A SUBTLE DANGER.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 620, 1 April 1921, Page 4

A SUBTLE DANGER.

Discussing the growing disloyalty ir. this Dominion, the “Newsletter” makes the following disquieting allegations “Bolshevik teachings are not, unfortunately, confined to the Labour press. There are other napers - one professedly an exponent of religious thought and Christian charity which are engaged in disloyal propaganda and in disseminating principles of racial hatred that have to be reckoned with. But a more subtle danger, and one that can only be regarded with feelings of misgivings, is that arising out of the utterances of cc»‘tain State and secondary school teachers. Twice within the .limited

experience of the “Newsletter” two utterances on the part of school teachers, which are against the interests of the people of this State have come under its notice. In one case i secondary school teacher is alleged to have published a decidedly objectionable political pamphlet censuring the heads of the Government in connection with the war and extolling the supposed virtues of the Labour leaders. In the other, a suburban school master is said to be always impressing upon the boys and girls attending his school that the ex-Minister of Defence was no good, because he had sent all the best men out of the country to be killed by the Germans ; that the Prime Minister was no better, because he had aided and abetted him, and that the only man , who was any good in politics to this country was the leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party. The writer of these notes is not in a position to verify the truth of the statements, thus conveyed to him, but he is aware that there are men and women in charge of the education of our young people whose sympathies are more or less with the extreme Labour Party, and who are not above saying so.