HENRY FLURY VS. GENERAL FRIES
Henry Flury vs. General Fries HENRY FLURY, a young ex-service man, who is a teacher of biology in one of the high schools of Washington, D. C, won a small prize, some two months ago, offered by the...
...Like many a bully and braggart he seems to have wilted and run to cover under the counter attack...
...Immediately Gen...
...in practice many of us are snobs...
...He loved little children and wanted to take them out of the mines and factories and put them" in school...
...Debs taught labor a new dignity—a real dignity in fact...
...BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE...
...Major General Amos A. Fries, chief of the division of chemical warfare, and District commander of the American Legion, is a well known militarist, who for years past has seized every occasion to assail and denounce as traitors any individual or group that may chance to express any opinions not in accord with his own...
...His brief speech was reported in the Washington Star as follows: "I pay tribute to Debs as an educator of the working class, of the lowly, of those who toil, those who dream, and those whose dreams are unfulfilled, those whom Jesus of Nazareth came to save, those whom the church has forgotten...
...Flury had a right to his own views, and, took occasion to announce it as their policy, not to interfere with the political or religious views of teachers if not exploited in the class room...
...He is reported as having tried to explain that he did not intend to speak for any one else, and that he really had not sought to oust Henry Flury...
...Flury's and Gen...
...Fries' attack...
...We teachers in theory teach the dignity of labor in the class room...
...Henry Flury spoke at the memorial services held for Eugene Debs in Washington Sunday, November 28...
...Fries read Henry Flury's definition of socialism, he rose up in his wrath and protested to the District Board of Education against "any one being kept in the schools of the District" who held ideas such as the prize definition of socialism indicated were Mr...
...Fries demanded that the District Board of Education oust this young ex-service man, who is reputed to be an excellent teacher and who, while he stood his ground, showed great good sense in refusing to get excited over Gen...
...His military rank and domineering bluster have given him the front page of the press and he has been very successful in putting over his brand of patriotism as the only simon pure sort on the market...
...that on the contrary they held that Mr...
...He was an inveterate foe of child labor...
...Debs would unite them by softening race" hatred...
...Fanatics like Henry Ford would separate the Workers by fanning the flames of race hatred...
...It is delightful to imagine Gen...
...Whether Debs was right or wrong in his proposal of a new social philosophy, time alone will tell—but that he was right in trying to soften racial prejudices, that he advocated self-sacrifice for the welfare of all, that he dreamed of a world in which the class struggle no longer existed, in which there was a struggle or a war of ideas as Nietzsche suggests—not a struggle for profits, which is the foundation of modern warfare, must be conceded...
...Fries' surprise and state of mind when he found that the District Board of Education had not been stampeded by his demand that they oust Henry Flury...
...More surprised and flustered still must Gen...
...General Fries HENRY FLURY, a young ex-service man, who is a teacher of biology in one of the high schools of Washington, D. C, won a small prize, some two months ago, offered by the Forum Magazine for the best definition of socialism...
...I put Debs in the same class as James Whitcomb Riley...
...Fries have been at being called Upon by the Legion, to state by what right he had assumed to speak for them...
Vol. 18 • December 1926 • No. 12
