[402] Trachtenberg, op. cit., p. 88; also “Other Heresies,” The New Republic, Vol. XVIII (April 12, 1919), pp. 330-331; also McAndrew, William, “American Liberty More or Less,” The World’s Work, Vol. XLVII (December, 1923), p. 180. Miss Wood declared that she gave definitions only, and referred to current magazine literature when questions were raised by a pupil concerning Bolshevism and anarchism. She also asserted that she had not discussed the Russian situation, nor had she defended Bolshevism.
[403] “The War is Over in Iowa,” The Survey, Vol. XLVIII (September 15, 1922), p. 712; also The Des Moines Register, April 6, 1922. The name of the teacher was Miss Kate Kelly. She was completely exonerated of “anti-Americanism.”
[404] Personal letters from the Superintendents of Public Instruction: Delaware, under date of January 30, 1924; Louisiana, December 6, 1923; Minnesota, December 1, 1923; Montana, December 3, 1923; Nevada, December 3, 1923; North Carolina, December 3, 1923; South Dakota, December 5, 1923; California, December 8, 1923; Maine, December 1, 1923; New Hampshire, December 5, 1923; North Dakota, December 20, 1923.
[405] Letter from the Department of Public Instruction, December 7, 1923.
[406] Letters from the Department of Education, November 30, 1923, and December 6, 1923.
[407] Letter from State Superintendent of Public Instruction, December 11, 1923.
[408] Forty-Ninth Annual Report of the State Board of Education ... of Rhode Island, January, 1919, p. 75.
[409] Ibid., pp. 78-79.
[410] See Chafee, Zechariah, “Freedom and Initiative in the Schools,” The Public and the Schools (New York, 1919).