December 24, 1943 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle t4 to stop the ideas from reaching an inadequately educated man. Part of the answer lies in ad- ministrative reform of our schools. In the matter of education, at least, states' righters have forgot- ten human rights. National super- vision, and help for the poorer states are urgently needed. Almost every state, for instance, ought to have better trained teachers and more facilities to carry out a re- vitalized curriculum. Educators are now paving the way for an international educa- tional agency for the exchange of ideas. They have realized that edu- cational systems, as well as eco- nomic and governmental systems, are inter-dependent. Conservative policies in one country can be severely udermined by destructive policies in another country. The educators would set universal val- ues and methods. They want the schools of the world to teach. "the scientific truth that human differ- ences axe determined more by cul- CAPITOL LETTER By CHARLES BENSON church or race or political party WASHINGTON. — Pending are not thereby inferior. Our legislation would ban incitements schools were established to form to racial and religious hatred this tolerant point of view on from the mails. It is claimed that which democracy depends. We do not want bigoted ideas abuse delivered by the letter-car- to prevail in the United States, rier has played a significant part but no law prohibiting use of the in bringing about race riots and mails as a means of distributing anti-Semitic demonstrations. defamations can wipe out bigotry. At this point in our history, a Prohibitive laws can only make law to put an immediate stop to for a narrower perspective of what amounts to sabotage of the things, not for broad-mindedness. war effort may be necessary. But The Nazi way of combatting un- the need points to a significant wanted ideas is to prevent peo- failure of our school system. ple from hearing them. Listen- "Education isn't the way to ing to short-wave broadcasts is solve the problem. It takes too prohibited. And the Nazi radio at- long," Samuel Margoshes, colunm- temps to stop the German people nist of the New York Yiddish from listening to any foreign daily, The Day, testified before a broadcast by telling them this: House Post Office and Post Roads "You wouldn't stand in the path of an oncoming bomb. Why allow subcommittee. In his zeal for the bill, Rep. this attack on your minds?"' Noah M. Mason III, Republican, But here we believe in the free who said he was a school teacher play of ideas. We rely on our for many years, added, "Educa- schools to teach how to judge tion has nothing to do with the conflicting propagandas. We expect matter of prejudices because even our schools to disseminate facts, an educated man can be affected but more important, to teach our by such literature. It appeals to children scientific reasoning, so that our citizens will be equipped his emotions." No one challenged his statement, to ferret out the truth and decide but Mason was not talking about issues for themselves. If our schools have failed to an educated person in the best teach these things, then our task sense. In this country an educated man is a man who has learned that is to correct the faults, in our edu- people who belong to a different cational system rather than to try fr ies in search for alleged concealed arms. Hs urged that a board of inquiry consisting of representa- tives of Jewish and non-Jewish organizations, be established im- mediately "to investigate the no- furious practices of the Pal. , s- JERUSALEM. (WNS)—Arturo tine government." 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