Hide Article Text (OCR)
deed* Alone.One reason for the concentration of disloyalty within the Herman depart ment of our American universities. Is that now for a number of years ft has been in vogue to teach German through the Reallen or the Anachauungspunkt. that la to say. the German way of looking at things, or In plain language. Kultur.The methods of conducting such propaganda, familiar to those who have watched it from state universities in the Middle West, have been for the German professor to arrange for lectures on some special German topic, or merely German culturo. where pos slble in the German language; and to a very large extent, the Lutheran pas tors and Catholic priests in charge of German parochial schools have been the coadjutors In this movement. In one state In which the Rons of the American Revolution was presided over by a pacifist, tills state organisation has been extensively used for German propaganda through making the head of the German propaganda In the state the “State Manager of American 1 ration Movement'*Pro-Germans Active In CollegesPro German activities within our universities assumed entirely different character with our own entry into the war. Hefore we had declared that a state of war existed with Germany, some professors were most outspoken In their German sympathies and freely made use of their classrooms to con duct German propaganda. Our government was discredited for not hav-tng put an embargo upon the shipment of munitions; the rape of Ilelgium was defended: and German superiority and efficiency were extolled. Those bold spirits among their students who dared offer defense of the allied countries. did so at the rlak of hnliiv mark-
Newspaper Details
Los Angeles Southern California Trojan
Los Angeles, California, US
Fri, Mar 01, 1918
Page 1
Full Page
Clipped by
Los A.
CA, USA 25 May 2019
Other Publications Near Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles Southern California Daily Trojan
Los Angeles Pi Delt Razzberry
Los Angeles Daily Trojan
Los Angeles Daily Southern Californian
Los Angeles Herald
