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wera eet hh ; ° ED Donald Davidson, Chairman ATE_Jlalry py ‘ d¢ Soi . JOINT STATEMENT OF STATE OFFICERS AND ORGANIZATION LEADERS OF THE TENNESSEE FEDERATION FOR CONSTITUTIONAL . GOVERNMENT In view of the past record of Highlander Folk School, it is no surprise whatever that the Legislature should have in view a thorough investigation of the institution, We heartily comniend and support their action, ; . What is surprising is that any informed citizens of Tennessee would object to a action so obviously demanded in the interest of the public welfare and already too léng delayed, In this connection we refer particularly to a group of faculty members of the University of the South who in a public letter have attacked the good faith and imnucned the motives of the duly elected members of our present | General Assembly, We deplore this display of academic gullibility and folly. This group and a few other critics have been so i11- advised as to accuse the Legislature of "McCarthyism" and “Witch hunting." We resent this insult offered to the Legislature and the people of Tennessee, The record of Highlander Folk School as a seat of agitation ‘ and subversion is already well-documented up to 1954, through the ~- +e wes ought up to date by careful inquiry, undertaken with special reference to activities of the school in Tennessee. An historic op-" portunity presents itself to the members of the Tennessee Legislature, ‘They, and perhaps only they, with their intimate knowledge of Tennessee -affairs, can finally get to the root of the trouble at Highlander Polk Pee a Sh . In the Hearings of the U. S. Senate Sub-Committee on Internal 7 | fman- 1%