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Ged. His conclusion is inescapable: "We commot preserve Christion democracy by training onr chil dren ox pagent.” And, continuing in a dmilar vein, only a few weeks ago ¢ Lutheran mininer, the Rev. Morris Wee af Chicago, declared thet the widespread “spiritual vecanm an America today it the freit of as educational policy which for Shivty yeert bax ignored God.” Contution Leads te Disaster ‘Once men become confused about the worth of abe human person, they inevitably wander off on a tangent that soust end up in disaster. Then their dixeorted thinking begins to color and poison the tninds of all who come wichin their mage of in- Avence. The world-wide repercussions of the Marx-Hitler concept are still visiting death and destruction over the face of the esrth. No one needs to be reminded of char. Bus few have eves the vaguest potion that many watiacion: of thiv ame weird doctrine are being taught under our wery noses. The everage parent, always concetned with the physical equipmens of & achoo), seldom inquires into what ia being chan. nelied ints biy child's mind. The miccesnful bus~ meseman often gives a wing to a universicy bat hhaan’s the remotest Mes what will be taught ie thar wing. A Few Cosme at Shenton Thousinds af specific examples of perversive and sabversive “slanting” of uaching can be cited. ‘The following few, however, will illuerane the point, (2) Ty one serthook, The Govevement of Modern States, 9 well-known profesor mates: “What we wow rpeak of ax individual libertin ane metrely the libertics which the state, ax a matter of feticy or expediency, determine: ubell be left to dudividual determination... . Af any moment the state, acting through she machinery 8 be provided for itil}, cma enter thir feild and coneet ty powers thet i hee granted oF pormitted™ ee eer pha book also auerts that the mate ix supreme; that it oot only gives wleimate vslidicy to all laws buc determines the scope of its own legal powers and the way in which they will be exercised. The state, according to another leading authority, possesses an puthority which is supreme and unlimited, and has absolure and eaclus ve con- trol over the legal rights and obligation: of its citizens, “individually considered. or grouped into large or smaller sasociations.” {2) In one large city rrade school for girls, with a student body of over 3,500, 2 biology teacher dogmatically teaches chat there it no soal, and advocates itareoral practices. (3) In « graduate course in sociology in a large Eastera university, the professor sasersed chat ix is not # crime to kill an imbecile, a2 an imbecile, “it wot a buman doing.” The Nazis, af course, fol- lowed this same curious reuoning aad destroyed millions whom they considered wadesirable ia Buchenwald, Belets and Dachau. {4) To a teachers’ college in New York, aoe seaminanion paper weed for graduate and ander~ graduate atudence alike follows Hitler's line of de- stroying all vcxual moraliry. Hitler goes bia pur~ pose for this in hin Mie Kumpfs “Look at there young men und boy! What waterid! } abel eradicate the thomands of yrans af buman dower fication, Brutal youththet is achat Y ene after. ood wand fo see once more be itt oper the gleam os Of the beast of jerry. With thew I can make « mew world . and onnete a new onder” Same at the Hani (5) According to the current tread af choaght among American sociologins man ix mgarded a 2 mere animal, largely dominaved by deer in- wince One profenos, considered quutanding in the field of American education and whose text- hooks are netd extenively throughour the Uniced States, maintains the theory, aa ae observer por it. Pty