Show OF TEXTBOOKS at a recent meeting of the tha veterans ot of foreign wars its commander ai col T ii huston proposed that the organization work for or a th thorough 0 rough revision of textbooks ot of history now in use ln United states schools with the idea of ridding them of un american ideals and misleading facts A committee is tobe to be appointed by the veterans at the request ot of the american book company to cooperate in making a study of 0 its histories with a vie view w to eliminating propaganda and to see that the histories teach nothing but ameril american ideals doubtless the veter veterans ars have over looked the tact fact that the knights columbus are already rewriting american history but it if they forgotten it it may be that the appointed committee and the american book company will bear in mind that foreign propaganda can come from the inside as well as the outside it is just as bad from the american viewpoint to teach a 1 susceptible child that the pope ot of rome should properly be tle tho secular read head of the tha world as it is to instruct him that the kaiser is a much malign ed and misunderstood ruler it is just as bad from the standpoint ot of the ideals ot of americanism to stress to children the religious convictions ot of national heroes especially when such facts are perverted from strict truth as it Is to stress the value ot of bolshevism and as world panaceas few ot of us know and less of us care what was the personal faith of washington jefferson nathan hale perry farragut grant lincoln their services to america are not measured in terms of what dogma they believed but what they did there Is no more need of 0 a history written by catholics tor for catholics than there Is one written by protestants for or protestants what Is needed in history Is truth th and n nothing oth but the truth uncolored unbiased amed I 1 4 il 1044 6 4 6 1 it if the american book company and the committee appointed by the veterans ot of foreign wars will bear this in blind they will indeed do america good service |