AS THE CROW FLIES
Meyer, Ernest L.
As the Crow Flies K. L. Meyer THE Bertrand Russell case has many curious angles, but I have just discovered the mast fantastic of them all. Justice McGeelian, as readers will recall, voided the...
...Russell had been engaged to teach in the City college school of liberal arts...
...And these purple passages, duly reprinted in the public press, became available to Daughter Gloria and to all boys and girls at a price of three cents a copy...
...But now they arc plastered before the public...
...But the learned justice, in his opinion in the Russell case, quoted extensively from the 20 volumes of Bertrand Russell...
...I hope the appointment is withdrawn...
...Her picture was m the papers...
...This is why...
...And because in the City college school of liberal arts all students working for a B. A. degree are male...
...And for the...
...He selected the more purple passages...
...Kay's suit Justice McGeelian voided the Russell appointment, and Daughter Gloria was saved from possible contamination amid great rejoicing In the Kay household...
...Russell, in all his teaching, has never cited these passages in his lectures...
...I'm sure that 1 don't want anybody in school to teach me the sort of things Russell lias written about...
...The case Qf Mrs...
...Bertrand Russell has written more than 200 books...
...Kay believes are horrendous...
...Daughter Gloria was saved from a monster who never menaced her...
...Kay illustrates once more the essential fallacy of blue-nose censorship: you try to kill an "immoral" idea by suppression and you succeed only in putting that idea in electric lights...
...degree girl students must register at Hunter college...
...Daughter Gloria, even if she had wanted to, would never have been exposed to Bertrand Russell's moral smallpox...
...Mrs...
...They have been saved from enticement by ennui...
...Kay made easily available and accessible to her daughter and to all daughters and sons the very notions which Mrs...
...Hearst press Daughlerj Gloria wrote a signed ar-j ticle in which she quite candidly admitted that she was a very good girl Speaking of the Russell appointment, Daughter Gloria wrote: "Mother is perfectly right in the suil she has started, and I'm all for it...
...Evidence from California supports the fact that Mr...
...Kay has a daughter, Gloria, 18, who is high school senior and who may enter college Mrs...
...I'm sure mother ran tell me what's right and what's wrong betterthan Professor Kus-sell can...
...Kay in her suit said she did not want hci daughter exposed to the immoral influence ol Bertrand Russell...
...Thus it appears that the Kay suit was woven of sheer wish-thinking...
...Because Mr...
...Ninety-nine persons out of every 100, to make a conservative estimate, have never read a Bertrand Russell book...
...There is only one thing wrong with the picture, and this is where fantasy begins...
...Justice McGeelian, as readers will recall, voided the Russell appointment to the City College of New York on the basis of a taxpayer's suit filed by Mrs...
...No girls are admitted...
...Daughter Gloria became a one-day sensation...
...And— which is another queer fact—by her taxpayer's suit Mrs...
...To get the B.A...
...I don't want to be told to disregard the conventional moral code acrr-pled by everyone else...
...Jean Kay, Brooklyn...
...Most of them are recondite and heavy going, dealing with mathematics, logic, morals and education...
...So on the basis of Mrs...
Vol. 10 • May 1940 • No. 19
