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“burdened” with the formation of policies, chis | group—few in number, powerful in mrategy—is more and more doriinating the whole educational field. Ie is they who set the pace for most educa. tion in America. During the pare few decades, they have slowly bur surely been taking over boards of education, educational associations, teachers’ unions, and orber policy-molding movements. Be. cause they are wielding ever-increasing influence in teachers" colleges and normal schools, they are in a position of unusual advantage to perpetuate their dangerous doctrines through countless dis. ciples who, saturated with their theories, are fed, if a constant stream, iato the nation’s schools. Even s cursory glance st the gospel preached by these energetic subversives reveals its identity with the Nazi-Communist doctrine of Statism. Mars, Hegel and Nietzsche furnished the Nazis and Com- rnunists alike with the philosophical basis for the deified State. These men, and their disciples among the leaders of American education, have ane thing in common—bowever cleverly they may estempe to disguise it: Man is wothing more then on animal, a creature of the State, and bas so right: excepl tbovw the Siete may decide to allot dim. This degrading doctrine is diametrically op- posed to the truch which is the very foundation atone of Americsn life: thar every single human being is a child of God and gets his rights, not from the State, BUT FROM GOD. Freedom te DBestrey Freeduen? - Despite their bland disavowals, this email band ef educators who are more and more “running the show” in American schools, are underminng this country far more rapidly than is any other force im our midst. Their most subversive device, aimed at confusing the general public, is a shrewd misuse and ebuse of “academic freedom.” Time and time again in the past few decades such free- * dom kes been wied to destroy freedom, Orhers sinong them think of chemelves 14 wiveriers seekers of the truth,” yer they eo often deliberavely reject the fundamental cancepe handed down from time immemorial by Christians and Jews alike, and reverently acknowledged as a “self- pvident frail” by America’s Founding Fathers: “God created mon io bis own image and Likemers™ Genesis. i. 27}. ‘ Foe sample Benjamin Franklin, addressing the Constitutional Convention in 1787, ponted out quite emphatically: “The small progres we beve wade... i, wé- thinks, ¢ melencholy proof of the im perfection of bumen underitending. ... 1 eve lived .. + ‘s long time; ond the longer I live, the more con- vincing proofs I see of this truth, thet GOD goveras the affairs of men... . 1 prmly deveve this: end I also believe thet, without Hit com curring aid, we shell mucceed in this political building wo better then the builders of Babel.” wm. ot, Shacsss af che Commonwealth of We EDGE VRTCET Gee RE etree ones meee Pennsylvania Wax being written over 230 years ao William Peas, the Quaker, who founded the state, reminded his confreres: “Tbose people who ere not governed by God will be ruled dy tyrants.” In out own day and within recest ; bsve the words of President Truman addressing the opening of the 80th Congress. “The besic source of our strength is spiritual,” be declared. “For we eve 6 people with faith. We believe de the dignity of man. We believe thei be was cve- ated in the image of the Father of us all. . . . Toes i & time to remind ourielves of these fundamentals. For todey the whole world looks to us for leeder- sbip.... This is the dour to rededicate ourselves to the faith is God thet gives us coepaence a: we face the challenge of the year: abeed.” ; . At about the very time these words were being uttered by our President, a noted Mechodist min- ister, Dr. Ralph W. Sockman, publicly deplored the increasing tendency to wall off public educs- tien 2s well os public policies from any concept of ma % Mah