluded,
“School authorities must be made to understand — that it is the people's wishes which are paramount.
We may be stupid and ncouth in the eyes of the disciples of Dewey, who insist on their way of education and demand to be insulated from parents. But the chddren belong to the people .and so does the money that pays the school hills. ’
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