[288] Oklahoma School Laws, 1923, p. 18; Acts of Oklahoma, 1921, ch. 15, sec. 2, p. 141. California Assembly Bill, No. 1329, 1923, sec. 6. “Any teacher or official of any educational institution in California who shall teach or speak before his or her pupils or public gatherings of an educational nature, or publicly, slightingly or contemptuously of the Constitution of the United States, or of the framers thereof, or of the men who founded this republic, or helped preserve and defend it, or its heroes and patriots, or shall teach un-American principles, or fail to carry out and support the spirit of this act according to its true intent and meaning, shall be deemed to have voluntarily violated his or her contract or oath of office and shall be automatically removed if the charges are proven....” See page 102 for the section of the bill relating to textbooks.
[289] 68th Congress, Public—No. 595—H. R. 12033. An act making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of such District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, and for other purposes. According to The World Tomorrow, “Missouri attached a rider to its last appropriation bill forbidding State colleges and schools to employ any person ‘who teaches, or advocates in public and private that the citizens of this State should not protect the government of the United States from aggression by other nations.’” The World Tomorrow, Vol. VIII (June, 1925), p. 186.
[290] Statute Law of Pennsylvania, 1920, art. XXVIII, par. 5393, p. 494. Public Laws, 1911, art. XXVIII, par. 2801, p. 309, May 18. This is quite the opposite of Arkansas’ law which prescribed that all teachers must believe in a “Supreme Being.”
[291] General Acts of Massachusetts, 1913, ch. 628, p. 556. Approved May 8, 1913.
[292] Ibid., 1917, ch. 84, p. 76. A fine of no more than fifty dollars could be imposed for violation of this law.
[293] Laws of New Jersey, 1918, ch. 44, sec. 2, p. 131. Laws have been passed in California, Connecticut, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Mississippi, and West Virginia.
[294] Socrates is an example of one who, in ancient times, was penalized for holding doctrines then unacceptable.
[295] Laws of Maryland, 1918, ch. 75, sec. 1, 176a, p. 121. Approved April 10, 1918.
[296] Ibid., 1920, ch. 381, sec. 1, p. 665. Approved April 16, 1920. In Michigan all applicants for an eighth grade diploma have been required to pass an examination on “the first verse of the Star Spangled Banner and the words of America.” General School Laws of Michigan, 1923, p. 107, am. 1919, act 72 (275), par. 5824, sec. 2.
[297] Acts of Oklahoma, 1921, ch. III, p. 137. Approved March 24, 1921.