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MPurging the City Schools of Pro-Germanism—jONDAY evening the Post carried a story to the effect that the school board was to investigate charges of disloyalty lodged against one of the city school teachers. A few people who read the article said, “They must be after Lena Schuhardt, teacher at the Albert Lange school.”And the following morning the Star announced that Miss Lena Schuhardt had been dismissed by the school board, following a hearing of the charges.All of which served to call attention to the fact that the school board was coming in on a late train, that it had finally taken up a matter that people had been discussing for weeks. Miss Schuhardt was summarily dismissed from her position and now an effort is to be made to make it impossible for her to teach school in the state of Indiana. She is a graduate of tJjL# State Normal and has a Normal license. If this is taken from her, it will have to be done through the board of trustees of that institution, and it is held that a board that has the power to give also has thepower to take away.Testimony was given the board that Miss Schuhardt had talked against the draft, that she had said she knew her brothers would be jailed for refusing torespond to the draft. This was denied by the teacher. However, she admitted her pupils did not stand during the singing of the “Star Spangled Banner” and that she saw no reason why they should. She admitted she had said she didn’t want either side to win the war, that she hoped it would be a draw. She had failed to correct a boy who spoke during class relative to the worth of American Liberty bonds. And she admitted she had sought to instill the Socialistic idea that the war was an economic conflict—a tradewar.Other Teachers Had Expected Crash.On the admission by Miss Schuhardt of the chargesmade by the board of school trustees she was summarily dismissed.The speed with which the board waded through this case and the clean-cut manner in which it disposed of it has raised school board stock about fifty per cent in Terre Haute. The only criticism coming to the board is that it didn’t get busy on this case sooner. It has been more or less common talk among teachers that there was reason to doubt the patriotism of Miss Schuhardt, and the fact that the things alleged havecovered a period of several months brings it home to the school board that it has not been as wide awake to the doings of its teachers as they might have been.It would seem to be the duty of the principal of every school in town to know absolutely the temper of the teachers under him, to see that patriotism of the highest type is instilled into the minds of the boys and girls. Principals who have not done this or who are not doing it have not been performing the guard duty that should be the part of heads of American institutions of learning.But now that the school board has started in to root out the disloyal ones, it should lose no time going through the full list. Miss Schuhardt is not the only teacher who is reported to be lukewarm on the subject of war and patriotism. The teaching of Socialism or any other political doctrine is not on the school curriculum. The “Three R’s'\ with daily classes in patriotism, is the only sure way of producing a generation of Americans.HHillman Enthusiastic Over War PreparationsERMAX HULMAN has returned from Washington. where he had a conference with Raymond B. Fosdick, of the War Department. Mr. Fos-dick is in charge of the war training camp activities, to which Terre Hauteans are contributing. Mr. Hul-man has now established a direct point of contact between the War Department and the Vigo County National War Fund Association.When Representative Everett Sanders explained to Mr. Fosdick the work Mr, Hulman was successfully carrying on, the War Department official complimented the Terre Hautean and said he was a public spirited citizen, one of the kind doing big things to help win the war.Hulman was asked by Robert D. Heinl, of the Shipping Board, to join a party of artists headed by Charles Dana Gibson on an inspection trip to some ofthe big shipyards. Mr. Gibson has organized theartists of the country for patriotic service and at the suggestion of Mr. Heinl. to get ideas for shipping posters and illustrations, they visited Hog Island, which, when completed, will be the largest shipyard in the world.The Sun plant, at Chester, Pa., and the New York Shipbuilding Company at Camden were inspected. At
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Terre Haute Saturday Spectator
Terre Haute, Indiana, US
Sat, Apr 20, 1918
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