[874] Ibid., p. 44. Guitteau’s history was criticized for his discussion of the League of Nations in addition to other points objectionable to Mr. Hirshfield. It was held that such discussions are inappropriate, inasmuch as it is still an “unsettled political question” which will be “an issue in some form or other in the coming presidential campaign.” Ibid., p. 47.
[875] Ibid., pp. 57-58.
[876] This is entitled “Propaganda seeks to Distort American History. British Workers are Being Backed by a Heavily Financed Machine. Purpose of the Changes in Textbooks Range All the Way from Cultivation of ‘More Friendly Relations’ to the Fulfillment of the Carnegie Prophecy of the Reunited States, the British-American Union and the Cecil Rhodes Design.” The articles in the Chicago Herald and Examiner in which the McLaughlin and Van Tyne history was criticized appeared July 24, 1921, and January 14, 1923. The Hirshfield report adopts the same phraseology. Guitteau’s textbook was attacked in an article of November 20, 1921, and the Barnes histories in an article of July 17, 1921.
[877] New York Tribune, November 5, 1923. The Tribune published this statement from Miller: “The printed Hirshfield report is substantially as I wrote it except for illiteracies and pictures.” The Tribune asserted that it had possession of fac-similes of special pay roll vouchers signed “David Hirshfield, Commissioner of Accounts” for Charles Grant Miller and Joseph Devlin, for expert work.
[878] Ibid.
[879] Ibid.
[880] Ibid., November 6, 1923.
[881] Ibid.
[882] Ibid., November 11, 1923. The O’Hara history was criticized in an article by Charles Grant Miller in the Chicago Herald and Examiner, July 3, 1921. See page 210.
[883] Ibid. These histories, according to the Tribune, were not on the authorized list for use in the New York City schools.