Anglophobia

The eagles of journalism, they fly high. Last Sunday, William Randolph Hearst's birds took a vicious peck at Ginn & Co., publishers, Nicholas Murray Butler, Edward W. Bok and his prizewinning Charles H. Levermore, Andrew Carnegie, "prostituted college professors" and "international bankers." And while they pecked, they made the U. S. eagle scream.

Ginn & Co. is probably the largest and most famous of all text-book publishers. It publishes, among others, Muzzy's American History. Mr. Hearst's feature article charged that Ginn & Co. has joined with various peace foundations in a conspiracy backed by hundreds of millions of dollars to denationalize America, to spread British propaganda by false history-books, to prepare the way for Anglo- American Union. Testimony presented to this effect was :

1) The following organizations have offices at No. 70 Fifth Avenue, the home of Ginn & Co.: American Association for International Cooperation, League of Nations Non-Partisan Association, League of Nations Union, World Peace Foundation, New York Peace Society, New York Union for International Justice, World Court League.

2) These organizations are officered to a certain extent by members of the Ginn firm, have been largely endowed by "Edwin Ginn's millions."

3) These organizations--associated with Ginn & Co.--share in the $200,000,000 fund of Andrew Carnegie whose fondest 'dream was "the reUnited States, the British American Union." "No one of these organizations pretends to be "Straight-out American."

4) C. H. Levermore is secretary of all these organizations, and his plan was "foisted" upon the public "in the name of Bok."

5) Nicholas Murray Butler, "President of Columbia University where the crown of King George caps the flagstaff on the campus," and Dean Johnson, of Teachers College," Columbia, controls the selection of school teachers in every state with the view of making them use Ginn books and teach Anglo-Americanism.

6) George A. Plimpton, President of Ginn & Co., is a director of Barnard, of Union Theological Seminary and of Amherst. He crushed President Meiklejohn because the latter would not "bow before these interests.". Plimpton, paymaster of the conspirators, is the Moloch before whom school superintendents everywhere quiver and shake --a "loathsome and deadly ulcer upon the public school system."