[914] Giddings, Franklin, “Are we getting better text-books?” The Independent, Vol. I (June 3, 1922), pp. 5-9.
[915] Ibid. The following comment on the attitude of historians and educators toward the censorship of histories appeared in the New York American, November 4, 1923: “It has been insolently asserted by speakers for foreign propaganda agencies and by some college professors and school men that the interpretation of American patriotism should be left to ‘higher historical scholarship’ and that ‘ignorant’ and narrowly nationalistic American patriotic organizations should keep their hands off. We contend, on the contrary, that we who have followed the flag for American ideals know what these ideals are; we cherish them for what they are and will maintain them in our schools as zealously as we have maintained them in battle-line.”
[916] Dr. Payson Smith in an address on “Schools should be Uninfluenced,” The Christian Science Monitor, November 2, 1921.
Doubtless it is pertinent to call attention to the work of peace organizations in the analyses of history textbooks by which it has been shown that heroes and achievements of war have received much more space than heroes and achievements of peace. See War and Peace in United States History Text-Books by the National Council for Prevention of War, Washington, D. C., and An Analysis of the Emphasis upon War in Our Elementary School Histories, by the Association for Peace Education, Chicago.