New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 19, 1928, Page 6

] No Place In Schools For Charch Rabbi Wise States Danger to Democracy New York Ecclesiast Asks Teachers to Help Young Charges Become Better Citizens of U. S, Neither politics nor the church Bas any place in education, Rabbi Stephen & Wise of New York told about 300 members of the New Brit- alp Teachers' club last evening at the annual banquet of that organ- isation at the Burritt hotel. "It )8 the business of the achool board to keep politics out of education and education out of politics,” Rabbi Wise declared. “There is a grave danger that considerations which have nothing ‘o do with education are allowed to interfere With its principles and ita metnods. But I would like to get a little education into politics,” he sald in a half-jest- ing, half-serious way. “There {8 no room in American schoola for the church,” Rabbi Wise centinued. “There is for religion but not the church. They are not quite interchangeable terms. The church is often the instrumentality of religion but sometimes it is not.” Purposes of Education NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1§, 1928, and underpaid—the worst paid In the werid but the best rewarded. You are dealing with malleable souls, malieable but immortal. You are makers of souls.” Bawmes and King Speak Harry Weasels, principal of the Nathan Hale Junior High echool, was toastmaster at the banquet. ,Rabbl Wise's address was preceded by brief talks by Superintendent Stanley H. Helmes and by Patrick F. King, chairman of the achool board. Members of the school board were forced to leave early to attend the hearing before the board of firance and taxation, but they lin- gered about the deors long enough-| to hear fhe speaker's ringing de- nunciation of the interfersnce of politics in education. The meeting was ooncluded with a musical program under the direo- tion of George B. Matthews, supep visor of music in the public schooels. There were solos by Miss Dorls | Bradley, soprano, and Miss Ostlund, contralto, accompanied at the plano by Miss Lelia Littlehal The teachers joined in singing “America the Beautiful” and “Love's Old Sweet Song” as they prepared to leave. SOUTHERNERS HIT RAGE PREJUDICES Proceeding them to his main theme regarding the fundamentals and purposes of education, Rabbi Wise quoted John Milton's defini- tien: “The office of education is to train the man and the citizen. “This is the truest definition,” the speaker asserted. “Education ean- not be taught or imparted, as was once conceived, as if it were some- thing tangible and semi-visible to| be handed out in packages” It deals with training and guiding, not| simple imparting of knowledge, he | explained. “It touches the nascent, growing| apirit of young people. Its office is | to lead or help a child to think for itself, to seek after truth, to ex- ercise its own physical, intellectual, and eventually moral and spiritual powers.” “The danger of democracy,” Rab- bi Wise warned, “is that the people ,will think alike, for then they will | think as masses and not as individ- | uals. The two greatest offices of | education are to make people think apart and, paradoxically, act to-| gether, not think together and act| & Education should help pre-| vent the duplication of personality.” This duplication can be avoided by tratning the child to welcome every new ray of light on a subject and | te think his own thoughts and lhel his own life. Judgment by Prejudice “One of the most lamentable RABBI STEPHEN §. WISE country are perfect and are moving forward as understandingly as pos- sible?” he asked. While saying that he met great store by the recent Kellogg peace pact, he warned that Object to Introduction of This ~ Into Campaign Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 19 UM—Univer- #ity president, ministers, business leaders and others prominent in the life ef the south joined today In voicing protest against “injection same bake this would not help if war smashed in on the world. “There is no longer a conflict between United BStates citizens and world citizens as there was thought to be during and just after the last war,” he sald. “My motto is, ‘Americans for America, and America for the world' We must train citizens of the world, “Téachers have the hardest job in the world. They are overtaxed things in American life is the at- tempt to bind people ga:ether by thelr prejudices,” the speaker said. ‘While not actually mentioning the case by name, he referred by men- tion of the date and of “a neigh- boring commonwealth™ to the Sac- co-Vanzetti aftair, saying that he feared it had been an example of prejudice, of judgment in advance of the testimony, “which is no judg- ment at all” Re asserted. “Judg- ment should wait until all the ob- tainable evidence is in and has been weighed and tested. It is the finest thing in the world to appeal to peo- ple to judge with their minds and not with their prejudices.” The term, “foreign born" was se-| werely condemned by the rabbi, who sald it was a new phrase of con- tempt and prejudice. “You can make it very difficult for foreign |born children in your classes,” he ;told the teachers, “merely by the iway you accent the word ‘foreign’.* |He quoted Israel Zangwill's defini- Ition of prejudice as “disl'ke of the unlike,” and said it was a teacher’s business not to appeal to prejudices but to train children as citizerls— not to train them that they might | g0 to college, but that they might | become good citizens. | Politics Guided by Prejudice | *This whole political campaign is | saddening and dispiriting” he said, | “for it is guided by prejudices. We | want one kind of a man or do not want another kind, and we are giv- | ing little attention to the real is- | sues.” “Truth s not & finality,” Rabbi | ‘Wise warned. “It must be explored and reexplored from day to day and from generation to generation. Don't let children imagine that | truth can be done up in a little bundle and handed down to the next generation. Make them seck it. Deon’t be superior and contemptu- ous, but humble and understanding, for that will help them be the same, and humility is necessary for truth-seeking. | “Do you think this state and | How Weak Nervous | Women Grow Stronger Fool Better, Look Younger " Have Shoadier ooy ™™ . Backs Richly B you only knew—you rund asemic women = who are d:'a:g;':" yourself around on your “nerve’— oad h.ulth Tm“hlcmvill e arth ive wouldn't hesitas m"m,n{wa'bfi; olag to your ist and gettin B oo, ot Siolicing Mrs. Dora lard, of Bellingham, Mass, R.F.D. 1, Box 17,say-;5l bad (1) d:mmn nor appetite. 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But It g being raised by partisans of beth sides, who, . for the purpose of driving voters into their respoctive camps, are, in our judgment, . reopening the healing wounds of bitterness and ‘hate, “We believe thess appeals’ are both irrelevant and dangereus, it is our hope that no one will be de- terred by them from calmly consid- ering the real issues and voting his honest convictions; and certainly that no one will allow them te in- flame his mind with antagonism to- ward our negro neighbors, whe'too long have been pawns in the game of politics. Any attempt to influ- cnce men and women with an issue so untimely is unworthy of the white man and unjust te all. If taken seriously it is the sowing of dragon's teeth of which future gen- erations must reap the harvest. “Happlly we belleve it will not be taken seriously, We believe our cit- isenship is too intelligent and too fair minded thus to sacrifice the cause of interracial peace and pro- greas. 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