Sunday, May 31, 2020
From an extremely different era 5
First of two items from 'School Life', a journal published by the Federal Dept of Education in 1935.
We lost our SANITY in 1946, so it's always interesting to see how the Federal government talked and behaved during its brief 12 year lucid interval.
An article about the use of loyalty oaths and pledges of allegiance. Note the OBJECTIVE attitude of the writer.
But it fell to recently enacted and now compelling statutes regarding the salute of the American flag and teacher oaths of allegiance to make patriotism news during the last few weeks. Newspaper columns, both editorial and reportorial, brimmed over with stories and opinions upholding or denouncing actions or activities rising out of demands for teachers to take oaths, or students and teachers to salute the flag. Chicago commanded that all public school systems shall open with the singing of the national anthem and repeating by pupils of a pledge of allegiance to the flag. Pennsylvania Department of Public Instruction turned back to an opinion written 15 years ago to advise its school boards throughout the State they could require students to salute the flag. A Betsy Ross descendant, 14-year-old Charles Newcomb, was suspended from Boston's Weymouth High School for refusing to salute. He also is a Jehovah's Witness. Commenting on the stand of this group, an attorney appearing before Lynn, Mass., school committee explained the religious and conscientious objections. He said, "The history of the nations, including the United States, proves that Satan, the devil, is the invisible power which directs their acts. The flag of the Nation then is his flag and it would be a disobedient and dishonorable act for any true follower of Christ to salute it."Those Witnesses were right all along, but it wasn't PERFECTLY CLEAR until this year when all the fake 'oppositions' fell away revealing Satan directing the acts of all nations. Seriously, I'm going to take a closer look at the Witnesses. I've always politely taken their Watchtowers and later quietly tossed them. Maybe I was wrong. Needless to say, we do not allow conscientious objectors on ANY issue now, especially "scientific" issues like "global warming" and "variable gender" and "branded flu", where the ONLY POSSIBLE OPINION is not only Satanic but perfectly anti-logic, anti-fact, anti-science, and anti-life.
Labels: Alternate universe, metametrology
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